The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

As an air-raid siren sounds, the first reader gathers his family and takes the puzzle with them toward their shelter.

Scene 40 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 34 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 40

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.

Scenes 1–12
Turing is investigated as a guarded outsider in 1951, then enters Bletchley in 1939 looking for the puzzle he can solve.
Scenes 13–30
He sees the scale of Enigma, believes a machine can solve it, and grows isolated from colleagues who make little progress.
Scene 36
Churchill’s order gives Turing command authority; he fires two linguists and begins reshaping the team around his approach.
Just before
Scene 37
Back in Hut 8, Turing answers the team’s staffing problem by posting a crossword puzzle as a recruitment test.
Scene 38
A newspaper reader finds Turing’s crossword advertisement offering a secret job to anyone who solves the puzzle quickly.
Scene 39
People across different homes and workplaces attempt the difficult crossword as the recruitment challenge spreads.
Scene 40
This scene

40INT. FAMILY HOME - SAME TIME

Back in the first house, the Man is trying to complete the puzzle when —

— The AIR RAID SIREN goes off.

Quickly, the Man gathers his FAMILY and they rush down into