The Imitation Game Page #8

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You'll work.

And we'll have each other's company.

We'll have each other's minds.

That sounds like a better

marriage than most.

Because I care for you.

And you care for me.

And we understand

one another more than...

More than anyone else ever has.

I don't.

- What?

- Care for you.

I never did.

I... I just needed you to break Enigma.

I've done that now, so... So you can go.

I'm not going anywhere.

I've spent entirely too much of my life

worried about what you think of me

or what my parents think of me

or the boys in Hut 8

or the girls in Hut 3.

And do you know what? I'm done.

This is the most important

work I will ever do

and no one is going to stop me,

least of all you.

Do you know what? They were right.

Peter, Hugh, John.

You really are a monster.

The war dragged on

for two more solitary years

and every day we performed

our blood-soaked calculus.

Every day we decided

who lived and who died.

Every day we helped the A/lies

to victories and nobody knew.

Stalingrad.

The Ardenne. The invasion of Normandy.

All victories that would not

have been possible

without the intelligence

that we supplied.

And people talk about the war

as this epic battle

between civi/isations.

Freedom versus tyranny.

Democracy versus Nazism.

Armies of millions

bleeding into the ground.

Fleets of ships

weighing down the oceans.

Planes dropping bombs from the sky

until they obliterated the sun itself

The war wasn't like that for us.

For us it was just.- .

Half a dozen crossword enthusiasts

in a tiny village

in the South of England.

your victory.

It is the victory

of the cause of freedom in every land.

This is a solemn but glorious hour

I wish that Franklin D Roosevelt

had lived to see this day.

Was I God? No.

Because God didn't

win the wan

We did.

So what happens now?

Is it back to university for us,

Isuppose?

Yes, pretty much.

But you've one other thing left to do

before your service

to your government is concluded.

- What's that?

- Burn everything.

Burn? Why?

You were told when you started

this was a top secret programme.

Did you think we were joking?

But the war is over.

This war is.

But there'Il be others.

And we know how to break a code

that everybody else

believes is unbreakable.

Precisely.

Tear it down, light it up.

Sweep away the ashes.

None of you have ever met before.

None of you have ever

even heard the word "Enigma"

Have a safe trip home.

Behave.

With a bit of luck,

you'll never have to see me

or one another again

for the rest of your lives.

That's unbelievable.

Now, Detective,

you get to judge.

So tell me,

what am I?

Am I a machine? Am I a person?

Am I a war hero?

Am I a criminal?

I can't judge you-

Well, then.

You're no help to me at all.

Come in.

You wanted to see me, sir?

Turing. Sit down.

Is something the matter?

You and Christopher Morcom

are quite close.

I wouldn't say that.

Well, your mathematics teacher says

the two of you

are positively inseparable.

We're the best students in the class.

He caught you passing

notes the other day.

Cryptography, to pass the time.

The class is too simple.

You and your friend solve

maths problems during maths class

because the maths class is too dull?

He's not my friend.

- Well, I'm told he's your only friend.

- Who said that?

Something's come up concerning Morcom

Why am I here?

Christopher is dead.

I don't understand.

His mother sent word this morning.

The family were on holiday, you see.

I don't understand.

Well, he had bovine tuberculosis,

as I'm sure he told you.

So this won't come as a shock

but still, all the same, I'm sorry.

You're mistaken.

Did he not tell you?

Well, he's been sick for a long time.

He knew this was coming soon.

But he had a stiff upper lip about it.

Good lad.

- Are you all right, Turing?

- Yes. Of course.

Like I said,

I didn't know him very well.

Ah, I see. Very well.

May I leave, Headmaster?

Congratulations, sir.

Sorry.

I would have come.

I would have testified.

And what would you have said?

That I... I wasn't a homosexual?

Alan, this is serious.

They could send you to jail.

Oh, damn it.

- Your hands, you're twitching.

- No. No, I'm not.

- Alan.

- Er...

It's the medication.

The medication?

Well, the judge gave me, um, a choice-

Either two years in prison or

horhormonal therapy.

Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God!

- Yes, yes, that's right.

Chemical castration.

To, er, to cure me of my, um,

homosexual predilections

Well, of course I chose that.

I mean, I couldn't

work in prison and...

All right.

Now, I'm going to speak to your doctors.

- I'm going to speak to your lawyers.

- I'm... I'm fine.

- Please let me help you.

- No, I...

I don't need your help, thank you.

Alan, you do not have to do this alone.

I'm not alone.

Never have been.

Christopher's become so smart.

If I don't continue

my treatment, then they'll

They'II take him away from me.

You...

You... You... You can't let them

do that. You can't.

You... You can't let them

leave me alone.

I don't... I don't want to be alone.

I don't want to be alone.

All right, all right.

All right.

It's all right, come and sit down.

t's all right. Come and sit down.

It's all right.

Oh, well...

That's a much nicer ring

than the one I... I made you.

Yes.

His name's Jock.

He's an army man,

if you can believe it.

We work together.

Why don't we do a crossword puzzle?

It'll only take us five minutes.

Or in your case, six.

There.

Perhaps later.

Yes, of course.

You got what you wanted, didn't you?

Work, a husband.

Normal life.

No one normal could have done that.

Do you know, this morning,

I was on a train that went

through a city that wouldn't exist

if it wasn't for you.

I bought a ticket from a man

who would likely be dead

if it wasn't for you.

I read up on my work,

a whole field of scientific inquiry

that only exists because of you.

Now, if you wish

you could have been normal,

I can promise you, I do not.

The world is an infinitely better place

precisely because you weren't.

Do you...

Do you really think that?

I think

that sometimes it is the people

who no one imagines anything of

who do the things

that no one can imagine.

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