Uncustomed Goods: Part 2

The Bletchley Circle 2×4

Season 2 Finale

& Millie: Jean, are you sure you’re up to this?
    Jean: I wasn’t always a librarian, you know.

& Millie: Dutch courage?
    Jean: Just a nip, then. Cheers.

& Jean: So what do we have?
    Millie: Er... a page of figures. Nothing useful to take to Customs. Just... notes about products here.
    Jean: In Maltese?
    Millie: Yes, but that’s easy. Maltese is just Sicilian with some Semitic Aramaic thrown in.

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& Alice: But surely you can crack it, can’t you?
    Millie: It’s not easy. I can’t see any recurring letter groups so it’s not a simple substitution. I think it’s a cypher, a key-code or a book code. I’m not sure yet.
    Jean: If it’s a cypher we can crack it by analysis.
    Millie: How long will that take, by hand, in a language we don’t speak well? It could take days...

& Jean: Well, ladies, let’s get cracking.

& Alice: Come on, you can do it.
    Millie: You’re talking to the machine again.
    Alice: They like to be talked to... Good girl. That’s it.

& Alice: You must never give up something you’re good at and care about.

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