The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Staehl says Murray confessed to robbing Turing after a paid sexual encounter; Smith orders Turing’s arrest, while Nock asks for half an hour to question him himself.

Scene 76 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Sergeant Staehl
Detective Nock
Superintendant Smith

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:06 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 76

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 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
Staehl walks through the station and heads into Superintendent Smith’s office.
Scene 75
Staehl reports that he followed Turing to a pub and saw him exchange an envelope with another man; Nock and Smith go to inspect the suspect.
Scene 76
This scene

76INT. POLICE STATION - INTERROGATION ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

As Nock and Smith stands outside the INTERROGATION ROOM, Sergeant Staehl points through the window in the door:

Inside is ARNOLD MURRAY, 20s, nervous.

SERGEANT STAEHL

He’s a bloody poofter. He

confessed.

Staehl shows Nock and Smith a SIGNED STATEMENT.

DETECTIVE NOCK

What?

SERGEANT STAEHL

The man admitted it. Arnold Murray.

Bit of a hustler. Hangs around that

pub, men pay him for a go. Turing

is one of the men who paid. Only,

Mr. Murray got the bright idea to

rob Turing’s house after, with a

friend. That’s what Turing was

hiding: He’s a poof, not a spy.

DETECTIVE NOCK

No.

SUPERINTENDANT SMITH

This is good work, Sergeant. Quite

good.

DETECTIVE NOCK

No, it’s not.

SERGEANT STAEHL

What’s the matter? We can charge a

university professor with

indecency.

DETECTIVE NOCK

No. No. This is bloody rubbish.

Turing is up to something

important, not getting his jollies

in some pub.

SUPERINTENDANT SMITH

He committed a crime. He broke the

law. And with a bloke, Christ, it’s

bloody disgusting.

DETECTIVE NOCK

I don’t care if it’s disgusting.

This is not the investigation I was

conducting.

SUPERINTENDANT SMITH

Clearly.

(to Staehl)

Bring him in.

DETECTIVE NOCK

Wait. Let me interrogate him.

SUPERINTENDANT SMITH