The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Londoners shelter in a crowded Tube tunnel, where people try puzzles and carry on as the lights flicker from bombing.

Scene 42 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 42

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 39
People across different homes and workplaces attempt the difficult crossword as the recruitment challenge spreads.
Scene 40
As an air-raid siren sounds, the first reader gathers his family and takes the puzzle with them toward their shelter.
Scene 41
In a bomb shelter, the parents distract their children with toys while the father keeps trying to solve Turing’s crossword amid explosions above.
Scene 42
This scene

42INT. TUBE STATION - LONDON - SAME TIME

CIVILIANS run down into an old TUBE TUNNEL to get away from the bombing.

Inside the tightly crowded station, some people read books, some play games, some lay on the train tracks to sleep as dust POOFS UP from the shaking ground.

Normal life goes on as the LIGHTS FLICKER from the shelling above.

By the dim flickering, we see OTHER PEOPLE trying their hand at Alan’s puzzle.