The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Staehl walks through the station and heads into Superintendent Smith’s office.

Scene 74 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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The story so farBefore scene 74

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 71
Dawn arrives while Christopher continues running.
Scene 72
Denniston hears that the machine has run without result and prepares to stop the project.
Scene 73
Denniston shuts down Christopher and fires Turing for producing no decrypt; Hugh, John, and Peter defend the machine and win one more month to prove it.
Scene 74
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74INT. MANCHESTER POLICE STATION - DAY - 1951

Sergeant Staehl walks eagerly through the police station.

He comes to an office marked “SUPERINTENDANT SMITH”, where he OPENS the door to find