The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing seeks comfort from Christopher, and Joan enters the machine hut with an idea to encourage him.

Scene 64 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Joan Clarke

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Begins 54 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 64

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 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
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 64
This scene

64INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 11 - MINUTES LATER

In the machine Hut next door, Alan touches his precious machine for comfort.

Whenever he feels lonely, misunderstood, isolated — he has his machine.

There’s a KNOCK on the door and...

... Joan enters.

JOAN CLARKE

I heard about what happened... I

have an idea of what might cheer

you up.

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