The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Turing and Joan enlist Menzies to conceal the decrypts and create a statistical policy for which intelligence to act on and which false explanations to circulate.

Scene 94 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Stewart Menzies
Alan Turing
Joan Clarke

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Begins 1:32 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 94

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.
Scenes 89–91
A first decrypt proves the machine works, and the team immediately faces the choice to let the Carlisle convoy be attacked.
Just before
Scene 91
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 92
Turing and Joan ride to London after agreeing that the Enigma breakthrough must remain secret.
Scene 93
Turing and Joan leave the train and continue together along the platform.
Scene 94
This scene

94INT. TEA SHOP - LONDON - DAY

In a quiet TEA SHOP, Alan, Joan, and Stewart Menzies sip their Twinings. Outside the GLASS WINDOWS, NURSES help WOUNDED SOLDIERS out of an AMBULANCE and into a local HOSPITAL.

STEWART MENZIES

... Why are you telling me this?

ALAN TURING

We need your help to keep this from

the Admiralty. Army. RAF. No one

can know we broke Enigma, not even

Denniston.

STEWART MENZIES

Who is in the process of having you

fired.

JOAN CLARKE

You’ll take care of that.

ALAN TURING

While we develop a system for

determining how much intelligence

to act on. Which attacks to stop,

which to let through. Statistical

analysis. The minimum number of

actions it’ll take to win the war,

but the maximum number we’re able

to take before the Germans get

suspicious.

STEWART MENZIES

You’re going to trust this all to

statistics? To maths?

ALAN TURING

Correct.

JOAN CLARKE

And then MI-6 can come up with the

lies we’ll tell everyone else.

ALAN TURING

We’ll require a believable

alternate source for each piece of

information we use.

JOAN CLARKE

A false story that exlains how we

got that information, that has

nothing to do with Enigma. And then

you’ll need to leak those stories

to the Germans.

ALAN TURING

And the rest of our military.

JOAN CLARKE

Can you do that?

STEWART MENZIES