The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

The team chases Turing through guarded Bletchley grounds into Hut 8.

Scene 85 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 1:22 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 85

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 82
After another failed midnight run, the team abandons the attempt and walks outside, frustrated that they still lack a solution.
Scene 83
The exhausted team says it needs to know what the message will say; Turing asks how they could know, and John points out that known plaintext would make decrypting it unnecessary.
Scene 84
During a beer-hut gathering, Helen explains that her German counterpart’s messages repeatedly begin with ‘CILLY’; Turing sees that predictable text can break Enigma and rushes out.
Scene 85
This scene

85EXT. BLETCHLEY PARK - CONTINUOUS - SEQUENCE

Everyone chases Alan across Bletchley Park —

— GUARDS YELL at Alan as he bypasses security checkpoints —

— Guards are screaming at them, drawing guns as he and Joan barrel into Hut 8 —

— Hugh and John show their IDs to the Guards, yelling back at them —

— Hugh and John finally get rid of the guards and enter: