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                                THE SOCIAL NETWORK



                                    Written by

                                   Aaron Sorkin





                                                          May 28, 2009
                         

                         

          FROM THE BLACK WE HEAR--

                         MARK (V.O.)
          Did you know there are more people with
          genius IQ's living in China than there
          are people of any kind living in the
          United States?

                         ERICA (V.O. )
          That can't be true.

                         MARK (V.O.)
          it is true.

                         ERICA (V.O.)
          What would account for that?

                         MARK (V.0.)
          Well first of all, a lot of people live
          in China. But here's my question:

                         FADE IN

          INT. CAMPUS BAR - NIGHT

          MARK ZUCKERBERG is a sweet looking 19 year old whose lack of
          any physically intimidating attributes masks a very
          complicated and dangerous anger. He has trouble making eye
          contact- and sometimes it's hard to tell if he's talking to you
          or to himself.

          ERICA, also 19, is Mark's date. She has a girl-next-door face
          that makes her easy to fall for. At this point in the
          conversation she already knows that she'd rather not be there
          and her politeness is about to be tested.

          The scene is stark and simple.

                         MARK
          How do you distinguish yourself in a
          population of people who all got 1600 on
          their SAT's?

                         ERICA
          I didn't know they take SAT's in China.

                         MARK
          I wasn't talking about China anymore, I
          was talking about here.

                         ERICA
          You got 1600?

                         MARK
          You can sing in an a Capella group.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          2.

                         BRICA
          Does that mean that you actually got
          nothing wrong?

                         MARK
          Or you row crew or you invent a 25 dollar
          PC.

                         ERICA
          Or you get into a final club.

                         MARK
          Or you get into a final club, exactly.

                         ERICA
          I like guys who row crew.

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          Well I can't do that. And yes, it means I
          got nothing wrong on the test.

                         ERICA
          Have you ever tried?

                         MARK
          I'm trying now.

                         ERICA
          To row crew?

                         MARK
          To get into a final club. To row crew?
          No. Are you, like--whatever--crazy?

                         ERICA
          Sometimes, Mark-seriously-YOU say two
          things at once and I'm not sure which one
          we're talking about.

                         MARK
          But you've seen guys who row crew, right?

                         ERICA
          No.

                         MARK
          Okay, well.. they're bigger than me.
          They're world class athletes. And a
          second ago you said you like guys who row
          crew so I assumed you'd met one.

                         ERICA
          I guess I meant I liked the idea of it.
          The way a girl likes cowboys.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          3.

                         MARK
          The Phoenix is good.

                         ERICA
          This is a new topic?

                         MARK
          It's the same topic.

                         ERICA
          We're still talking about the finals
          clubs?

                         MARK
          Would you rather talk about something
          else?

                         ERICA
          It's just that since the beginning of
          the conversation about finals clubs I
          think I may have had a birthday.

                         MARK
          We can change the subject.

          ERICA.
          (can't get over it)
          There are more people in China with genius
          IQ's than the entire population of--

                         MARK
          It's about exclusivity.

                         T'RICA
          .....what is?

                         MARK
          The final clubs. And that's how you
          distinguish yourself. The Phoenix is the
          most diverse. The Fly Club, Roosevelt
          punched the Porc.

                         ERICA
          Which one?

                         MARK
          The Porcellian, the Porc, it's the best
          of the best.

                         ERICA
          I actually meant which Roosevelt.

                         MARK
          Theodore.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          4.

                         ERICA
          Okay, well, which is the easiest one to
          get into?

          MARK takes a cigarette from a pack, lights it, takes a drag
          and blows the smoke out before he says...

                         MARK
          Hm.

                         ERICA
          What?

                         MARK
          why would you ask me that?

                         ERICA
          I was just asking.

                         MARK
          They're all hard to get into. My friend
          Eduardo made $300,000 betting on oil
          futures last summer and he won't get in.
          Money or the ability to make it doesn't
          impress anybody around here. Everybody
          can do that.

                         ERICA
          He made $300,000 in a summer?

                         MARK
          He likes meteorology.

                         ERICA
          You said it was oil futures.

                         MARK
          If you can predict the weather you can
          predict the price of heating oil. You
          asked me that because you think the final
          club that's easiest to get into is the
          one where I'll have the best chance,

                         ERICA

                         (BEAT)
          I've lost my place again.

                         MARK
          You asked me which one was the easiest to
          get into because you think that's where I
          have the best chance.

                         ERICA
          The one that's easiest to get into would
          be the one where anybody had the best
          chance.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          S.

                         MARK
          I just think you asked--the placement of
          where you asked the question--

                         ERICA
          I was honestly just asking. Okay? I was
          asking just to ask. Mark, I'm not
          speaking in code.

                         MARK
          Erica--

                         ERICA
          You're obsessed with the finals clubs.
          You have finals clubs OCD and you need to
          see someone about this who'll prescribe
          some sort of medication. You don't care
          if side effects may include blindness,
          okay, just do it.

                         MARK
          Final clubs. Not finals clubs and there's
          a difference between being obsessed and
          being motivated.

                         ERICA
          Yes there is.

                         MARK
          Well you do--that was cryptic--so you do
          speak in code.

                         ERICA
          I didn't mean to be cryptic.

                         MARK
          I'm saving I need to do something
          substantial in order to get the attention
          of the clubs.

                         ERICA
          Why?

                         MARK
          Because they're exclusive.

                         (BEAT)
          And fun and they lead to a better life.

                         ERICA
          You think Teddy Roosevelt got elected
          president because he was a member of the
          Phoenix Club?

                         MARK
          He was a member of the Porcellian and yes
          I do.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          6.

                         ERICA
          Maybe he sang in an a Capella group.

                         MARK
          I want to be straight forward and tell
          you that I think you should be a lot more
          supportive. If I get in I'll be taking
          you to the parties and you'll be meeting
          people that you wouldn't normally get to
          meet.

                         ERICA

                         (SMILES)
          You would do that for me?

                         MARK
          You're my girlfriend.

                         ERICA
          okay, well I want to be straight forward
          and tell you that I'm not anymore.

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          What do you mean?

                         ERICA
          I'm not your girlfriend anymore,

                         MARK
          Is this a joke?

                         ERICA
          No, I'm sorry, it's not.

                         MARK
          You're breaking up with me?

                         ERICA
          You're going to introduce me to people I
          wouldn't normally get to meet? What the
          fuck is that supposed to mean?

                         MARK
          Take it easy.

                         ERICA
          What was it supposed to mean?

                         MARK
          It was--Erica, the reason we're able to
          sit here and drink is that you used to
          sleep with the door guy.

                         ERICA

                         (PAUSE)
          I want to really try not to lose it now.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          7.

                         ERICA (CONT'D)
          The door guy's name is Bobby. I haven't
          slept with the door guy, the door guy's a
          friend of mine. He's a perfectly good
          class of people and what part of Long
          Island are you from--England?

                         MARK
          I'm from Westchester.

                         ERICA
          I'm going back to my dorm.

                         MAFT
          Wait, wait, thisi reel?

                         ERICA
          Yes.

                         MARK
          I apologize, okay? Siddown.

                         ERICA
          I'm going back to my dorm, I have to
          study.

                         MARK

                         ERICA---

                         ERICA
          Yeah.

                         MARK
          I'm sorry and I mean it..

                         ERICA
          I appreciate that but--

                         MARK
          Come on.

                         ERICA
          ---I have to study.

                         MARK
          You don't have to study. Let's just talk.

                         ERICA
          I can't..

                         MARK
          Why?

                         ERICA
          Because it's exhausting. Going out with
          you is like dating a stairmaster.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          S.

                         MARK
          All I meant is that you go to B.U. and so
          you're not likely to--I wasn't making a
          comment on your parents--I was saying you
          go to B.U.

                         ERICA
          I have to go study.

                         MARK
          You don't have to study.

                         ERICA
          How do you know I don't have to study?!

                         MARK
          Because you go to B.U.!
          ERICA stares at him...

                         MARK (CONT'D)

                         (BEAT)
          Do you want to get some food?

                         ERICA
          I'm sorry you're not sufficiently
          impressed with my education.

                         MARK
          And I'm sorry T don't have a rowboat.

                         ERICA
          I think we should just be friends.

                         MARK
          I don't need friends.

                         ERICA OF
          I was being polite, I had no intention
          being friends with you.

                         MARK
          You're really leaving.
          ERICA takes MARK's hand and looks at him tenderly..

                         ERICA

                         (CLOSE)
          Listen, You're going to be successful and
          rich. But you're going to go through life
          thinking that girls don't like you
          because you're a tech geek. And I want
          you to know, from the bottom of my heart,
          that that won't be true. It'll be because
          you're an asshole.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          9.
          And with that stinger, ERICA walks off and we stay on MARK as
          the pulsing intro to Paul Young's "Love of the Common People"

                         CRASHES IN----

                         ERICA (CONT'D)
          (calling over her shoulder)
          And you're never getting into a final
          club.
          Along with the MUSIC, we slowly push in on MARK. A fuse has
          just been lit.

                         TITLE:

                         HARVARD
           Fall. Semester, 2008

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. BAR - NIGHT

          As MARK busts out of the bar, past Bobby the door guy and into
          the population of Harvard Square.

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. HARVARD SQUARE - NIGHT

          As MARK continues on, he passes a group of people heading in
          the opposite direction for a party.
          As MARK's steady and determined stride continues, he'll. pass
          by all kinds of (seemingly) happy, well-adjusted, socially
          adept people.
          The vocals from the Paul Young song come in--

                         PAUL YOUNG

          LIVING ON FREE FOOD TICKETS

          WATER IN THE MILK FROM A HOLE IN THE ROOF

          WHERE THE RAIN CAME THROUGH

          WHAT CAN YOU DO?

          TEARS FROM YOUR LITTLE SISTER

          CRYING 'CAUSE SHE DOESN'T HAVE A DRESS

          WITHOUT A PATCH FOR THE PARTY TO GO

          BUT YOU KNOW SHE'LL GET BY

                         CUT TO:

          INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/LOBBY - NIGHT

          As the MUSIC CONTINUES and MARK busts into the lobby of his
          dorm. He doesn't look at anyone as he heads up the stairs and

                         WE

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          A bedroom that's part of a three-bedroom suite. The MUSIC
          CONTINUES as MARK walks in, flicks his lap-top on without
          looking at it and walks out of frame as we stay on the laptop.

                         PAUL YOUNG

          'CAUSE SHE'S LIVING IN THE LOVE OF THE

                         COMMON PEOPLE

          SMILES FROM THE HEART OF A FAMILY MAN

          DADDY'S GONNA BUY YOU A DREAM TO CLING TO

          MAMA'S GONNA LOVE YOU JUST AS MUCH AS SHE

                         CAN

          AND SHE CAN
          Then a moment or two later, a glass with ice gets set down
          next to the lap-top. Then a carton of orange juice followed by
          a bottle of vodka.
          MARK's fingers dance easily on the keyboard---like a Juilliard
          pianist warming up.
          In the exact time it takes him to pour the vodka and orange
          juice over ice, the website he's just called up gets loaded
          onto the screen.
          Zuckonit.com
          This is the only place he's comfortable.

                         TITLE:

                         8:13 PM
          He begins blogging.

          MARY, (V.0.)
          Erica Albright'•s a bitch. You think
          that's because her family changed their
          name from Albrecht or do you think it's
          because all B.U, girls are bitches?
          He takes a good gulp of his drink. We see the words we're
          hearing filling up his computer screen--

          MARK (V,O.) (CONT'D)
          Folks, for the record, she may look like
          a 34D but she's getting all kinds of help
          from our friends at Victoria's Secret,
          She's a 348, as in barely anything there..
          False advertising.

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          11.

          INT. MARX'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          Fresh ice gets dropped in the glass and a new drink poured.
          "Love of the Common People" continues.

                         TITLE:

                         9:48 PM
          in back of MARK, sitting on the bed and hitting a bong, is

          BILLY. OLSEN.

          MARK (V.O.)
          The truth is she has a nice face. I need
          to think of something to help me take my
          mind off her. Easy enough, except I need
          an idea.
          MARK has moved his mouse to an icon on his desktop labeled
          "Kirkland Facebook". He clicks and opens it. A menu of photos
          appear. He blogs again.

          MARK (V.0.) (CONT'D)
          I'm a little intoxicated, I'm not gonna
          lie. So what if it's not even 10PM and
          it's a Tuesday night? The Kirkland
          Facebook is open on my desktop and some
          of these people have pretty horrendous
          f acebook-pics. Billy Olson's sitting here
          and had the idea of putting some of these
          girls' faces next to pictures of farm
          animals and have people vote on who's
          hotter. .

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT

          We'll be cutting back here a lot in this sequence, with the
          Paul Young song tying them together, as we show---mostly MOS---
          preparations under way for the hottest party on campus
          tonight.
          We start on a good looking STUDENT fixing his tie in the
          bathroom mirror. He walks out of the bathroom and into the
          main area where he's immediately tossed a bottle of champagne
          by a similarly dressed STUDENT. We see that there are a
          couple of dozen other guys around. Our guy takes the champagne
          bottle and sticks it on the bar, which is being stocked by two
          sexy FEMALE uniformed BARTENDERS.
          Our guy walks past P. DJ's table where the DJ is setting up his
          incredibly high-end equipment.
          Our guy trots down a set of mahogany and red-carpet stairs,
          opens a heavy door and looks out to the sidewalk.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          12,
          A BOUNCER in a tuxedo is standing by a velvet rope which is
          holding back three dozen STUDENTS. The students are mostly
          women and the women are all dressed to catch a man.
          Over all this, we HEAR MARK CONTINUING—

          MARK (V.0.)
          Good call, Mr. Olson! I think he's on to
          something.

                         TITLE:

                         10:17 PM

          MARK (V.0.) (CONT'D)
          year it's on. I'm not gonna do the farm
          animals but I like the idea of comparing
          two people together. It gives the whole
          thing a very Turing feel since people's
          ratings of the pictures will be more
          implicit than, say, choosing a number to
          represent each person's hotness like they
          do on hotornot.com. The first thing we're
          going to need is a lot of pictures.
          Unfortunately, Harvard doesn't keep a
          public centralized facebook so I'm going
          to have to get all the images from the
          individual houses that people are in. Let
          the hacking begin.

          CUT. TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          There are two more kids-in the room with MARK--DUSTIN
          MOSKOWITZ and CHRIS.-BUGHES.

          MARK (V.0.)
          First u is Kirkland. They keep
          everything open and allow indexes in
          their Apache configuration, so a little
          NGET magic is all that's necessary to
          download the entire Kirkland facebook.
          Kids' stuff.
          On the computer screen, we've been seeing him download picture
          after picture of Harvard girls.

                         CUT TO;

          EXT. FINAL CLUB -. NIGHT

          THREE COES, dressed kill, are talking BOUNCER. The
          BOUNCER O l up at TWO HAND CLUB ME BERS. The MEMBERS
           give him the nod and the THREE COEDS are SOME M let past the velvet
          rope.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          13.
          They're led. in to a party in full swing. The best and the
          brightest are checking out the hottest and the easiest.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          MARK finishes another drink and gets back to his work.

                         TITLE:

                         1:03 AM

          MARK (V.0.)
          Next is Elliot. They're also open but
          with no indexes on Apache. I can run an
          empty search and it returns all of the
          images in the database in a single page.
          Then I can save the page and Mozilla will
          save all the images for me. Excellent.
          Moving right along.
          Flying by at super-speed on MARR's computer screen have been
          commands and images that the rest of us can't possibly
          understand.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT

          GIRLS are dancing with each other, doing tequila shots with
          guys and laughing at jokes.

                         PAUL YOUNG

          T.T'S A GOOD THING YOU DON'T HAVE A BUSFARE

          IT WOULD FALL THROUGH A HOLE IN YOUR POCKET

          AND YOU'D LOSE IT IN THE SNOW ON THE

                         GROUND

          YOU GOT TO WALK INTO TOWN TO FIND A JOB

          (WHAT'S A. JOB?)

          TRYIN' TO KEEP YOUR HANDS WARM

          WHEN THE HOLE IN YOUR SHOE LETS THE SNOW

          CONE THROUGH AND CHILLS YOU TO THE BONE

          NOW YOU BETTER GO HOME WHERE IT'S WARM
          Over this we HEAR MARK's blog posts starting to cascade into

                         ONE ANOTHER--

          MARK (V.0)
          Lowell has some security. They require a
          username/password combo and I'm going to
          go ahead and say they don't have access
          to main faa user database, so they have
          no way of--•

                         

                         

                         

                         

          14,

          MARK (V.O.) (CONT'D)
          Adams has no security but limits the

                         RESULTS TO--

          MARK (V.O.) (CONT'D)
          For Quincy I'm going to have to get a
          matching name and student I.D. combo and
          I'm in. All I have to--

                         CUT TO:

          MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
          Ins'r ions and images fly across MARK'S sereen-

                         PAUL YOUNG

          WHERE YOU CAN LIVE IN THE LOVE OF THE

                         COMMON PEOPLE

          SMILE FROM THE HEART OF A FAMILY MAN

          DADDY'S GONNA BUY YOU A DREAM TO CLING TO

          MAMA'S GONNA LOVE YOU JUST AS MUCH AS SHE

                         CAN

          AND SHE CAN

          MARK (V.0.).
          Dunster is intense. Not only is there no
          public directory but there's no--

          MARK (V.0.) (CONT'D)
          Leverett is a little better. It's
          slightly obnoxious that they only let you
          view one picture at a time and I'm not

                         ABOUT TO--

          MARK (V.0.) (CONT'D)
          --definitely necessary to break out the
          emacs and modify that pert script.

                         TITLE:

                         2:08 AM
          And now anew guy walks into Mark's room. This is EDUARDO
          SAVERIN--a sweet looking Brazilian sophomore who almost always
          wears a three--piece suit.

                         EDUARDO
          What's going on?

          MARK (V.0.)
          Perfect timing. Eduardo's here and he's
          going to have the key ingredient.

                         EDUARDO
          Mark. What's going on?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          15,

                         MARK
          Wardo.

                         EDUARDO
          Did you and Erica split up?

                         MARK
          How did you know that?

                         EDUARDO
          It's on your blog.

                         MARK
          Oh yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          Are you alright?

                         MARK
          I need you.

                         EDUARDO
          I'm here for you.

                         MARK
          No, I need the algorithm you used for the
          oil futures.

                         EDUARDO
          Are you okay?

                         MARK
          We're ranking girls.

                         EDUARDO
          Why?

                         MARK
          To watch the bottom 200's heads explode.

                         EDUARDO

                         (HEAT)
          You think that's such a good idea?

                         MARY
          What's the algozithm?

                         CUT TO:

           INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGL'3T

           The CLUB PRESIDENT is addressing the GUESTS from the top of

                          THE STAIRS-

                         

                         

                         

                         

          16.

                         CLUB PRESIDENT
          One of the oldest, one of the most
          exclusive clubs--not just at Harvard but
          in the world--and I want to welcome you
          to this year-'s first--

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          EDUARDO' is writing an equation with a grease marker on the
          window. When the equation's done it looks like this:

                         GIRL A:

                         1

                         EA =
          1 + 10( b - Ra) / 400

                         GIRL B:

                         1

                         BB

                         1 + 10(RA _ RB) / 400

                         EDUARDO
          Give each.girl a.-base rating of 1400. At
          any time `Girl All has a rating R-a and
          "Girl B" has a rating R-b.

                         MARK S
          When any two girls are matched up there'
          an expectation of which will win based on
          their current rating.

                         EDUARDO
          (tapping the window)
          Those expectations are expressed this
          way.

                         MARK
          Let's write it.

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          17.

          EXT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT

          A few more attractive co-eds get let in through the velvet
          rope.
          CUT TO t

          J_-NT. PARK'S ROOM - NIGHT

                         TITLE:

                         2:55 AM
          MARK makes a few last key strokes and a new website comes up
          on the screen .

                         FACEMASH
          MARK makes a few more keystrokes and two pictures of two
          Harvard girls come up on the screen.
          After a moment...

                         ALL
          The one on the left.
          MARK clicks the girl on the left and another picture takes the
          place of the girl on the right.

                         ALL (CONT'D)
          On the right.
          MARY clicks the girl on the right while another picture takes
          the place of the girl on the left.

                         ALL (CONT'D)
          Still the right.

                         EDUARDO
          It works.

                         DUSTIN
          Who should we send it to first?

                         EDUARDO
          Dwyer.

                         CHRIS
          Neal.

                         EDUARDO
          Who are you gonna send it to?
          MARK's made the link to e-mail and hits send.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          18,

                         MARK
          Just a Couple of people. The question is,
          who are they gonna send it to?

                         CUT TOT

          INT. PHOENIX CLUB - NIGHT

          The party's in its drunken stage.
          We move to a room where there's a co-ed poker game underway
          with the girls smoking cigars, A�bra and a couple of pairs of
          stockings are out on the table, As move through the poker
          room, we see a computer behind one of the players. The
          computer is indicating that there's e-mail.
           A PLAYER 'turns around and opens the e-mail as the poker game
          and the party go on behind him.
           at it, then
          He hits a. link and FACEMASH opens. He looks

                         PLAYER
          (to another player)
          Check this out..

                         CUT TO:

          INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          TWO MALE STUDENTS at a laptop.

                         STUDENT
          The one on the left.

                         CUT TO;

          INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT


          THREE MALE STUDENTS AT A COMPUTER

                         ALL
          On the right.

                         CUT-TO:

          INT. ALL NIGHT DINER - NIGHT

          A bunch of STUDENTS around a computer.

                         ALL
          The right.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FINAL CLUB -- NIGHT

          Dozens of partiers are around the comp uter.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          J. 9.

                         FEMALE STUDENT
          She's my roommate.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. CYBER CAFE - NIGHT

          A bunch of students around the computer--

                         MALE STUDENT
          She will cut herself open if she gets a
          low score on this, can somebody figure
          out how to bust the curve?

          INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          A FEW STUDENTS gathered at a computer---

          .ALL
          On the left.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT


                         ANOTHER COMPUTER--

                         ALL
          On the right.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT

           This time just a single student in his pajamas as he looks at
          two pictures of girls side by side.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          And another single student voting and

                         CUT TO:

          INT. DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          We should instantly know that this dorm room is different.
          It's more modern and with less character and history than the
          others.
           A girl is at her computer and in the background is another
           girl we can't quite make out who's taking notes from a
          , i extbook.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          20.

                         GIRL
          Oh shit,
          (to the other GIRL)
          Albright?
          We rack focus to the studying girl and see that it's ERICA.

                         GIRL (CONT'D)
          He blogged about you.
          ERICA looks at her for a moment, then gets up to look at her

                         ROOMMATES COMPUTER--

                         GIRL (CONT'D)
          No you don't want to read it.
          ERICA ignores her roommate, We see her mortification as she
          reads, and at that moment THREE GUYS appear in her open doorway-
          one of them wearing a padded bra over his Boston University
          sweatshirt.

                         GUY
          Erica. They lift, separate and support.
          Thanks for the tip.

                         GIRL
          Get the fuck out,
          The three guys go on their drunken way as we SLOWLY PUSH IN on
          ERICA who's frozen in her humiliation and then

                         CUT TO:

          INT. HARVARD DORM ROOM - NIGHT


                         STUDENTS
          The left!

