The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

On the train to Bletchley, Turing watches a small boy absorb himself in a puzzle while older children mock him, and recognizes something in the boy.

Scene 9 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 7 min into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 9

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 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
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 9
This scene

9INT/EXT. TRAIN - DAY - LATER

Alan Turing walks down the aisle of a train bound for Bletchley Park — his is the only adult face amidst the sea of children.

He watches a SMALL BOY pour over a PUZZLE BOOK. OLDER KIDS, loud and rowdy, TAUNT the Small Boy, who doesn’t look up, he’s so focused on his puzzles.

Alan watches. Maybe he smiles. Maybe he understands.