"THE IMITATION GAME" (2014)

THE IMITATION GAME

Written by Graham Moore

Based on "Alan Turing: The Enigma" By Andrew Hodges

A HALF-DOZEN POLICEOFFICERS swarm the Manchesterhome of mathematics professorAlan Turing.

INSIDE ALAN’S HOUSE:There's been a break-in, and the house is a mess - someone has givenit a pretty thorough once-over.

PAPERS inked black withmathematical symbols litterthe floor. The test tubesand beakers of Turing's chemicalwork are shattered in the study,CYANIDE and POTASSIUM NITRATE DRIPPING ACROSSTHE UGLY CARPET.

And, in the corner:A MACHINE.It’s the size of a dresser, tall, sproutingVACUUM TUBES and WIRES. It looks anachronistichere, too futuristic for its time.

The CONSTABLESLOOK AT THE MACHINE, CONFUSED: Whatis that thing?

A CONSTABLE PHONESIN the robberyto police headquarters—

— At headquarters,a RADIOGIRL RECEIVES the informationand passes it to an assistantfor delivery to the detectiveson duty —

— While in London,a RADIOOPERATOR in a dark room far below Victoria Street INTERCEPTSTHE MESSAGE —

— The MESSAGE is HANDEDOFF and WHISKED through the dim hallways —

— Until it’s finallydeposited on the desk of STEWART MENZIES, the Directorof MI-6. British Secret Intelligence Services.

Menzies picks up the message:“Alan Turing has been robbed.”

DETECTIVE ROBERTNOCK, 40s, athletic, more interestedin football than beinga detective,hustles past a few double- parked police carsand up the steps and into:

Detective Nockenters to find the same messy crime scenewe just saw. He’s addressedby SERGEANTSTAEHL.

ON NOCK: What on earth doesthat mean?

Staehl shrugs.

Sergeant Staehlshows Nock the MACHINE in the corner.

ON NOCK: What the hellis that?

Sergeant Staehlmotions to the next room, and he followsNock in...

... Where they findALAN TURING, 38. He’s the smartestman in the room, and he knowsit. But he doesn’t really careif you do.

Turing is VERY CAREFULLYsweeping up a pile of WHITE POWDER.

He’s doing it with a PAINTBRUSH,his mouth coveredin a scarf.

He’s totally obliviousto the detectives as they enter.

Detective Nock stepscloser, peering over Turing’s shoulder at the white powder.

Detective Nock stops,and steps back. What in the world?

Turing finishessweeping the cyanide into a jar, before safely CAPPING IT.

Turing stands,removes his scarf, and for the first time takes a look at DetectiveNock. Sizes him up.

Detective Knock and SergeantStaehl exchange a look.

Sergeant Staehl SIGHS,embarrassed.

Staehl is about to say something— and probably something aggressive,by the look of his face — but Nock stops him.

Detective Nock and SergeantStaehl walk away from Turing’s house.

Alan Turing — 11 years younger— HURRIES through Euston Station on the day that Britaindeclares war on Germany.

The station is preparingfor war:

PAPERBOYS SCREAM the headlines:“800,000 CHILDREN EVACUATED!” “GERMAN BOMBS COMING!” “FOODSUPPLIES RATIONED!”

MILITARY PERSONNELherd PACKS OF CHILDREN like cattleonto rumbling trains.

The children, bornwith stiff upper lips, hold back their tears. A FATHER shakesthe hand of his 8-YEAR-OLD SON goodbye, almost business-like.Neither knows if they’llever see one another again.

Alan moves through this determinedly,methodically,and unemotionally— it’s like he doesn’t even notice anyoneis there.

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

He watches a SMALL BOYpour over a PUZZLE BOOK. OLDER KIDS, loud and rowdy, TAUNTthe Small Boy, who doesn’t lookup, he’s so focused on his puzzles.

Alan watches. Maybe he smiles.Maybe he understands.

Alan walks throughthe small village of Bletchley. He passes a sign that reads “BLETCHLEYRADIO MANUFACTURING”as he heads to

Alan arrives at the imposingfront gates of Bletchley Park. An enormous Victorianmansion lies in the center of the grounds, surroundedby empty gardens and tall iron fences.

As Alan approaches,two NAVAL OFFICERS with MACHINEGUNS step out from behind the BARRICADES.

Whatever this placeis, it’s housing something very secret inside.

A few minutes later,Alan sits alone in a cluttered office. He stares ahead blanklyat the empty chair behind the desk. Waits.

Alan turns with a start.

ALAN TURING

ALAN TURING

ALAN TURING

And for a split second, Dennistonactually smiles.

At the mention of this word Dennistonlooks suddenly serious.

He WAVES HER AWAY, entirelyfocused on what Alan just said.

The men stare at each other. Neitherblinks.

ANGLE ON: A machine.It looks like a typewriter thatgot left on the set of Blade Runner.Wires running all over it. Extra gears stickingout of the sides. Blinking lights that reveal German characters. Half electrical,half mechanical.

SLOWLY REVEAL: COMMANDERDENNISTON, 50s, is showingthe ENIGMA MACHINE to the NEW RECRUITS.

They are:

HUGH ALEXANDER,30s, loves women and chess in equal measure.

JOHN CAIRNCROSS,30s, Scottish, not the prodigy his compatriots are and knowsit.

PETER HILTON, 20s, a precociousundergrad from Oxford.

KEITH FURMAN and CHARLESRICHARDS, 40s, both stodgy linguists.

Stewart Menzies— head of MI-6, who we briefly glimpsedin the opening — stands in thecorner, silent and observing. Charming and inscrutable,he didn’t become the headof British Secret IntelligenceServices by accident.

FINALLY REVEAL:... Alan stands with them, staringat the machine like it’s the SistineChapel.

He reaches out and touchesit lovingly.

Denniston showsAlan sheets of Enigma messages: PAGE AFTER PAGE OF RANDOM LETTERS.

Alan looks at the machine carefully.

All eyes turn to Turing:Wow.

Everyone looks at Hugh now.

Jesus Christ. Who is thisguy?

They all stare at him.

The team ACKNOWLEDGES Menzies.

They all stare at Menzies:That doesn’t sound like very many.

Menzies and Commander DennistonLEAVE.

The team stands there. WithEnigma.

TEENAGE BOYS playcricket in the green front gardensof a boys boarding school.Behind them looms the school’s stately central manor house.

YOUNG ALAN TURING,15, sits alone in the dining hall. Other BOYS joke and laugh andtell animated stories at nearby tables, but Alan sits alone,staring intently at his food.

ON ALAN’S PLATE: Boiled steak.Potatoes. Peas. And carrots.

Alan carefullytries to separate the carrots from the peas. It’s like he’s performingbrain surgery.

BEHIND ALAN, a groupof BIGGER BOYS approach quietly.One of them holds a TRAY OF BOILEDVEGETABLES —

— The Boys try to MUFFLETHEIR GIGGLES so Alan can’t hear them approach —

— The Boys DUMP THE TRAYOF VEGETABLES ALL OVER ALAN.

Alan SCREAMS.

The Boys LAUGH as AlanSCREAMS and SHAKES and triesto get the peas and carrotsand everything else off of him.He’s in hell.

Alan FALLS DOWN. Still shaking,still screaming.

BOY #1 What a bloody weirdo!

Alan CURLS UP INTO A BALLas he shivers.

... Alan is now inside a coffin.

He’s KICKING AT THE WOODENBOARDS ABOVE and SCREAMINGTO BE RELEASED.

It’s not helping.

From above, we hear the familiarLAUGHTER OF THE SCHOOLBOYS.

REVEAL: The “coffin”is make-shift; the Boys have constructed it out of the broken floorboardsof a half-finished class room. Alan is buried underground,and they’re nailing him in.

The THUMP THUMP of nails enteringthe boards.

FROM INSIDE THE COFFIN:Alan goes silent.

The Boys pound away, but the silenceunnerves them.

BOY #1 Alan? Alan?

BOY #2 C’mon don’t be sucha kike about it...

BOY #3 Leave him to bloody rot.

The Boys LEAVE.

There’s still only SILENCEfrom inside Alan’s coffin.

Alan breathes slowly.Quietly. Controls his shiveringto barely a tremor. He waits.

Suddenly, the boardsabove him CREAK. Then BEND. Then SNAP.

Then an ARM REACHESDOWN and PULLS Alan out of the coffin.

REVEAL: CHRISTOPHERMORCOM, 16, tall, pretty, and charmingin ways that Alan will never,ever be.

ChristopherPULLS Alan from the floorboard coffin andthey —

Walking away from the half-finishedschool room, Christopher helps Alan as he hobbles.

Alan STUMBLES and Christophergrabs his hand, steadying him.

Detective Nock sitsat his desk, yelling incredulouslyinto his telephone.

Nock HANGS UP, frustrated.

He notices Sergeant Staehlwalking past.

Detective Nock and SergeantStaehl walk through Manchester, away from the police station.

Nock looks around,paying no attention to Staehl. He sees something (whichwe don’t) in the reflection of a shop window.

Suddenly, Nock PUSHES Staehl,hard.

Staehl, reeling, is very,very confused.

Nock responds by PUNCHINGStaehl across the jaw, sendinghim to the ground.

People on the street TURNand STARE.

Nock RUNS away down thestreet —

Staehl starts CHASINGAFTER HIM —

— They each DODGE PASSERSBY,who are all staring —

— Until Nock suddenlyCHANGES DIRECTIONS and SLAMSINTO A PEDESTRIAN —

— The Pedestrian and NockTUMBLE TO THE GROUND.

The two SCRAMBLE,and then exchange a look: The Pedestrian is... Concerned.

The Pedestrian STRUGGLESTO HIS FEET and RUNS OFF.

Nock stands dustinghimself off as Staehl catchesup to him —

— And PUNCHES NOCK IN THEJAW.

Nock hands a BILLFOLDback to Staehl.

Very confused, StaehlLOOKS THROUGH the billfold.

Nock shrugs.

Staehl shows Nock thebillfold’s contents: A PHOTOOF NOCK, PAPERS WITH NOCK’S ADDRESS,PERSONAL DATA.

Staehl shows him: Theletter, stamped with the Foreign Office seal, instructsthat the bearer be granted accessto all records concerningone “ROBERTNOCK”.

She LEAVES, offended.

QUICK SHOTS: NockPAINTS TIPP-EX over his own nameon the letter he just stole,and TYPES IN A NEW ONE — “ALAN TURING”

Detective Nock walksup to a SECRETARY.

He FLASHES THE FORGED LETTER.

Off of Nock’s SMILEwe

ON THE ATLANTIC:

— A GERMAN SPYPLANE spotsa BRITISHCONVOY travelling across the ocean, far away.We hear the BEEP BEEP of Morse Codeas the SPYPLANE SENDSOUT AN ENCRYPTED MESSAGE andwe cutto —

— The DECK of one of the Britishships. A SEAMAN smokesa cigarette as wavescrash against the side. He’s approachedby two FRIENDS. He looks:He’s only got one smoke left.In a kind gesture, he SNAPShis cigarette in half, sharingit —

— As underwater, a GERMANSUBMARINE receives the BEEPBEEP of the Morse message aboutthe convoy’s location. The sub CHANGES COURSE —

AT BLETCHLEY PARK:

— Inside HUT 14: ROW afterROW of RADIO STATIONS, all staffed by the smartly dressedyoung ladies of the Women’s Royal Navy. One WREN, listeningto Morse code on her headphones, intercepts thevery same BEEP BEEP of the MESSAGE —

— She takes it down by hand: It’sGIBBERISH. Encrypted.She places the messagesin a PILE —

— A FEMALE ASSISTANT picksup the pile of encrypted messages-

— And carries it throughBletchley —

— The grounds surroundingthe mansion at BletchleyPark are now littered with 18 WOODEN“HUTS” — hastily constructed structures thatcontain all of Britain’s top secret cryptography operations—

— The Female Assistanthurries past ARMED GUARDS and SECURITY CHECKPOINTS into —

— HUT 8: Where the Enigma cryptanalysisteam does their work.

— John Cairncross, PeterHilton, Keith Furman, and Charles Richards use PERFORATEDSHEETS to analyze Enigma messagesas the Female Assistantdeposits the pile onto Hugh Alexander’s desk.

All around Hut 8, we see STACKafter STACK of encrypted messages, just likethe one that was just delivered.

The team does their bestto decrypt these stacks of messages, but they’re gettingnowhere. There are thousands of messages, and only four cryptographers.

MOVE IN on the urgent messageabout the attack, whichis untouched as —

BACK IN THE ATLANTIC:

— The deck of the Britishship. The sailors SMOKE as we —

— Move DOWN INTO THE WATERto see that the German submarine has arrived. It FIRESA TORPEDO at the helpless convoyand we cut—

BACK TO HUT 8:

The team is still buriedin pile after pile of undecrypted messages. Anotherconvoy has been lost because they couldn’t move fast enough,and they’re so far behind they don’teven know it yet.

Hugh stretches,staring out the window, wherehe sees a WREN passing by.

John, Peter, Keithand Charles all look as well— thereis in fact something strangelysexy about women in little hats.

John Cairncrossgets up and walks into the next room, where he finds Alan, working alone.

We see his work: ELECTRICALSCHEMATICS. He’s designinga STRANGE NEW MACHINE.

ON THE TEAM: A machine? That’s ridiculous.

The guys gather their thingsand walk out...

... They turn.

Hugh, John, Peter,Keith and Charles all exit Hut 8, shaking their heads and laughingat what an impossible weirdoAlan is.

In the window, we see Alan’sface, alone with his work.

ON ALAN: He looksout at the team, a slight longingto be among them, and yet theresolution that he never can be.

Alan runs for milesand miles along the outskirts of Bletchley.

He thinks when he runs.It focuses him. He looks intent, deeply concentratingas he presses his legs as hardas they’ll go.

INTERCUT WITH:

Alan obsessivelyworks on something in Hut 8, filling sheet after sheet of paper withhis designs. He’s drawing SCHEMATICS...As it fills out, we see what it is:

It’s a HUGE MACHINE.

Alan walks throughthe camp brandishing a PIECE OF PAPER. He’s a fish out of wateramidst all of the MILITARY MEN moving supplies around him.

He finds what he’s lookingfor:

Commander Dennistonstands before a SUPPLY TRUCK, checking the manifest as suppliesare UNLOADED.

Denniston stares at him.

And with that, Dennistonwalks away, furious.

ON ALAN: Well alright,if you say so...

Stewart Menzieswalks out of the Bletchley’s MAIN GATE, through security,when’s he’s approached by:

Alan hands Menzies a letter:

It’s addressed to “WINSTONCHURCHILL. 10 DOWNING ST. LONDON.”

ON MENZIES: Well, this shouldbe interesting...

The team — Alan, Hugh,John, Peter, Keith, and Charles— are assembled in CommanderDenniston’s office for a meeting. Stewart Menzieswatches quietly from the corner,as is his way.

Denniston looksat Menzies,stewing, but Menzies just shrugs back: “What wouldyou have me do?”

Charles and Keith leave, pissed.

ON DENNISTON: He looksat Alan with a withering, simmering glare.

ON ALAN: He doesn’tbudge an inch, or feel the slightestneed to explain himself.

As everyone staresat him, angry, the tension is brutal.

Alan, Hugh, Johnand Peter walk back into Hut 8 afterthe meeting — resigned, unhappily,to their fate.

Alan takes a paperfrom his desk and TACKS IT UP ON THE WALL.

ON THE PAPER: It’s a CROSSWORDPUZZLE.

A MAN opens up that morning’sDaily Telegraph, and flipping through the paper, he sees an advertisement.

ON THE AD: It’s a crosswordpuzzle. Below it, the ad copy says — “If you can solvethis puzzle in under ten minutes please call STO-6264 for an excitingcareer opportunity.”

SERIES OF SHOTS: Otherpeople — MEN, WOMEN, STUDENTS, RETIREES — open up theirpapers and see Alan’s ad. Theyall try solving the puzzle.

It’s really, really hard.

Back in the first house,the Man is trying to completethe puzzle when —

— The AIR RAID SIREN goesoff.

Quickly, the Man gathershis FAMILY and they rush down into

The Man and his WIFE lightcandles in the safety of their underground BOMB SHELTER.

As BOMBS EXPLODEon the street above them, the Man passes TOYS and GAMES to his children,to keep them distracted during the assault.

He returns to Alan’scrossword puzzle, tryingto solve it as just a few yards abovehim a city burnt to rubble.

CIVILIANS rundown into an old TUBE TUNNEL to get awayfrom the bombing.

Inside the tightly crowdedstation, some people read books, some play games,some lay on the train tracks to sleepas dust POOFS UP from the shakingground.

Normal life goes on as theLIGHTS FLICKER from the shelling above.

By the dim flickering,we see OTHER PEOPLE trying theirhand at Alan’s puzzle.

Alan bicycles throughLondon, passing a group of GASMASKED SCHOOLCHILDRENbeing led calmly on a DRILL by their TEACHER.

As a MILKMAN crossesa BOMBEDOUT BUILDING to delivershis wares, Alan comesto a stop beside a MARRIED COUPLEwho are digging throughthe RUBBLE. The husband digs whilethe wife rests, sippingtea as if her house was other than a war zone.

While FIREMEN tendto a nearby smoldering mess, Alanlocks up his bike and enters MI-6 HEADQUARTERS.

END SEQUENCE

Alan and Stewart Menziestalk in the hallway, outsidea closed door.

Alan leads Menzies into:

Alan and Stewart Menziesare in an MI-6 conference room.It’s been set up like a classroom: Rows of identical desks,at which sit a COLLECTIONOF CROSSWORDENTHUSIASTS. Thereare around 20, all men.

Just then, a WOMAN enters.Everyone turns to look...

Her name is JOAN CLARKE,20s, a graduate student at Cambridge who’s trying to getas far away from her preacher fatheras possible, and she’sabout to become very importantto this story.

She hands the Agent the LETTER.

Joan stares at Alan: Thankyou.

As Joan SITS, the Agentturns to Menzies — who’s been silently observingAlan thus far — for support.

Menzies SHRUGS.

The Agent backs down.

Alan passes out NEW CROSSWORDPUZZLES.

SHOTS: EVERYONE FRANTICALLYTRIES TO FINISH THE NEW PUZZLE.

As they work:

— Suddenly, Joansits up. She’s finished. Early.

ON ALAN: The smartestman in the room is surprised forthe first time in a very longtime by someone who might be even smarter.

Minutes later, TWO PEOPLEhave survived the crosswordtest. Joan is one of them.

Young Alan and Christophersit under a tree, the schoolin the distance.

Alan is going through a crosswordpuzzle, Christopheris reading a book. Their legs aretouching affectionately without eithereven knowing, like two people who are effortlessly comfortablewith one another.

Christophershows him: “A Guide to Codes and Cyphers.”

Christopherwalks Young Alan back to his dormitory. They’re happy after a long day together.

Christopher touches Alan’s shoulder, and the two share a sweet moment.

Alan watches Christopher go; his heart is blooming, in love.

A crowded POLICE STATION.

Detective Nock approacheshis boss, SUPERINTENDANTSMITH, as the latter walks throughthe station dropping PAPERSonto various DESKS and checkingthe work of other POLICE OFFICERS.

Nock hands SuperintendantSmith a MANILA ENVELOPE.

Smith gives him a look.

ON NOCK’S FACE: It wouldexplain a lot, wouldn’t it?

ON SUPERINTENDANT SMITH: He’s considering...

Smith thinks, andthen hands the folder back to Nock.

And with that, Smith leaves.

ON NOCK: Damn it.

He walks back acrossthe station to find Sergeant Staehl waiting beside his desk.