          INT. COFFEE HOUSE - NIGHT


                          STUDENTS
          The right!

          INT. DINING HALL - NIGHT


                         STUDENTS
          The left!

          INT. GIRLS' DORM ROOM - NIGHT


                         STUDENTS
          The right!

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          As sets of photos go flying by on his computer screen.

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         21
          MARK is staring at the chaos of activity he's.cr.eated in the
          middle of the night.

                         EDUARDO
          Mark?

                         (BEAT)
          I wonder if maybe you. shouldn't shut it
          down before you get into trouble.
          MARK ignores him as we pre-lap a PHONE RINGING and

                         CUT TO:

          INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

          A man named COX is asleep next to his wife. It's his phone
          that's RINGING. COX wakes up and answers it--

                         COX
          (into ' phone )
          Hello?

                         (LISTENS)
          Wait, what?

                         (LISTENS)
          At 4 in the morning?

                         INTERCUT WITH:

          INT. HARVARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE - SAME TIME

          A tired GRAD STUDENT who spends the night monitoring the
          campus computer system is looking at his computer.

                         GRAD STUDENT

                         (INTO PHONE)
          well there's a very unusual amount of
          traffic coming out of Kirkland House.

                         COX
          You're saying it's unusual for 4 in the
          morning?

                         GRAD STUDENT
          I'm saying it. would be unusual for
          Mother's Day.

                         COX
          Alright.
          COX hangs up the phone.

                         COX (CONT'D)
          I have to go in.

                         COX'S WIFE
          What's going on?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          22.

                         COX
          Harvard's computer system's about to
          crash.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          Pictures are flying by on Mark's computer when suddenly they
          freeze,
          Then an icon comes up telling him he's no longer connected to
          the internet.
          Everyone is frozen silent for a moment...

                         EDUARDO
          You don't think--

                         MARY
          I do,

                         EDUARDO
          Go see if it's everybody.
          DUSTIN, CHRIS and EDUARDO head out of the room. MARX drains
          what's left of the vodka and lights a cigarette as the guys
          start coming back in the room.

                         DUSTIN
          Mine's down.

                         CHRIS
          My computer's' frozen.

                         EDUARDO
          I mean ...unless it's a coincidence I
          think this is-Us,

                         MARK
          It's not a coincidence.

                         EDUARDO

                         (BAD)
          Holy shit.

                         MARK

                         (GOOD)
          Yeah,

                         CUT TO;

          INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

          It's three years later and MARK is sitting with his LAWYERS at
          a large conference table.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          23.
          MARK is wearing a hoodie, sweatpants and Adidas flip-flops--a
          personal uniform that we'll come to understand. And while it
          may take us a while to notice it, MARK's a different person in
          these flash-forward scenes. Still tortured and complicated,
          but comfortable now with his own power.
          His lawyer is SY, who's accompanied by some junior associates,
          one of whom--a pleasant, pretty and professional young
          contemporary of Mark's named MARYLIN, we'll get to know.
           On the other side are EDUARDO and his lawyer, GRETCHEN, also
          a. • mpanied by some associates. A STENOGRAPHER is typing the
          recor..
          The room is glass on two sides and through the windows we can
          see the behemoths of Silicon valley--Oracle, SunMicrosystems,
          Google, etc.
          GRETCHEN is taking MARK's deposition.

                         GRETCHEN
          So you were called in front of the Ad
          Board.

                         MARK
          That's not what happened.

                         GRETCHEN
          You weren't called in front of the
          Administrative Board?

                         MARK
          No, back, I mean--That's--back at the bar
          with Erica Albright. She said all that?
          That I said that stuff to her?

                         GRETCHEN
          i was reading from the transcript of her

                         DEPOSITION SO--

                         MARK
          why would you even need to depose her?

                         GRETCHEN
          That's really for us to--

                         MARK
          You think if I know she can make me look
          like a. jerk I'll be more likely--

                         SY

                         MARK€”

                         MARK
          --to settle, right?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          24,

                         SY
          Why don't we stretch our legs a minute,
          can we do that? It's been almost three
          hours and frankly you did spend an awful
          lot of time embarrassing Mr. Zuckerberg
          with the girl's testimony in the bar.

                         MART
          I'm not embarrassed, it's just that she
          made a lot of that up.

                         GRETCHEN
          She was under oath.

                         MARK
          Then I guess that would be the first time
          somebody's lied under oath.
          People are stretching and getting coffee and talking quietly.
          MARK stays in his seat.
          MARYLIN, the attractive second year associate who's on Mark's
          legal team is still sitting too... about four seats down from
          Mark.

                         MARYLIN
          Eight percent of the male population of
          Harvard had been on it within two hours?

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          Eighty.

                         MARYLIN
          What?

          MARK ' '
          Eighty percent of the male population.

                         MARYLIN

                         (PAUSE--EVEN)
          Wow.

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. CHARLES RIVER - DAWN

          The Harvard Crew is practicing on two-man sculls. There are
          three boats that are running roughly even with each other and
          the two-man crews are rowing with all they've got. We're
          gliding along with them in the water--

                         CREW MEMBER

                         (SHOUTING)
          Bring up the rate! 2 in 2! One..two--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          25,

           ANOTHER CREW MEMBER (DIFFERENT

                          BOAT)
          Power 10 in 2! In 2!

           A THIRD CREW MEMBER (DIFFERENT

                         BOAT)
          They had open water after a hundred
          meters. I don't think we're gonna catch
          'em today.
           And we PULL BACK TO REVEAL that there's a fourth boat which is
          already five boat, ngths ahead of the other three.

                         3-1
          The fourth boat is being crewed by CAMERON and TYLER
          WINKLEVOSS----identical twins who stepped out of an ad for
          Abercrombie and Fitch.
          They know that the others aren't in their class and even
          though they're highly competitive athletes, they don't like
          showing anyone up, least of all their teammates.

                         CAMERON
          Is there anyway to make this a fair
          fight?

                         TYLER
          We could jump out and swim.

                         CAMERON
          I think we'd have to jump out and drown.

                         TYLER
          I'm not willing to do that.

                         CAMERON
          What are we at three-quarter power? Let's
          drop down to a half.

                         TYLER
          Or you could row forward and I could row
          backward.

                         CAMERON
          I'd kick your ass.

                         TYLER
          We're genetically identical, so biology
          and mathematics says we'd stay in one
          place not allowing for the current or the
          wind.

                         CAMERON
          Just row the boat.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          26,
          And the WINI{LEVOSS twins kick into full gear and open up an
          even wider lead as we.

          CUT. TO:

          INT. DINING HALL - MORNING

          Two stacks of The Crimson, Harvard's student newspaper, get
          dropped on the floor as TYLER and CAMERON walk by--their trays
          loaded with mountains of eggs and pancakes and carbs.
          Everyone knows and loves them in this 200 year old dining hall
          and they wave and shout to a few people and whisper to a
          couple of very pretty girls before taking a seat next to DIVYA
          NARENDRA, a nice looking Indian student whose face is in a
          copy of the Crimson.

                         CAMERON
          What's up?

                         DIVYA
          You guys hear about this?

                         CAMERON
          What?

                         DIVYA
          Two nights ago a sophomore at Kirkland
          crashed the computers.

                         CAMERON
          Which computers?

                         DIVYA
          All of them. Be crashed the whole system.
          TYLER picks up a copy-of the Crimson and begins reading while
          his brother and DIVYA keep talking.

                         CAMERON
          How?

                         DIVYA
          He set up a website where you vote on the
          hotness of female Harvard undergrads.
          What were we doing that none of us heard
          about this?

                         CAMERON
          I don't know. Rowing, going to class,
          studying? How much activity was there on
          this thing that he crashed the--

                         TYLER

                         (READING)
          22,000 votes. There were 22,000 hits,

                          (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          27.

                         TYLER (CONT'D)
          Cam, this guy hacked into the facebooks
          of seven houses in two hours. He set up
          the whole site in one night while he was
          drunk.

                         CAMERON
          22,000 hits?

                          TYLER
          Yeah.

                          CAMERON
           How do you know he was du- - - _

                          TYLER
          He was blogging simultaneously. Divya?

                         DIVYA
          I'm way ahead of you.

                         TYLER
          This is our guy.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

          It's MARX and his LAWYERS again but this time on the other
          side of the table are TYLER and CAMERON, DLVYA and the.i.r
          lawyer, GAGE, whose family had first-class seats on the
          Mayflower.
          we' .l.]. be back and forth between the two deposition rooms a
          lot,

                         CAMERON
          (for the record)
          Cameron Winklevoss. W-I-N-K-L-E-VWO-S-S.
          Cameron's spelled the usual way.

                         TYLER
          (for the record)
          Tyler. Winklevoss. Tyler's spelled the
          usual way and my last name is the same as
          my brother's.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING ROOM - DAY

          MARK stands before a panel of ADMINISTRATORS as well as COX,
          the systems manager who was woken up in the opening sequence.

                         ADMINISTRATOR
          Mr. Zuckerberg, this is an Administrative
          Board hearing.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          28,

                         ADMINISTRATOR (CONT'D)
          You're being accused of intentionally
          breaching security, violating copyrights
          and violating individual privacy by
          creating the website, WWW.FACEMASH.COM.
          You're also charged with being in
          violation of the university's policy on
          distribution of digitized images. Before
          we begin with our questioning you're
          allowed to make a statement. Would you
          like to do so?

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          Uh...I've, you know, I've apologized in
          the Crimson to the ABHW, to Fuerza Latina
          and to any women at Harvard who might
          have been insulted as I take it they were
          by the things that have been said tome
          in the last week. As for any charges
          stemming from the breach of security, I
          believe I deserve some sort of
          recognition from this Ad Board.

                         ADMINISTRATOR

                         (PAUSE)
          I'm sorry?

                         MARK
          Yes.

                         ADMINISTRATOR
          I don't understand.

                         MARK
          Which part?

                         ADMINISTRATOR
          You believe you deserve recognition?

                         MARK
          I pointed-out some pretty gaping holes in
          your system.

                         COX
          Excuse me, may I?

                         ADMINISTRATOR
          Yes.

                         COX
          Mr. Zuckerberg, I'm in charge of security
          for all computers on the Harvard system.
          I can assure you of its sophistication
          and in fact it was that level of
          sophistication that led us to you in less
          four hours.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          29.

                         MARK
          Four hours?

                         COX
          Yes sir.

                         MARE
          That would be impressive except the
          algorithm I used was written on my dorm
          room window. Keep up the great work.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. CORRIDOR -- DAY

          As the heavy wooden door from the hearing slams shut behind
          MARK. EDUARDO is waiting for him.

                         EDUARDO
          Well?

                         MARK
          Six months academic probation.
          They walk out onto--

          EXT. QUAD - CONTINUOUS


          EDU.ARDO
          It could have been worse.

                         MARK
          No it couldn't. They made me apologize.

                         EDUARDO
          To who?

                         MARK
          To them. Over and over.

                         EDUARDO
          It's alright.

                         MARK
          No.

                         EDUARDO
          It's okay. You're fine.

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          I shouldn't have said the thing about the
          farm animals. That was stupid. Everybody's
          mad at me now.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          30,

                         EDUARDO
          Maybe, but at least everybody knows you
          now.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. LECTURE HALL - DAY

          MARX is in his Operating Systems class. This is considered the
          hardest class at Harvard and MARK is one of the 50 students
          with their laptops open as the professor takes them through an
          impossibly difficult lesson,

                         PROFESSOR
          So let's look at a sample problem:
          Suppose we're given a computer with a 16-
          bit virtual address and a page size of
          256 bytes.
          A GIRL scribbles something on a piece of paper. Then hands it
          to the student next to her and nods that it should be passed
          over to MARK. While that's happening--

                         PROFESSOR (CONT'D)
          The system uses one-level page tables,
          which start at address 0x0400. Maybe you
          want to have DMA. on your 16-bit system,
          who knows? The first few pages are
          reserved for hardware flags, etc.
          MARK opens the note., It reads "Asshole".
          He looks over and sees a couple of GIRLS looking at him with
          contempt.

                         PROFESSOR (CONT'D)
          Assume page table entries have eight
          status bits.
          MARK closes his laptop, gets up and starts to head out of the
          hall.

                         PROFESSOR (CONT'D)
          The eight status bits would be--

                         (RE: MARK)
          And I see we have our first surrender.
          Don't worry, Mr. Zuckerber�, brighter, men
          than you have tried and failed at this
          class.

                         MARK

                         (CALLING BACK)
          1 valid bit, 1 modify bit, 1 reference
          bit and 5 permission bits.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          31.
          MARK walks out of the lecture hall and we

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. ACADEMIC BUILDING - DAY

          As MARK comes out and heads onto the quad--

                         CAMERON (OS)

                         (CALLING)
          Mark?
          CAMERON and TYLER have been waiting by the entrance.

                         CAMERON (CONT'D)
          Are you Mark?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         CAMERON
          I'm Cameron winklevoss.

                         MARK

                         TYLER
          Tyler Winklevoss.

                         MARY

                         (BEAT)
          Are you guys related?

                         CAMERON
          Good.

                         TYLER
          That's funny.

                         CAMERON
          We've never heard that before.

                         MARK
          Did I insult your girlfriends? What can I
          do for you?

                         CAMERON
          No, you didn't insult our girl--

                         (TO TYLER)
          Actually, I don't know.

                         TYLER

                         (TO CAMERON)
          We never asked.

                         CAMERON
          We should do that.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          32,

                         TYLER
          Yeah.

                         CAMERON
          No, we have an idea we want to talk to
          you about. Do you have a minute?

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          You guys look like athletes.

                         CAMERON
          We are.

                         MART
          What do you do?

                         TYLER
          We row crew.

                         MARK
          (pause---then smiles a little)
          Yeah, I've got a minute.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. PORCELLIAN CLUB - DAY

          The most exclusive of all the final clubs. DIIVYA is sitting in
          the main living room with a textbook open as the heavy wooden
          door opens and MARK is escorted in by TYLER and CAMERON.

                         TYLER
          You ever been in the Porcellian?

                         MARK
          No.

                         TYLER
          We can't take you past the living room
          but we can sit here and talk.

                         DIVYA
          H i..
          MARK is stealing a glance around the room...

                         CAMERON
          Mark? This is Divya Narendra, our
          partner.

                         MARK
          Hi.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          33.

                         DIVYA
          We were really impressed with Facemash
          and then we checked you out and you also
          built CourseMatch.
          MARK is looking at the framed black and white group pictures
          on the wall. of old Porcellian classes. He sees a pretty co-ed
          on the couch with her legs stretched over her boyfriend while
          they study.

                          DIVYA (CONT'D)
          Mark?

                          MARK
          Yeah .

                         CAMERON
          CourseMatch. You go online, you get to
          see what courses your friends are taking?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         DIVYA
          And you invented something in high
          school.

                         MARK
          An app for an MP3 player that recognizes
          your taste in music.

                         DIVYA
          Anybody try to buy it?

                         MARK
          Microsoft.

                         DIVYA
          How much did they pay?

                         MARK
          I didn't sell it. I uploaded it for free.

                         DIVYA

                         MARK

                         DIVYA
          MARK gives a short shrug that says both "I don't know" and
          "Fuck you" at the same time.

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         ----- -
          3n,

                         CAMERON
          Well we've been working for a while on an
          idea. It's called HarvardConnecti.on. You
          create your own page, Picture, bio,
          interests, friends.

                         TYLER
          People can see your bio and request to be

                         YOUR--

                         MARK
          Yeah. How's this different from MySpace
          or Friendster?

                         TYLER
          How?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         TYLER
          Harvard-dot-E--D-U.

                         CAMERON
          Harvard.edu. The most prestigious e-mail
          address in the country.

                         TYLER
          This site would be based on the idea that
          girls want to meet guys who go to
          Harvard. The difference between what
          we're talking about and MySpace,

                         FRIENDSTER---

                         MARK
          --is exclusivity,

                         (BEAT)
          Right?

                         TYLER

                         (BEAT)
          Yes.

                         CAMERON
          We want you to be an equal partner. Our
          first programmer graduated and went to
          work at Google. Our second programmer
          just got overwhelmed with school work. We
          want you to write the code and build the
          site and we'll provide---

                         MARK
          I'm in.

                         CAMERON
          --the money. What?

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         35

                         MARK
          I'm in.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM -- DAY

          The WINKLEVOSSES and DIVYA with GAGE.

                         GAGE
          "I'm in"?, that's what you said?

                         MARK
          It was three or four years ago, I don't
          know what I said.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

          EDUARDO with GRETCHEN.

                         GRETCHEN
          When did you come to Eduardo?

                         MARK
          I don't understand that question.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE
          Do you remember answering in the
          affirmative?

                         MARK
          The affirmative?

                         CUTTO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN
          I'm asking when you came to Eduardo with
          the idea for Facebook.

                         MARK
          It was called TheFacebook back then.

                         CUT TO:

          TNT_ SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

                         GAGE
          This doesn't need to be that difficult.

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         36

                         MARK
          I'm in the middle of two different
          lawsuits.

                         GAGE
          Did you answer affirmatively? When Tyler
          and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra
          asked you to build HarvardConnection, did
          you say yes?

                         MARK
          I said I'd help.

                         CUT TO:

          TNT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

                         GRETCHEN
          When did you approach Mr. Saverin with
          the idea for TheFacebook?

                         MARK
          I wouldn't say I approached him.

                         GRETCHEN
          Sy?

                         SY
          You can answer the question.

                         MARK
          It was at a party at Alpha Epsilon Pi.

                         GRETCHEN
          What's that?

                         MARK
          The Jewish fraternity. It was Caribbean
          Night.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. LARGE LECTURE HALL - NIGHT

          The lecture hall has been converted into "Alpha Epsilon Pi
          Caribbean Night, 2003" and the party is about as lame as it
          sounds. What's important is that this couldn't be less like
          the final club party we saw at the beginning if they were
          playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey.
          Some potted palm trees have brought in along with a steel drum
          set. The man playing the steel drum set has a yarmulke bobby
          pinned to his thinning hair. A table with a punch bowl and
          assorted cookies is nearby.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          37.
          EDUA.RDO, in baggy cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt buttoned
          up to the top, is standing with a few similarly dressed
          friends, including DUSTIN MOSKOWITZ and CHRIS HUGHES, in the
          sparsely populated room. On the other side of the room are a
          few girls--all Asian. One of the girls is wearing a bikini
          over her clothes. A television monitor has been set up with a.
          DVD running of Niagara Falls.

                         EDUARDO
          It's not that guys like me are generally
          attracted to Asian girls. It's that Asian
          girls are generally attracted to guys
          like me.

                         DUSTIN
          I'm developing an algorithm to define the
          connection between Jewish guys and Asian
          girls.

                         EDUARDO
          I don't think it's that complicated.
          They're hot, they're smart, they're not
          Jewish and they can't dance.

                         CHRIS
          Mark's here.
          They see MARK come in and look around. EDUARDO waves him
          over...

                         EDUARDO

                         (CALLING)
          Mark.
          MARK sees EDUARDO and waves him over to where he is. He wants
          to talk privately.

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          I'll be back in a minute.
          EDUARDO joins MARK in the back of the room and they take up a
          spot next to a bay window that's covered on the outside with
          ice.

                         MARK
          I think I've come up with something.

                         E DUARDO
          Hang on, I've gotta tell you something
          you're not going to believe.

                         MARK
          What?

                         EDUARDO
          I got punched by the Phoenix.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          38.

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          Are you kidding?

                         EDUARDO
          No. I mean it's just the first of the
          four step process but they slipped the
          invitation under my door tonight. T go to
          the first punch party tomorrow and if
          they like me--

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          --I get the second invitation and then
          the third and then who knows?

                         MARK
          You got punched by the Phoenix.

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          It was, you know ...I'm sure it was just a
          diversity thing, And I'm never gonna make
          it in, it was just a diversity thing. So
          I'll just ride that'horse until--what did
          you want to talk about?

                         (PAUSE)
          Mark?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          You said you think you've come up with
          something.
          It seems like MARK's just made a small decision in his head,

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE
          Yeah. I think I've come up with
          something. Come outside.

                         EDUARDO
          It's 20 degrees outside.

                         MARK
          I don't want to stare at that loop of
          Niagara Falls which has absolutely
          nothing to do with the Caribbean.

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          39.

          EXT. QUAD NIGHT

          MARK and EDUARDO come outside and are immediately met by the
          freezing cold air.

                         MARK
          People came to Facemash in a stampede,
          right?

                         EDUARDO
          Yeah.

                         MARK
          It wasn't because I put up pictures of
          hot girls. You can go anywhere on the
          internet and see pictures of hot girls.

                         EDUARDO
          Yeah.

                         MARK
          It was because I put up pictures of girls
          that people knew. So if people Want to go
          on the internet and check out their
          friends, why can't I build a website that
          offers that? An online community of
          friends. Pictures, profiles, whatever you
          can click into, visit, browse around. All
          from the privacy of your dorm room. I'm
          not talking about a dating site. I'm
          talking about taking the entire social
          structure of college and putting it
          online.

                         EDUARDO
          I can't feel my legs.

                         MARK
          I know, I'm totally pumped about this.

                         BUT WARDO--

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         EDUARDO
          "It would be exclusive".

          CUT BACK TO:

          EXT. QUAD - NIGHT


                         MARK
          --it would be exclusive. You'd have to
          know the people on the site to get in.
          Like getting punched.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          40,

                         EDUARDO
          This is interesting.

                         MARK
          Like our own Final club except not only
          can we get into this one, we're the
          president.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         EDUARDO
          I told him I thought it sounded great. I
          mean it did, it was a great idea. There
          was no reason to hack, people were going
          to put their own pictures up. What they
          were interested in, what they were
          looking for, what classes they were
          taking... and people had the ability to
          invite their friends to join. Or put a
          different way, not invite their friends
          to join. In a world where social
          structure is very important, that was
          sexy.

                         (BEAT)
          It was a big project and he was going to
          have to write tens of•thousands of lines
          of code so I wondered why'he was coming
          to me and not his roommates. Dustin
          Moskowitz and Chris Hughes were
          programmers.

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. QUAD - NIGHT


                         MARK
          We're gonna need a little start-up cash
          to rent'the servers and get it online.

                         CUT TO;

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - NIGHT


                         EDUARDO
          That was why.

                         GRETCHEN
          Did he offer business terms?

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          41.

          EXT. QUAD - NIGHT


                         MARK
          We'll split it 70-30. 70 for me and 30
          for you for putting up a thousand dollars
          and handling everything on the business
          end. You'll be CFO.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN
          And you said?

                         EDUARDO
          I said "Let's do it".

                         GRETCHEN
          Okay. Did he add anything else?

                         EDUARDO
          Yes. He said---

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. QUAD - NIGHT


                         MARK
          It probably was a. diversity thing but so
          what?

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN
          Why do you think he said that?

                         BY
          Gretchen, what's the relevancy?

                         GRETCHEN
          This is discovery, I'm trying to
          discover.

                         MARK
          They're suggesting I was jealous of
          Eduardo and began a plan to screw him out
          of the company.

                         GRETCHEN
          Were you?

                         SY

                         GRETCHEN--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          42,

                         MARK
          Jealous of Eduardo?

                         SY
          Stop typing, we're off the record.

                         MARK
          Ma'am, I know you've done your homework
          and so you know that money isn't a big
          part of my life, but at the moment I
          could buy Harvard University, take the
          Phoenix Club and turn it into my ping
          pong -room.

