The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

Summers dismisses Cameron and Tyler's plea for university intervention against Mark, telling them this isn't a university matter and to go invent something else.

Scene 115 of 189 · ≈ 5 min on screen · Act two

Summers
Cameron
Anne
Tyler

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:28 into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 115

Mark Zuckerberg wants status and belonging Harvard's final clubs won't give him, so he builds a website that gives the world both — and loses his best friend and co-founder to the company he built to prove he mattered.

Scene 1
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
Scenes 1–49
He wants to matter — to be let into the final clubs, to be exceptional enough that Erica's verdict is wrong — and Facemash is the first proof-of-concept.
Scenes 50–92
He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.
Just before
Scene 112
Divya reports the expansion news to Tyler and Cameron, and the group discovers Harvard's student handbook language on theft, deciding to take their case to president Larry Summers.
Scene 113
In Palo Alto, Sean Parker charms a Stanford student, Amy, the morning after a hookup, then spots theFacebook open on her laptop and immediately fixates on finding Mark Zuckerberg.
Scene 114
Cameron and Tyler wait in Larry Summers' outer office, sized up by his unimpressed secretary.
Scene 115
This scene

115INT. 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.

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 CLINTON, etc.

SUMMERS (CONT’D)

(into phone)

Catherine, I have students in my office

now.

SUMMERS (CONT’D)

(into phone)

Students.

(into phone)

Undergrads.

(into phone)

I don’t know, from the looks of it they

want to sell me a Brooks Brothers

franchise.

(beat)

Alright.

SUMMERS hangs up the phone--

SUMMERS (CONT’D)

Good morning.

CAMERON

Good morning, sir. I’m Cameron Winklevoss

and this is my brother, Tyler.

SUMMERS reaches to the top of a pile of papers and pulls a ten- page letter off the top.

SUMMERS

And you’re here because...

There’s silence while SUMMERS appears to read over the letter...

SUMMERS (CONT’D)

Either one of you can answer.

CAMERON

I’m sorry, I thought you were reading the

letter.

SUMMERS