The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing and Joan discuss how message pairs could improve Christopher; she understands his Universal Machine idea, but a candle ignites the papers and she sends him out the window when the landlady approaches.

Scene 61 of 130 · ≈ 3 min on screen · Act two

Joan Clarke
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 50 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 61

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.
Scenes 31–50
Churchill’s order gives Turing authority and his half-built machine advances toward sustained work.
Just before
Scene 58
Turing walks his bicycle through the Bletchley checkpoint after showing the guards his identification.
Scene 59
Armed guards inspect Turing’s empty briefcase at the main gate, letting him leave with the documents hidden on his body.
Scene 60
Turing climbs through a second-floor window into Joan’s flat, and she helps him inside.
Scene 61
This scene

61INT. JOAN’S FLAT - CONTINUOUS

It’s dark inside...

JOAN CLARKE

(whispering)

Could you have made a bit more

noise, Alan? Not sure you woke up

my landlady.

ALAN TURING

Sorry.

Joan turns on a SMALL LAMP and then lights some CANDLES.

JOAN CLARKE

The best I can do. No male visitors

after dark.

She watches Alan remove papers from his pockets.

JOAN CLARKE (CONT’D)

What’d you bring me?

Alan produces the Enigma messages from every available hiding place on his person.

JOAN CLARKE (CONT’D)

... Some men try flowers, you know.

ALAN TURING

(pulling papers from inside his shirt)

These are actual decrypted Enigma

messages, direct from Nazi high

command.

JOAN CLARKE

Or chocolates. Girls like

chocolate.

Alan starts PLACING THE MESSAGES down on a table, but there isn’t room, so he starts LAYING THEM OUT ON THE FLOOR.

JOAN CLARKE (CONT’D)

(reading a message)

“0600 hours. Weather today is

clear. Rain in the evening. Heil

Hitler.” Well, clearly that vital

information is going to win us the

war.

ALAN TURING

It’s the relationship between the

encrypted and decrypted messages

that interests me. Is there a clue

there that we can build into

Christopher?

JOAN CLARKE

Who’s “Christopher”?

ALAN TURING

Oh. He’s my machine.

JOAN CLARKE

You named him?

ALAN TURING