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. QUAD - NIGHT

          EDUARDO's walking away and calls back to MARK--

                         EDUARDO

                         (CALLING)
          I'll let you know how the party is,
          We stay on MARK for a moment longer, his wheels turning,

                         BEFORE WE

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

          EDUARDO's in different:.clothes and being questioned by GAGE.

                         GAGE
          We recognize that you're a plaintiff in
          one suit involving Facebook and a witness
          in another.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes sir,

                         GAGE
          At any time in the three weeks prior to
          Mark telling you his idea, did he mention
          Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss,
          Divya Narendra or HarvardConnection?

                         EDUARDO
          Yes. He said they'd asked him to work on
          their site but that he'd looked at what
          they had and decided it wasn't worth his
          time. Uhh, he said even his most pathetic
          friends knew more about getting people
          interested in a website than these guys.

                         GAGE
          "These guys" meaning my clients.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          43.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes. He resented--Mark resented that they-
          --that your clients, probably thought he
          would jump at the chance to rehabilitate
          his image after the Facemash thing but
          Mark didn't want to rehabilitate
          anything. With Facemash he'd beaten the
          Harvard computers, he'd beaten the Ad
          Board and he made the girls mad. Facemash
          did what he wanted it to do.
          MARK kind of nods a little to himself. It should be noted that
          these depositions have an extra element of dish ort as
          everything is being said within a few feet of the peop" being
          talked about.

                         GAGE
          Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg
          was building TheFacebook he was also
          communicating with the plaintiffs?

                         EDUARDO
          Not at the time I wasn't. I am now.

                         GAGE
          Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg
          was building TheFacebook, he was leading
          the plaintiffs to believe he was building
          Harvard Connection?

                         SY
          I have some problems with that question.

                         EDUARDO
          No I wasn't.
          MUSIC kicks in that will tie this next section together as we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          Two printouts of web pages are taped to a white board--
          "Friendster" and "MySpace". Under the two pages, MARK draws a
          third page and titles it "TheFacebook".
          Then he makes the decision to turn the capital "T" into a
          lower case "t" and it becomes "theFacebook" as we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE

                         (READING)
          From mark Zuckerberg to Tyler Winklevoss.
          November 30, 2003.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          44.

                         GAGE (CONT-D)
          "I read over all the stuff you sent me re
          Harvard Connection and it seems like it
          shouldn't take too long to implement, so
          we can talk about it after I get all the
          basic functionality up tomorrow night."

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          The whiteboard is filled with diagrams now under the heading
          "theFacebook"--login page,, profile page, create account-We
          move over to see MARK at his computer. He opens the Emacs
          program and then Firefox, hits a few keys and the diagram on
          the whiteboard comes-to life on his computer as we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE
          Mark Zuckerberg to Cameron Winklevoss.
          December 1, 2003. "Sorry I was
          unreachable tonight. I just got about
          three of your missed. calls. I was working
          on a problem set for my systems class."
          CAMERON and TYLER are looking blankly at MARK who's giving
          them a casual "I'm not scared.of'•you" look and we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. PHOENIX HOUSE -,-NIGHT

          The MUSIC CONTINUES as EDUARDO and other prospective new
          members, all wearing tuxedos, are lined up in four rows. The
          boy at the front of each row has a bottle of Jack Daniels and
          drinks as long as they can before passing the bottle, relay
          style, to the boy in back of him as a few seniors look on.
          EDUARDO gets handed the bottle and starts in as we

                         CUT TO:

          TNT. CLASSROOM - DAY
          It's an Art History class and as we run past the rows of
          STUDENTS we see that they all have the same painting up on
          their laptops as the PROFESSOR gives his lecture. When we get
          to MARK's laptop we see that he's writing code for theFacebook

                         AND WE

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          45.

          TNT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

                         GAGE
          Mark Zuckerberg to Cameron and Tyler
          Winklevoss. December 10, 2003. "This week
          has been pretty busy thus far with
          classes and work so I think it's probably
          best to postpone the meeting."

                         CUT TO:

          INT, CAMERON AND TYLER'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
          CAMERON, TYLER and DIVYA are reading the e-mail.

                         DIVYA

                         (READING)
          "I'm also really busy tomorrow."

                         (BEAT)
          Anybody else feel like there's something
          up with this guy?

                         CAMERON
          Tell him okay but we've gotta make sure
          we meet before we all head off for break.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. EDUARDO'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          EDUARDO's at his desk with his head in a thick textbook when
          an envelope that says "Phoenix" is slipped under his door. Be
          turns and looks to see it-then pumps his fist in victory as

                         WE

                         CUT TO:

          TNT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
          Every available wall space is covered with a diagram or a
          printout. EDUARDO comes in with the envelope.

                         EDUARDO

                         MARK--

                         MARK
          I need a dedicated Linux box running
          Apache webserver with a mySQL backend.
          It's gonna cost a little more money.

                         EDUARDO
          How much more?

                         MARK
          Two-hundred more.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          46,

                         EDUARDO
          Do we need it?

                         MARK
          To handle the traffic.

                         EDUARDO
          Do it.

                         MARK
          I already did.

                         EDUARDO
          Hey, guess what?
          (shows MARK the envelope)
          I made the second cut.

                         MARK
          Good job. You should be proud of that
          right there, don't worry if you don't
          make it any further.

                         EDUARDO
          I'll get outa,here.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

          The MUSIC CONTINUES—

                         GAGE

                         (READING)
          Mark Zuck'erberg to Tyler and Cameron
          Winklevoss and Divya Narendra. December
          15, 2003. "I have" a cs problem set that
          I'm just getting started with and it
          should be about 15 hours of coding so
          I'll be busy tomorrow night."

                         CUT TO:

          INT. CAMERON AND TYLER'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT


                         DIVYA

                         (READING)
          "I won't really be free to meet until
          next Wednesday afternoon."

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE

                         (READING)
          .have to cancel Wednesday afternoon.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         47

                         GAGE (CONT'D)
          I've basically been in the lab this whole
          time and also..."

                         CUT TO:

          INT. THE PORCELLIAN CLUB -- NIGHT

          DIArYA's reading 'off his blackberry to TYLER and CAMERON--

                         DIVYA

                         (READING)
          "Won't be able to do it Saturday as I
          have to meet up with my parents to.."

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. HARVARD YARD - NIGHT

          The MUSIC CONTINUES--
          It's snowing and cold as hell. EDUARDO's now with a smaller
          group of prospective members, most of whom are in their
          underwear with a couple of them wearing pants. They're all
          blue and shivering. They're gathered around a statue of John
          Harvard as a senior announces--

                         SENIOR
          As the plaque reads, this is John
          Harvard, founder of Harvard University in
          1638. It's also called The Statue of
          Three Lies. What are the three lies?

                         SOPHOMORE

                         (SHOUTING)
          Sir!

                         SENIOR
          Mr. Dowd,

                         SOPHOMORE
          The three lies--

                         (BEAT)

                         THE FIRST--

                         (BEAT)
          Shit!

                         SENIOR
          Take your pants off.

                         EDUARDO
          I know.

                         SENIOR
          Mr. Saverin.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          48.

                         EDUARDO
          1) Harvard was founded in 1636, not 1638.
          2) Harvard wasn't founded by John Harvard
          and 3) That's not John Harvard.

                         SENIOR
          who is it?

                         EDUARDO
          A friend of the sculptor, Daniel. Chester-

                         SENIOR
          You can?-.-tpi your shirt on.
          And as another kid simply falls to his hands and knees and
          throws up, we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. EDUARDO'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          EDUARDO's studying at his desk but this time wrapped in
          blankets and wearing gloves when the envelope with "Phoenix"
          gets slid under his door. He smiles.

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE
          39 days after Mr. •Zuokerberg's initial
          meeting with my clients and he still
          hadn't completed work on
          HarvardConnection. But on January 11,

                         2003--

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY

          A website called Network Solutions is up on Mark's screen. He
          hits a couple of keys and waits intently.
          Then the computer shows him what he wanted to see--
          www.theFacebook.com-•--DOMAIN NAME REGISTERED

          CUT TO,

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE
          To the best of your knowledge, had he
          even begun work on HarvardConnection?

                         EDUARDO
          Not to my knowledge.

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          49.

          INT. CAMERON AND TYLER'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          CAMERON's looking at his e-mail.

                         CAMERON
          what in the hell is this?

                         TYLER
          What?

                         CAMERON

                         (READING)
          "I'm still a little skeptical that we
          have enough functionality in the site to
          really draw the attention and gain the
          critical mass necessary to get a site
          like this to run."

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE
          This is the first time he mentioned any
          problem?

                         DIVYA
          Yes it was.

                         GAGE
          You'd sent 39 e-mails to Mr. Zuckerberg
           and received 13 return e-mails and this
          was the first time--

                          DIVYA
          He had 42 days to study our system and
          get out ahead on---

                         MARK
          Do you see any of your code on Facebook?

                         GAGE
          Sy?

                         SY

                         (CALMING HIM)

                         MARK--

                         MARK
          Did I use any of your code?

                         DIVYA
          You used our whole fuckin' idea!

          SY.
          Gentlemen.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          50.

                         MARK
          Match-dot-com for Harvard guys?

                         GAGE
          Can I continue with my deposition?

                         MARK
          You know you really don't need a damn
          forensic team to get to the bottom of
          this. If you guys were the inventors of
          Facebook you'd have invented Facebook.

                         DIVYA
          I'm just gonna stand over your shoulder
          while you write is a check.

                         MARK
          No shit.

                         SY

                         (TO GAGE)
          Let's continue,
          DIVXA'a still staring at MARK, who just smiles a little as he
          looks down.

                         GAGE

                         (BEAT)
          February 4th, 2003-

                         CUT TO:

          INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE LAB - DAY

          MARK is working at a station. We can see through the windows
          that it's a frigid, snowy February day in Cambridge but MARK'::
          in his hoodie and cargo shorts nonetheless. It looks like he
          hasn't slept in days.. On his monitor we can see that he's
          working on the profile page for theFacebook.
          DUSTIN MOSKOWITZ steps up to him quietly,

                         DUSTIN
          Mark?

                         (PAUSE)
          Mark.
          MARX turns his head and looks at him...

                         DUSTIN (CONT'D)

                         (QUIETLY)
          There's a girl in the art history class
          that you take. Her name is Stephanie
          Attic, Do you happen to know if she has a
          boyfriend?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          51.
          MARK just keeps looking at him--barely even blinking---"Why am
          I being interrupted?"

                         DUSTIN (CONT'D)

                         (BEAT)
          I mean, have you ever seen her with
          anyone?

                         (BEAT)
          And if not, do you happen to know if
          she's looking to go out with anyone?

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          Dustin. People don't walk around with a
          sign on them that says--
          And MARK stops short right there. Because in his head, he's
          just discovered the cure for cancer.

                         DUSTIN

                         (PAUSE)
          Mark?

          EXT. CO&PUTER SCIENCE BUILDING - DAY

          As MARK, with his backpack stuffed, comes flying out of the
          building and into the snow, barely keeping his balance on the
          ice and we

                         CUT TO:

          TNT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/LOBBY - MORNING
          The heavy door bursts open and MARK comes busting through. He
          makes his way with speed and intent up a flight of stairs.
          Then another.
          And then another until he gets to his floor. He sprints down
          his hall toward his dorm room and barely notices EDUARDO
          leaning against the door.

                         EDUARDO
          We were supposed to meet at 9.
          MARK is searching the pockets of his shorts for his keys.

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          Have you slept yet?
          MARK opens the door and they go into his suite--

                         MARK
          I have to add a feature.

                         EDUARDO
          What are you adding?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          52,
          MARK's in his own world as he sits at the computer and calls
          up theFacebook. The home page fills the screen.

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)

                         (SIMPLY)
          Shit.

                         (BEAT)
          That looks good.

                         (BEAT)
          That looks really good.

                         MARK
          It's clean and simple. No flashing
          lights.
          The CAMERA surveys the screen as MARK slips through some
          functions to show EDUARDO and we see things that are now
          familiar--A photo, sex, a profile, a list of attributes, a
          poke application, etc.
          MARK (cONT' T) )
          But watch.
          MARK's called up a the Emacs program and quickly writes out
          several lines of code...

                         EDUARDO
          What'd you write?.
          MARK goes back to the profile page. There's a new area to be
          filled in...

                         MARK
          "Relationship Status", "Interested In".

                         (BEAT)
          These two things are what drive life at
          college. Are you having sex or aren't
          you. It's why people take certain
          classes, sit`where they sit, go where
          they go, do what they do, and at its, um,
          center,`you know, that's what theFacebook
          is gonna be about, People are gonna log
          on because after all the cake and
          watermelon there's a chance they're gonna-

                         EDUARDO
          --meet a girl.

                         MARK
          --get laid. Yes.

                         EDUARDO
          Really?

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          And that's it.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          53.

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          What do you mean?

                         MARK
          It's ready.

                         EDUARDO
          It's ready?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          Right now?

                         MARK
          It's ready, that was it. And here's the
          masthead,
          MARK hits another couple of keystrokes and the website's
          masthead comes up.

                         EDUARDO
          You made a masthead.

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO

                         (READING)
          "Eduardo Saverin, Co-Founder and CFO."

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          You have no idea how much that's going to
          mean to my father.

                         MARK
          Sure I do.

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          When's it gonna go live?

                         MARK
          Right now. Get your laptop out.

                         EDUARDO
          Why do we need my laptop?

                         MARK
          Because you've got e-mails for everyone
          at the Phoenix.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          54,

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          I'm not sure if it's gonna be cool with
          them that I spammed their--

                         MARK
          It's not Spam.

                         EDUARDO
          I didn't mean Spam, it's not Spam, it's

                         JUST THAT--

                         MARK
          If we send it to our friends it'll just
          bounce around the computer lab,

                         EDUARDO
          I haven't gotten in yet.

                         MARK
          These guys know people and these guys
          know girls. I need their e-mails.

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          Sure.
          EDUARDO takes out his laptop--

                         MARK
          Let's start with the president.

                         EDUARDO
          "Jabberwockl2@Harvard E-D-U."

                         MARK
          Like the Lewis Carrol?

                         EDUARDO
          Yeah.
          MARK opens up an e-mail and is writing a short message, then
          includes a link to the site--

                         MARK
          These guys.

                         EDUARDO
          I know,

                         MARK
          Think they're literary geniuses because
          the world's most obvious Lewis Carroll
          reference is in their--

                         EDUARDO
          They're not so bad.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          55.

                         MARK
          I'm just saying.

                         EDUARDO
          You're right.

                         MARK

                         (DONE)
          Okay.
          He hits "Send".

                         MARK (CONT'D)
          The site's live.

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          You know what? Let's go get a drink and
          celebrate.
          MARK is staring at the computer...

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          Mark?
          MARK doesn't hear him. We just see MARK's head from the back
          and it's ever so slightly bobbing back and forth...

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)

                         (PAUSE)
          Mark?

                         (BEAT)
          Are you praying?

                         CUT TO:

          INT. CAMPUS PUB - NIGHT

          THE CROCODILLOS, Harvard's oldest male a Capella group, are
          singing at the front of the pub in their usual uniform of
          white tie and tails.
          Incongruously, but with surprisingly nice results, the group
          is covering a song from The Backstreet-Boys--"I Want it That
          Way"--and the pub full of students is loving it.
          We find a table in the back where DIVYA is sitting with some
          of his friends who are having a nice time. DIVYA's got his
          laptop open.

                         MALE FRIEND
          When did the Crocodillos start covering
          the Backstreet Boys? What happened to
          Cole Porter and Irving Berlin?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          56,

                         FEMALE FRIEND
          It's a Valentine's theme. They're singing
          love songs.

                         MALE FRIEND
          Good point, 'cause Cole Porter and Irving
          Berlin never wrote any love songs,

                         FEMALE FRIEND
          Divya, what are you reading?

                         DIVYA
          Seven different people spammed me the
          same link.
          We see DIVYA click his mouse on the link--

                         FEMALE FRIEND
          What is it?

                         DIVYA

                         (DRYL Y)
          I don't know, but I'm really hoping it's
          video of kittens that look like the Marx
          Brothers 'cause I can never get enough
          file footage on my computer of animals
          doing...
          DIVYA trails off. We Slowly PUSH IN on his face as the blood
          starts draining away...

                         MALE FRIEND

                         (PAUSE)
          Div?

                         DIVYA
          (beat.)
          I--uh...I have to go.
          DIVYA shuts his laptop, grabs it off the table and starts to
          bolt out of the pub. His foot gets caught on a chair leg and
          he falls hard face-first to the floor.

                         DIVYA (CONT'D)
          Shit.
          He starts out again, then comes back for his coat, grabs it;
          starts out and falls down all over again.
          Finally he's got it together and flies out of the pub and we

                         CUT TO;

          INT. BOATHOUSE - NIGHT

          CAMERON and TYLER are rowing in a large practice tank--a
          simulator with a hull, oars and rowable water.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          57.
          They're focused and charging away in perfect sync when the
          door at the end of the century-old boathouse opens and DIVYA
          charges In from the co:Ld with his laptop and a copy of the
          Crimson in his hands.

                         DIVYA

                         (CALLING)
          Hey!
          The twins are in the zone and don't pay any attention.

                         DIVYA (CONT'D)

                         (LOUDER)
          Hey !

                         CAMERON
          Not now, we've got another 5000 meters.

                         DIVYA

                         (CALMLY)
          Okay. I just wanted to let you know
          Zuckerberg stole our website.
          TYLER stops rowing and then CAMERON. They look at DIVYA...

                         DIVYA (CONT'D)
          Mark Zuckerberg stole our website. It's
          been live for over 36 hours.

                         CUT TO-

          INT. CAMERON AND TYLER' S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          They're in gear. CAMERON's taken a quick shower but didn't dry
          off'. He's in sweatpants with a towel over his shoulder,
          talking on the phone with his father and holding the Crimson.
          DIVYA's on his cell looking for MARK and TYLER, still in his
          practice clothes, has his desktop computer open to theFacebook
          and is studying it.

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          I left a message with his R.A., I left
          two, now I'm leaving one here.

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          I'm looking at the article in the
          Crimson.

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          Narendra.

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Today's.

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         - 58

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          N-A---just tell him Divya, he knows who I
          am.
          (clicks off phone and starts to
          dial another number)
          Asshole knows who I am.

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          It's titled, "Hundreds Register for New
          Facebook Website" and then the sub-
          headline is "Facemash creator seeks new
          reputation with latest online project."

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          It's me again. Can you try looking for
          his roommates? Their names are Chris
          Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz.

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          No it's today's paper, it went online
          yesterday morning around 10.

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          I don't have the slightest idea.

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO HONE)
          Mr. Hotchkiss.

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          Thank you.

                         CAMERON
          (covering the phone)
          Ty, the lawyer's on the phone with dad.

                         (INTO PHONE)
          I'm here with my brother, Tyler, and our
          partner, Divya.

                         TYLER
          (reading off the computer)
          "Welcome to theFacebook, TheFacebook is
          an online directory that connects people
          through social networks. You must have a
          Harvard.edu address to register."

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          That's right.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          59.

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          I called earlier. I'm looking for Mark
          Zuckerberg.

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Yes sir, he's quoted a couple of times. I
          can read--it says, "'Everyone's been
          talking a lot about a universal .facebook
          within 1 arvard', he says"--he meaning
          Mark--"I think it's kind of silly that it
          would take the University a coupl-e-af
          years to get around to it. I can do ±
          better than they can and I did in a
          week."

                         DIVYA

                         (INTO CELL)
          Could you leave word that Divya Narendra
          called, I appreciate it.

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          I know, that's how he talks.

                         DIVYA
          (off another copy of the

                         CRIMSON)
          "As of yesterday evening, Zuckerberg said
          over 650 students had registered to use
          theFacebook.com. He said he anticipated
          that 900 students would have joined the
          site by this morning."

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Yeah, Divya was just reading that he'd
          signed up 650 people on the first day.

                         TYLER
           If I were a drug dealer I couldn't give
          free drugs to 650 people in one day.

                         DIVYA
          And this kid doesn't have four friends.

                         CAMERON
          (quieting them so he can hear)
          Guys, please, for just one second.

                         (INTO PHONE)
          That's what we'll do, Mr. Hotchkiss.
          We're gonna put it all, together right now
          and e-mail it to you.

                         (LISTENS)
          You won't be able to get on the site
          yourself.
          (beat--.a little uncomfortable)

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          60.

                         CAMERON (CONT'D)
          Because you went to Ohio State. But we'll
          take care of everything and we'll talk to
          you first thing in the morning. This is a

                         GOOD GUY---

                         DIVYA

                         (REACTING)
          Whoa !. ;

                         CAMERON

                         (INTO PHONE)
          --and he's very bright and I'm sure he
          didn't mean to...do what he did.

                         (BEAT)
          Thank you very much, and dad, we'll talk
          to you in the morning too. Thanks.
          CAMERON hangs up,

                         DIVYA
          This is a good guy?

                         CAMERON
          We don't know that he'.s not a good guy.

                         DIVYA
          We know that he took our idea and stole
          it. We know that-he lied to. our faces for
          a month and a half-while he--

                         CAMERON
          He didn't lie to our faces.

                         DIVYA
          He never saw our. faces! Fine, he lied to
          our e-mail accounts and he got himself a
          42-day head start because he knows what
          apparently you don't which is that
          getting there first is everythinal

                         CAMERON
          I'm a competitive racer, Div, I don't
          think you need to school me on the
          importance of getting there first.

                         DIVYA

                         (BEAT)
          Alright. That was your father's lawyer on
          the phone with you?

                         CAMERON
          Yeah, well his in-house counsel, We're
          gonna send him everything and he'll look
          at it and if he thinks it's appropriate
          he'll send a cease and desist letter.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          61.

                         DIVYA
          A cease and desist letter doesn't have
          any teeth.

                         CAMERON
          You think we should hire lawyers and sue
          him?

                         DIVYA
          I think we should hire lawyers and have
          them beat him senseless with a crescent
          wrench.

                         TYLER
          We don't have to do that.

                         CAMERON
          That's right.

                         TYLER
          We can do it ourselves.

                         CAMERON

                         HEY--

                         TYLER
          I'm six-five, 220-pounds and there are
          two of me.

                         CAMERON
          And I'm saying let's Calm down until we
          know what we're talking about.

                         DIVYA
          Just how much more information are you
          waiting for? We met with Mark three
          times, we exchanged 52 e-mails, we can
          prove that he looked at the code, he'd
          seen what Victor had already done and we
          talked at length about what we planned to
          do.

                         (POINTING)
          The page looks the same:

                         (THEN)
          What is that on the bottom?

                         CAMERON
          (he's already seen it)
          It says "A Mark Zuckerberg Production".

                         DIVYA
          On the home page?

                         CAMERON
          On every page.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          62 .

                         DIVYA
          Hang on, 'cause I need a minute to let
          the classiness waft over me.

                         CAMERON

                         LOOK-

                         TYLER

                         (CALMLY)
          Cam.
          (he recites from the Crimson
          thout having to read it)
          They wr "Zuckerberg said that he
          hoped the prly options would help to
          restore his reputation following student
          outrage over Facemash.com".

                         (BEAT)
          That's exactly what we said to him. He's
          telling us to go fuck ourselves. We know
          plenty of people at the Crimson. While
          we're waiting for dad's lawyer to look
          this over, we can at least---

                         CAMERON
          No.

