The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Joan and Turing work equations in the beer hut; she draws the team back into conversation and argues that he will need their cooperation to beat Enigma, prompting him to ask how to make them like him.

Scene 65 of 130 · ≈ 3 min on screen · Act two

Joan Clarke
Alan Turing
Hugh Alexander

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 54 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 65

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 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
Turing seeks comfort from Christopher, and Joan enters the machine hut with an idea to encourage him.
Scene 65
This scene

65INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - BEER HUT - LATER

Alan and Joan sip from beer bottles in the “beer hut” — Among the military commissaries, it’s so named because, well, it’s the one that serves beer.

They can be a bit more relaxed here than at Joan’s flat.

They’re surrounded by NAPKINS full of MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS, which they’re studying, debating, etc.

JOAN CLARKE

... So because no letter can be

encoded as itself, you’ve already a

handful of settings that can be

rejected at the outset. If you —

Just then, Hugh, John, and Peter enter the Beer Hut...

... Alan looks up, seeing them.

Joan notices.

JOAN CLARKE (CONT’D)

Is that your team? Let’s say hello.

ALAN TURING

No.

JOAN CLARKE

(to the boys)

Over here!

They see Joan...

ALAN TURING

I told you not to do that.

JOAN CLARKE

Correct.

... Hugh, John and Peter approach.

HUGH ALEXANDER

Alan. Didn’t even know you drank.

ALAN TURING

Hello.

JOAN CLARKE

He doesn’t, really, he just sort of

sips at the foam.

HUGH ALEXANDER

Tell you a secret, Miss...

JOAN CLARKE

... Clarke.

HUGH ALEXANDER

Miss Clarke.

JOAN CLARKE

Please.

HUGH ALEXANDER

The foam’s my favorite part too.

JOAN CLARKE

Well then, I’ll show you a trick.

(to Bartender)

Alex! We’re in need of supplies.

Joan hops behind the bar and the BARTENDER helps her to