The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing awkwardly offers the team apples and repeats a joke Joan taught him, then retreats to work alone with Christopher.

Scene 66 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Hugh Alexander
Alan Turing
John Cairncross
Peter Hilton

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 58 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 66

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 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
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 66
This scene

66INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 8 - DAY

Alan enters Hut 8 to find his team hard at work.

He’s carrying a BAG OF APPLES.

HUGH ALEXANDER

(sees apples)

What’re those?

ALAN TURING

Apples.

HUGH ALEXANDER

No.

ALAN TURING

No, they really are... I... Joan

told me it’d be nice to bring you

all something.

Alan takes the apple bag around the room, handing each man an apple.

They take them. It’s really awkward.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

Thanks?

PETER HILTON

I like apples.

HUGH ALEXANDER

My best to Miss Clarke.

ALAN TURING

... There are two fellows in the

woods. And they run into a bear.

The first fellow, he kneels down

and starts to pray. But the second

one, he begins lacing up his boots.

The first one says, “my friend,

what’re you doing? You can’t outrun

a bear.” And the second one

responds, “I don’t have to. I only

have to outrun you.”

Ba dum bum.

Awkward silence.

ALAN TURING (CONT’D)

I’ll be with Christopher if anyone

needs me.

Alan walks off to the adjacent Hut.

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