                         TYLER
          --get something going in the paper so
          that people know-

                         CAMERON
          What?

                         TYLER
          That this thing is in dispute.

                         CAMERON
          We're not starting a knife fight in the
          Crimson and we're not suing anybody.

                         DIVYA
          Why not?
          CAMERON wants-to answer the question but doesn't..

                         DIVYA (CONT'D)
          Why not?

                         CAMERON
          (beat--referring to TYLER)
          He'll say it's stupid.

                         TYLER
          Me?

                         CAMERON
          Yeah.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          63.

                         DIVYA
          Say it. Why not?

                         CAMERON
          Because we're gentlemen of Harvard.

                         (BEAT)
          This is Harvard. You don't plant stories
          and you don't sue people.

                         (BEAT)
          That's why. There's a right way to do
          things.

                         DIVYA

                         (PAUSE)
          You thought be was going to be the only
          one who thought that was stupid?

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE
          During the time when you say you had this
          idea, did you know that Cameron and Tyler
          carne from a family of means?

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          A family of means?

                         GAGE
          Did you know that his father was wealthy.

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          I'm not sure why you're asking me that.

                         GAGE
          It's not important that you be sure why
          I'm asking you.

                         MARK
          It's not important to you.

                         GAGE
          (asking for help again)
          Sy.

                         'SY

                         (TO MARK)
          Did you know that they came from money?

                         MARK
          I had no idea whether they came from
          money or not.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          64,

                         GAGE
          In one of your e-mails to Mr. Narendra
          you reference Tate Winklevoss' consulting
          firm.

                         MARY

                         (BEAT)
          If you say so.

                         GAGE
          Tate Winklevoss founded the firm and its
          assets are in the hundreds of millions.

                         MARK
          or roughly the amount I paid in income
          tax last year, go on.

                         GAGE
          You also knew that Cameron and Tyler were
          members of a Harvard final club called
          the Porcellian.

                         MARK
          They made a point of pointing that out.

                         TYLER
          Excuse us for inviting you in.

                         GAGE

                         (TO TYLER)
          Hey.

                         (TO MARK)
          So it's safe to say you were aware that
          my clients had money?

                         MARK
          Yes.

                         GAGE
          Let.me tell you why I'm asking. I'm
          wondering why, if you needed a thousand
          dollars to start up your project, you
          didn't ask my clients for it. They'd
          demonstrated to you an interest in this
          kind of thing so--

                         MARY
          From that you're deducing that I didn't
          go to them because I didn't want them to
          know what I was working on? I went to my
          best friend for the money because he's
          who I wanted to be partners with because
          of our similar vision and his superior
          business skills. Eduardo was president of
          the Harvard Investors Association and he
          was my best friend.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          65.

                         GAGE
          Your best friend is suing you for 600-
          million dollars.

                         MARK
          I hadn't heard, tell me more.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         SY
          Eduardo, what happened after the initial
          launch?

                         GRETCHEN
          I'm sorry, Sy, would you mind addressing
          him as Mr. Saverin?

                         SY
          They're best friends, Gretchen.

                         GRETCHEN
          Not anymore.

                         SY
          We just went through this on the--
          nevermind. Mr. Saverin, what happened
          after the initial--

                         EDUAPÏ¿½DO
          It exploded.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         DIVYA
          Everyone on campus was using it.
          "Facebook me" was a common expression
          after two weeks.

                         SY
          And Mark?

                         DIVYA
          Mark was the biggest thing on a campus
          that included 19 Nobel. Laureates, 15
          Pulitzer Prize winners, two future
          Olympians and a movie star.

                         SY
          Who was the movie star?

                         DIVYA

                         (PAUSE)
          Does it matter?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          66,

                         SY
          No.

                         CUT TO:
          EXT./EST. AUDITORIUMi - NIGHT
          The lamps in Harvard Yard light the snow falling.

                         SPEAKER (VO)
          The seminal event for me was when he was
          in Harvard Square and picked up a copy of
          Popular Electronics Magazine that ha the
          MITS Altair Kit on the cover.

          INT. AUDITORIUM -- SAME TIME

          There's a lower-level and a balcony and both are full.
          MARK and EDUARDO are sitting in the second to last row of the
          balcony.
          We'll hear the SPEAKER but we'll only get to see him in a
          slightly blurry image as our attention is on MARK and EDUARDO.

                         SPEAKER
          And it was a clear day, And I was up in
          my Radcliffe dorm. And he brought that up
          there and said, "Look, it's going to
          happen without us. We've got to do it
          now." And so I said..."Okay."
          He gets an appreciative LAUGH from the STUDENTS.

                         SPEAKER (CONT'D)
          Now the starting•of this industry was
          very humble indeed. The kit computer on
          the cover-of that magazine--
          We HEAR a little muffled giggling coming from the row behind
          MARK and EDUARDO, MARK is too into the speech to notice but
          the giggling registers as a slight annoyance on EDUARDO's
          face.

                         SPEAKER (CONT'D)
          --had an 8080 processor in it, and you
          had to assemble it yourself and it came
          with 256K of memory.
          EDUARDO hears the giggling again and turns around.
          In the row behind them and a few seats over are two beautiful
          Asian students.--ALICE and JENNY. They're a little overly made-
          up for a lecture. JENNY, the one sitting closest to EDUARDO,
          is wearing a short skirt with a white shirt: open one button
          too far down the front and we can see a hint of the red bra
          she's wearing underneath.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          67.
          She leans forward and whispers to EDUARDO--

                         JENNY

                         (WHISPERING)
          Your friend--isn't that Mark Zuckerberg?

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          You know Mark?

                         JENNY
          Didn't he make theFacebook?
          EDUARDO smiles a little ...this has just never happened--

                         EDUARDO
          Yeah. Both of us. It's mine and his. It's
          our--we're--yes.

                         JENNY

                         (STILL WHISPERING)
          Way cool. I'm Jenny. This is Alice.
          EDUARDO can't help noticing--just because it's in his line of
          sight--that down the row from the girls, someone else is
          pointing at them and whispering to a friend.
          Then back to the girls--

                         EDUARDO

                         (WHISPERING)
          Very nice to meet you.

                         JENNY

                         (WHISPERING)
          Facebook me when you get home. Maybe we
          can all go out for a drink later.

                         EDUARDO

                         (WHISPERING)
          Certainly. I'll certainly--absolutely I
          will do that.
          EDUARDO turns back to the speaker, who MARK hasn't taken his
          eyes off of--

                         SPEAKER
          There were a set of machines that came
          after that. The TRS-80, Apple II,

                         COMMODORE PET--

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          68.

          EXT. AUDITORIUM - NIGHT

          As the CROWD from the lecture spills out onto the snowy quad.
          EDUARDO--always in his suit-.-is buttoning up his overcoat as
          he walks and MARK zips up his hoodie.

                         EDUARDO
          She said "Facebook me" and we can all
          have a drink later. Which is stunningly
          great for two reasons. One, she said
          "Facebook me". Right? And the other is
          that, you know--

                         MARK
          They want to have drinks later.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes: Have you ever heard so many
          different good things packed into one
          ordinary-sized sentence?
          A group of guys hustle up to MARK and EDUARDO--

                         STUART
          Excuse me. Mark?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         STUART
          I'm Stuart Singer. I'm in your O.S. lab.

                         MARK
          Sure.

                         STUART
          Awesome job with theFacebook.

                         VIKRAM
          Awesome job.

                         MARK
          Thanks.

                         BOB
          I'm Bob.

                         MARK
          How you doin'.

                         BOB
          You know, I could swear he was looking at
          you when he said the next Bill Gates
          could be right in this room.

                         MARK
          I doubt it.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          69.

                         BOB
          I showed up late, I don't even know who
          he was.

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          It was Bill Gates.

                         BOB
          Oh shit, that makes sense.
          As MARK and EDUARDO walk on, we leave STUART, VIKRAM and BOB in
          the background---with STUART and VIKRAM admonishing BOB with--

                         STUART/VIKRAM

                         (TO BOB)
          Are you a moron?/Are you medically
          stupid?/You can't recognize Bill Gates
          when he's standing in front of you for an
          hour?/Mark Zuckerberg now thinks we got
          into Harvard on a dimwit scholarship./I'm
          gonna get a Glock 39 and I'm going to
          kill you./I'm actually going to kill
          you/etc.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          As the door opens and MARK and EDUARDO come into the
          overheated warmth of the room.

                         EDUARDO
          It's time to monetize the thing.

                         MARK
          Those Asian girls were cute. What were
          their names?

                         EDUARDO
          Did you hear what I said?

                         MARK
          When?

                         EDUARDO
          I said it's time to monetize the site.

                         MARK
          What does that mean?

                         EDUARDO
          I mean it's time for the website to
          generate revenue.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          70,

                         MARK
          No I know what the word means. I'm asking
          how do you want to do it?

                         EDUARDO
          Advertising.

                         MARK
          No. What were their names?

                         EDUARDO
          We've got 4000 members.

                         MARK
          'Cause theFacebook is cool. If we start
          installing pop-ups for Mountain Dew it's

                         NOT GONNA--

                         EDUARDO
          Well I wasn't thinking it would be
          Mountain Dew but at some point--and I'm
          speaking as the business end of the

                         COMPANY--THE SITE--

                         MARK
          We don't even know what it is yet. We
          don't know what it is, what it can be,
          what it will be. We know it'•s cool,
          that's a -priceless asset and we're not
          giving it up.
          EDUARDO is sitting at MARK's desk and he's seen something
          sitting on top of a pile of'books.,,

                         EDUARDO
          Mark, what is this?

                         MARK
          What,
          EDUARDO holds up a letter that's on a lawyer's stationary.

                         EDUARDO
          This,

                         MARK
          I think it's called a cease and desist
          letter. What were their names?

                         EDUARDO
          Who?

                         MARX
          The girls.
          EDUARDO's speed reading the letter.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          71.

                         EDUARDO
          When did you get this?

                         MARK
          About 10 days ago. Right after we
           launched the site.

                         EDUARDO
          Jesus Christ.

                         MARK
          I liked th shorter one.

                         EDUARDO
          They're saying--the Winklevoss twins are
          saying you stole their idea.

                         MARK
          I find that to be mildly annoying.

                         EDUARDO
          They find it to be property theft. Why--

                         MARK

                         LOOK--

                         EDUARDO
          --why didn't you show this to me?

                         MARK
          It was addressed to me.

                         EDUARDO
          They're saying we stole theFacebook from
          Divya Narendra and the Wink—

                         MARX
          I know what it says.

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          Did we?

                         MARK
          What?

                         EDUARDO
          Please don't screw around with me now.

                         MARK
          I'm not.

                         EDUARDO
          Look at me.

                         MARK
          What are you, my mother?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          72.

                         EDUARDO
          The letter says we could face legal
          action.

                         MARK
          No, it says I could face legal action.

                         EDUARDO
          It's from a lawyer, Mark. They must feel
          they have some grounds for--

                         MARK
          The lawyer is their father's house
          counsel, I checked it out, they're not,

                         YOU KNOW---

                         EDUARDO
          Do they have grounds?

                         MARK
          Yes, the grounds are theFacebook is cool.
          and popular and sexy and
          HarvardConnection is lame. I didn't use
          any of their code, I didn't use anything.
          A guy who builds a really nice chair
          doesn.'t owe money to everyone who,,, ever
          built a chair. Th ey came to me with an
          idea, I had a better one.

                         EDUARDO
          Why didn't you show me the letter?

                         MARK
          I didn't think. it was a big deal..

                         EDUARDO
          If there's' something wrong--if there's
          ever anything wrong--you can tell me. I'm
          the guy who can help.

                         (PAUSE) -
          Is there anything you need to tell me?

                         MARK
          No,

                         EDUARDO
          What are we doing about this?

                         MARK
          I went to a 3-L at Student Legal services
          and he told me to write them back.

                         EDUARDO
          What did you say?

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          73.

          TNT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM DAY

                         GAGE

                         (READING)
          "When we met in January, I expressed my
          doubts about the site--where it stood
          with graphics, how much programming was
          left that I had not anticipated--

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT


                         EDUARDO

                         (READING)
          "---the lack of hardware we had to deal
          with, the lack of promotion that was
          needed to successfully launch the website--

                         CUT TO:

          INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GAGE

                         (READING)
          "--etc." This was the first time you
          raised any of those concerns, right?

                         MARK
          I'd raised concerns before.

                         DIVYA/TYLER
          Bullshit./Not to us.

                         GAGE

                         (QUIETING)
          Fellas.
          (back to MARK)
          I'm talking about at the meeting in
          January to which this letter is
          referring.

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         GAGE
           Let me re-phrase this. You sent my
          clients 32 e-mails. In the first 31, you
           didn't raise any concerns.

                         MARX

                         (BEAT)
          Is that a question?

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         74-

                         GAGE
          In the 32nd e-mail you raised concerns
          about the site's functionality. Were you
          leading them on for six weeks?

                         MARK
          No.

                         GAGE
          Why hadn't you raised any of these--

                         MARK

                         (QUIETLY)
          It's snowing.

                         GAGE
          I'm sorry?

                         MARK
          It just started snowing.

                         GAGE
          Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full
          attention?

                         MARK
          No.

                         GAGE

                         (BEAT)
          Do you think I deserve it?

          . MARK
          What.

                         GAGE
          Do you think I deserve your full
          attention?

                         MARK
          I had to swear an oath before we began
          the deposition phase and I don't want to
          get arrested for perjury so I have a
          legal obligation to say no.

                         GAGE
          Okay. "No" you don't think I deserve your
          attention.

                         MARX
          I think if your clients want to stand on
          my shoulders and call themselves tall
          they have a right to give it a try. But
          there's no requirement that I enjoy being
          here listening to people lie. You have
          part of my attention--the minimum amount
          needed.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          75.

                         MARK (CONT'D)
          The rest of my attention is back at the
          offices of Facebook where my employees
          and I are doing things that no one in
          this room, including and especially your
          clients, are intellectually or creatively
          capable of doing. Did I adequately answer
          your condescending question?
          GAGE just looks casually at MARK. MARK doesn't meet his gaze,
          or the looks from DIVYA, TYLER and CAMERON...

                         SY

                         (BEAT)
          I've got 12:45. Why don't we.say that's
          lunch.

                         GAGE
          Back at 2:30?

                         SY
          Good.
          Everyone gets np and we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM -• NIGHT

          EDUARDO puts the letter back on. the desk and looks at MARK...

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          Their names were Jenny and Alice- They
          want to have drinks tonight.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MEN'S ROOM - NIGHT

          It's a nice men's room--mahopny stalls--in a nice club in
          Cambridge. We HEAR the thumping of the house music coming from
          the club.
          And then one of the wooden stall doors flies open and EDUARDO
          is shoved in, followed by JENNY, who did the shoving. She's
          all over him as she presses him back against the divider.
          EDUARDO's hands are sliding under JENNY'S white shirt and
          finding the red bra when they hear a noise.
          Someone's gone into the next stall.

                         EDUARDO

                         (WHISPERING)
          Shit.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          76.

                         JENNY

                         (WHISPERING)
          I don't care.
          JENNY keeps him pinned against the divider as she reaches down
          and unbuckles his belt.

                         EDUARDO
          (quietly--nervous).
          Oh God.

                         JENNY

                         (WHISPERING)
          That's right.
          And then he hears another noise from the stall next door. A
          thump against the divider. JENNY's got his fly unzipped.
          EDUARDO looks down at the space between the stalls. He sees a
          pair of Adidas flip-flops.
          Then the sound of moaning, Before EDUARDO has time to say
          anything, JENNY pulls her shirt open, revealing the red bra,
          and puts her hand down his pants as we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. CLUB/MEN'S ROOM - NIGHT

          MARK and EDUARDO are standing guard outside the door. They're
          silent but very happy.
          A guy comes along to use the men's room.

                         EDUARDO
          Sorry. It'll just be a minute. Some girls
          are freshening up in there.

                         GUY
          (nodding a little)
          Sweet.
          The guy goes off...

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          Mark.

                         (BEAT)
          We have groupies.
          MARK can't help a smile. Then he sees something...

                         MARK
          I'll be right back.

                         EDUARDO
          Where you going?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          77.
          MARK makes his way through the crowd toward a round booth. A
          girl is sitting there and even though her back is to MARK he
          can recognize her. She's with a girlfriend and three guys.
          When he makes it to the booth he says--

                         MARK
          Erica?
          ERICA, from the opening scene, turns her head and looks up to
          see MARK. She's looking sexy for her Friday ni.ght on the town
          and the three guys she's with are studs. A few more friends of
          theirs are standing around at the edges of the booth.

                         ERICA

                         (PAUSE)
          Hi Mark.

                         MARK
          I saw you from over there. I didn't know
          you came to this club a lot.

                         ERICA
          It's my first time.

                         MARK
          Mine too. It's not bad. It's not. great.
          The music's kind of lame. Could I talk to
          you alone for a second?

                         ERICA
          I think I'm good right here.

                         MARK
          okay.
          MARK is aware of everyone else around the booth.

                         MARK (CONT'D)

                         (BEAT)
          I don't know if you heard about this new
          website I launched.

                         ERICA
          No.

                         MARK
          ThePacebook?

                         ERICA
          You called me a bitch on the internet,
          Mark.

                         MARK
          I'm really sorry about that.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          78.

                         ERICA
          On the internet.

                         MARK
          That's why I came over.

                         ERICA
          comparing women to farm animals?

                         MARX
          I didn't end up doing that.

                         ERICA
          It didn't stop you from writing it. As if
          every thought that tumbles through your
          head is so clever it would be a crime for
          it not to be published. The internet's
          not written in pencil, Mark, it's written
          in ink and you published that Erica
          Albright was a bitch.

                         (BEAT)
          Right before you made some ignorant crack
          about my family's name, published my bra
          size and then rated women-based on their
          hotness. Why don't you say it to me now,
          why don't say it to my face?

                         MARK
          I don't want to.

          REGGIE (A FRIEND OF ERICA'S)
          Erica, is there a problem?

                         ERICA
          No, there's no problem.

                         (PAUSE)
          You're not a real person, Mark. You write
          your bullshit from a dark room because
          you're a failure at human contact. I
          liked you and I was nice to you.

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          I came over to say I was sorry for all
          that and to see if there was any chance--

                         ERICA
          I don't want to be rude to my fxiends, I
          should be talking to them.

                         MARK
          Okay.

                         ERICA
          Hey Mark. A year from now you won't
          remember this conversation and you won't
          remember me.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          '79 .

                         MARK
          I think you're wrong.

                         ERICA
          Well... listen, good luck with your video
          game.
          It was an honest mistake on ERICA's part but a kidney punch to

          MARK.

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          Okay.
          MARK turns and goes and sees that EDUARDO has been standing at
          and watching from a distance with JENNY.

                         EDUARDO
          That was cool, you did good. You talked
          to her, that was the right thing to do.

                         (BEAT)
          It was good, Mark.

                         MARK

                         (IGNORING HIM)
          We have to expand.

                         EDUARDO
          (over the music)
          What?

                         MARK
          We have to expand.
          And MARK heads out the door.
          EDUARDO watches MARK and then looks back at the girls and
          answers the un-asked question--

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          I don't know.

                         ALICE
          Is he mad about something?

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          The door closes behind DUSTIN MOSKOWITZ and CHRIS HUGHES. MARK
          and EDUARDO are waiting and JENNY and ALICE are sitting on the
          bed. Everyone's got a beer.
          Once the door is closed--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          80.

                         MARK
          We're expanding theFacebook to Yale and
          Columbia. Dustin, I want you to share. the
          coding work with me. Chris, you're going
          to be in charge. of publicity and
          outreach. You can start by getting a
          story about the expansion in the B.U.
          student newspaper.

                         CHRIS
          They hate doing stories about Harvard.

                         MARK -
          Somebody at the newspaper will be a
          computer science major and they will have
          heard of me. Tell 'em Mark Zuckerberg
          will do 10 hours of free programming for
          theno .

                         EDUARDO
          Why do you want a story in the B.U.---

                         MARK
          Because I do. Here's the business
          arrangement. Eduardo's CFO and owns 30%
          of the company, Dustin's Vice President
          and Head of Programming and his 5% of the
          company will come from my end. Chris is
          Director of Publicity and his
          compensation will depend on the amount of
          work he ends up doing. Any questions?

                         DUSTIN
          Who are the girls?

                         EDUARDO
          Jenny and Alice,

                         DUSTIN

                         JENNY

                         ALICE

                         CHRIS

                         JENNY
          Is there anything we can do?

                         MARK
          No. That's it. Yale and Columbia, let's
          go.

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         EDUA TDO
          And Stanford.

                         MARK
          What?

                         EDUJARDO
          Stanford. Its time for them to see this
          in Palo Alto.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

          MARK is sitting alone in the now empty room. There's a
          computer on a table in the corner and MARK makes a few
          keystrokes and then reads the screen.
          MARYLIN, the young lawyer we met early on, comes in with a
          plastic salad container in her hand and sits at the far end of
          the table from MARK, who doesn't acknowledge her.

                         MARYLIN
          (after a moment)
          You don't want any lunch?

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          No.

                         MARYLIN
          You're welcome to some of my salad.

                         MARK
          No thank you.

                         MARYIJIN
          I know this must be hard.

                         MARK
          who are you?

                         MARYLIN
          I'm Marylin Delpy, I introduced myself
          this morning.

                         MARK
          I mean what do you do?

                         MARYLIN
          I'm a second year associate at the firm.
          My boss wanted me to sit in on the
          deposition phase.
          MARK nod--.

                         

                         

                         

                         

           82 ,

                         MARYLIN (CONT'D)
          What are you doing?

                         MARK
          Checking in to see how it's going in
          Bosnia.

                         MARYLIN
          Bosnia?
          MARK nods...

                         MARYLIN (CONT'D)
          They don't have roads but they have
          Facebook?
          MARK nods..,

                         MARYLIN (CONT'D)
          You really hate the Winklevoss twins,
          don't you.

                         MARX
          I don't hate anybody.

                         (PAUSE)
          The Winklevi aren't suing me for
          intellectual property-theft. They're
          suing me because for the first time in
          their lives the world didn't work the way
          it was supposed to for them.

                         CUT TO;

          INT. TYLER AND CAMERON'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT

          TYLER and CAMERON are both studying when DIVYA busts in.

                         DIVYA
          He's expanding.

                         TYLER
          What?

                         DIVYA
          He's expanding to Yale, Columbia and
          Stanford, it'll be in the Crimson
          tomorrow.

                         TYLER

                         (BEAT)
          Really.

                         DIVYA
          Yeah.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          83.•

                         TYLER
          So that cease and Desist letter really
          scared the shit out of him, huh?

                         DIVYA
          I want to hire a lawyer to file for
          injunctive relief and get this website
          taken down now!

                         CAMERON

                         LOOK--

                         DIVYA
          Every minute it's up, Harvard Connection
          becomes less valuable, I want an
          injunction, I watt damages, punitive
          relief and I want him dead.

                         CAMERON
          I want those things too!

                         DIVYA
          Then why aren't we doing anything about
          it?! Because we're gentlemen of Harvard?!

                         CAMERON
          Because you're not thinking about how
          it's going to look.

                         DIVYA
          How's it going to look?

