The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

As they leave, Nock tells Staehl the encounter felt staged and decides that Turing is hiding something.

Scene 7 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Sgt. Staehl
Detective Nock

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Begins 6 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 7

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.

Scene 1
Police enter Turing’s wrecked Manchester home, where a strange machine and cyanide sit among the evidence.
Just before
Scene 4
The message reaches MI-6 director Stewart Menzies, who reads that Alan Turing has been robbed.
Scene 5
Detective Nock arrives at the police cars outside Turing’s house to investigate the reported burglary.
Scene 6
Nock finds nothing apparently stolen and questions Turing, who carefully contains cyanide, warns Nock not to breathe it, reads his hangover and football celebration from his appearance, then dismisses the detectives without explaining the break-in.
Scene 7
This scene

7EXT. ALAN TURNING’S HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER

Detective Nock and Sergeant Staehl walk away from Turing’s house.

SGT. STAEHL

I’ll give you a bob if you can name

me a more insufferable sod.

DETECTIVE NOCK

Curious, isn’t he?

SGT. STAEHL

Oh, you’ve a soft spot for the

bastard ‘cause he called you on

your drink? Which, while we’re on

the subject —

DETECTIVE NOCK

— Seemed a bit forced though,

didn’t it?

SGT. STAEHL

Don’t know what you mean.

DETECTIVE NOCK

If you didn’t want a pair of

bobbies digging around in your

personal affairs, well, that would

have been a stellar way to see that

they don’t. Tell me you don’t think

this is suspicious.

SGT. STAEHL

I don’t think this is suspicious.

DETECTIVE NOCK

A mysterious professor who won’t

admit he’s had something stolen

from his flat?

SGT. STAEHL

What’re you suggesting?

DETECTIVE NOCK

I’m suggesting that Alan Turing is

hiding something.

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