CLOSE ON: A GIANT, HALF-BUILTMACHINE. The size of a dining room table, but tallerthan it is wide, its guts are composed of SPINNING GEARSand a seemingly endless streamof LONG RED WIRES.

REVEAL: TECHNICIANSwork on putting the machine together, SOLDERING THE WIRES, whileAlan FUSSES.

Alan tries to protecthis precious creation when he’s interrupted by:

Alan turns to see: His new recruit,JACK GOOD.

... But no Joan.

Joan returns homefrom the market when she hears a familiar VOICE from the sittingroom.

Joan follows the voicesto find:

Alan sitting acrossfrom her MOTHER and FATHER, arguing.

Joan makes the sortof face any young woman would makeif she found Alan Turing sittingto tea with her parents.

In the KITCHEN: Joan’sMOTHER hands her a TEA TRAY.The two share a look.

As Joan’s Mother andFather pretend to putter in the kitchen, listening in on the conversationin the next room, Joantakes the tray to the LIVING ROOM,where she begins to serve tea.

ON ALAN: Are you fucking serious?

ON JOAN: Yes. I’m fucking serious.

ON ALAN: He tries to thinkof a solution...

ON JOAN’S PARENTS: This soundsmore promising.

ON JOAN: “Go on.”

ON JOAN’S PARENTS: That’smuch better.

As Joan’s parents enter,we

Joan walks Alan outof the front door, finally out of earshot from her parents for a few quickseconds.

Joan and a few OTHER WRENSexit a BUS that’s depositedthem in front of the Park’s centralmansion.

Looking up at it, she seesAlan walking across the way.

He gives her a small wave,which she returns with a small wave back.

Later in Hut 8, the team(w/o Alan) — Hugh, John, Peter,and the new guy, Jack — work franticallyinto the night.

The team uses their PERFORATEDSHEETS to find linguistic patterns in the Enigmamessages, everyone workingas hard and as fast as they possiblycan until —

— Suddenly a BELL GOES OFF.

Everyone stops their work, frustrated.

Angry, Hugh KICKS his desk.

Hugh stands and headsto the door —

— But Hugh is alreadygone to

Alan stands alone with hismachine, tinkering, comparingthe assembly to his SCHEMATICS.

Hugh BURSTS in —

Hugh grabs a GLASS fromthe table and SMASHES IT AGAINST ALAN’S MACHINE.

He grabs a WRENCH —

— Alan moves to protect Christopher,standing betweenHugh and the machine —

— When the team entersbehind Hugh —

— GRABBING HIM and HOLDINGHIM BACK.

Alan stands betweenthe team and his machine as Hugh STEAMS.

Hugh PUSHES towardsAlan again —

— but John HOLDS HIM BACK.

Hugh stares Alan, thenat John.

Hugh leaves, and the team FOLLOWS.

ON ALAN: Alone. Rattledfrom the violence. Scared.

And yet... Resolved.

He makes a fateful decisionand runs off to

Alan goes back intoHut 8, which is now empty.

He goes to a far STORAGECABINET, from which he removesa STACK OF ENIGMA MESSAGES.

Alan FOLDS THE SHEETS,STUFFING THEM INTO HIS COAT POCKETS—

— INTO HIS PANTS —

— INTO HIS SHOES —

— ETC.

He runs out, concealingenough top secret informationon his body to have him hangedfor treason ten times over.

Alan walks his bicyclethrough the CHECK POINT, showinghis ID to the GUARDS.

At the Gate, ARMEDGUARDS stop him as he passes, andas is protocol, Alanopens up his BRIEFCASE for the men to see:

Nothing is inside.

Concealing the documentsin his coat/pants/shoes/etc.,Alan hops on his bike and headsoff to:

Alan bicycles to the outsideof Joan’s new flat.

The windows are BOARDEDUP at night — city regulations,so that the Germans flyingoverhead can’t see any lightsfrom the town.

Alan CHUCKS A SMALL rockat Joan’s boarded window —

— Then carefully sneaksaround in back of the house—

— Finding an OPEN BACKWINDOW —

— On the second floor.

He CLIMBS A NEARBYFENCE, and JUMPS FROM THE FENCETO THE WINDOW —

— Where Joan GRABS HIM andHELPS HIM INSIDE:

It’s dark inside...

Joan turns on a SMALL LAMPand then lights some CANDLES.

She watches Alan removepapers from his pockets.

Alan produces the Enigmamessages from every availablehiding place on his person.

Alan starts PLACINGTHE MESSAGES down on a table, but there isn’t room, so he startsLAYING THEM OUT ON THE FLOOR.

Alan looks at her:How do you know what that is?

Joan smiles.

ON ALAN: She understandswhat he’s been writing about.

— Alan TURNS, and KNOCKS OVERTHE CANDLE...

... Which LIGHTS THE ENIGMAMESSAGES ON FIRE.

Alan and Joan SCRAMBLETO PUT OUT THE FIRE.

They make a lot of NOISEin the process, though theydo manage not to burn down Joan’sflat.

They hear more noise from downstairs:“Joan?!? HELLO?!?”

Alan moves to the frontdoor —

Alan AWKWARDLY CLIMBSOUT THE WINDOW, TRYING NOT TO FALL...

REVEAL: Alan has been injuredin his fall.

(Climbing is not his strongsuit.)

Alan walks through the groundsinto:

Alan enters Hut 8 to findhis team watching silentlyas a bunch of MILITARY POLICERIFLE THROUGH HIS DESK —

— MANHANDLING his papers,his machine parts, making a mess.

The RMP’S TRAIN GUNSON HIM.

Alan turns to find Dennistondirecting the search.

Denniston handsAlan a TELEGRAM — it’s a LONG STRINGOF LETTERS, runningdown the entire page.

As Alan stares at the team,they stare back at him.

He glances at the RMP’s riflingthrough his desk.

Oh fuck.

ON THE TEAM: They won’tlook him in the eye.

Denniston and his men LEAVE.

In the machine Hut nextdoor, Alan touches his precious machine for comfort.

Whenever he feels lonely,misunderstood, isolated— he has his machine.

There’s a KNOCK on the doorand...

... Joan enters.

Alan and Joan sip frombeer bottles in the “beer hut”— Among the military commissaries,it’s so named because, well,it’s the one that serves beer.

They can be a bit more relaxedhere than at Joan’s flat.

They’re surroundedby NAPKINS full of MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS, which they’re studying,debating, etc.

Just then, Hugh, John,and Peter enter the Beer Hut...

... Alan looks up, seeingthem.

Joan notices.

They see Joan...

... Hugh, John and Peter approach.

Joan hops behindthe bar and the BARTENDER helps herto BOTTLES OF GUINNESS.

Hugh, Alan, John and Peterwatch.