                         CAMERON
          Like my brother and I are dressed in
          skeleton costumes chasing the Karate Kid
          around a high school gym.

                         DIVYA
          He violated Massachusetts state law. Then
          when he goes to Connecticut, New York and
          California he'll have violated federal
          law. And by the way, he's violated
          Harvard law.

                         CAMERON
          There's no such thing as Harvard Law.

                         TYLER

                         (PAUSE--REALIZING)
          Wait. Yes there is.

                         (BEAT)
          Cam, there is.
          TYLER goes to the bookshelf and pulls down a manual.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          84,

                         TYLER (CONT'D)
          Harvard Student Handbook. Every freshman
          is issued this book. Somewhere in here it

                         SAYS---

                         CAMERON

                         (EUREKA)
          --you can't steal from another student.
          This is what we needed.

                         DIVYA
          You think campus security is going to
          arrest him for copyright violation?

                         CAMERON
          We're going to meet with the president.

                         DIVYA
          You can't get a meeting with Larry
          Summers.

                         CAMERON
          My brother and I pay tuition at this
          school, we carry a 3.9 GPA at this
          school, we've won trophies for this
          school and we'll be rowing in the
          Olympics for this school. I want a damn
          meeting with the-president of this
          school.

                         (PAUSE)
          Why Stanford?

                         DIVYA
          Why do you think?

                         CUT TO

          INT. A GIRL'S COLLEGE APARTMENT (PALO ALTO) - MORNING

          A pretty 20 year-old co-ed, AMY, pulls a curtain open and the
          darkened room immediately fills with un-welcomed sunlight.

                         AMY
          You don't know my name, do you?
          AMY's wearing nothing but a Stanford sweatshirt and talking to
          a skinny 22 year-old guy who's lying on her futon. There's
          other evidence on the walls that we're at Stanford University.
          There are also pieces of AMY'S clothing strewn about.
          The young man on the futon is SEAN PARKER.

                         SEAN
          Is that something that's important to y ou?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          85.

                         AMY
          Yes.

                         SEAN
          If I say your name will you stop the
          enhanced interrogation techniques?

                         AMY
          Yes.

                         SEAN
          Amy.

                         AMY
          Nice. What's my major?

                         SEAN

                         (PAUSE)
          Trombone.

                         AMY
          Really?

                         SEAN
          I remember something about a trombone.

                         AMY
          That was the beer bong. Tu fais l'amour A
          la jolie fille et la mete de cote.

                         SEAN
          French! Your major is French.

                         AMY
          Oui. And what's yours?

                         SEAN
          My major?

                         AMY
          Yes.

                         SEAN
          I don't have one.

                         AMY
          You haven't declared?

                         SEAN
          I don't go to school here.

                         AMY
          You're kidding?

                         SEAN
          No.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          86.

                         AMY
          Where do you go to school?

                         SEAN
          Grover Cleveland Elementary.

                         AMY
          Seriously, you're not like 15 years old
          or anything are you?

                         SEAN
          No, I'm 22.

                         (BEAT)
          You're not like 15 years---

                          AMY
          No.

                          SEAN
          Good.

                          AMY
          So what do you do?

                         SEAN
          I'm an entrepreneur.

                         AMY
          You're unemployed.

                         €¢ SEAN
          I wouldn't say that.

                         ANY
          What would you say?

                         SEAN
          That I'm an entrepreneur.

          .AMY
          What was your latest preneur?

                         SEAN
          Well...I founded an internet company that
          let college kids download and share music
          for free.

                         AMY
          Kind of like Napster?

                         SEAN
          No, exactly like Napster.

                         PAY
          What do you mean?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          87.

                         SEAN
          I founded Napster.

                         AMY
          Sean Parker founded Napster.

                         SEAN
          Nice to meet you.

                         AMY

                         (PAUSE)
          You're Sea - arker?

                         SEAN
          Ah, you see, the shoe's on the other, uh,
          table which has turned.

                         AMY
          I just slept with Sean Parker?

                         SEAN
          All night long, Sister Souljah.

                         AMY
          You're a millionaire.

                         SEAN
          Not technically.

                         AMY
          What are you?

                         SEAN
          Technically?

                         AMY
          Yeah.

                         SEAN
          Broke. There's not a lot of money in free
          music. Even less when you're being sued
          by everyone who's ever been invited to
          the Grammys.

                         AMY
          I think you're cool.

                         SEAN
          He too.

                         AMY
          I have to hop in the shower and get ready
          for class. There's juice or anything else
          you can find. Help yourself.

                         SEAN
          You mind if I check my e-mail?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          88,

                         AMY
          Go ahead.
          AMY heads into the bathroom but leaves the door a little ajar..
          SEAN steps over to AMY's pink laptop and hits a key to wake it
          out of sleep mode.
          The shower starts running in the bathroom.
          The laptop springs to life and is open to something SEAN's
          never seen before--a Facebook page.;
          He sees AMY's picture and a short profile: Her major at
          Stanford, courses she's taking, books she likes, clubs she's a.
          member of...

                         SEAN

                         (CALLING)
          Amy?
          She can't hear him in the shower.
          SEAN explores around a little more. He knows his way around a
          computer. He sees her "friends". Friend after friend after
          friend.

          SEAN (CONY' D )
          (almost a whisper)
          Jesus.
          He gets up and goes to the bathroom door--

                         SEAN (CONT'D)
          Amy?

                         AMY

                         (CALLING BACK)

                         YEAH:

                         SEAN
          Can'you come out here?

                         AMY
          Just a second.

                         SEAN
          There's a fire, Amy.

          AMY.
          What?!
          AMY grabs a towel and jumps out of the shower--

                         AMY (CONT'D)
          Where?:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          89.

                         SEAN
          Okay, there isn't a fire, but I need to
          ask you something.

                         AMY
          Are you kidding?!

                         SEAN
          No.

                         AMY
          I could have been killed!

                         SEAN
          I3ow?

                         AMY

                         (BEAT)
          What do you need to ask me?

                         SEAN
          I went to check my e-mail and there's a
          website open on your computer.

                         AMY
          Yeah. After you went unconscious last
          night I went on theFacebook for a while.

                         SEAN
          What's that?

                         AMY
          'iheFacebook? It. started at Harvard and
          standford's had it for about two weeks
          and it's awesome except it's addictive.
          Seriously, I'm on the thing five times a
          day, all my friends are.

                         SEAN
          You mind if I grab a piece of paper and a
          pen?

                         AMY
          What's wrong?

                         SEAN
          Absolutely nothing. It's beautiful.

                         AMY
          What are you talking about?

                         SEAN
          I need to find...
           says „A
          SEAN scrolls down to the bottom of the page where it
          Mark Zuckerberg Production"

                         

                         

                         

                         

          90,

                         SEAN (CONT'D)
          .Mark Zuckerberg.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. LARRY SUMMERS' OUTER OFFICE - DAY

          CAMERON and TYLER, in dark suits, are waiting to see the
          president of Harvard,
          The President's office is in one of the two oldest university
          buildings in the country, and the SECRETARY sitting at the
          desk i ven older. You get the sense that she thinks Harvard
          would be d -better place if it weren't for all, these students.
          She looks at them and the boys give her a polite smile and a
          small nod before she goes back to her work.

                         CAMERON
          (just making small talk)
          I've never been in this building.

                         SECRETARY
          (without really looking up)
          This building is a hundred years older
          than the country.it's in.

                         CAMERON

                         (THAT'S INTERESTING)
          Hm.

                         SECRETARY
          So do be careful.

                         TYLER
          We're just siting in the chairs.

                         SECRETARY

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Yes_.

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Very good.
          She hangs up the phone.

                         SECRETARY (CONT'D)
          You can go in now.
          She points to a door and CAMERON and TYLER get up, quickly
          straighten themselves, and walk into

          INT. SUMMERS' OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

          LARRY SUMMERS, a large man, is on the phone at his desk in his
          well-appointed office. A fire crackles in the sitting area and
          a 40-ish African-American woman, ANNE, in a pants suit is
          nearby going over some papers.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          91.
          SUMMERS waves the boys in--

                         SUMMERS

                         (INTO PHONE)
          That's just their own stupidity, I should
          have been there.

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Darkness is the absence of light and
          stupidity in that instance was the
          absence of me.
          SUMMERS motions for them to sit and they do. They take in some
          of the photographs around the room---SUMMERS with BILL CtINTON,
          etc.

                         -SUMMERS (CONT'D)

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Catherine, I have students in my office
          now.

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Students.

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Under. grads.

                         (INTO PHONE)
          I don't know, from the looks of it I
          think they want to sell me sets of
          identical Brooks Brothers suits. We'll
          speak later.
          SUMMERS hangs up the phone--

                         SUMMERS (CONT'D)
          Good morning.

                         CAMERON
          Good morning, s_ir. I'm Cameron Winklevoss
          and this is my brother, Tyler.
          CAMERON is extending his hand but instead of taking it,
          SUMMERS reaches to the top of a pile of papers and pulls a ten-
          page letter off the top.

                         SUMMERS
          Why are you here?
          There's silence while SUMMERS appears to read over the
          letter...

                         SUMMERS (CONT'D)
          That wasn't rhetorical.

                         CAMERON
          I'm sorry, I thought you were reading the
          letter.

                         SUMMERS
          I've read the letter.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          92.

                         CAMERON
          Well I think it's pretty self-
          explanatory. We had an idea for a website
          called HarvardConnection--we've since
          changed the name to ConnectU--and Mark
          Zuckerberg stole that idea and--

                         SUMMERS
          What do you want me to do about it?
          CAMERON points to a row of Harvard Student Handbooks on the
          bookshelf behind SUMMERS.

                         CAMERON V
          Well sir, in The Harvard Student
          Handbook, which is distributed to each
          freshman--under the heading "Standards of
          Conduct in the Harvard Community" and the
          sub-heading, "Honesty"--

                         SUMMERS
          Oh dear God.

                         CAMERON
          --it says, "The College expects that all
          students will be honest and forthcoming
          in their dealings with members of this
          community. All students are required to
          respect private and public ownership.
          Instances of theft, misappropriation or
          unauthorized use of or damage to property

                         OR MATERIALS--

                         SUMMERS
          Excuse me, Anne?

                         ANNE
          Yes sir.,

                         SUMMERS
          Punch me in the face.
          (beat--then to CAMERON)
          Go ahead-.

                         CAMERON

                         (BEAT)
          --will result in disciplinary action,
          including the requirement to withdraw
          from the College." That's what is says in
          the handbook.

                         SUMMERS
          When did you memorize that?

                         TYLER
          (a little frustrated with this

                         BULLSHIT)

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          93.

          TYLER (CONY ' D )
          Sir, it's against University rules to
          steal. from another student, plain and
          simple.

                         SUMMERS
          You've spoken to your R,A.?

                         CAMERON
          Yes sir, and the R.A. made a
          recommendation to the Ad Board but the Ad
          Board won't hear us.

                         SUMMERS
          Have you tried dealing with Mr.
          Zuck.e.rberg directly?

                         CAMERON
          Mr. Zuckerberg hasn't responded to any of
          our e-mails or phone calls for. the last'
          two weeks. He doesn't answer when we
          knock on his door at Kirkland and the
          closest we've come to talking face to
          face is when I saw him on. the quad and
          chased him through Harvard Square.

                         SUMMERS
          You chased him?

                         CAMERON

                         (BEAT)
          I saw him and I know he saw me and I
          started after him and he disappeared

                         SUMMERS
          You know he could have you arrested for
          harassment and attempted assault.

                         TYLER

                         (QUIETLY)
          This isn't happening.

                         SUMMERS
          I don't see this as a University issue.

                         TYLER
          Of course it's a University issue.
          There's a code of ethics and an honor
          code and he violated them both.

                         SUMMERS
          You entered into a code of ethics with
          the university, not with each other.

                         TYLER

                         (BEAT)
          I'm sorry President Summers, what you
          just said makes no sense to me at all.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          94,

                         SUMMERS
          I'm devastated by that.

                         CAMERON
          What my brother means is that if Mark
          Zuckerberg walked into our dorm room and
          stole our computer it would be a
          university issue, right?

                         SUMMERS
          I really don't know. This office doesn't
          handle petty larceny and the only reason
          I agreed to see you--Anne; by did I
          agree to see them?

                         ANNE
          Colleagues of their father.

                         SUMMERS
          So you see?

                         TYLER
          This isn't a petty larceny.

                         CAMERON

                         (CALMING)

                         TY--

                         TYLER
          This idea is potentially worth millions
          of dollars.

                         SUMMERS
          Millions of dollars?

                         CAMERON
          Yes.

                         SUMMERS
          You might be letting your imagination run
          away with you.

                         TYLER
          With all due respect I don't think you're
          in any position to make that call.

                         SUMMERS
          I was U.S. Treasury Secretary, I'm in
          some position to make that call.

                         TYLER
          Letting our imaginations run away with us
          is exactly what we were told to do in
          your freshmen address.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          95.

                         SUMMERS
          Well. I would try letting your-
          imaginations run away with you on a new
          project.

                         TYLER
          You would.

                         SUMMERS
          Everyone at Harvard is inventing
          something or starting a new business in
          their dorm room- Harvard undergraduates
          believe that inventing a job is better
          than getting one so can I suggest again
          that the two of you come up with a new
          new project?

                         CAMERON
          I'm sorry, but that-'s not the point, sir.

                         SUMMERS
          What's the point?

                         CAMERON
          You don't have to be an intellectual
          property expert to understand-the,
          difference between right and wrong.

                         SUMMERS
          And you're saying that I don't?

                         CAMERON
          Of course I'm not saying that.

                         TYLER
          I'm saying that.
          SUMMERS looks at TYLER and then smiles...

                         TYLER (CONT'D)
          Just start another project? Like we're
          making a diorama for the science fair?

                         SUMMERS
          Yes. And if you have a goddam problem
          with that, Mr. Winklevoss, the courts are
          always at your disposal. Athletes don't
          get special treatment at this school.

                         TYLER
          Do they get fairness?

                         SUMMERS
          They don't get to run to daddy. Okay?
          This isn't 50 years ago.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          96,

                         TYLER
          Excuse me, sir, but in your analogy, is
          daddy our father or you?

                         SUMMERS
          Both. Is there anything else I can do for
          you?

                         TYLER-
          Well I wouldn't mind that much if you
          took a flying--

                         CAMERON

                         (STOPPING HIM)
          Ty.

                         (BEAT)
          Thank you for your time, sir. We
          appreciate your seeing us.

                         SUMMERS
          Get the door on your way out, would you?

                         CUT TO;

          INT. SUMMERS OUTER OFFICE - DAY

          As CAMERON and TYLER exit, TYLER closes the door a little too
          hard and the brass doorknob comes off in his hand. He drops it
          on the SECRETARY'S desk as he exits

                         TYLER
          I broke your 335 year old doorknob.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN
          Eduardo, spring break, you and Mr.
          Zuckerberg took a trip to New York.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes.

                         GRETCHEN
          What was the purpose of the trip?

                         EDUARDO
          As CFO, I'd set up some meetings with
          potential advertisers.

                         GRETCHEN
          Who paid for the trip?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          97.

                         EDUARDO
          It was paid for out of the thousand
          dollar account I'd set up a few months
          earlier.

                         GRETCHEN
          At this point your thousand dollars was
          the only money that had been put into the
          company.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes.

                         GRETCHEN
          How did you feel the meetings'went?

                         EDUARDO
          They went terribly.

                         GRETCHEN
          Why?

                         EDUARDO
          Mark was asleep.

                         MARK
          I wasn't asleep.

                         EDUARDO
          Can I re-phrase my answer?

                         GRETCHEN
          Sure.

                         EDUARDO
           I wish he'd been asleep.

                         CTJT TO:

          INT. AD EXECUTIVE'S OFFICE - DAY

           EDUARDO, in a three-piece suit, is pitching the EXECUTIVE.
           MARK, in his hoodie and flip-flops, is completely detached and
          staring at the floor.

                          EDUARDO
          .and we're at 29 schools now with over
          75,000 members. People who go on
          theFacebook tend to stay on longer than
          almost any other site and here's the most
          impressive statistic--67% of people who
          try it once come back. Now if you'll

                         ALLOW ME---

                         EXECUTIVE
          Excuse me.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          98.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes sir.

                         EXECUTIVE

                         (RE: MARIA)
          Are we boring him?

          CUT BACK TO:

          INT.. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN
          There was one more meeting scheduled for
          the New York trip.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes. A dinner. It was set up through my
          girlfriend at the time.

                         GRETCHEN
          Would you say that mark was excited about
          this meeting?

                         EDUARDO
          Yes, very,

                         CUT TO:

          INT. 66 - NIGHT

          66 is a hip and trendy restaurant in Tribeca. The young crowd
          is drinking cocktails of all different colors and wearing
          Prada, We FIND EDUARDO,.in a three-piece suit and MARK in his
          hoodie and flip-flops, along with EDUARDO's now-girlfriend,
          JENNY, sitting at a table. with an empty seat waiting.

                         JENNY
          They're not gonna card us here.

                         EDUARDO
          They might.

                         JENNY
          Look around.

                         EDUARDO
          It' :l.l be embarrassing,

                         JENNY

                         (TO MARE)
          Tell him they're not gonna card us.

                         MARK
          They're not gonna card us.

                         EDUARDO

                         MARK--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          99.

                         MARK
          Are you gonna talk about ads again?

                         EDUARDO
          Unless you're the Ballet Theatre of
          Hartford, the urpose of a business is to
          make a profit.'

                         MARK
          This isn't a business.

                         EDUARDO
          That's tough for me because I'm the
          business head of the company.
          MARK says nothing...

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)

                         (PAUSE)
          He's 25 minutes late.

                         MARK
          He's a god, he can be as late as he
          wants.

                         EDUARDO
          He's not a god-

                         MARK
          What is he?

                         EDUARDO
          25 minutes late.

                         JENNY
          I think Wardo's jealous.

          CUT BACK TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         EDUARDO
          I honestly wasn't jealous. I was nervous.

                         GRETCHEN
          Why?

                         EDUARDO
          I didn't know him at all but I'd done an
          internet search and asked around. He
          struck me as kind of a wild man.

          CUT BACK TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          100.

          TNT. 66 - NIGHT

                         JENNY
          Why?

                         EDUARDO
          He crashed out of two pretty big internet
          companies in-spectacular fashion and he's
          got a reputation with drugs.

                         MARK
          He also founded'the companies.

                         EDUARDO
          We don't need him.

                         MARK
          (nodding toward the door)
          He's here.
          SEAN PARKER has stepped into the restaurant and is. saying
          hello to the hostess while hugging a waitress.

                         EDUARDO
          And he does own a watch.
          SEAN stops at a table to shake hands with a guy in a suit and
          kiss his girlfriend. It's sort of an incongruous sight--this
          22 year old kid who's able to work a room like Sinatra. Who
          the hell is this?

                          EDUARDO (GONT'D)
          (quiet] ) .
          Take your time...

                         JENNY
          Stop it.
          SEAN makes his way'over to MARK's table--

                         SEAN
          I'm Sean Parker.

          EDU.ARDO

                         (SHAKING HANDS)
          How do you do.

                         SEAN
          You must be Eduardo, And Jenny. And Mark,
          its great to meet you.

                         MARK

                         (ALMOST BEAMING)
          Great to meet you.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          101.

                         SEAN
          You guys don't have anything in front of
          you.

                         EDUARDO
          We were waiting for--

                         SEAN
          (to a. passing WAITRESS)
          .Cori.

                         WAITRESS
          Hey baby boy.

                         SEAN
          Could you bring out some things? The
          lacquered pork with that ginger confit? I
          don't know, tuna tartar, some lobster
          claws, the foie gras and the shrimp
          dumplings, that'll get us started. Jenny,
          what do you like to drink?

                         JENNY
          An appletini?

                         SEAN
          Great. Four.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         EDUARDO
          From that point on it was a Sean-a-thon.
          I'd never seen anyone perform a monologue
          at dinner before but that's what
          happened.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. 66 - NIGHT

          The CA[ERA is moving around the table as SEAN--in and out of
          MOS-•-is telling story after story while food is brought,
          drinks put down, more food brought and more drinks put down.
          MARK is enthralled, JENNY is sexy and EDUARDO is polite.

          EDUARDO (V.O.)
          He took us through his episode with
          Napster .

                         SEAN
          . tried to sell the company to pay the
          35 million they said we owed in royalties
          and in the end we just had to declare
          bankruptcy but I made a name for myself.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          ].02.

                         JENNY
          I'll say.
          EDUARDO (V.o.)
          And then he went to his second business
          venture which was Plaxo, an online
          rolodex.

                         SEAN
          See, we had a VC from the beginning.
          Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia
          Capital who'd invested in Yahoo and
          Google. Moritz wanted to push me out from

                         THE BE
          ginning and he hired private detectives to dig up everything on me
          they could. Did they find anything? No.
          But I was out of the company. I'm not
          done with Moritz and Sequoia Capital yet.
          I swear to God, Mark, before I'm 25 I'm
          gonna make those guys kiss my ass and
          then cry like girls, There will be
          retribution for Plaxo and I'm not just
          talking. I brought down the record
          companies with Napster and I'll bring
          down Michael Moritz,

                         E DUARDO
          You didn't bring down the record
          companies, They won.

                         SEAN
          In court.

          .EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          Yes.

                         SEAN
          (shrugging it off)
          Well.

          EDUARDO (V.O.)
          And he told story after story about life
          in Silicon Valley, parties at Stanford
          and-down in LA, friends who" d become
          billionaires--and then he finally got
          around to theFacebook.

                         SEAN
          Tell me about your progress.

                         EDUARDO
          Well... we're in 29 schools now and we

                         HAVE OVER--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          103.

                         SEAN
          (ignoring EDUARDO and going for

                         MARK)
          Tell me about the strategy you're using.

                         MARK
          Okay. For instance, we wanted Baylor in
          Texas but Baylor already had a social
          network on campus so instead of going
          right after them, we made a list of every
          school within a hundred miles and put
          theFacebook on those campuses first.
          Pretty soon all the Baylor kids were
          seeing their friends on our site and we
          were in.

                         SEAN
          Perfect.

                         EDAURDO
          Thank you, it was mine.

                         JENNY

                         (TO EDUARDO)
          Easy.

                         EDUARDO
          Settle an argument for us, would you? I
          say it's time to start making money from
          theFacebook but Mark doesn't want
          advertising. Who's right?

                         SEAN
          Neither of you. TheFacebook is cool,
          that's what it's got going for it.

                         MART
          Yes.

                         SEAN
          You don't want to ruin it with ads
          because ads aren't cool.

                         MARK
          Exactly.

                         SEAN
          it's like you're throwing the coolest
          party on campus and someone's telling you
          it's gotta be over at 11:00.

          MARY,
          Exactly.

                         SEAN
          You don't even know what the thing is
          y€t.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          104,

                         MARK
          I said exactly that.

                         SEAN
          Row big it can get and how far it can go.
          Picture sharing, news feeds, a virtual
          champagne room, apps you haven't even
          thought of. This.is no time to take your
          chips down. A million dollars isn't cool.
          You know what's cool?

                         EDUARDO
          You?

