The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Young Alan encodes an ‘I love you’ letter for Christopher and runs to meet him when the new school term begins.

Scene 79 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 1:12 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 79

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 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
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 78
At the engagement party Joan celebrates the unusual ring, while Cairncross warns Turing that disclosure of his homosexuality could put him in danger; the newly engaged couple dance.
Scene 79
This scene

79INT. SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR BOYS - ALAN’S ROOM - DAY - 1927

CLOSE ON A LETTER: “I LOVE YOU” is written on the paper.

REVEAL: Young Alan sits in his dormitory room, ENCRYPTING his love letter to Christopher.

Slowly, letter by letter, Alan transforms “I LOVE YOU” into code...

Hearing a commotion, Alan LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW:

BOYS are being unloaded from a BUS at the gates, dropped off to begin the new spring term.

Alan sees them all, excited: Christopher is coming back!

He STUFFS HIS ENCRYPTED LETTER IN AN ENVELOPE and RUNS OFF to