Returning, JoanPOURS PINTS OF GUINNESS FOR THE TEAM.

ON THE PINTS: Joanhas etched pi symbols into the foam.

Joan smiles at Hughas he joins John and Peter at a separate table.

Alan thinks. The nextsentence is incredibly hardfor him to say out loud.

Alan enters Hut 8 to findhis team hard at work.

He’s carrying a BAG OF APPLES.

Alan takes the applebag around the room, handingeach man an apple.

They take them. It’s really awkward.

Ba dum bum.

Awkward silence.

Alan walks off to the adjacentHut.

Young Alan and Christopherare in math class.

The TEACHER droneson as the students pretend to pay attention.

Young Alan and ChristopherPASS NOTES —

— Dropping them by eachother’s desks —

— And snapping them up quickly.

The Teacher comesover, and grabs the note from his hand.

ON THE NOTE: “FDFH RGTU HSD PDXT PEJND QERDZX.”

It’s encrypted.

The other studentsLAUGH as the Teacher drops thenote in the trash.

Alan isn’t botheredby the laughter — he’s safe in his private world with Christopher.

The BELL RINGS. Classis over.AS EVERYONE SHUFFLES OUT:

Alan waits... And grabsthe note from the trash.

Now alone, Alan DECRYPTSTHE MESSAGE. One at a time, the letters become intelligible.

ON THE NOTE: “SEE YOU IN TWO LONGWEEKS, DEAREST FRIEND.”

ON ALAN: Christophercalled him his dearest friend.

Alan and Joan eat a PICNICLUNCH in a wooded area behindHut

Alan finishes writingan EQUATION, then hands his NOTEBOOKto Joan.

She looks at the equation,then instantly starts CROSSING THINGS OUT and REWRITING.Alan laughs. There aren’t many people who would crossout his work so brazenly.

Joan sees his laughter,looks up: “What’d I do?”

But before Alan can respondthey both see: Hugh approaching.

Alan is nervous.

But Hugh simply HANDSALAN A SHEET OF PAPER.

As Alan and Joan stareat SCHEMATICS on the paper, Hugh SWIPES A SANDWICH fromtheir picnic and begins to chew.

And with that, Hugh takesanother bite, gives Joan a wink, and walks off.

Alan and the team (Hugh,John, Peter) stand in a half-circle around the now-completed Christopher.

An ELECTRICAL ASSISTANTfeeds fresh Enigma messagesinto one end of the machine.

The men look at each other,feeling the importanceof the moment.

Alan takes a gulp and CONNECTSthe final bit of electrical wiring...

... AND THE VERY FIRST “DIGITALCOMPUTER” IN HISTORYCOMES TO LIFE.

ON THE MACHINE: GEARSARE SPINNING, CURRENT IS RACING THROUGH THE WIRES.

The CLACKING SOUND it makesis UNBELIEVABLYLOUD.

ON ALAN: He’s not sure...

The team shares a look:Is this really going to work?

Dawn rises over BletchleyPark.

Commander Dennistonreceives a visit from the Electrical Assistant who’dbeen helping Alan in the previous scene.

The Assistant NODS. DennistonSMILES: Got him.

As the machine CLACKSaway, Alan is frantically goingover his papers. He’s unshaven,wearing yesterday’s clothes.He hasn’t gotten a wink of sleep.

ON ALAN’S FRANTIC PACING:Why isn’t it working? Why?!

Alan rubs his eyes,exhausted, and as he does so he looksout the window to see...

... Commander Dennistonwalking towards the Machine Hut, accompaniedby a HOMEOFFICE MAN and TWO RMPs.

Alan quickly runsto the door and BOLTS it —

— Just as Dennistonand the men get to it from the outside.

OUTSIDE:

Denniston triesthe door. It won’t open.

INSIDE:

OUTSIDE:

INSIDE:

OUTSIDE:

Denniston turnsto the RMPs: Break it down.

The RMPs KICK DOWNTHE DOOR —

— And the men BURST INTOTHE ROOM as Alan FALLS BACK.

An RMP walks over to Christopher—

— Alan tries to stophim but they POINT GUNS AT HIM —

— And so Alan watchesin absolute horror as they TURNOFF THE MACHINE.

Commander Dennistonexchanges a look with the men:See what I mean?

ON ALAN: He can’t.

ON ALAN: What can he do?This is it...

Everyone turnsto see Hugh, John, and Peter at the door, wearing fresh clothes.

Denniston looksto the Home Office Man, who NODS: Hughis right.

Denniston and his men LEAVE.

The team breathesa sigh of relief: They’ve been givena temporary reprieve.

Sergeant Staehl walkseagerly through the police station.

He comes to an office marked“SUPERINTENDANT SMITH”,where he OPENS the door to find

SuperintendantSmith and Detective Nock are in the middleof a genial conversation.

The Superintendantturns to Staehl.

Detective Nock looksat Staehl — “Shhhh!”

The Superintendantlooks at Nock — “You didn’t...”

They follow Staehl out to...

As Nock and Smith stands outsidethe INTERROGATION ROOM, Sergeant Staehlpoints through the window in the door:

Inside is ARNOLD MURRAY,20s, nervous.

Staehl shows Nock and Smitha SIGNEDSTATEMENT.

Joan comes hometo her flat. She looks sad as she putsher key in the lock and opensthe door.

She enters to find:

HUNDREDS OF MATHEMATICALPAPERS ARE SCATTERED ALLOVER HER LIVING ROOM.

She sighs.

At the sound of her voice,Alan comes out of the wash room, wiping the shavingcream from his face. He’s moving and talking a mile a minute.

Joan sits down, sadly.

Silence.

Alan looks like she justslapped him across the face. Which she basically did.

Alan stares at Joan. She staresback.

Alan fishes a piece of ELECTRICALWIRE from his pocket...

... And then FASHIONSIT INTO A RING.

ON JOAN’S FACE: What’sshe going to do?

An impromptu ENGAGEMENTPARTY in the Beer Hut that night:

— A BANNER made from PUNCH CARDS reads:“CONGRATULATIONS!”

— Music plays as DANCERSTWIRL in the center of the Hut.

— Joan LAUGHS with herWREN FRIENDS in one corner, whilein another Alan drinksbeer with his team.

ON JOAN AND THE GIRLS:She shows off her makeshift wire engagement ring:

JOAN’S FRIEND (trying her best) ... It’s... beautiful?

Joan LAUGHS. She understands.

She looks over at Alan warmly.

ON ALAN AND THE BOYS:They’re are all a bit drunk, TELLING DIRTY STORIES:

The men BURST INTO LAUGHTER.

Except for Alan, who looksa bit confused.

Alan looks away, uncomfortable.

Just then, Joan comesover and throws an affectionatearm around Alan.

Hugh takes Joan’shand, and leads her across the room.They begin to DANCE, whilePeter follows, dancing withone of Joan’s friends.

Alan and John are leftalone at the table.

Alan looks worried.

Alan looks at him, surprised.

ON ALAN: He knows John is right.

As Alan thinks, Joancomes back over and offers him her hand.

She leads him to the dancefloor.

As they START TO DANCE, chastely,sweetly, WE

CLOSE ON A LETTER: “I LOVEYOU” is written on the paper.

REVEAL: Young Alansits in his dormitory room, ENCRYPTINGhis love letter to Christopher.

Slowly, letterby letter,Alan transforms “I LOVE YOU”into code...

Hearing a commotion,Alan LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW:

BOYS are being unloadedfrom a BUS at the gates, droppedoff to begin the new spring term.

Alan sees them all, excited:Christopher is coming back!

He STUFFS HIS ENCRYPTEDLETTER IN AN ENVELOPE and RUNS OFFto

Alan waits eagerlyby the main gate as BOYS STREAM PAST —

— Joking, horsing around—

— Alan waits patiently,looking for Christopher’s faceamong the rowdy schoolboys—

— Until: They’re all gone.

Christopher never shows.

Alan looks at his undeliverednote, then at the empty yard before him.

Where is Christopher?

Confused, Young Alan finallygives up...

... When he runs intothe PACK OF BOYS who beat him up earlier.

BOY #1 Well look. Mr. Turingis all alone.

Young Alan standsfrozen as they come at him, and we

Alan Turing sits alonein the interrogation room withhis eyes closed.

Detective Nock enters.

Suddenly, Alan openshis eyes.

Alan smiles — DetectiveNock is smarter than he looks.

Alan and his team — Hugh,John, Peter — anxiously stand before Alan’s hugemachine as it CLACK CLACK CLACKS, ferociously loud.

The gears are spinning,current is flowing through the wires, and the team stares at it, takingturns compulsively checking their watches.

ON ALAN: This is goingto work. This has to work.

Suddenly...

... DING. The chime announcesthe stroke of midnight.

Everyone is pissed, frustrated.

Alan looks as if he’sabout to rip his own hair out: Why won’t this damned thing work?

As the machine CLACKS on, oblivious,they all walk outside:

The team walks acrossBletchley together, movingas one through the most highlysecret war zone in the world.

MORE SECURITY has beenadded throughout the park, including along the path fromHut 11 — ARMED GUARDS check IDs, which the team hands over absentmindedly.

ON ALAN: Maybe it was always impossibleafter all.

It’s crowded in the beerhut, even this late at night.

On one side of the room,Alan, Hugh, John, and Peter are drinking. Commiseratingabout their fate.

On the other side,Joan is drinking with her friendHELEN — a fellow WREN.

ON JOAN AND HELEN:

ON HUGH, ALAN, JOHN, AND PETER:

Hugh is looking at the girls.

ON JOAN AND HELEN:

ON THE BOYS:

Hugh drags Alan acrossthe pub to Helen and Joan.

ON JOHN AND PETER:

ON HUGH, ALAN, JOAN, AND HELEN:

Hugh KICKS Alan, who shutsup.

Hugh looks at Alan for an introduction:Alan is silent.

Joan picks up the slack:

Now Joan KICKS Alan, whois stillvery confused.

Helen and Hugh walk awayto the bar...

But Alan is lost in thought...

Something is wrong...

Everyone in the roomturns and stares at him.

Joan winces.

Helen and Hugh come back over.

Alan BOLTS out of thebar —

— SPILLING BEER ALL OVERHELEN —

— Who CRIES OUT, and ANGRILYRUNS OFF —

— Leaving Hugh and Joan standingthere, confused.

They share a look: What’sgotten into Alan?

Joan quickly RUNSOFF after Alan —

— Hugh follows suit —

— And John and Peter, seeingthis across the room, takeoff after Hugh —

Everyone chases Alanacross Bletchley Park —

— GUARDS YELL at Alan as he bypassessecurity checkpoints—

— Guards are screamingat them, drawing guns as he andJoan barrel into Hut 8 —

— Hugh and John show theirIDs to the Guards, yellingback at them —

— Hugh and John finallyget rid of the guards and enter:

— Joan runs into theHut to find that Alan has grabbeda BOX OF PREVIOUSLY DECRYPTEDMESSAGES —

— Alan POURS those messagesout all over the floor —

— Hugh, John, and Peterenter as Alan spreads the messages out on the floor. (Justlike he did in Joan’s flat!)

— They all search the messages with Alan —

— Joan holds up a DECRYPT:It’s the same one she read earlier.

Joan searches through a PILE, finding:

Joan holds the message as they all run out to:

Alan runs from Hut 8 to Hut11, the team chasing behind him.

Alan, Joan, John,Peter and Hugh burst in —

— Hugh turns the rings while —

— John and Peter go around back —

Joan reads aloud to Alan as he enters it in:

They all stand back as Alan TURNS ON the machine.

They watch the CLACK CLACK CLACKof Christopher as he processes the message...

— They’re nervous, fretting,anxiously awaiting his calculations...

... Finally, ChristopherSTOPS.

Silence, as a SERIESOF ROTORS on the side of Christopher snap into place, displayinga SET OF LETTERS.

Alan SCRIBBLESdown the letters (”EXBAO...”)and they all run back to —

Where Alan takes a DUMMY ENIGMAMACHINE, turns the machine’s rotors to the setting he wrotedown (”EXBAO...”) —

Peter hands Alan one from a nearby folder —

— Alan starts typing one of today’sgibberish encrypted messages into Enigma—

— As John TAKES DOWN the decodedGerman letters —

— Hugh looks at what Johnis writing and TRANSLATES the German into English —

Alan and Hugh look ateach other: Oh my god.

The team EXPLODESWITH JOY.

LAUGHING, HOOTING, SCREAMING,JUMPING, HUGGING.

This is the happiest momentof their lives.

John even startsto TEAR UP, and TRIES TO HUG ALAN —

— Who just STANDS THERE, limp.

Dawn rises over BletchleyPark.

The team has been there workingall through the night.

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

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

ON THE MAP: It’s the AtlanticOcean. Blue pins representthe Allied ships, red ones representthe Axis ships.

ON ALAN’S FACE: He’s notsure. Something is botheringhim, but he can’t figure out what.

John steps back fromhis work to join Hugh.

Now Joan joins Hughand John in seeing the full map forthe first time.

Hugh picks up the phone—

Hugh DIALS —

Alan LEAPS ACROSSTHE ROOM and GRABS THE PHONE FROM HUGH.

Hugh tries to grab thephone back —

— But Alan pulls away sharply.

Everyone STOPS. Turns.Looks at Alan.

Hugh tries to GRAB THEPHONE from Alan —

— but Alan PULLS it awayand SMASHES THE PHONE AGAINSTTHE GROUND.

Hugh can’t take it anymore—

— He TAKES A SWING ATALAN —

— Who CRUMPLES ATTHE BLOW ON HIS JAW —

— Hugh stares downat Alan, who’s bleeding on the floor —

— Hugh WINDS UP FOR ANOTHERPUNCH —

— When Joan CATCHES HISARM mid-swing —

— Surprised, Hugh instinctivelySWINGS AT HER —

— Smacking Joan hard acrossthe face.

— He’s stunned by whathe’s done as she responds by PUSHING HIM INTO A TABLE —

— And Hugh falls to the floor,next to Alan.

Joan stands above them.

Silence. Just the soundsof panting.

Peter looks at the map...

They all look at him.

Silence. Fuck.

Peter DIVES for Alan—

— But John stops him.

Silence. Thisis thehardest thing anyone in this roomhas ever had to do.

Alan and Joan ride the train from Bletchley into London.

They know what they have to do.

Alan and Joan exit the train and walk down the platform.

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

ON ALAN AND JOAN: Okay.Let’s do it.

Alan and Joan ride the train back to Bletchley.

She reaches out and puts her hand in his. They’re in this so deep now... But at least they’re in it together.

At 6am, dawn is threateningto break across the Park.

But in the WREN’S HUT,the women eagerly await the comingof the day’s first messages—

— And a sudden BEEP BEEP BEEPannounces that they have.The WRENs quickly takedown the first messages —

A WREN removes thefirst few dozen from a pile —

— And hands it over to anotherWREN —

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

— Christopher HUMS —

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

Jack turns his Enigmamachine to the day’s setting — “FSOQR” — and one by one types in the newlyintercepted messages, recording the nowdecrypted results in a BOOKLET.On the cover, the booklet is marked:“ULTRA.”

Alan organizesstacks of similar ULTRA bookletswhen he has trouble findingone of them — He looks up to see Peter walking nearby.

But instead of answering,Peter BUMPS HARD against Alan’s shoulder, scatteringAlan’s papers to the floor.

Jack looks over. Peterkeeps on walking.

No one helps Alan ashe bends down to clean up his papers. Peter LEAVES Hut 8 withoutspeaking a single word.

ON ALAN: He’s kneelingdown in front of John’s MESSY DESK, picking up papersfrom the floor, when his eyes come level with something on the desk...

... It’s a BOOK. Buried underneathCRYPTOGRAPHIC PAPERS.

Alan stares at it strangely.Something about its shapeand colour look familiar...He UNCOVERS it...

IT’S A BIBLE.

Holy shit.

There’s a page dog-eared.Alan opens to the page — it’s Matthew 7:7. “Seek andye shallfind...”

ON ALAN: JOHN CAIRNCROSSIS THE SOVIET SPY.

Suddenly:

Alan turns and stands— there’sJohn, right behind him.

ON JOHN: He sees somethingon Alan’s face. Somethingis wrong. He looks downat the desk... AND SEES THE UNCOVERED BIBLE.

What’s John going to do? Alanis terrified...

Across the room, Jacklooks over. Whatever is goingon between Alan andJohn, he wants no part of it.

Jack leaves.

Alan is now alone with John,the Soviet spy.

ON ALAN: Oh God, John wasthe one person he trusted.

ON ALAN: Looks down. He’s beaten.

He puts an understandinghand on Alan’s shoulder.

And with that, John takeshis bible and leaves.

ON ALAN: What’s he goingto do?

Alan borrows a phone in the centralmansion.

... But frustratedby the response he hears, Alan HANGS UP.

Alan bursts into Joan’sflat to tell her what he’s found.

It’s dark. He FLICKS ON THE LIGHT...

REVEAL: The room has been ransacked.

Clothes, books, papers scatteredeverywhere.

He quickly moves throughthe flat: What happened here?

Runs to the back bedroom,where he finds...

... Stewart Menzies. Calmlylooking over some papers.

ON ALAN: Fuck.

Menzies looksat Alan: Who is it if not her?

Menzies SMILES. As if he’s impressed.

Flash to the first scenewhere Alan met his new team after arriving at Bletchley.Commander Denniston explainshow Enigma works, while Menziesstands in the corner, observing.

Menzies keepsa specialeye on Cairncross as Alan and Hugh compete over who knows more aboutcryptography.

A year earlier, JohnCairncross exits the Main Gateof Bletchley carryinga SUITCASE—

Cairncross walksthrough the village with the suitcase —

Cairncrosscomes to a MAILBOX, where under coverof night he OPENS HIS CASE —

— Removing A FOLDER OF COPIEDENIGMA INTERCEPTS —

— Which he then places in themailbox.

Cairncross WALKSAWAY into the night.

After he leaves, two MI-6AGENTS come and UNLOCK THE MAILBOX—

— Removing his FOLDER—

— The Agents take SOMEMESSAGES OUT, and put other NEWONES BACK IN —

— Before re-sealingthe folder and putting it backin the mailbox —

— And RE-LOCKING the mailboxlid.

ON ALAN: Flustered. Terrified.

Menzies holds up the stolendecrypts. The threat is palpable.

ON ALAN: What choicedoes he have? He looks down.

Joan walks towardsHut 8, showing her ID to the new GUARDS who are closely monitoringentry to the Huts.

In front of Hut 8, Alan watchesher. Steeling himselfup for what he has to do.

As she approaches,she sees Alan waiting for her. She smiles at him, but he doesn’t returnit. Something is wrong.

Alan and Joan talk behindHut 8.

ON ALAN: He wants totell her, but he can’t. It’s too dangerous.

ON ALAN: This isn’tworking. He’s going to haveto try a different approach.

ON ALAN: What?

ON ALAN: He needsto get rid of her, to save her, andshe is making this impossible.

She SLAPS HIM.

Joan turns to walk away,and then, angry, she turns back.

She TOSSES HER WIRE ENGAGEMENTRING AT ALAN.

Alan watches her walkaway, struggling to maintain his facade of icy indifference.

Young Alan enters the HEADMASTER’SOFFICE.

ON ALAN’S FACE: Christophernever told him.

Alan, Joan, John, Hugh,and Peter decrypt messages together for another two exhaustingyears.

Alan spends two years pressedshoulder-to-shoulderwith the woman whose hearthe broke. With the man whose dark secrethe uncovered. Withthe man whose brother he allowed to die.

INTERCUT WITH ARCHIVALFOOTAGE: The FRONTLINE BATTLESwhose outcomes, goodand bad, are determined by the workof Hut 8. The MEDITERRANEANFLEET is RAVAGED outside Sicily... 6,000 SHIPS launch for the surpriseattack on Normandy...

