The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

The team discovers a threatened passenger convoy and considers intervening, but Turing stops the call because revealing the decrypts would expose Enigma; they learn Peter’s brother is aboard HMS Carlisle and still choose not to warn it.

Scene 91 of 130 · ≈ 6 min on screen · Act two

Five-Act Structure: Climax
Hugh Alexander
John Cairncross
Joan Clarke
Alan Turing
Peter Hilton

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:25 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 91

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.
Scenes 51–88
Joan joins the project; the team builds and tests the machine while Turing learns to rely on collaborators.
Just before
Scene 88
The team configures Christopher with the known settings and 6 a.m. message; the machine stops on a candidate rotor setting, which Turing writes down.
Scene 89
Turing tests the candidate on a dummy Enigma machine; the message decodes to a German report locating the KMS Jaguar, and the team erupts in celebration.
Scene 90
Dawn rises over Bletchley Park after the team’s first successful decrypt.
Scene 91
This scene

91INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 8 - DAWN

The team has been there working all through the night.

There’s a flurry of activity: Decoding messages, translating the decrypts, reading the information contained within.

Hugh steps back for a moment to look at the product of their work: A BIG MAP ON THE WALL.

ON THE MAP: It’s the Atlantic Ocean. Blue pins represent the Allied ships, red ones represent the Axis ships.

HUGH ALEXANDER

You did it.

(turns to Alan)

Bloody hell, you did it. You just

defeated Nazism with a crossword

puzzle. What does it feel like to

do the impossible?

ON ALAN’S FACE: He’s not sure. Something is bothering him, but he can’t figure out what.

John steps back from his work to join Hugh.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

There are five people in the world

who know the position of every ship

in the Atlantic. They are all in

this room.

Now Joan joins Hugh and John in seeing the full map for the first time.

JOAN CLARKE

Oh my good God.

HUGH ALEXANDER

I don’t think even He has the power

that we do right now.

JOAN CLARKE

(getting closer to map)

There’s going to be an attack on a

British passenger convoy. There.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

You’re right. Those U-Boats are

only twenty or thirty minutes away.

JOAN CLARKE

Civilians. Hundreds of them. We can

save their lives.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS

And knock out a whole German fleet

in the process.

HUGH ALEXANDER

I’ll call Denniston. Have him radio