                         SEAN
          A billion dollars. And that's where
          you're headed. A billion dollar
          valuation. Unless you take bad advice in
          which case you might as well have come up
          with a chain of very successful dry
          cleaners. When you go fishing you can
          catch a lot of fish or you can catch a
          big fish. You ever walk into a guy's den
          and see a picture of him standing next to
          fourteen trout? No, he's holding an. 800
          pound marlin and that's what you want.
          Hey guys, it's your company, I don't have
          a dog in this fight. Irjust came to say
          hi.

                         CUT TO

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         EDUO
          No, he came to hook an 800 pound marlin
          and he did. He owned Mark after that
          dinner. He picked up the check, told Mark
          they'd talk again soon and was gone. But
          not before he made his biggest
          contribution to the company.

          CUT BACK.TO:

          INT. 66 - NIGHT


                         SEAN
          (signing the check)
          Oh Hey. Drop the "the". Just Facebook,
          It's cleaner.
          And SEAN heads out, patting backs and kissing waitresses along
          the way.

                         MARK

                         (KNOCKED OUT)
          Shit.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          105.

                         EDUARDO
          That's gotta be some kind of land speed
          record for talking.

                         MARK
          You want to end the party at eleven.

                         EDUARDO
          I'm trying to pay for the party.

                         MARK
          There won't be a party unless it's cool.

                         (BEAT)
          What'd you think?

                         EDUARDO
          Sure, let's drop the "the".

                         MARK
          I meant catching the marlin instead of
          the 1.4 trout. Doesn't that sound good?

                         EDUARDO
          Only if you're a trout.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN
          I'M going to enter this as Plaintiff's
          Exhibit 54. Incorporation papers for
          Facebook, a Limited Liability Corporation
          registered in Florida--
          (-to EDUARDO for the record)
          Why Florida?

                         EDUARDO
          That's where my family lives.

                         GRETCHEN
          ---and ask the respondent to stipulate
          that the documents of incorporation state
          the ownership as follows: 65 percent for
          Mark Zuckerberg, 30 percent for Eduardo
          Saverin and 5 percent for Dustin
          Mosokowitz .

                         SY
          We stipulate.

                         GRETCHEN
          And that was April 13th, 2004.

                         SY
          You can mark it.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          106,

                         GRETCHEN

                         (TO SY)
          Do you have anything here?

                         SY
          Yes, thanks, Mr. Saverin, have you ever
          done anything that would be considered
          legitimate grounds for termination?

                         EDUARDO
          No,

                         SY
          You never did anything to embarrass the
          company or even seriously jeopardize it?

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          No.

                         SY
          No?

                         EDUARDO
          No.

                         SY
          You were accused of animal, cruelty-

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          Is this a Doke?

                         SY
          I have an article here from The Crimson---

                         EDUARDO

                         JESUS CHRIST--

                         CUT TO:

          TNT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY

                         MART:
          I can't have this, Wardo,
          MARK's talking about the Crimson article in his hand. EDUARDO
          is standing next to a crate that's holding--wait for it- a
          live chicken,
          DUSTIN is sitting at the desktop computer staring at something
          intently.

                         EDUARDO
          It's bullshit, it's one of the other
          clubs playing a prank.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          107.

                         MARK
          They identify you as--

          CUT BACK TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         EDUARDO
          I'd gotten into the Phoenix. I'd been
          accepted and as part of my initiation I
          had to, for one week, carry with me at
          all -Limes and take care of a chicken.

                         CUT TO:

          TNT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY

                         MARK
          --one of the founders of Facebook.
          "Junior Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of
          Facebook, wa.s-- --I'm not the expert but
          being connected to torturing animals is
          probably bad for business.

                         CUT TO:

          TNT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY

                         EDUARDO
          I wasn't torturing the chicken, I don't
          torture chickens, are you crazy?

                         SY
          Settle down please. I'm holding an

                         ARTICLE--

                         CUT TO :

          TNT. MARX'S DORM ROOM - DAY

                         MARK
          This is scathing.

                         DUSTIN
          (without looking up)
          Nine--hundred and fifty-six.

          TNT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM -- DAY

                         EDUARDO
          (trying to be calm)
          Listen to me.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          108.

                         EDUARDO (CONT-D)
          I was having dinner in the Kirkland
          Dining Hail with Mark and I had the
          chicken with me because I had to have the
          chicken with me at all times. This was
          college.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY


                         MARK
          I'm gonna have to answer for this.

                         DUSTIN
          Nine--hundred sixty-nine.

                         CUT TO;

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         EDUARDO
          The dining hall was serving chicken for
          dinner and I had to feed my chicken so I
          just...I cut up little pieces,of chicken
          and gave it to the chicken.'There were a
          lot of people there and someone must have
          seen me and the next thing I knew I was
          being accused of forced cannibalism.
          At the end of the table, MARYLIN'tries but fails to stifle a
          small laugh.
          EDUARDO looks down the table...

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          i didn't'know you can't do that. I dealt
          with the various animal rights groups, I
          dealt with the Associate Dean of the
          College, it was all fine.

                         CUT TO:

          INT.MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY


                         DUSTIN
          Nine-hundred and eighty-eight.

                         EDUARDO
          Someone from the Fly or the Porc must
          have reported it. For all I know it was
          the Winklevoss twins who may have been
          tipped off by somebody else who was
          there.

                         MARK
          Alright, let's just forget about it.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          209.

                         EDUARDO
          I can't forget about it, I'm being
          accused of animal cruelty. It's better to
          be accused of armed robbery. I'm going to
          have to explain this to my father, I'm
          going to have to explain this to
          everyone, I'm going to have to--what is
          happening on that?
          EDUARDO's referring to a laptop that's open and displaying
          images of four paintings.

                         MARK
          T. have my final coming up for "Postwar
          and Contemporary Art" and I haven't been
          to class. I'm supposed to write about
          those four paintings.

                         EDUARDO
          Is that a Facebook page?

                         MARK
          Yeah, I opened it under an alias. I
          posted the paintings and asked people to
          comment. Every once in a while I hop on
          and stir the pot to get a good debate
          going, it's beautiful.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN
          Mr. 2uckerberg was cheating on his final
          exam?

                         EDUARDO
          I'd rather not answer that, Gretchen.

                         GRETCHEN
          Why not?

                         EDUARDO
          Because I'm not suing him for cheating on
          his final exam and so that's not what
          friends do.

                         GRETCHEN
          Well you just told us he was cheating.

                         EDUARDO
          bops.

                         (TO MARK)
          You told your lawyers I was torturing
          animals?!

                         

                         

                         

                         

          110.

                         SY
          No, he didn't tell us about it at all.
          our litigators are capable of doing a
          Google search. in fact when we raised the
          subject with him he defended-yu. -

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          Oops.

          CUT TO.

          INT. MARK'S DORM ROOM - DAY


                         DUSTIN
          Nine ninety-three, we are so close.

                         MARK
          We're gonna need more money, Wardo.

                         EDUARDO
          I agree. More servers, more apps--

                         MARK
          ---and I want to hit that coal by the end
          of the summer. I'm interviewing people
          tomorrow--two interns to come to Palo
          Alto for the summer and we're-gonna have
          to pay them something.

                         EDUARDO
          What?

                         MARK
          I already found a house for rent on a
          street two-blocks.from the Stanford
          campus. It's a piece of junk but it's
          perfect and it's got a pool.

                         EDUARDO
          When did you decide to go to California
          for the summer?

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          You mean when did I actually decide?

                         EDUARDO
          Somewhere in the middle of The Sean
          Parker Variety Hour?

                         MARK
          He was right. California's the place
          we've gotta be.

                         EDUARDO
          You're Jed Clampett?

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         MARX
          You guys got The Beverly Hillbillies in--•

                         EDUARDO
          Yes, we got the show in Brazil, it was
          genius.

                         MARK
          What's your problem with Sean?

                         EDUARDO
          He doesn't bring anything to the table.
          He doesn't have money, Dustin's a better

                         PROGRAMMER--

                         MARK
          He's got connections to the VCs.

                         EDUARDO
          We don't need VCs, we need advertisers
          and I've got connections to the VCs.

                         MARK
          The real players and--

                         EDUARDO

                         LOOK--

                         MARK
          --as someone who's just really
          embarrassed the company in a bad way--

                         EDUARDO
          It was the Winklevosses, Mark!

                         MARK
          Bang on.

                         (TO DUSTIN)
          Hit refresh.
          DUSTIN hits "refresh" on the desk-top computer. Then smiles...

                         DUSTIN

          150,004.

                         MARK
          150,000 members, Wardo.

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT--SINCERELY)
          Congratulations, dude.

                         MARK
          Congratulations.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          112.

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          He was obsessed with the guy from Sequoia
          Capital. He was followed by private
          detectives.

                         MARK
          Who came up with nothing.

                         EDUARDO
          Enough to get him out of Plaxo. The
          drugs, the girls--

                         MARK
          We don't know any of that's true.

                         EDUARDO
          You can read about it,

                         MARK
          And you can read about you torturing
          birds.

                         EDUARDO
          Don't fish eat other fish?! The marlins
          and the trout?!

                         DUSTIN
          What the hell?

                         MARK
          I'm interviewing interns at 10 tomorrow
          night in t}y CS lab. Get on board with
          this or not.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING/BASEMENT CORRIDOR NIGHT

          EDUARDO steps through double doors and stops for a moment as
          he HEARS an odd sound--RAUCOUS CHEERING from a'CROWD that's
          gathered in one of the classrooms.
          EDUARDO walks down to the classroom, opens the door and walks

                         INTO--

          INT. CLASSROOM - NIGHT

          --where'60 or so STUDENTS are in a semi-circle, five and six
          deep, cheering on the contestants for the internship.
          All the desks in the room have been moved to the sides and
          five desks with laptops set up in the middle. Next to each
          laptop is a shot glass filled with Jack Daniels.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          113,
          DUSTIN'S holding a. watch and MARK is walking slowly back and
          forth behind the five "interviewees" who are intensely typing
          at their keyboards.
          EDUARDO slowly makes his way through the crowd to MARK. He can
          see that on the computer screens are a whole lot of numbers
          and letters that neither he nor we can understand.
          He stands next to MARK and watches this for a moment. Every
          once in a while, one of the contestants will throw back their
          shot of Jack Daniels which will instantly get re-filled by a
          PRETTY ASIAN GIRL. Throughout all this the CHEERING CONTINUES.

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          Mark?

          MARY,
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          What's goin' on?

                         MARK
          They have 10 minutes to get 'root access
          to a Python webserver, expose its SSL
          encry�ti_on and then intercept all traffic
          over its secure port.

                         EDUARDO
          They're hacking.

                         MARK
          All behind a Pix Firewall Emulator. But
          here's the beauty.

                         EDUARDO
          You know I didn't understand what you
          just said, right?

                         MARL
          I do know that.

          EDUA.RDO
          What's the beauty?

                         MARK
          Every 10th line of code written, they
          have to drink a shot. And hacking's
          supposed to be stealth, so anytime the
          server detects an intrusion, the
          candidate responsible has to drink a
          shot. I also have a program running that
          has a pop-up window appear simultaneously
          on all five computers--the last candidate
          to hit the window has to drink a shot.
          Plus every three minutes they all have to
          drink a shot.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          114,

                         DUSTIN

                         (CALLING OUT)
          Three minutes.
          All five candidates drain their shot glasses and slam them
          down where they get re-filled by the pretty Asian girl.

                         EDUARDO
          Can I ask--what part of the interns' jobs
          will they need to be able to do drunk?

                         MARX
          You're right. A more relevant test would
          be seeing if they can keep a chicken
          alive for a week.

                         (PAUSE)
          what I just said was mean and I'm sorry.

                         (BEAT)
          Are we alright? We started this as a
          team.
          EDUARDO hands MARK a thick envelope---

                         EDUARDO
          Here.

                         MARK
          What's this?

                         EDUARDO

                         IN
          I opened a new account and put $18,000
          it. Will that get you through the summer?
          MARK looks at EDUARDO...
          Suddenly two of the candidates hands shoot up almost at the

                         SAME TIME--

                         CANDIDATE #1
          Here!

                         CANDIDATE #2
          Right here!
          MARK glances over at the first screen, then the second...

                         MARK
          welcome to Facebook.
          The place ERUPTS. The pretty ASIAN GIRL hits an mp3 player
          that's been hooked up to speakers and a Dr. Dre song blares
          out--"California, it's time to party..."
          The two winners are hugging each other and getting wild
          congratulations from the crowd.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          115.
          MARK looks back at EDUARDO and smiles...EDUARDO gives him a
          pat on the back and we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY


                         GRETCHEN

          $18,000.

                          EDUARDO
          Yes.

                          GRETCHEN
          In addition to the $1000 you'd already
          put up.

                          EDUARDO
          Yes.

                         GRETCHEN
          A total of $19,000 now.

                         EDUARDO
          Yes.

                         MARK
          Hang on.
          MARK's scratching something out on a pad...

                         MART{ (CONT'D)
          I'm just checking your math on that.

                         (BEAT)
          Yes, I got the same thing.

                         GRETCHEN
          I can continue?
          MARK motions "ves"...

                         GRETCHEN (CONT'D)

                         (TO EDUARDO)
          After expressing misgivings about Mr.
          Zuckerberg 'taking the company and moving
          it to California for the summer, why did
          you turn around and put $18,000 in an
          account for his use?

                         EDUARDO
          Wel1... .I figured we were a team and I
          wanted to be a team player. I figured
          Mark, Dustin and the new interns could
          work on the site while I worked on
          generating advertiser interest in New York.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          13.6.

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          And mostly I figured., you know...how much
          could go wrong in three months?

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - DAY

          MARK is standing on the roof of this small, campus-area house
          as LOUD MUSIC plays. A zi�'line is tied from the chimney and
          runs down over a small swimming pool where it's attached to a
          telephone pole on the other side.
          MARK grabs onto the handle that's connected to the zip line
          and flies out over the pool, jumping in with a splash and
          cheers from DUSTIN and the INTERNS who are waiting their turns
          on the roof.
          DUSTIN pulls the handle back up with_a rope that's been
          rigged, grabs the handle, takes off and jumps into the pool-to
          similar cheers.
          The handle gets pulled back on a rope, an INTERN grabs it,

                         JUMPS--
          --and the brick chimney comes crashing down.
          The INTERN drops into patio furniture as bricks from the
          chimney come cascading down.

                         EVERYONE SCRAMBLES--

                         ALL
          Shit!/Are you alright?!/ Jesus!/etc-

                         INTERN (ERIC)
          I'm okay.

                         MARK
          You sure?

                         ERIC
          Yeah.

                         MARK
          Is anything broken?

                         ERIC
          No.
          And at that moment a stray brick drops from the roof and
          crashes through a glass patio table.

                         INTERN (STEVEN)
          That's gonna out into the security
          deposit.
          From inside the DOORBELL RINGS--

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         DUSTIN
          That's the doorbell.

                         MARK
          I didn't know we had a doorbell.

                         DUSTIN

                         (SHOUTING INSIDE)
          Andrew! Get the door!

          MARY.
          He's wired in.
          MARK walks into--

          INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - CONTINUOUS

          The place is computer geek paradise. Computers are everywhere,
          along with some of the empty boxes they came in. Pizza boxes,
          Chinese food containers, empty beer bottles and white boards
          filled with indecipherable code fill the room. There are a
          couple of large mattresses on the floor and a large map of the
          U.S. with pins and tags showing the schools where they've
          already put Facebook and different pins showing the schools
          they're going for.
          As MARK walks to the door, he walks past ANDREW, who's sitting
          at a computer, writing code and completely oblivious to
          everything around him.

                         MARK
          (snapping his fingers)
          Andrew.

                         ANDREW
          Not now.

                         MARK
          Good boy.
          MARK gets to the door and opens it.
          He's stunned to see SEAN PARKER standing there with his
          girlfriend, SHARON.
          They all look at each other for a moment---

                         SEAN
          Mark?

                         MARK
          Sean?

                         SEAN
          Do you live here?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          118.

                         MARK
          Yeah. Do you?

                         SEAN
          We were right across the street, we saw
          the chimney come--

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         SEAN
          Is anybody hurt?

                         MARK
          No. You live across the street.

                         SHARON
          I'm Sharon.

                         SEAN
          This is my girlfriend, Sharon. She lives
          across the street and I was helping her
          move out when we saw the chimney--

                         MARK
          Yeah, we had a zip line to the pool.

                         SEAN
          You came to California.

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         SEAN
          You made the right choice.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - LATER

          SEA,'s looking around the place. DUSTIN and the INTERNS are
          standing off to the side, happy to be in the presenbe of Sean
          Parker. ANDREW'S still locked into his computer. MARK's off in
          the kitchen.

                         MARK (OS)
          Here you go.
          A beer comes flying out of the kitchen and SEAN catches it.

          MARK (OS) (CONT'D)
          Sharon.
          Another beer comes flying out which SHARON had no idea was
          coming and so it smashes into the fireplace.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          119.

                         SHARON
          Oh God. I'm so sorry.
          And a brick comes down the chimney and crashes on top of the
          broken glass from the beer bottle.

                         DUSTIN
          You know, ironically, we're paying an
          extra 50 bucks a month 'cause it has a
          working fireplace.

                         SEAN
          This house is great. The team is great.
          It's exactly what it should be.

                         (TO ANDREW)
          I'm Sean Parker.
          MARK comes out of the kitchen--

                         MARK
          He's wired in.

                         SEAN
          That's what I'm talkin' about. Where's
          Eduardo?

                         MARK
          He's got an internship in New York.

                         SEAN

                         (BEAT)
          Eduardo didn't come out?

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. RUBY SKYE - NIGHT

          An ultra-hip San Prancisco nightclub where a line of well-
          dressed young people stretches from the clipboard holding
          BOUNCER down the block. The BOUNCER motions to three SEXY
          GIRLS who are let in through the velvet rope. If this reminds
          us of the scene at the final club party at the beginning of
          this story than that's fine.
          The three SEXY GIRLS take us into

          INT. RUBY SKYE - CONTINUOUS

          It's a hundred-year old theater that's been converted into a
          21st Century hot spot for Silicon Valley's rock stars. The
          lower level is a giant dance floor packed"with sweating 20-
          somethings bouncing to pounding house music. There are raised
          blocks where scantily dressed professional. dancers perform non-
          stop. A huge lighting grid hangs from the ceiling shooting
          colored lights and lasers everywhere. Also hanging from the
          ceiling are two trapeze bars with two performers swinging and
          contorting.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          120,
          A WAITRESS holding a tray of colored drinks high over her head
          takes us through the crowd to a spiral staircase that's being
          guarded by two more BOUNCERS with clipboards. The staircase
          leads up to the 2nd level which is all VIP tables that look
          out over the dance floor. Each VIP area has a couple of
          couches and a table covered in bottles of vodka, tequila, rum,
          mixers, ice, glasses and a private waitress who's happy to
          bend over and pour a drink for you,
          And that's where we catch up with MARK and SEAN. Sitting next
          to SEAN is a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN and there's another standing
          behind him and leaning against the couch.
          MARK and SEAN have to speak the music.

                         MARK
          I still can't believe I rented a house
          across the street from you.

                         SEAN
          That's not my house. It was Sharon's. I
          was crashing there for a little. bit while
          I'm taking care of some things. But she's
          done for the summer so she's back at her
          parents' place and I'm homeless.

                         NARK
          Yeah?

                         (BEAT)
          You can crash at our. place for a few days
          if you want.

                         SEAN
          That's sol..id man, thanks,

                         BEAUTIFUL WOMAN #1
          I'm going to the ladies' room;

                         SEAN
          You got it.

                         BEAUTIFUL WOMAN #2
          I'll go with you.
          The two girls exit--

                         MARK
          Your date looks so familiar to me,

                         SEAN
          She looks familiar to a lot of people.

                         MARK
          What do you mean?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          ].21.

                         SEAN
          Look at any Victoria's Secret catalogue
          from the last six months.

          . MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          You're kidding.

                         SEAN
          No man. I'll tell you something, you know
          how I founded Napster?

                         MARK
          I know everything there is to know about
          you Sean.

                         SEAN
          Fuck Wikipedia, Mark, no you don't.

                         (BEAT)
          I was going out with this girl in high
          school. And it was great. I thought it
          was great, but the whole time--almost the
          .whole time we were together., like five
          months--she was giving blow. jobs to the
          co-captain of the lacrosse team. And I
          found out and I was willing to forgive
          her but she told me she loved him. So I
          had this dream that I would make a
          billion dollar company.. Not a million
          dollar company--any hack can do that---a
          billion dollar company. And I would have
          business cards printed up that said, "I'm
          CEO.. .Bitch. "

                         (BEAT)
          It's our time. We run the universe. Yeah,
          she's a Victoria's Secret model. I want
          to know where the fuck Eduardo is.

                         MARK
          He has an internship.

                         SEAN
          An internship?

                         MARK
          In New York.

                         SEAN
          The company's here. A billion dollar
          company is here. And what confuses me is
          that in New York, Eduardo introduced
          himself as the business head of Facebook.
          I've been at the front of two of the
          biggest things in the history of the
          internet and I can tell you that nothing,
          nothing is more important to a start-up
          than the energy and ambition of its
          founders.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          122.

                         SEAN (CONT-D)
          You have to live and breathe the project
          every minute of every day and-night. Do
          you live and breathe Facebook?

                         MARK
          Yes.

                         SEAN
          I know you do. I know those guys back at
          the house do. The guy's eyes did not
          blink when a beer bottle smashed into a
          fireplace 10 feet from his work, station.
          So I'll ask again--where's Eduar

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          It'd be great if you stayed at the house
          with us.

                         SEAN
          I think I should.
          The girls come back--

                         WOMAN #1
          You guys figure out a new way to get porn
          on your computer?

                         WOMAN #2
          You know most of it's bad but some of
          it's pretty good.
          MARK and SEAN aren't paying attention...

                         SEAN
          What's your goal for the summer?

                         MARK
          We want: to . be in a hundred schools.

                         -SEAN
          okay. Okay good. I'll tell you what.
          Gesture of good faith. While you're
          getting yourself into a hundred schools,
          I'm gonna put you on two continents.

                         MARK

                         (BEAT)
          What?

                         SEAN
          Let's line up some shots.
          (to the WAITRESS)
           You can take away the Cuervo, we'll have
          Don Julio 1942.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          123.

                         WAITRESS
          Absolutely, Mr. Parker.
          The WAITRESS goes off--

                         SEAN
          Mark?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         SEAN '
          I never told her my name.

