The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Military police search Turing’s desk for a suspected Soviet spy; he recognizes that the profile and Beale cipher point toward him and denies being an agent, while Denniston warns of hanging for treason.

Scene 63 of 130 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Alan Turing
Military Policeman
Commander Denniston
John Cairncross
Hugh Alexander

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 52 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 63

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 60
Turing climbs through a second-floor window into Joan’s flat, and she helps him inside.
Scene 61
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 62
Turing arrives at Bletchley injured after his fall from Joan’s window.
Scene 63
This scene

63INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 8 - CONTINUOUS

Alan enters Hut 8 to find his team watching silently as a bunch of MILITARY POLICE RIFLE THROUGH HIS DESK —

— MANHANDLING his papers, his machine parts, making a mess.

ALAN TURING

(re: parts of Christopher)

Hey! Don’t touch that!

The RMP’S TRAIN GUNS ON HIM.

MILITARY POLICEMAN

Don’t move!

ALAN TURING

That’s my desk.

COMMANDER DENNISTON (O.S.)

Thank goodness. Be a pity if we

were searching the wrong one.

Alan turns to find Denniston directing the search.

ALAN TURING

What are you doing?

COMMANDER DENNISTON

There’s a spy at Bletchley Park.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

The Navy thinks one of us is a

Soviet double-agent, Alan.

ALAN TURING

Why?

COMMANDER DENNISTON

Our boys intercepted this on its

way to Moscow. Look familiar?

Denniston hands Alan a TELEGRAM — it’s a LONG STRING OF LETTERS, running down the entire page.

ALAN TURING

(looking at the telegram)

... This is a Beale Cypher. It’s

encrypted with a key phrase, from a

book or a poem or...

(re: the team)

Which one of them did this?

As Alan stares at the team, they stare back at him.

He glances at the RMP’s rifling through his desk.

Oh fuck.

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

I’m not a double agent.

COMMANDER DENNISTON

Double agents are such bastards.

Isolated loners. No attachments to

friends or family. Arrogant. Think

they’re smart enough to get away

with anything. Do you know anyone