The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing cycles through a bomb-damaged London past schoolchildren, a milkman, and a couple picking through rubble before entering MI-6.

Scene 43 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 43

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 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
Londoners shelter in a crowded Tube tunnel, where people try puzzles and carry on as the lights flicker from bombing.
Scene 43
This scene

43EXT. MI-6 HEADQUARTERS - LONDON - DAY

Alan bicycles through London, passing a group of GASMASKED SCHOOLCHILDREN being led calmly on a DRILL by their TEACHER.

As a MILKMAN crosses a BOMBED OUT BUILDING to delivers his wares, Alan comes to a stop beside a MARRIED COUPLE who are digging through the RUBBLE. The husband digs while the wife rests, sipping tea as if her house was other than a war zone.

While FIREMEN tend to a nearby smoldering mess, Alan locks up his bike and enters MI-6 HEADQUARTERS.

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