The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Denniston hears that the machine has run without result and prepares to stop the project.

Scene 72 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Electrical Assistant
Commander Denniston

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:01 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 72

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 69
Joan improves Turing’s machine calculations, and Hugh contributes a diagonal wiring change that speeds up the search; Hugh begins working with them.
Scene 70
The team completes Christopher and powers it up, but nobody knows how long it will take to find that day’s Enigma settings.
Scene 71
Dawn arrives while Christopher continues running.
Scene 72
This scene

72INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - DENNISTON’S OFFICE - MORNING

Commander Denniston receives a visit from the Electrical Assistant who’d been helping Alan in the previous scene.

ELECTRICAL ASSISTANT

The gears just keep spinning and

spinning. It’s endless.

COMMANDER DENNISTON

And there’s no result in sight?

The Assistant NODS. Denniston SMILES: Got him.