Heck
[to Rachel]
You know I want you to be happy. And more than anything, I wanted to be the cause of happiness in you.
Heck
Heck
[Rachel wants to have sex in a park late at night]
We've got a flat. It's a good one. And I've confiscated your mother's key so she can't sneak up on us anymore. I swear that woman's got a sex radar.
Heck
Well, let's hang these flowers and get that jacket in some water.
Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt
I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.
Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt
The only person with whom I felt any kinship with died three hundred years before the birth of Christ. Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him.
Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt
You see, the Comedian was right. Humanity's savage nature will inevitably lead to global annihilation. So in order to save this planet, I had to trick it. With the greatest practical joke in human history.
Ben Calder
Okay, all right! Because I'm jealous as hell. Because I'd hate to see you with Gus Gus. I'd hate to see you with any other man. Because not only did I adore kissing you in Venice, but also because I'm so un-bloody-hinged just being near you/
Ben Calder
[to Anna]
Can you please stop taking your clothes off around me?
Anna Foster
I'm on fire! I'm untouchable! I'm Anna! Who are you?
Ben Calder
Ben Calder, freelance getaway man. Yeah, need the hand, need the hand.
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."
Hugh Alexander
My God, you did it. You just defeated Nazism with a crossword puzzle.
John Cairncross
There are five people in the world who know the position of every ship in the Atlantic. They are all in this room.
Joan Clarke
Oh, good God.
Hugh Alexander
Oh, I don't think even He has the power that we do right now.
Joan Clarke
[getting closer to map]
No. There's going to be an attack on a British passenger convoy. Right there.
John Cairncross
God, you're right. Those U-boats are only twenty, thirty minutes away.
Joan Clark
Civilians. Hundreds of them. We can save their lives.
John Cairncross
And knock out a whole German fleet in the process.
Hugh Alexander
I'll phone Denniston's office so that he can alert the Admiralty.
Alan Turing
No.
Joan Clarke
Do you think there's enough time to save them?
John Cairncross
There should be. If we can get a message to that convoy—
Hugh Alexander
[into phone]
Commander Denniston's office please, it's urgent—
Alan Turing
No, no! [grabs and hangs up phone]
Hugh Alexander
What the hell are you doing?
Alan Turing
You-you can't call Denniston. You-you can't tell him about the attack.
Hugh Alexander
What are you talking about?
John Cairncross
We can have air support over that convoy in ten minutes.
Alan Turing
Let the U-boats sink the convoy.
John Cairncross
Look, it's been a big day, maybe you're suffering from—
Alan Turing
Oh, shut up—
Hugh Alexander
[tries to grab phone back]
We don't have time—
Alan Turing
No!
Joan Clarke
[Alan smashes the phone on the ground. Hugh punches him in the face, knocking him down]
Oh, Hugh! Hugh! Stop! That's enough!
John Cairncross
Stop, Hugh!
Peter Hilton
John, the attack is in minutes.
Joan Clarke
[rushes to Alan's side]
Are you all right?
Alan Turing
Yes, no, I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm fine. [to Hugh] 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.
John Cairncross
What's logical?
Alan Turing
The hardest time to lie is when the other person is expecting to be lied to.
Joan Clarke
[getting it]
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
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
The Germans will know that we have broken Enigma.
Joan Clarke
They'll stop all radio communications by midday, and they'll have changed the design of Enigma by the weekend.
Hugh Alexander
Yes.
Alan Turing
Two years' work. Everything we've done here will all be for nothing.
John Cairncross
There are 500 people in that convoy. Women. Children. We're about to let them die.
Alan Turing
Our job isn't to save one passenger convoy, it is to win the war.
Hugh Alexander
Our job was to crack Enigma.
Alan Turing
Oh, we've done that. Now for the hard part. Keeping it a secret.
Peter Hilton
Carlisle.
Joan Clarke
What?
Peter Hilton
[points to the map]
The convoy you're about to... it's, uh... 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.
Joan Clarke
Peter, what's the matter with you?
Peter
My brother's... well, he's on the Carlisle. A gunnery ensign.
Alan Turing
I'm... I'm so sorry.
Peter Hilton
Who the hell do you think you are? This is my brother. He's my big brother, alright, and you have a few minutes to call off his murder.
Alan Turing
We can't.
John Cairncross
He's right.
Peter Hilton
Alan. Joan. Hugh. John. Please, I... the Germans, they won't get suspicious just because we stopped one attack. No one will know. I'm asking you. As your friend. Please.
Alan Turing
I'm so sorry.
Peter Hilton
You're not God, Alan. You don't get to decide who lives and who dies.
Alan Turing
Yes, we do.
Peter Hilton
Why?
Alan Turing
Because no one else can.
Hugh Alexander
[Alan, Hugh, Joan and Joan's friend, Helen, are having a conversation about workplace romance]
So who do you agree with? Alan or myself?
Helen
Well, Alan, of course.
Alan Turing
[stammering]
I'm very flattered really, but I... I don't think that... [Joan kicks him under the table]
Hugh Alexander
Rubbish.
Helen
Well, I work beside a man every day, and I can't help but have developed a bit of a crush on him.
Hugh Alexander
Well, who is this man? So I can kick his arse.
Helen
Oh, there's no need to worry, it's been chaste. We've never even met. He's a German.
Hugh Alexander
Now I really want to kill him.
Alan Turing
[Helen chuckles]
Er... How... How do you mean you work alongside a German?
Helen
Well, each of us intercepts messages from a specific German radio tower. So we have a counterpart on the other side, who's tip-tapping out the messages. Everyone types a touch differently, so you get to know the rhythm of your counterpart. It's strangely intimate. I feel as if I know him so well. It's a pity he has a girlfriend, but that's why I disagree with you, Mr. Alexander, because I'm in love with a coworker of sorts and we've never even met.
Hugh Alexander
Well, allow me to buy you another pint and I'll tell you why you're wrong.
Helen
Let's.
Hugh Alexander
Excellent.
Joan Clarke
[They get up and head to the bar. As they order, Alan sits completely silently, in a daze - having come to a realisation]
In case you were wondering, that's what flirting looks like.
Alan Turing
[loudly]
HELEN!!
Joan Clarke
[slightly embarrassed, as his shout has drawn attention to them]
Alan!
Helen
Yes, Alan?
Alan Turing
[gets up and faces her]
Why do you think your German counterpart has a girlfriend?
Helen
It's just a stupid joke. Don't worry about it.
Alan Turing
No, no, no, no, no, tell me.
Helen
Well, each of his messages begins with the same five letters. C-I-L-L-Y. So I suspect that Cilly must be the name of his amore.
Alan Turing
[By this point, Joan, Peter Hilton and John Cairncross have begun to catch on]
But that's impossible. The Germans are instructed to use five random letters at the start of every message.
Helen
Well, this bloke doesn't.
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!
[He rushes off, barging into Hugh and causing him to spill the pints he has just bought on Helen. John, Peter and Joan rush off after him and Hugh, realising what has happened, apologises and dashes off after them]