The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

On the day Britain declares war, Turing moves through Euston Station as children are evacuated and families say goodbye, remaining detached from the surrounding fear.

Scene 8 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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The story so farBefore scene 8

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.

Scene 1
Police enter Turing’s wrecked Manchester home, where a strange machine and cyanide sit among the evidence.
Just before
Scene 5
Detective Nock arrives at the police cars outside Turing’s house to investigate the reported burglary.
Scene 6
Nock finds nothing apparently stolen and questions Turing, who carefully contains cyanide, warns Nock not to breathe it, reads his hangover and football celebration from his appearance, then dismisses the detectives without explaining the break-in.
Scene 7
As they leave, Nock tells Staehl the encounter felt staged and decides that Turing is hiding something.
Scene 8
This scene

8INT. EUSTON STATION - LONDON - DAY - 1939

Alan Turing — 11 years younger — HURRIES through Euston Station on the day that Britain declares war on Germany.

The station is preparing for war:

PAPERBOYS SCREAM the headlines: “800,000 CHILDREN EVACUATED!” “GERMAN BOMBS COMING!” “FOOD SUPPLIES RATIONED!”

MILITARY PERSONNEL herd PACKS OF CHILDREN like cattle onto rumbling trains.

The children, born with stiff upper lips, hold back their tears. A FATHER shakes the hand of his 8-YEAR-OLD SON goodbye, almost business-like. Neither knows if they’ll ever see one another again.

Alan moves through this determinedly, methodically, and unemotionally — it’s like he doesn’t even notice anyone is there.