The Imitation Game Page #7

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I'm fine.

Do you know why

people like violence, Hugh?

It's because it feels good.

Sometimes we can't do what feels good.

We have to do what is logical.

What's logical?

Hardest time to lie to somebody

is when they're expecting to be lied to.

- Oh, God.

- What?

If someone's waiting for a lie,

you can't just, er, give them one.

Oh, damn it, Alan's right.

What?

What would the Germans think

if we destroy their U-boats?

Nothing. They'II be dead.

No. No, you can't be right.

So our convoy suddenly veers off course.

A squadron of RAF bombers

miraculously descends on

the coordinates of the U-boats.

What will the Germans think?

The Germans will know

that we have broken Enigma.

They'Il stop all radio

communications by midday

and they'll have changed

the design of Enigma by the weekend.

Yes.

Two years' work.

Everything that we've done here,

it will all be for nothing.

There are

500 civilians in that convoy.

Women, children.

We're about to let them die.

Ourjob is not to save

one passenger convoy,

it is to win the war.

- Ourjob was to crack Enigma.

- Well, we've done that.

Now for the hard part.

- Keeping it a secret.

- Carlisle.

What?

The convoy you're about to...

It's, er...

The HMS Carlisle is one of the ships.

We can't act on every

piece of intelligence.

So, fine, we won't.

Just this one.

Peter, what's the matter with you?

My... My brother's...

Well, he's on the Carlisle.

A gunnery ensign.

L.m

I'm so sorry.

Who the hell do you think you are?

This... This is my brother.

Look, he's my big brother, all right?

And you have a few minutes

to call off his murder.

We can't.

He's right.

Alan...

Joan...

Hugh... John.

Oh, please, I...

The Germans, they won't get suspicious

just because we stop one attack.

No one will know.

I'm asking you as your friend.

Please.

I'm so sorry.

You're not God, Alan, you don't

get to decide who lives and who dies.

Yes, we do.

Why?

Because no one else can.

Why are you telling me this?

We need your help to keep this a secret

from Admiralty, Army, RAF.

No one can know we broke Enigma.

Not even Denniston.

Who's in the process

of having you fired.

You can take care of that.

While we develop a system

to help you determine

how much intelligence to act on.

Which, er, attacks to stop,

which to let through.

Statistical analysis.

The minimal number of actions

it would take for us to win the war

but the maximum number we can take

before the Germans get suspicious.

And you're going to

trust all this to statistics?

- To maths?

- Correct.

And then MIG can come up with

the lies that we tell everybody else.

You'll need a believable

alternative source

for all the pieces

of information you use.

A false story so that we can explain

how we got our information

that has nothing to do with Enigma.

And then you can leak those

stories to the, er, the Germans.

And then to our own military.

Maintain a conspiracy of lies

at the highest levels of government?

Sounds right up my alley.

Alan, I so rarely

have cause to say this,

but you are exactly the man

I always hoped you would be.

They codenamed it Ultra.

It became the largest store

of military intelligence

in the history of the world.

It was like having a tap

on Himm/er's intercom.

I- E-O...

T- X-X...

Secrecy became

the primary concern

and for some reason, they...

They trusted me.

Peter, do you have the, er...

the 6:
30 decrypt?

it's a Beale cipher

Encrypted with a phrase from a...

"Ask, and it shall be given

to you; seek and ye will End."

Matthew 7.'7. That was the key.

Peter will come around eventually.

Jack?

Could you give Alan

and me a moment, please?

The Soviets and us,

we're on the same side.

What I'm doing will help Britain.

I have to tell Denniston.

No, you don't.

Because if you tell him my secret,

I'll tell him yours.

Do you know what they do to homosexuals?

You'll never be able to work again.

Never be able to teach.

Your precious machine?

I doubt you'll ever see him again.

Hello. Can I...

Um, speak to Stewart Menzies,

please? it's urgent.

One moment, please.

Hello. Menzies.

Some advice

about keeping secrets.

/t's a lot easier if you

don't know them in the first place.

Were they steaming my letters,

tapping my telephone?

Trailing my nervous walks?

You know, I...

I never did End out.

Joan?

Joan? What's...

Oh. Whel'e'$ JOHN?

Military prison.

What have you done?

Decoded Enigma intercepts.

I found a pile of them

in the bedside table.

No, no. I... I gave those to her

over a year ago

when I was trying to figure out

- a link between...

- I'm sure you did.

Denniston's been looking

for a Soviet spy.

He's been looking inside Hut 8.

I know who the spy is.

It... It's not Joan. it's...

It's Cairn cross.

I... I found the Beale cipher,

the Bible.

God, I wish you'd been the spy.

You'd be so much better

at this than he is.

You knew it was him?

Of course I bloody knew.

I knew before he came to Bletchley.

Why do you think I had him placed here?

But we have an Enigma machine.

Yes, Polish Intelligence smuggled...

So what's the problem?

You placed a...

a Soviet agent at Bletchley Park?

It's really quite useful to be able to

leak whatever we want to Stalin.

Churchill's too damn paranoid.

He won't share a shred

of intelligence with the Soviets.

Not even information that

will help them against the Germans.

There's...so much secrecy.

Cairncross has no idea

we knovm of course.

He's rea/ly not the brightest bulb.

Which is why I need your help.

I want to know what to leak to John,

what to feed to the Soviets

as well as the British.

I'm not a... I'm not a spy. I'm...

I'm just a mathematician.

I Know a lot of spies, Alan.

You've got more secrets

than the best of them.

You... You have to promise me

that you will release Joan.

Yes, Joan's at the market.

She's going to be back

in an hour. I lied.

I'd better hold on to these.

If anybody finds out about them,

prison will be the least of her worries.

Oh, Alan,

we're going to have

such a wonderful war together.

I need you to leave Bletchley.

What?

it's Menzies.

I don't trust him-

it's not safe here.

Do you think

it's any safer anywhere else?

You need to get away.

You need to get very far away from me.

Alan, what's happened?

We can't be engaged any more. You...

Your parents need to take you back

and find you a husband elsewhere.

What's wrong with you?

I have something, er, to tell you.

L.m

I'm a homosexual.

- All right.

- No, no. Men, Joan.

- Not women.

- So what?

Well, I... I just told you.

So what?

I had my suspicions, I always did.

But we're not like other people.

We love each other in our own way

and we can have the life together

that we want.

You... You won't be the perfect husband.

Well, I can promise you, I harbour

no intention of being the perfect wife.

I'll not be fixing your lamb all day

while you come home from the office.

I'll work.

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