The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Joan says her parents are taking her away from Bletchley; after an argument, Turing proposes marriage with a ring he makes from wire, and she accepts.

Scene 77 of 130 · ≈ 3 min on screen · Act two

Joan Clarke
Alan Turing

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:07 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 77

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 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
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 77
This scene

77INT. JOAN’S FLAT - DAY - 1941

Joan comes home to her flat. She looks sad as she puts her key in the lock and opens the door.

She enters to find:

HUNDREDS OF MATHEMATICAL PAPERS ARE SCATTERED ALL OVER HER LIVING ROOM.

She sighs.

JOAN CLARKE

Alan?

At the sound of her voice, Alan comes out of the wash room, wiping the shaving cream from his face. He’s moving and talking a mile a minute.

ALAN TURING

Christopher is simply not moving

fast enough.

JOAN CLARKE

We should talk.

Joan sits down, sadly.

ALAN TURING

(totally oblivious)

Even with the diagonal board he’s

not eliminating settings as quickly

as —

JOAN CLARKE

Alan, I’m leaving.

ALAN TURING

You just walked in.

JOAN CLARKE

No. Bletchley.

ALAN TURING

What?

JOAN CLARKE

It’s my parents... I am twenty-five

and I am unmarried and I am living

alone... And they want me home.

ALAN TURING

That’s ridiculous.

JOAN CLARKE

That’s my parents.

ALAN TURING

You cannot leave. I won’t let you.

JOAN CLARKE

“I’ll miss you.” That’s what a

normal person might say in this

situation.

ALAN TURING

I don’t care what’s normal.

JOAN CLARKE

“I’ll write.” That’d work too.

ALAN TURING

No. This is unacceptable. You are

not leaving and that is that.

JOAN CLARKE