The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Technicians assemble Christopher while Turing fusses over the machine; he expected Joan to join the work and asks Hugh where she is.

Scene 50 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Alan Turing
Hugh Alexander

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 42 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 50

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.
Scene 45
Joan solves Turing’s test in 5:34 and is admitted to the secret work, beginning the partnership that links his professional and private life.
Just before
Scene 47
Christopher lends young Alan a cryptography book and explains how visible messages can hide meaning until a key is found, recognizing Alan’s aptitude.
Scene 48
Christopher walks Alan to his dorm, shares a tender goodbye, and leaves Alan privately aware of his affection.
Scene 49
Smith refuses to let Staehl accompany him, so Nock tells Staehl that Smith approved the plan and draws him into following anyway.
Scene 50
This scene

50INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 11 - DAY - 1941

CLOSE ON: A GIANT, HALF-BUILT MACHINE. The size of a dining room table, but taller than it is wide, its guts are composed of SPINNING GEARS and a seemingly endless stream of LONG RED WIRES.

REVEAL: TECHNICIANS work on putting the machine together, SOLDERING THE WIRES, while Alan FUSSES.

ALAN TURING

Careful! Damn it, will you — It’s

not a toy.

Alan tries to protect his precious creation when he’s interrupted by:

HUGH ALEXANDER

Alan! Your new minion has arrived.

Alan turns to see: His new recruit, JACK GOOD.

... But no Joan.

ALAN TURING

(displeased)

... Where’s Miss Clarke?

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