Better let the newbies in on the joke. Alan Turing committed suicide by injecting an apple with cyanide, then having a bite. He was a sodomite in legal trouble looking for a way to spare his mother's feelings.
The other part of that is he was one of the weird genuises the Brits collected as code breakers in WWII. These included math guys, but also crossword puzzle guys, amateur cryptographers, langauge specialists and other assorted oddballs.