The Imitation Game (2014)

Matthew Beard: Peter Hilton

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• Peter Hilton : You're not God, Alan. You don't get to decide who lives and who dies.

  Alan Turing : Yes, yes we do.

  Peter Hilton : Why? Why?

  Alan Turing : Because we're the only ones who can.

• Peter Hilton : All my friends, they're making a difference while we just wile away our days, producing nothing! Because of you.

  Alan Turing : My machine... will work.

• 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 Germans 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.