The Imitation Game (2014)
Matthew Goode: Hugh Alexander
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Quotes
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John Cairncross : The boys, we're going to get some lunch.
[no response]
John Cairncross : Alan?
Alan Turing : Yes?
John Cairncross : I said we're going to get some lunch.
[no response]
John Cairncross : Alan?
Alan Turing : Yes?
John Cairncross : Can you hear me?
Alan Turing : Yes.
John Cairncross : I said we're off to get some lu-...
[disrupts himself]
John Cairncross : This is starting to get a little bit repetitive.
Alan Turing : What is?
John Cairncross : I had asked, if you wanted to come have lunch with us.
Alan Turing : No, you didn't, you said you were going to get some lunch.
John Cairncross : Have I offended you in some way?
Alan Turing : Why would you think that?
John Cairncross : Would you like to come to lunch with us?
Alan Turing : What time's lunch time?
Hugh Alexander : [Frustrated] Christ, Alan, it's a bleeding sandwich.
Alan Turing : What is?
Hugh Alexander : Lunch.
Alan Turing : Oh, I don't like sandwiches.
John Cairncross : Nevermind.
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Hugh Alexander : If you run the wires across the plugboard matrix diagonally, you'll eliminate rotor positions 500 times faster.
Alan Turing : This is actually not an entirely terrible idea.
Joan Clarke : That's Alan for "thank you."
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Alan Turing : Uh, that's my sandwich.
Hugh Alexander : You don't like sandwiches.
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Hugh Alexander : Love will make a man do strange things, I suppose.
Alan Turing : In this case, love just lost Germany the whole bloody war!
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Hugh Alexander : Damn you, you and your machine.
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Hugh Alexander : Because there's nothing like a friend's engagement to make a woman want to do something that she'll later regret with the fiancé's better looking chum.
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Hugh Alexander : You know to pull off this irascible genius routine, one has to actually be a genius.
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Hugh Alexander : [reading a decrypted message] "... is directed to 53 degrees 24 minutes north and aufpunkt one degree west."
Hugh Alexander : "Heil Hitler."
Alan Turing : Turns out that's the only German you need to know to break Enigma.
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Stewart Menzies : Burn everything.
Hugh Alexander : Burn? Why?
Stewart Menzies : You were told when you started this was a Top Secret program. Did you think we were joking?
Hugh Alexander : But the war is over.
Stewart Menzies : *This* war is. But there'Il be others.
Alan Turing : And we know how to break a code that everybody else believes is unbreakable.
Stewart Menzies : 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.
Stewart Menzies : [as they rise to go] Behave. With a bit of luck, you'll never have to see me or one another again for the rest of your lives...
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Alan Turing : 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.
John Cairncross : What's logical?
Alan Turing : Hardest time to lie to someone is when they're expecting to be lied to.
Joan Clarke : [Realizing] Oh, God.
John Cairncross : What?
Alan Turing : If someone's waiting for a lie, you can't just, uh, give them one.
Joan Clarke : Damn it, Alan's right.
Peter Hilton : What?
Alan Turing : What would the German's think if we destroy their U-Boats?
Peter Hilton : Nothing, they'll be dead.
John Cairncross : [Realizing] No... no, you can't be right.
Alan Turing : So our convoy suddenly veers off course; a squadron of our air bombers miraculously descends on the coordinates of the U-Boats; what will the Germans think?
Hugh Alexander : [Realizing] The Germans will know that we have broken Enigma.
Joan Clarke : They'll stop all radio communications by midday, and they would change the design of Enigma by the weekend.
Alan Turing : Yes. Two years work, everything that we've done here, will all be for nothing.
John Cairncross : There are 500 civilians in that convoy. Women. Children. We're about to let them die.
Alan Turing : Our job is not to save one passenger convoy; it is to win the war.
Hugh Alexander : Our job was to crack Enigma.
Alan Turing : Well, we've done that. Now for the hard part - keeping it a secret.