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. THE THAMES -- DAY

          we're looking at a stone bridge crossing a perfectly straight
          stretch of water against the backdrop of the medieval town of
          Henley, England--founded in 1179.
          And after a moment of placid quiet--

                         ---BOOSHI
          Two razor thin skulls explode out from under the bridge for
          the final, agonizing hundred-meter stretch of the ancient and
          prestigious Henley Royal Regatta.
          The two boats are neck and neck coming out of the bridge. The
          port-side boat is being crewed by the two Dutch members of the
          Ilollandia Roeiclub. The starboard boat is being crewed by a
          pair of identical twins wearing tank tops bearing the "H" of
          Harvard.
          We HEAR the ROAR come up from the CROWD in the viewing
          section. The crowd is dressed as if for opening day at Ascot
          -- the women in flowing dresses and wide-brimmed hats, the men i n
          blazers and brightly colored floral ties.
          But the young men in the boats can barely hear the crowd. Just
          their own breathing as they pull against the longest natural.
          straight stretch of water in the world--a mile and a half
          torture test against the best competition they've ever faced.
          And they're neck and neck. CAMERON and TYLER can't shake the
          Dutch.
          The CROWD is going crazy in their own English way as none of
          them can remember ever seeing two boats this close this late.
          Mixed in with the British crowd is a small contingent waving
          the flag of Holland and a slightly larger contingent of
          Americans.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          124.
          We'll notice a stoic man in a VIP viewing section and latex
          we'll be introduced to him as Cameron and Tyler's father, Next
          to him is their mother, who can barely watch.
          Back on the boats it's just the breathing as the skulls slice
          through the water like jet-powered knives. 50 meters now and
          there's still no daylight between them.
          We see a small trickle of blood from CAMERON's left hand begin
          to stream down his arm.
          25 meters and the Dutch and American fans are going crazy--
          even the British aristocracy can't help but get caught ups
          the closest race in the history of the competition. The 'ATH_PT'�
          is silently willing his boys one more fraction of boat speed--
          the MOTHER has her hands over her mouth in praying position.
          The blood that's covering CAMERON's left arm is being diluted
          by the sweat that's pouring down from his triceps as they dig,
          and pull, and pull, and pull, and---

          POP!
          --the finish gun is fired into the air, the oars come out of
          the water and the bodies of the crewmen slump over.
          CAMERON turns his head to the cheering crowd to see the Dutch
          group holding a giant flag and.jumping up and down. The
          Americans bring their giant flag down and fold it up.
          The two DUTCH CREW. MEMBERS pump their fists in the air and hug
          as the two boats skim along to a gentle stop.
          The MOTHER drops her head-and looks down. The FATHER refuses
          to look away.
          From CAMERON and TYLER, just the'breathing.,

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. AWARD CEREMONY - DAY

          CAMERON and TYLER are standing with their coaches and next to
          the two DUTCH CREWMEN who are with their coaches. They're on a
          stand in the Steward's Enclosure, a sprawling and glamorous
          tented area for the exclusive use of members and their guests.
          After a moment, a man in a double breasted navy blazer steps
          out with his retinue in tow. The man is PRINCE ALBERT of
          Monaco. He receives a healthy clapping of golf applause as he
          approaches the stand.
          This conversation is done without microphones or anything as
          modern as that.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          125.

                         AIDE
          His Royal Highness, Prince Albert. Sir,
          may I present Mr. Cameron Winklevoss and
          Mr. Tyler. Winklevoss of Harvard
          University.

                         PRINCE ALBERT
          Brilliant race. Never seen a race that
          close. Less than one second, the steward
          tells me.

                         TYLER

                         (BEAT)
          Yes, Your Highness.

                         PRINCE ALBERT
          My grandfather, Jack Kelly, was one of
          the premiere rowers of his day. I've been
          coming to Henley for 30 years. Never seen
          a race that close. Have you? Have you
          seen a race that close?
          CAMERON is thinking about starting a war with Monaco right now
          so he lets his brother do the talking.

                         TYLER

                         (BEAT)
          No, Your Highness. Mile and a half races
          are more commonly won by a boat length or
          two.

                         PRINCE ALBERT
          Yes, that's absolutely right. Less than a
          second though in your case. Well as they
          say, I suppose it just came down to who
          wanted it more.

                         CAMERON

                         (SNAPPING)
          Oh what a bullshit cliche: You think we

                         DIDN'T---

                         TYLER

                         (EASY)
          Cam.
          There's an awkward silence for a moment...

                         PRINCE ALBERT
          Will I have the pleasure of watching you
          both row again in Beijing?

                         TYLER
          If we make the team, sir, yes. Thank you.

                         PRINCE ALBERT
          I present you with your Second Place
          ribbons. On to the champions!

                         

                         

                         

                         

          126,
          And off the APPLAUSE from the crowd, we

                         CUT TO:

          INT./EXT. STEWARD'S TENT - DAY

          The regatta party is underway. Music, drinks, uniformed
          waiters, blazers and hats everywhere.
          TYLER and CAMERON have changed into their Harvard. blazers and
          are joined now by DIVYA. The three of them have tried to find
          an unpopulated spot. TYLER and DIVYA have glasses of beer and
          are standing but CAMERON's sitting at a table with a laptop
          open and watching film of the end of the race.
          Hitting reverse on the computer and watching, over and over
          again, the bow of the Dutch boat pull ahead by six inches at
          just the right moment.

                         CAMERON
          Yeah. We didn't want it enough. That was
          the problem. Fuck you, you fucking little--

                         DIVYA
          Casa. The guy' s the prince of a country
          the size of East Hampton. Let it go.
          MR. WINKLEVOSS has made his way over...

          MR. WINKLEVOSS
          Boys.

                         TYLER
          Dad.

          MR. WINKLEVOSS
          Divya.

                         DIVYA
          How are-you, Mr. Winklevoss.

          MR. WINKLEVOSS
          That was a tough beat. A tough beat.

                         CAMERON
          I'm sorry, dad. You and mom flew all the
          way over.

          MR. WINKLEVOSS
          Listen to me good, you two. Don't you
          ever apologize to me for losing a race
          like that. Don't you ever apologize to
          anyone for losing a race like that.
          Another man comes along, MR. KENWRIGHT.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          127.

                         KENWRIGHT
          -Boys.

                         TYLER
          Oh. Mr. Kenwright. Dad, this is Mr.
          Kenwright, part of our host family this
          week.

                         KENWRIGHT
          Pleasure to meet you.

          MR. WINKLEVOSS
          Good to meet you.

                         KENWRIGHT
          I just had the most extraordinary phone
          chat with my daughter. She told me that
          she and her friends are all talking about
          the race, which ended just, a half-hour
          ago, via their computers. A new website
          called Facebook. Do you have this in
          America?
          Eve.ryon= is frozen...

                         DIVYA

                         (PAUSE)
          Your daughter doesn't go to school in the

          U.S.?

                         KENWRIGHT
          No no. Cambridge. Majoring in French
          Literature, though I wasn't aware there
          was such a thing.

                         TYLER

                         (PAUSE)
          They have Facebook at Cambridge?

                         RENWRIGHT
          And Oxford, St. Andrews, Warwick and the
          London School of Economics best as I can
          tell. because that's where her friends
          are.

          MR. WINKLEVOSS
          I'm going to find your mother.

                         KENWRIGIT
          Good race, boys. Live to fight another
          day.

                         TYLER
          Thank you.
          The men leave and CAMERON, TYLER and DIVYA are alone. CAMERON
          looks at them for a moment, then turns back to watching the

                         RACE FILM--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          128.

                         TYLER (CONT'D)
          Turn it off.

                         (PAUSE)
          Turn it off, Cam. Look at me.
          CAMERON turns to his brother...

                         TYLER (CONT'D)
          I don't mind that we got beat by the
          Dutch by less than a second. That was a
          fair race, that was a good race and they
          had the better boat today and they'll see
          us again. What I mind is that we got beat
          by Mark Zuckerberg...by less than a
          second.

                         (BEAT)
          We tried the Ad Board, we tried the
          president of the University and we tried
          talking to him ourselves. Now I'm asking
          you. For the one-hundreth time. Let's
          take the considerable-resources at our
          disposal and sue him in a federal. court.
          CAMERON looks at his brother...then turns back to the
          computer. He watches the Dutch boat pull ahead at the last
          moment. TYLER and DIVYA are just about to give up when CAMERON
          swings back and says--

                         CAMERON
          Let's fucking gut that little nerd.

                         DIVYA
          (jamming his fists in the air)
          Finally!

                         CUT TO:

          INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT

          There's a thunderstorm going on outside and rain is beating
          hard against the windows, DUSTIN, ANDREW-and the INTERNS are
          hard at work writing code. Green Day is pumping from the
          speakers.
          SEAN is pacing the house on his cell phone while two YOUNG
          WOMEN--dressed to go out for a party--are at the moment each
          on a free computer playing each other in a game of Counter-
          Strike. Basically they're shooting at each other and missing
          and laughing their heads off,
          it wouldn't appear as if the house has been cleaned since the
          last time we saw it and in fact there are signs of more
          wreckage as well as futons, pillows and blankets on the floor.

                         SEAN

                         (INTO PHONE)
          But check it out, I saw him today.

                         (BEAT)

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          129,

                         SEAN (CONT'D)
          Moritz, Michael Moritz, my Sequoia
          Capital---hang on.
          (to the girls)
          Are you guys using Wallhacks or Aimbots?

                         GIRL #1
          we don't know, we're just shooting at
          each other.
          The DOORBELL RINGS but no one pays attention--

                         SEAN
          Use Barr cks.

                         GIRL #1
          Like we know what that is.
          Now there's a KNOCKING at the door and we

                         CUT TO:

          EXT_ PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT
          Ra:i.n is soaking down on EDUARDO as he stands at the front door
          with a suitcase in his hand. A taxi is turning around in the
          driveway and heading off. EDUARDO knocks on the front door
          again as we

          CUT BACK TO.

          INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT


                         SEAN

                         (INTO PHONE)
          I saw him getting into his car and he saw
          me too, I know he did.

                         (BEAT)
          A Porsche Carrera 911 Turbo. Hang on.
          SEAN leans over one of the girls, casually hits a few keys and
          easily kills several of the other girl's soldiers.

                         GIRL #1
          Yes!

                         GIRL #2
          Hey!

                         GIRL #1
          Bong hit.

                         DUSTIN
          Anybody hear that banging?
          While the following is going on, here's what's happening: The
          girls have gone over to a 12-foot bong that starts at the
          floor and goes to the landing at the top of the stairs.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          130,
          it gets lit at the bottom and smoked at the top so the girl
          who just got her soldiers hit trots up the stairs.

                         SEAN

                         (TO DUSTIN)
          You don't hear anything, you're supposed
          to be writing code.

                         DUSTIN
          Dude, somebody's at the door.
          SEAN goes back to the cell phone conversation as he heads to

                         THE DOOR--

                         SEAN

                         (INTO PHONE)
          The guy hires a P.T, to follow me around.
          Who does that in real life? Michael
          Moritz and I are gonna meet in a dark
          alley, I'll take Sequoia Capital down
          with him.
          SEAN opens the door and the soaking wet EDUARDO is standing
          there...

                         EDUARDO
          What the hell.

                         SEAN

                         (INTO PHONE)
          I'll call you back

                         (TO EDUARDO)
          What's up?

                         EDUARDO

                         (LONG PAUSE)
          What's up?

                         (BEAT)
          Mark was supposed to get me at the
          airport two hours ago, I've been calling
          his cell.

                         SEAN
          He was on a 36 hour coding tear so he
          took a nap for a couple of hours.
          EDUARDO walks into the house and surveys the wreckage--

                         EDUARDO
          What in hell happened here?

                         SEAN
          Not happened--happening. The next big
          thing.

                         DUSTIN
          Wardo!

                         

                         

                         

                         

          131.

                         EDUARDO
          Hey man.

                         SEAN

                         (TO DUSTIN)
          Back to work.
          The girl at the bottom of the stairs has filled the bowl and
          lights a lighter--

          GIRT, #1
          You ready?

                         GIRL #2
          Go.
          EDUARDO watches as the girl at the top of the stairs takes a
          12-foot hit from the tower-bong.

                         EDUARDO
          Flow old are they, Sean?

                         SEAN
          It's not polite to ask,

                         EDUARDO
          How old are they?

                         SEAN
          You think you know me, don't you.

                         EDUARDO
          I've read enough.

                         SEAN
          You know how much I've read about you?
          Nothing.
          MARK comes down the stairs--

                         MARK
          Wardo.

                         EDUARDO
          I waited an hour for you at the airport.

                         MARK
          What time is it?

                         EDUARDO
          It's midnight. Or 3AM in New York where I
          just came from.

                         MARK
          You've gotta see some of the new stuff
          we've got. Dustin, show him the wall. I'm
          just calling it the wall.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          132.

                         SEAN
          Forget the wall, tell him about the
          meeting I've got set up with Peter Thiel.

                         (TO EDUARDO)
          You know Peter Thiel?

                         EDUARDO
          No.

                         SEAN
          Why would you? He just runs a two-billion
          dollar hedge fund called Clarium Capital
          and was the money behind PayPal.

                         EDUARDO

                         (TO MARK)
          Why's he setting up meetings?

                         MARK
          Thiel may want to make an angel,
          investment.

                         EDUARDO
          I don't care if he's an actual angel,
          why's he setting up business meetings?

                         MARK
          You've had a long flight.

                         EDUARDO
          No, I've had a long wait on the tarmac at
          JFK, theft a long wait at the passenger
          loading and unloading zone at SFO and in
          between there was a long flight. I run
          the business end of this company, he's a
          house guest living rent-free on a
          generous grant from the Eduardo Saverin
          Foundation.'

                         SEAN
          How's the business end going? I see you
          got some big ticket ad buys lined up.

                         EDUARDO

                         LOOK--

                         SEAN
          The Harvard Eartendi.ng Course, the Seneca
          Club's Red Party and the Mather House
          annual "Lather Dance". You're just one
          small step away from bagging Snookies
          Cookies, I can feel it.

                         EDUARDO

                         (TO MARK)
          Can I talk to you alone for a minute?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          133.

                         MARK
          Sure.

                         SEAN

                         (CALLING OUT)
          Bong hit!

                         G-IRL #2
          I'm pretty baked.

                         SEAN
          Don't worry about it, it's just from the
          pot.
          EDUARDO's followed MARK into--

          INT. KITCHEN CONTINUOUS


                         MARK
          How's it going? How's the internship?
          How's Jenny?

                         EDUARDO
          How's the internship?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          Mark.. .Jesus, I quit the internship.
          We've talked about this on the phone,
          were you even--I quit on my first day.

                         MARK
          I do remember you saying that.

                         EDUARDO
          Yeah, it was a pretty big deal.

                         MARK
          How's Jenny?

                         E DUAPRDO
          Jenny's psycho.

                         MARK
          That can be fun.

                         EDUARDO
          No I mean she's actually psychotic. She's
          insanely jealous and she's irrational and
          she's violent.

                         MARK
          Still, it's nice you have a girlfriend.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          134 ,

                         EDUARDO
          I do not want that guy representing
          himself as part of this company.

                         MARK
          You gotta move out here, Wardo, this is
          where it's all happening.

                         EDUARDO
          Did you hear what I just said?

                         MARK
          The con etions, the energy-

                         EDUARDO

                         MARK--

                         MARK
          --the creativity.

                         EDUARDO
          He's not part of the company.

                         MARK
          We've got over 300,000 members, we're in

                         160 SCHOOLS INCLUDING--

                         EDUARDO
          I'm aware of that.

                         MARK
          --five in Europe.

                         EDUARDO
          I'm aware of that, Mark, I'm the CFO.

                         MARK
          We need more servers than I ever imagined
          we'd need. We need more programmers. We
          need more'money. He set uV the Thiel
          meeting. He's set up meetings all around
          town.

                         EDUARDO
          He's set up other meetings?

                         MARK
          Yes.

                         EDUARDO
          Without me knowing anything about it?!

                         MARK
          You're in New York!

                         

                         

                         

                         

          135.

                         EDUARDO
          Riding subways 14 hours a day to get

                         ADVERTISERS:

                         MARK
          How's it going so far?!!
          EDUARDO looks at MARK for a long moment before we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH- DAY

          EDUARDO comes through the doors with single-minded intent,
          heads past the tellers and straight to a desk where he takes a
          bankbook out of his pocket and slaps it on the desk.

                         BANKER

                         (BEAT)
          Can I help you?

                         EDUARDO
          I want to freeze this bank account and
          cancel all existing checks and lines of
          credit.

                         CUT TO:

          EXT./EST. SAN FRANCISCO SKYSCRAPER - DAY

          80 stories of polished granite.

          INT. TBIELL'S OUTER OFFICE - DAY

          We're in the offices of a guy who's hero is Gordon Gekko. MARK
          and SEAN are waiting--seated side by side--for a verdict.
          SEAN's wearing his best Prada, MARK's wearing his hoodie and
          Adidas flip-flops.
          After a moment...

                         SEAN
          You know this is where they filmed
          Towering Inferno.

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          That's comforting.
          The office door opens and PETER THIEL sticks his head out--

                         PETER
          Come back in.
          They get up and walk into--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          ].36.

          INT. THIEL'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

          Several of Thiel's lieutenant's are sitting around.

                         THIEL
          We've talked it over and congratulations.
          We're gonna start you off with a $500,000
          investment. Maurice is gonna want to talk
          to you about some corporate
          restructuring.

                         MAURICE
          We'll file as a Corporations eiaware
          and come up with a new stock strn ructure to
          allow for new investors,

                         THIEL
          Now lemme ask you something. Who's
          Eduardo Saverin?

                         CUT TO:

          INT. EDUARDO'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

          A summer sub-let. A studio apartment the size of a small too].
          shed.
          EDUARDO is asleep on top of the covers in the un-air
          conditioned apartment when he wakes up to the sound of a key
          in the door;
          One lock un-locks, then another--

                         EDUARDO
          Hello?
          --and then the last.
           The door opens and JENNY is framed by the dingy light of the
          hallway.

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          Jesus .

                         JENNY
          When did you get back?

                         EDUARDO
          You scared me. I need you to knock first.

                         JENNY
          When did you get back?

                         EDUARDO
          I got back this afternoon.

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         137

                         JENNY
          And when were you going to call me?

                         EDUARDO
          Jen, it was kind of a rough trip and I
          was tired and--

                         JENNY
          Or answer one of my 47 texts? Did you
          know I sent 47 texts?

                         EDUARDO
          I did, and I thought that was incredibly
          normal behavior.

                         JENNY
          Are you mocking me?

                         EDUARDO
          I brought you a present.

                         JENNY
          Why does your status say "single" on your
          Facebook page?

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)
          What?

                         JENNY
          Why does your relationship status say
          "single" on your k'acebook page?

                         EDUARDO
          I was single when I set up the page.

                         JENNY
          And you just never bothered to change it?

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT)

                         JENNY
          What?!

                         EDUARDO
          I don't know how.

                         JENNY
          Do I look stupid to you?

                         EDUARDO
          No. Calm down.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          138,

                         JENNY
          You're asking me to believe that the CFO
          of Facebook doesn't know how to-change
          his relationship status on Facebook?

                         EDUARDO
          It's a little embarrassing so you should
          take it as a sign of trust that I would
          tell you that.

                         JENNY
          Puck you, Wardo.

                         EDUARDO

                         (CALMING)
          Easy.

                         JENNY
          You didn't change it so you could fuck
          Silicon valley skanks every time you go
          out to see Mark.

                         EDUARDO
          That is not even remotely true and I can
          promise you that the Silicon valley
          skanks don't care what anyone's
          relationship status is on Facebook.
          Please let me give you your present.
          EDUARDO's cell phone RINGS--

                         'JENNY
          Oh, your phone does work.
          EDUARDO reaches for his cell but JENNY grabs it first to check
          the ID.

                         (CONT'D)
          It's Mark.
          JENNY tosses the still ringing phone back to him--

                         EDUARDO
          Okay, this is gonna be tricky. Here, open
          your present. It's a silk scarf.

                         JENNY
          Have you ever seen me wear a scarf?

                         EDUARDO
          This'll be your first.
          EDUARDO's gotten the gift box out of his half un-packed
          suitcase, tossed it to JENNY and finally answered the phone.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          139.

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Yeah.

                         INTERCUT WITH:

          INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - SAME TIME


                         MARK
          (into his cell phone)
          You froze our account?
          in the background there's a small celebration going on with
          SEAN, DUSTIN, the INTERNS and of course some GIRLS. Champagne
          is being sprayed from shaken bottles and the girls. are dancing
          to triumphant music.

                         EDUARDO
          I did.

                         MARY
          You froze the account.

                         EDUARDO
          I had to get your attention, mark.

                         MARK
          Do you realize that you jeopardized the
          entire company? Do you realize that your
          actions could have easily destroyed
          everything I've been working on?

                         EDUARDO
          We've been working on.

                         MARK
          Without money, the company can't
          function.
          What EDUARDO can't see behind his back is that JENNY has taken
          the gift box and lit it on fire with a cigarette lighter.

                         MARK (CONT'D)
          If the servers are down for even a day,
          our reputation is damaged irreversibly,.
          Users are fickle. Friendster has proven
          that fact.
          And JENNY's now dropped the flaming cardboard box into the
          wastebasket where the fire grows larger. She casually kicks
          the basket over with her foot.

                         EDUARDO

                         LOOK--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          140,

                         MARK
          Even a small exodus, even a few people
          leaving would reverberate through the
          whole user base. The users are
          interconnected, that's the whole fucking
          point! College kids are online because
          their friends are online and if one

                         DOMINO--

                         EDUARDO
          (finally seeing the fire)
          Holy shit!

                         MARK
          --goes, all the dominos go! Do you get
          that?! I'm not going back to Caribbean
          Night at the Jewish fraternity!

                         EDUARDO
          I've got a fire in a my apartment!

                         MARK
          Did you like being nothing?! Did you like
          being nobody?! Did you like being a pasty-
          faced geek?! You wanna go back to that?!

          .EDUARDO
          I'm putting you on speaker.
          EDUARDO hits a button on his cell and tosses it down. We'll.
          keep hearing MARK's•voice as EDUARDO runs out into the
          hallway, grabs a fire extinguisher from its wall bracket,
          comes back in and sprays out the fire.

                         MARK
          That was the act'of a child, not a
          businessman. And it certainly wasn't the
          act of a friend, You know how embarrassed
          I was when I tried to cash a check? And I
          was with a girl, Wardo. It happened in
          front of a girl. I'm not going back to
          that life,

                         EDUARDO

                         (SHOUTING)
          Yeah!

                         MARK
          Okay, maybe you were angry, maybe you
          were frustrated. I'm ready to let, uh, to
          let bygones be bygones because I've got
          some good news.
          EDUARDO--with the fire now out--picks up the phone.

                         EDUARDO
          I'm sorry. It .maybe was angry and it was
          childish. I needed to get your attention.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          ].41 .

                         MARK
          I said I've got some good news.

                         EDUARDO
          What is it?

                         MARK
          Peter Thiel's just made an angel
          investment of a half a million dollars..

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          What?

                         MARK
          A half a million dollars and he's setting
          us up in an office. They want to re-
          incorporate the company, they want to
          meet you and they need your signature on
          some documents so get your ass on the
          next flight back to San Francisco. I need
          my CFO,

                         EDUARDO

                         (BEAT--SMILES)
          I'm on my way.

                         MARK

                         EDUARDO

                         MARK
          EDUARDO clicks the phone shut.

                         JENNY
          You're going back there?

                         EDUARDO
          Yes. Also I'm breaking up with you.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - DAY

           A glass conference room in the corner of a glass bullpen on a
          high floor of a high rise.
          Cartons are being unpacked, computers are everywhere along
          with bags of potato chips and boxes of cereal.
          In the conference room, EDUARDO is sitting with three LAWYERS
          at a round, glass table and documents have been put out in
          front of him.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          1.42.
          We can see through the glass that MARY, is working at a
          computer nearby. SEAN is also hovering in the background.

                         LAWYER
          Four documents, These two are common
          stock purchase agreements allowing you to
          buy stock in the newly re-incorporated
          Facebook instead of the old stock which
          is now worthless, The third is the
          exchange agreement, that's for exchanging
          your old shares for new shares and this
          is the voter holding agreement.

