The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

The two successful candidates, including Joan, are sworn to secrecy; Turing explains that they will break Enigma to help win the war.

Scene 46 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Stewart Menzies
Joan Clarke
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 38 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 46

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 43
Turing cycles through a bomb-damaged London past schoolchildren, a milkman, and a couple picking through rubble before entering MI-6.
Scene 44
Menzies questions whether crossword solvers can be useful at Bletchley, and Turing takes him into the room to test the recruits.
Scene 45
Joan Clarke arrives despite an agent’s objection, sits the test, and finishes in five minutes thirty-four seconds, surprising Turing and securing her place among the candidates.
Scene 46
This scene

46INT. CLASS ROOM - MINUTES LATER

Minutes later, TWO PEOPLE have survived the crossword test. Joan is one of them.

STEWART MENZIES

Congratulations, and my warmest

welcome to His Majesty’s service.

If you speak a word of anything I’m

about to show you, you’ll be

executed for High Treason. You will

lie to your friends, your family,

everyone you meet about what it is

you really do.

JOAN CLARKE

And what is it that we’re really

doing?

ALAN TURING

We’re going to break an unbreakable

Nazi code and win the war.

JOAN CLARKE

... Well that does sound more

interesting than my university job.

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