Enigma (2001 film) Quotes

Enigma (2001 film) is a television program that was first aired in 1970 . Enigma ended its run in 1970.

It features Mick Jagger, and Lorne Michaels as producer, John Barry (composer) in charge of musical score, and Seamus McGarvey as head of cinematography.

Enigma (2001 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom, and United States. Each episode of Enigma (2001 film) is 119 min. long. Enigma (2001 film) is distributed by Buena Vista International, and Manhattan Pictures.

The cast includes: Dougray Scott as Tom Jericho, Kate Winslet as Hester Wallace, Jeremy Northam as Wigram, Robert Pugh as Skynner, Tom Hollander as Logie, Saffron Burrows as Claire Romilly, and Matthew Macfadyen as Cave.

Enigma (2001 film) Quotes

Kate Winslet as Hester Wallace

• (Unnamed) "D'you know, without your glasses, you don't look half bad."
• (Kate Winslet) "Do you know, without my glasses, nor do you?"

• (Kate Winslet) "I seem to move in an endless circle, Mr. Jericho, from one patronizing male to another, always telling me what I am and am not allowed to know. Well, that ends here."

• (Kate Winslet) "Well done, Mr. Jericho, well done."
• (Dougray Scott) "Given the circumstances, Miss Wallace, I think we might risk first names."
• (Kate Winslet) "Hester."
• (Dougray Scott) "Tom."

Dougray Scott as Tom Jericho

• (Dougray Scott) "Do you have any idea what you're talking about?"
• (Robert Pugh) "Tom's been on sick leave for the last month, so I don't think he's fully --"
• (Dougray Scott) "Enigma is a very sophisticated enciphering machine, and Shark is its ultimate refinement. So -- we're not talking about the Times crossword here."

• (Dougray Scott) "Every day, our Typex machines have to be set the same way the Germans set their Enigmas. And figuring out the settings is the hard part. That's where the code breakers come in."
• (Kate Winslet) "What would Claire need to decipher the settings?"
• (Dougray Scott) "She'd need a crib. Let's say this tombstone was in code. If I knew more or less who's buried here, I'd have a pretty good idea what the code meant. You try to work out the settings and then type the coded message into the Enigma machine. If the message comes out nonsense, the settings are wrong. If it comes out "Mary Jane Hawkins," you've broken Enigma for that day."

• (Dougray Scott) "It's true though, isn't it? The Katyn Massacre?"
• (Jeremy Northam) "Oh, do shut up. There's a war to win, and Stalin's helping us win it."

• (Dougray Scott) "I like numbers, because with numbers, truth and beauty are the same thing."

• (Dougray Scott) "It weighs twenty-six pounds, battery included, and goes anywhere. The Enigma machine; the Germans have thousands of them."
• (Unnamed) "What's it do?"
• (Dougray Scott) "It turns plain-text messages into gobbledygook. Then the gobbledygook is transmitted in Morse. At the other end is another Enigma machine, which translates the message back to the original text."
• (Unnamed) "And you have one of your own."
• (Tom Hollander) "Uh, courtesy of the Polish Cipher Bureau."
• (Unnamed) "So what's the problem?"
• (Dougray Scott) "The problem? The problem is the machine has a hundred and fifty million, million, million ways of doing it, according to how you set these three rotors, and how you connect these plugs. Press the same key any number of times, it'll always come out different."
• (Unnamed) "And that's Shark?"
• (Dougray Scott) "No. No, no, no, this is the one we can break. Shark is enciphered on a special Enigma machine with a fourth rotor, designed especially for U-Boats; which gives it about four thousand million, BILLION starting positions. And, uh, we've never seen one."
• (Unnamed) "Holy s*** --"

• (Dougray Scott) "Seventeen signals, it's not enough yet."
• (Matthew Macfadyen) "Well, why the hell not?"
• (Dougray Scott) "When I'm done, we'll be looking for a needle in a haystack. But if we stop now, it'll be a hundred thousand haystacks."

• (Dougray Scott) "Puck and Claire were having an af --"
• (Jeremy Northam) "Were seeing each other, as you like to put it. Seeing each other's brains out."

Matthew Macfadyen as Cave

• (Unnamed) "Tell me, are we hoping for the U-Boats to find our convoy?"
• (Unnamed) "Of course not."
• (Unnamed) "I am."
• (Unnamed) "You c-c-can't mean that."
• (Unnamed) "What? Sacrifice a convoy to get back into Shark? Of course I would. How many men has Stalin had to sacrifice so far? A million? Two million? It's called "the greater good.""
• (Matthew Macfadyen) "Spoken like someone who isn't in the middle of the North Atlantic at this moment."

Jeremy Northam as Wigram

• (Jeremy Northam) "Were you surprised when you heard that Admiral Donitz had changed the weather code?"
• (Dougray Scott) "Well, the Germans were always nervous about Enigma. That was the reason Shark came on in the first place --"
• (Jeremy Northam) "But the Germans believe Enigma's supposed to be infallible, because it would take people a thousand years to figure out the settings for one day, and they are changed every day. But we don't use people for that, do we, Mr. Jericho?"
• (Dougray Scott) "No."
• (Jeremy Northam) "No. And that is the secret inside the secret: your thinking machines. Day and night, clackety-clack, programmed with a menu provided by your amazing brain, narrowing down the infinite possibilities to just a few million. And if anyone tells the Germans about that -- there goes the war."

Saffron Burrows as Claire Romilly

• (Saffron Burrows) "Poor you. I really got under your skin, didn't I?"

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