The Imitation Game · written by Graham Moore · 2014

Hugh feeds intercepted messages into Christopher and reads the day’s Enigma settings from its output.

Scene 98 of 130 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Alan Turing

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Begins 1:34 into a 1:57 film

The story so farBefore scene 98

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 95
On the return train, Joan takes Turing’s hand as they prepare to carry out the new secrecy plan.
Scene 96
At dawn the operation is named Ultra.
Scene 97
WRENs collect the first messages of the day as Ultra grows into a vast store of military intelligence.
Scene 98
This scene

98INT. BLETCHLEY PARK - HUT 11 - SEQUENCE

— In Hut 11, the WREN gives the day’s first messages to Hugh, who enters them into Christopher —

ALAN TURING (V.O.)

It was like having a tap on

Himmler’s intercom.

— Christopher HUMS —

— And Hugh, after a few minutes, reads the day’s Enigma settings on the machine’s read-out: “FSOQR”