The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Menzies questions whether crossword solvers can be useful at Bletchley, and Turing takes him into the room to test the recruits.

Scene 44 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Stewart Menzies
Alan Turing

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Begins 35 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 44

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 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
Turing cycles through a bomb-damaged London past schoolchildren, a milkman, and a couple picking through rubble before entering MI-6.
Scene 44
This scene

44INT. MI-6 HEADQUARTERS - LONDON - MOMENTS LATER

Alan and Stewart Menzies talk in the hallway, outside a closed door.

STEWART MENZIES

Who are they?

ALAN TURING

All sorts, really. A school

teacher. An engineer. A handful of

students.

STEWART MENZIES

And you think they’re qualified for

Bletchley because they’re good at

crossword puzzles?

ALAN TURING

Well, they say they’re good. Now we

should probably find out.

Alan leads Menzies into: