The Imitation Game Page #6

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for some sort of mysterious job.

My name's Joan Clarke.

Miss, did you really solve

this puzzle yourself?

What makes you think

I couldn't solve the puzzle myself?

I'm really very good at...

Ma'am, I'll have to ask you to...

Miss Clarke, I find tardiness

under any circumstance unacceptable.

Take a seat so that we may continue.

Thank you.

Now, as I was saying,

you have six minutes

to complete the task in front of you.

Erm, gentlemen, and lady...

Begin.

Six minutes.

- Is that even possible?

- No, no. Takes me eight.

This isn't about crossword puzzles.

It's about how one approaches

solving an impossible problem.

Do you tackle the whole thing

at once or divide it into small...

You've finished?

Yes.

Five minutes and 34 seconds.

You said to do it in under six.

Congratulations.

My warmest welcome

to His Majesty's Service.

If you speak a word

of what I'm about to show you,

you will be executed for high treason.

You will lie to your friends,

your family

and everyone you meet

about what it is you really do.

And what is it that we're really doing?

We're going to break an unbreakable

Nazi code and win the war.

Oh.

What's that you're reading?

- it's about cryptography.

- Like secret messages?

Not secret. That's the brilliant part.

Messages that anyone can see

but no one knows what they mean

unless you have the key.

How's that different from talking?

- Talking?

- When people talk to each other,

they never say what they mean,

they say something else.

And you're expected

to just know what they mean.

Only I never do.

So...

How's that different?

Alan, I have a funny feeling

you're going to be very good at this.

Goodnight, Alan.

Goodnight.

Careful, will you? It's not a toy.

Funny. Looks like a toy.

Bloody great 100,000 one.

Your new minion's arrived.

- Jack Good. We met...

- Well, where's Miss Clarke?

Lovely, isn't he?

it's not just a usual

humdrum production mill factory.

I mean, well, as I was saying,

it's a very important radio factory.

It's not, actually.

On the spectrum of radio

factories, this one is particularly...

Why are you not at Bletchley?

Thank you so much for your visit,

Mr Turing.

- Was your trip pleasant?

- Gather your things and let's go.

I'm sorry but I'm unable

to accept your offer.

We feel that such a position

would hardly be appropriate.

You earned a double first

in mathematics.

But sadly, wasn't granted

the opportunity to become a fellow.

You belong at Bletchley.

I'm sorry, but for someone

in my position to live, to...

To work in a radio factory

so far from home,

with all your men, erm, it would be...

ndecorous.

What in the world does that even mean?

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