The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

The message reaches MI-6 director Stewart Menzies, who reads that Alan Turing has been robbed.

Scene 4 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Alan Turing

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Begins 2 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 4

At Bletchley Park, Alan Turing must persuade a skeptical team to build a machine that can break Enigma before the war is lost, while concealing the self the law condemns.

Just before
Scene 1
Police find Turing’s Manchester home ransacked, with cyanide, chemical work, and an unexplained machine among the evidence as his voice insists he controls the story.
Scene 2
A radio clerk receives the report of a robbery at Turing’s house and passes it along for police attention.
Scene 3
An MI-6 operator intercepts the police message about Turing and sends it through the agency’s corridors.
Scene 4
This scene

4INT. MI-6 - MENZIES OFFICE - DAY

— Until it’s finally deposited on the desk of STEWART MENZIES, the Director of MI-6. British Secret Intelligence Services.

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

What happens from this moment

forward is not my responsibility:

It’s yours.

Menzies picks up the message: “Alan Turing has been robbed.”

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

This will go quite fast now.

(laughs)

And that is the last time I will

repeat myself. Pay attention.