The Imitation Game (2014)
Allen Leech: John Cairncross
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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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John Cairncross : What's wrong?
Alan Turing : What if... what if I don't fancy being with Joan in that way?
John Cairncross : Because you're a homosexual? I suspected.
Alan Turing : Sh- should I tell her that I've had affairs with men?
John Cairncross : You know, in my admittedly limited experience, women tend to be a bit touchy about accidentally marrying homosexuals. Perhaps not spreading this information about might be in your best interest.
Alan Turing : I care for her, I truly do, but... I-I just don't know if I can pretend...
John Cairncross : You can't tell anyone, Alan. It's illegal. And Denniston is looking for any excuse he can to put you away.
Alan Turing : I know.
John Cairncross : This has to stay a secret.
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John Cairncross : If you tell them my secret, I'll tell them yours.
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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.