IN HUT 8: Peter and Hugh eachdecrypt a message, placingTWO BLUE PINS on the board,and then one RED. They look to Alan: Two British ships,and they can only save one of them.

Alan runs a statisticalanalysis of their options.We see KEY WORDS: “LIKELIHOODOF DETECTION,”“CASUALTIES,” “MATERIAL LOSSES” interspersedwith mathematical equations.Alan places his results intoa GREENFOLDER. A MESSENGER comesin and takes the folderto —

AN MI-6 WAR ROOM: The Messengerdelivers the Green Folderto Menzies and a TEAM OF MI-6AGENTS. They look over Alan’s analysis and decidewhat military actions to take. The Agents TELEPHONE Churchill’soffice in London.

ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE:We see the impact of Hut 8’s workas a dozen Britishships are BLOWN OUT OF THE OCEAN just northof Algiers, sacrificedfor the greater good in Operation Torch.

BACK IN HUT 8: The team learnsof the outcome as they decode more German messages.Peter takes the BLUE PIN downfrom the map, tossing it angrilyin the trash. He looks at Alan,who looks away — anothership they could not save.

OUTSIDE BLETCHLEYVILLAGE: Alan RUNS at nighton a dirtpath along the outskirtsof Bletchley. He runs for miles, sweating, panting,until his legs almost give way.

QUIET MOMENTSIN HUT 8: Hugh lays a folded-up coat undera sleeping Peter’shead as a pillow. John makes tea for Joan.

ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE:On V-E Day, Churchill speaks to millions from a balcony in Whitehall.Truman dedicates the victoryto Roosevelt as Times Squareerupts into drunken cheers.

The whole world kisses.The whole world cries.

All of Bletchley Parkis celebrating the end of the war.

Flags are being waved, peopleare dancing, cheering.

But inside the central mansion:

Alan and his team are assembledbefore Stewart Menzies.

Alan Turing finishestelling his story to Detective Nock.

ON ALAN: Turning away.He’s done with Nock.

A PLAINCLOTHES OFFICERwalks through the police station, carrying a NEWSPAPERunder his arm.

He makes his way to —

— Detective Nock’s desk.

The Officer drops thenewspaper in front of Nock.

The headline reads: “CAMBRIDGEPROFESSOR SENTENCEDFOR INDECENCY”,above a photo of Alan.

ON NOCK: This shouldmake him happy. But instead he feels only empty and sick.

We find Alan in his study.He’s gained weight sincelast we saw him — he’s grown paleras well. Haggard. And the placeis a horrible mess.

He compares his half-builtNEW MACHINE to the planson his desk — his work progresses.Slowly.

(This is the machinewe saw in the opening scene, which appears differentbut related to the Bletchley machine— like a newer model of the same basicconcept.)

The doorbell RINGS.Alan ignores it, focused on his work.

It RINGS again. Irritated,he gets up and shuffles through his house —

— He’s walking withan odd limp, like it’s hard forhim to move his legs normally—

— And as the bell keeps RINGINGinsistently he reachesthe front door, openingit to find:

Joan takes a seat while Alan fusses, embarrassed at the state of the place and trying to clean up for her.

Alan tries to move a glassof water...

... Which he DROPS, shatteringit.

He is.

Joan is HORRIFIED.

He looks lovingly at his machine— at Christopher.

Joan looks at Alan. And at Christopher.His true love.

Looking at his machine,Alan starts to have a small PANIC ATTACK — he’s getting more emotional,twitching more, getting teary — the hormones are flowingthrough him.

She sits him in a chair,trying to contain his hyperventilating.

Alan, embarrassedat this uncontrollable display,tries to play it off, but of coursehe can’t stop it.

With her hand on his shoulder,he notices her WEDDING RING.

Joan looks aroundthe room for a tea cup, a glass of water, anything that isn’tmouldy she can have him sip from.

She sees the newspapershe brought in, grabs it.

She tries to get him tosmile at her joke.

Joan opens the paperto a PUZZLE.

Alan looks down at it.

His fingers twitch.He stares at the puzzle, confused.He doesn’t know howto do it.

Alan moves his hand awayfrom the puzzle.

The treatmenthas wrecked his brain so badly thathe can’t do crossword puzzles anymore.

Joan watches and her heart utterlybreaks.

ON JOAN: He’s gone forever.And she knows it.

Alan sees her sadness. He’s embarrassed,angry, bitter.

She looks at him quietly for a moment.

Young Alan sits underthe tree where Christopher first taught him about cryptography.He’s holding the book that Christopher gave him.

He starts to cry.He’s alone now, and he will be fora very long time.

Alan sits at his desk, going over papers. He closes a book. Gets up. Walks past Christopher, giving him a look. He turns off the light, walking away down the dim hallway.

A familiar scene: A HALF-DOZENPOLICE OFFICERS swarmthe Manchester home of (former)mathematics professor Alan Turing.

Detective Nock passesthe double-parked police carsand ascends the frontsteps of Alan’s house.

Remembers the firsttime he was here.

A CONSTABLE leads DetectiveNock upstairs, gesturinginto the open BEDROOM door.

In the doorway, we see a team of COPS tending to something on the bed. There’s an APPLE on the nightstand.

The Constable makesa curious face: How can you know that?

Nock approachesthe bed, and stares into the lifelessface of Alan Turing.

ON NOCK: Alan Turingmade the world a better place...And Nock killed him for it.

Alan, Joan, Hugh,John, and Peter stand before the MASSIVE BONFIRE that’sbeen built in the center of the Park.

TITLE: Alan Turing committedsuicide in 1954.

TITLE: His machinewas never perfected,though it generated a wholefield of research into what became nicknamed “Turing Machines.”Today, we call them “computers.”

Hugh comes over and putsone arm around Alan, another around Joan. They havea moment:They did it. They won the war.

John throws a stackof Enigma messages high into the air—

— They watch as the papersflutter down into the fire.

They laugh, and oneby one they all join in:

They FROLIC and PLAYas they throw every document, everyslip of scratch paper,every bit of evidence they were thereinto the fire.

TITLE: In 1990, John Cairncrosspublicly confessedto having been a Soviet agent. He was neverprosecuted.

TITLE: In 2013, Turingwas granted an official pardonby the government. Approximately49,000 other gay men were convicted and punished underthe same code between 1885 and 1967.

TITLE: The logoof Apple Computer - an apple with a bite taken out of it - has longbeen rumored to be a silent tribute to Turing. Theserumors have never been confirmed.

ON ALAN AND THE TEAM: Huggingand playing as everythingthey did is burnt to a crisp.