                         EDUARDO
          How many shares of stock will I own?

                         LAWYER

          1,328,334.

                         EDUARDO
          Jesus Christ.

                         LAWYER
          That's a 34.4% ownership share. Why the
          rise from the original 30%?

                         EDUARDO
          Because you may need to dilute it to
          award shares to new investors.

                         LAWYER
          I like dealing with business majors.

                         LAWYER #2
          You should know that Mark's already taken
          his percentage from 60 down to 51.

                         EDUARDO
          Mark doesn't care about money and he
          needs to be protected.

                         LAWYER
          Dustin Moskowitz owns 6.81%, Sean Parker
          6-.47h__

                         EDUARDO
          I can live with that.

                         LAWYER
          And Peter Theil 7%. Would you like to use
          my pen?

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          143.

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM EVENING

          It's dusk now and the sky outside the room is turning purple.
          EDUARDO seems lost in thought.

                         GRETCHEN

                         (HELPING)
          Eduardo?
          EDUARDO looks up.

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          I'm sorry. Could you please repeat the
          question?

                         COURT REPORTER
          Counsel: "And when you signed these
          documents, were you aware that you were
          signing your own death certificate?"

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          No.

                         (PAUSE)
          It was insanely stupid of me not to have
          my own lawyer look over all the-the,
          uh.. .I thought they were my lawyers.

                         (BEAT)
          I was a Harvard business major.
          (then to MARK)
          I was your only friend. You had one
          friend.

                         (BEAT)
          My father won't look at me.

                         GRETCHEN

                         (BEAT)
          Okay. Eduardo? Did Mr. Zuckerberg saying
          anything to you after you signed the
          papers?

                         EDUARDO
          Well there was a lot of handshaking and
          congratulations. He'd already told me he
          wouldn't be coming back to school for at
          least a semester so we were saying
          goodbye for a while. And then before I
          left, he said----

                         CUT TO:
          INT. rACE000K OFFICE -• DAY

                         MARE
          But you gotta come back. Somewhere around
          the end of November/early December.

                         (MORE)

                         

                         

                         

                         

          144,

                         MARK (CONT'D)
          Peter's gonna throw us an amazing party
          when we hit a million members, it's gonna
          be out of control. You've gotta come back
          for it.

                         EDUARDO
          (quietly can't believe it)
          A million members.

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          Remember the algorithm on the window at
          Kirkland?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         EDUARDO
          Yeah, I'll be here.

                         CUT TO:

          EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET - DAY

          A brand new black Escalade pulls up in front of a gleaming
          glass and chrome office building.. SEAN is at the wheel and
          MARK, in the passenger seat, is wearing brightly colored
          pajamas with his hair a mess.
          They get out of the car and huddle-on the sidewalk.

                         MARK
          You sure about-this?

                         SEAN
          Oh yes. You're 20 minutes late. You're
          going to walk in there and say you
          overslept. and you didn't have time to get
          dressed, They're gonna pitch you, Sequoia
          Capital is gonna pitch you. They're gonna
          .tell you why you should take their money.
          They're gonna beg you to take their
          money, You're gonna nod, you're gonna
          nod, you're. gonna nod and then you're
          -gonna say, "Which one of you is Michael
          Moritz?". Moritz is gonna say, "That's
          me". And you're gonna say, "Sean Parker
          says 'Fuck you.' And walk right on out.

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          Okay.
          MARK heads into the office building.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          145.
          SEAN looks up to the windows of a high floor, points, and says--

                         SEAN
          Fuck. You.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING


                         EDUARDO
          In late November I got the e-mail from
          Mark telling me to come out for the
          millionth member party.

                         GRETCHEN
          What else did the e-mail say?

                         EDUARDO
          It said that we had to have a business
          meeting. That Mark and Sean had played
          some kind of revenge stunt on Michael
          Moritz and Sequoia capital. and that it
          had impressed Moritz so much that he was
          making an investment offer that was hard
          to turn down.

                         CUT TO

          INT. NEW FACEBOOE OFFICES - NIGHT


           EDUARDO (V.O.)
          I went out to California and went
          straight to the new offices.
          And it's clear that we're in the offices of a new, high-tech,
          very successful internet company. The Facebook logo in blue
          metallic letters on the wall, the maple desks, new computer
          monitors, carpeting, a wall covered in graffiti by an artist
          commissioned for. the job and -tons of young employees.

          EDUARDO (V.0.) (CONT'D)
          I didn't know whether to dress for the
          party or the business meeting so I kind
          of dressed for both.
          We see that most of the employees, especially the women, are
          dressed to go to an after-work, late-night party.

          EDUARDO (V.0.) (CONT'D)
          But it didn't matter.

          GRETCHEN (V.O.)
          Why not?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          146.

          EDUARDO (V.0.)
          Because I wasn't called out there for
          either one.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION-ROOM - EVENING


          GRETCHEN (V.O.)
          What were you called out there for?

          EDUARDO (V.0.)
          An ambush.

          LAWYER (V.0.)
          Eduardo'.

          CUT BACK TO:

          INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT


                         LAWYER
          Eduardo.
          EDUARDO turns to see the LAWYER he dealt with earlier standing
          by the door to a glass conference room.

                         LAWYER (CONT'D)
          In here.
          EDUARDO walks across the bullpen; where no one makes eye
          contact, and into--

          INT. CONFERENCE ROOM -CONTINUOUS


          EDUARDO (V.0.)
          At first I thought he was joking, giving
          me more contracts to sign. But then I
          started reading.
          As EDUARDO reads, we rack focus to MARK, who's sitting at a
          computer'with his back to EDUARDO, focused on his work.
          And then we see-SEAN step into the frame and lean against a
          desk a few yards away.
          And then back to EDUARDO, who's almost shaking...

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          What is this?

                         LAWYER

                         THESE ARE--

                         EDUARDO
          What is this?

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         147

                         LAWYER
          If you'll let me--
          EDUARDO goes back out into--

          INT. BULLPEN - CONTINUOUS


                         EDUARDO
          Mark?
          MARK doesn't look up from his computer--

                         EDUARDO (CONT'D)
          Mark.
          MARK still doesn't look up--

                         SEAN
          He's wired in.

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          I'm sorry?

                         SEAN
          He's wired in.

                         EDUARDO
          Is he?

                         SEAN
          Yes.
          EDUARDO picks up MARK's laptop over his head and smashes it
          down on the desk, breaking it into pieces.

                         EDUAK2DO
          How 'bout now, are you still wired in?

                         SEAN
          (to the girl at the desk he's

                         LEANING AGAINST)
          Call security.
          Everyone in the office is frozen, silent and watching.

                         EL DUARDO
          You issued over 24-million new shares of
          stock.

                         MARK
          You were told that if new investors came

                         ALONG--

                         

                         

                         

                         

                         148

                         EDUARDO
          How much were your shares diluted? How
          much were his?!

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING


                         GRETCHEN
          What was Mr. Zuckerberg's ownership share
          diluted down to?

                         EDUARDO
          It wa �

                         GRETCHEN
          What was Mr. Moskowitz's ownership share
          diluted down to?

                         EDUARDO
          It wasn't.

                         GRETCHEN
          What was Sean Parker's ownership share
          diluted down to?

                         EDUARDO
          It wasn't.

                         GRETCHEN
          What was Peter Thief's ownership share
          diluted down. to?

                         EDUARDO
          It wasn't.

                         €¢GRETCHEN
          What was your ownership share diluted
          down to?

                         EDUARDO

                         (PAUSE)
          Point-zero-three percent.

                         CUT TO:

          INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT


                         MARK
          You signed the papers.

                         EDUARDO
          You set me up.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          1. 49.

                         MARK
          You're gonna blame me because you were
          the business head of the company and you
          made a bad business deal with your own
          company?!

                         EDUARDO
          It's gonna be like I'm not part of
          Facebook.

                         SEAN
          It's not. gonna be like you're not part of
          Facebook, you're not part of Facebook.

                         EDUARDO
          My name's on the masthead.

                         SEAN
          Check again.
          EDUARDO is momentarily frozen...

                         EDUARDO
          This is because I froze the account?

                         SEAN
          You think we were gonna let you parade
          around in your ridiculous suits
          pretending you were running this company?

                         EDUARDO
          Sorry, but my Prada's at the cleaners
          along with my hoodie and my fuck-you flip-
          flops you pretentious douchebag.

                         SEAN
          Oooh, security is here. You'll be leaving
          now.
          Two SECURITY GUARDS have come in--

                         EDUARDO
          :I'm not signing those papers.

                         SEAN
          We'll get your signature.

                         EDUARDO
          (turning to MARK)
          Tell me this isn't about me getting into
          the Phoenix.

                         MARK
          That's right. It is. Maybe if you'd spent
          a little less time with your new friends
          and a little more time with the company

                         THIS--€¢Â€¢

                         

                         

                         

                         

          150.

                         EDUARDO
          You did it. I always knew you did it. You
          planted the story about the chicken.

                         SEAN

                         (PAUSE)
          What the fuck is he talking about?
          I didn't.

                         EDUARDO
          You had me accused of animal cruelty.

                         SEAN
          Seriously, what the fuck is up with the
          chicken?

                         EDUARDO
          And I'll bet you just hated that they
          identified me as a co-founder of Facebook-
          -which I am! You better lawyer-up,
          asshole, 'cause I'm not comin' for my 30
          percent, I'm comin' after everythin g

                         SEAN

                         (TO SECURITY)
          Get him outa here.

                         EDUARDO
          I'm going.

                         SEAN
          Hang on.
          SEAN hands EDUARDO a•folded check.

                         SEAN (CONT'D)
          There's your $19,000. 1 wouldn't cash it,
          though, I drew it on the account you
          froze.
          EDUARDO looks. at SEAN. . .then suddenly and quickly cocks his
          fist back to punch him in the face. SEAN flinches as EDUARDO
          holds his punch and lets out a small laugh.

                         EDUARDO
          I like standing next to you, Sean. It
          makes me look tough in comparison.
          EDUARDO exits with the security escort.
          There's a long silence in the room...

                         

                         

                         

                         

          151.

                         SEAN
          That's it. That's our show for tonight. I
          want to see everybody here get geared up
          for a party. We're gonna walk down to the
          club like it's the Macy's Thanksgiving
          Parade. Mackey, put it up on the screen,
          we've gotta be almost there.
          A young employee hits a remote and a few keys on his computer
          and a huge flat-screen displays a Facebook page with a read-
          out of the number of members.

          999,982
          There's scattered applause and excitement as everyone watches.
          SEAN takes MARK aside.

                         SEAN (CONT'D)
          You alright?

                         MARK
          Yeah.

                         (BEAT)
          You were kinda rough on him.

                         SEAN
          That's life in the NFL.

                         MARK
          No. You didn't have to be that rough on
          him.

                         SEAN
          Listen, I'm putting together a party-.-

                         MARK
          Sean? You didn't have to be that rough on
          him.

                         SEAN
          I get it. I'll send flowers. I'm putting
          -together a party after the party at Gamma
          Phi Beta. Ashleigh over there's a sister
          and she says her friends are all down..

                         MARK
          Ashleigh?

                         SEAN
          Yeah.

                         MARK
          That's great. I've been, you know, I've
          been talking to her a little. I don't
          know, I think she likes me.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          152,

                         SEAN
          Oh dude.

                         MARK
          What?

                         SEAN
          Yeah.
          An intern, ASHLEIGH, comes along With a small package--

                         ASHLEIGH
          Excuse me, Mark?

          SEAN.
          We were just talkin' about you,Ash.
          We're on for tonight?

                         ASHLEIGH
          Yeah.

                         (TO MARK)
          This came in for you.

                         MARK
          You can put it on my desk.
          ASHLEIGH puts the small package on Mark's desk.

                         SEAN
          She's 19, I can't he.lp it, But I'll tell
          you what--after tonight.she's yours. in
          fact, I'm. gonna get' you in with all sorts
          of girls you wouldn't have met before.

                         (CALLING OUT)
          Mackey!

                         MACKEY

                         (CALLING BACK)
          Yes sir!

                         SEAN
          Refresh!

                         MARK
          (blandly to SEAN)
          You'd do that for me?
          MACKEY hits the "refresh" key and the big screen shows--

          1,000,002
          CHEERS erupts throughout the place. SEAN grabs MARK and hugs
          him but MARK doesn't quite hug back--he's still hearing what
          SEAN just said.

                         CUT TO:

                         

                         

                         

                         

          153.

          EXT. SORORITY HOUSE - NIGHT

          We can hear the thumping music coming 'from the party inside
          and college kids have spilled out onto the front lawn of this
          pristine, four-columned house.

          INT. SORORITY HOUSE - NIGHT

          It's dark but we can make out people dancing. The place is
          packed.

                         UT TO

          INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

          We hear the thumping music from the party. SEAN's in there
          with a couple of guys, ASHLEIGH and another GIRL. SEAN's got
          his cell phone out and will snap a picture every once in a
          while.

                         GIRL
          I can't find a mirror.

                         GUY
          Do it on anything. You can use a CD.

                         ASHLEIGH
          Do it off this.
          ASHLEIGH's sat on the bed and unbuttoned her top so that she's
          in just a bra. She's offering her chest as a surface off of
          which to snort cocaine.

                         GIRL
          Alright!
          The GIRL taps out some coke from a vial onto ASHLEIGH's chest
          and starts passing around a rolled up 20-dollar bill for
          everyone to have a turn and she herself will unbutton her
          shirt too for the same purpose. All this while SEAN is
          talking,

                         SEAN
          The next transformative development? A
          picture sharing application. A place
          where you view pictures that coincide
          with your social life. It is the
          true... digitalization of real life. You
          don't just go to a party anymore, you go
          to a party with your digital camera and
          your friends relive the party on
          Facebook. And tagging. The idea that you
          could tag anyone you wanted in those
          pictures so that people could find
          themselves. Then a digital log of every
          change in a person's life, broadcast to
          all their friends instantaneously.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          154,

                         ASHLEIGH
          Would this be easier without the bra?

                         GUY
          It's worth finding out.
          The girls start happily slipping off their bras--

          .SEAN
          I've spent hours--

                         ASHLEIGH
          Why has the music stopped?

                         SEAN
          I've spent hours watching what people do
          when they log on.

                         ASHLEIGH
          Seriously, why has the music stopped?
          ASHLEIGH has a point. The music stopped in the addle of
          SEAN's speech and the sound outside from the party just
          doesn't sound like a party anymore.

                         SEAN
          flow they always checked their friends'
          status updates, checked to see which of
          their friends had changed their profiles,
          changed their photos and mostly...We
          lived on farms, then we lived in cities
          and now we're gonna live on the internet.

                         - ASHLEIGH
          Sean. Stop. Something's going on
          downstairs,
          SEAN stops talking-he senses it too now.
          SEAN walks out of the room to the--

          INT, STAIRCASE LANDING - CONTINUOUS
          And out the window he sees a fleet of police cars with their
          lights flashing parked in front of the house. Then before he
          can react, the front door flies open--
          POLICE with flashlights walk in--the beams of light streaking
          across the darkened party floor and the faces..
          We HEAR muffled murmurs from the cops of "party's over" and
          "step to the side" and "nobody's leaving just yet", etc.
          SEAN bolts back into--

                         

                         

                         

                         

          155.

          INT. BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS

          --leaving the door open.

                         SEAN
          It's the cops.
          And they all spring into action. The girls are putting their
          bras back on, SEAN is wiping down a night table with the palm
          of his hand to get the coke dust off.

                         SEAN (CONT'D)

                         POLICEMAN
          What's goin' on?
          They turn to see TWO POLICEMEN standing in the doorway, their
          flashlights scanning the room and hitting SEAN's eyes.

                         SEAN

                         (BEAT)
          We're sorry, was the music too loud?
          We've got kind of a celebration going.

                         POLICEMAN
          Ladies, I need you to put your shirts on.

                         SEAN
          I can have them turn the music down.
          One of the policemen casually takes SEAN's hand and sees that
          his palm looks like he just used it to erase a blackboard. The
          cop uses his finger to taste what it is.

                         SEAN (CONT'D)
          Yeah, that isn't mine.

                         POLICEMAN
          Okay, could you all stay where you are.
          And the handcuffs start to come out and we've got a room of
          terrified children.

          GIRL,
          Wait, can we just talk for a second?
          We start to move in on SEAM...

                         

                         

                         

                         

          150.

                         POLICEMAN

                         (TO SEAN)
          You got anything in your pockets I need
          to know about?

                         SEAN
          No sir.

                         - POLICEMAN
          Don't be stupid now,

                         SEAN
          I don It.

                         POLICEMAN
          (out of SEAN's shirt pocket)
          What's this?

                         SEAN
          It's an Epipen,

                         POLICEMAN
          And this?

                         SEAN
          That's my inhaler.

                         POLICEMAN #2
          Ladies, how old are you?

                         GIRL
          I'm 20.

                          ASHLEIGH
          I'm 19,

                         POLICEMAN
          Lying makes • i_'E worse.

                         ASHLEIGH
          I'm 17, I-'m sorry, I shouldn't have lied.
          SEAN closes. his eyes at hearing this news as we HEAR the sound
          of the-cuffs lock around his wrists and we

                         CUT TO:

          INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT

          A digital LED clock on the wall tells us it's 4:40AM.
          MARK is sitting at his computer alone. No one else is in the
          office. The San Francisco skyline is beautiful outside the
          floor-to-ceiling glass.
          His cell phone RINGS and he answers.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          1. 57.

                         MARK

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Hello?

                         INTERCUT WITH:

          EXT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT

          SEAN, freezing with no coat on, is sitting on the bottom of
          the steps to the police station.'The LAWYER we've seen before
          is standing in back of him.

                         SEAN

                         (INTO PHONE)
          Listen, something's happened.
          We see MARK listening on his end but can't hear SEAN's end of
          the conversation.

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          Shit.

                         SEAN
          It's alright, it's gonna be alright. I've
          posted bond-and I wasn't doing anything.
          I mean, I've got allergies so I can't----
          We're back on MARK's side. He listens... listens...

                         MARK

          17?
          Back on SEAN's side-

                         SEAN
          I think it was Moritz. I swear, I think
          it was Michael Moritz.

                         MARK

                         (EVENLY)
          This is gonna be news, Sean, it's gonna.
          be online any second.

                         SEAN

                         (BEAT)
          I know.

                         MARK

                         (BLANK)
          You know with anunderage intern and--

                         SEAN
          It's cool, I've got it under control.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          158,

                         MARK

                         (NO PANIC)
          I'll get it under control. I'll call our
          guys and see what the next move is. But
          this is gonna be news now.

                         SEAN
          You think it was Moritz? 'Cause I do. And
          I'm gonna meet that guy in a dark alley
          one night. Or Eduardo? Did Eduardo have
          me followed?

                         MARK
          (cool as ice)
          Go home, Sean. I'll call our people.
          MARK clicks the phone shut. He sits there a moment.
          He looks at the small package. that Ashleigh dropped on his
          desk earlier. He opens up the brown paper wrapping and there's
          a box.
          He opens the box--a thousand brand new business cards. He
          takes one of the business cards out and looks at it.
          I'm CEO ...Bitoh
          And over this we HEAR a woman's voice...

          MARYLIN (V.0.)
          Mark?

                         CUT TO:

          INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - NIGHT

          MARK is sitting alone.-in the conference room. The only one
          left is MARYL?N,whose vo�.ce we just. heard. The lightp of the
          San Francisco skyline fill the huge picture windows.

                         MARYLIN
          Mark?
          MARK looks up at her...

                         MARYLIN (CONT'D)
          Everyone's gone,
          MARK doesn't say anything...

                         MARYLIN (CONT'D)
          We're done for the day,

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          Who would you rather he?

                         

                         

                         

                         

          159.

                         MARYLIN
          I'm sorry?

                         MARK
          My lawyer or their lawyer?

                         MARYLIN

                         (SMILES)
          Something tells me over the long run
          there's more money in being your lawyer.
          What happened to Sean?

                         MAIM
          He cashed out most of his stock. Hey
          listen, all you had all day was that
          salad. You want to get something to eat?

                         MARYLIN
          I can't.

                         MARK
          I'm not a bad guy.

                         MARYLIN
          I know that. I like you.

                         MARK
          What happens now?

                         MARYLIN
          Sy and the rest of them are at the Palm
          having a steak. Then they'll come back, up
          to the office and start working on a
          settlement agreement to present to you.

                         MARK
          They're gonna want to settle?

                         MARYLIN
          Oh yeah. And you're gonna have to pay
          some bonus money too.

                         MARK
          Why?

                         MARYLIN
          'Cause you're gonna need these guys to
          sign a non-disclosure agreement and
          you're gonna need to be indemnified. They
          say one unflattering word about you in
          public and you own their house, wife and
          kids.

                         MARK
          I invented Facebook.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          160.

                         MARYLIN
          I'm talking about what a jury'll see.
          .That's what I do, that's what I'm doing
          here. I'm trying to specialize in voir
          dire--jury selection. Clothes, hair,
          wedding ring, speaking style, likability--

                         MARK
          Likability?

                         MARYLIN
          I've been licensed to practice law for
          all of-20 months and I could get a jury
          to believe you planted the story about
          Eduardo. You know how? Just by asking the
          question. Watch. Why weren't you at the
          sorority party that night?

                         MARK
          You think I'm the one who called the
          police?

                         MARYLIN -
          Doesn't matter, I asked the question and
          now everybody's thinking about it. You
          lost the jury in the first 10 minutes.

                         MARK

                         (PAUSE)
          Farm animals?

          .MARYLIN
          Yeah,

                         MARK
          I was drunk and angry and stupid.

                         MARYLIN
          And blogging.

                         (PAUSE)
          Pay the fine. Get your parking validated.
          Get out of it. That's what Sy and the
          guys'll tell you in the morning.

                         MARK
          Would anyone mind it I stayed and used
          the computer for a minute?

                         MARYLIN
          No. There's a night guy downstairs. Stay
          as long as you want.

                         MARK
          Thanks. I appreciate your help today,

                         MARYLIN
          You're not an asshole, Mark. You just
          want to be.

                         

                         

                         

                         

          161.
          MARYI,IN, who's been putting on her coat, takes her briefcase
          and exits.

          MARK sits down at the computer. He logs on to Facebook.
          He -types a name in the-search box: "Erica Albright".
          Erica's name and picture come up, along with Boston
          University, '07. Mark smiles. She's on Facebook.

          He moves the mouse back and forth between two boxes: "Send a
          Message." and "Add as a Friend".

          He clicks on "Add as a Friend".

          A box comes up that reads: "Your request to add Erica Albright
          as a friend has been sent."

          Then MARK clicks to his homepage and waits for the response.
          And waits...

                         TITLE:
          Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss received a settlement of 65
          million dollars and signed a non-disclosure agreement,
          They rowed for the U.S. Olympic Team in Beijing and placed sixth.

          MARK is still waiting...

          Eduardo Saverin received an unknown Gash settlement. His name
          has been restored to the Facebook masthead as a founder.
          MARK is settling into his chair. He'll wait all night if he
          has to.

          Facebook has 180 million members in 60 countries. It's
          currently valued at 15 billion dollars.

          Mark zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world.
          MARK waits...
          And waits...

                         AND WE

          SNAP TO BLACK

          ROLL, MAIN TITLE




Social Network, The



Writers :   Aaron Sorkin
Genres :   Drama


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