The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Alan deciphers Christopher’s note calling him his dearest friend.

Scene 68 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 59 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 68

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 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
Turing awkwardly offers the team apples and repeats a joke Joan taught him, then retreats to work alone with Christopher.
Scene 67
Young Alan and Christopher exchange encrypted notes in class; Alan retrieves one from the bin after the teacher discards it.
Scene 68
This scene

68EXT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - CLOISTERS - MINUTES LATER

Now alone, Alan DECRYPTS THE MESSAGE. One at a time, the letters become intelligible.

ON THE NOTE: “SEE YOU IN TWO LONG WEEKS, DEAREST FRIEND.”

ON ALAN: Christopher called him his dearest friend.

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