The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

At the Ruby Skye nightclub, Sean delivers a searing pitch to Mark about ambition, VCs, and never settling for a good idea when Facebook could be a billion-dollar one — and needles Mark about excluding Eduardo.

Scene 156 of 189 · ≈ 5 min on screen · Act two

Sean
Beautiful Woman #1
Mark
Brianna
Beautiful Woman #2
Server

Act oneAct two

Begins 1:58 into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 156

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.
Scene 120
Sean Parker enters at the 66 dinner and becomes the relationship — equal parts mentor and corrupter — that carries the story's real theme about loyalty and ambition.
Scene 133
The dinner at 66 with Sean Parker — "a billion dollars, that's cool" — reframes the company's ambition and pulls Mark irreversibly toward Sean's orbit.
Just before
Scene 153
At the Palo Alto rental house, a backyard zip-line stunt ends with the chimney collapsing near the pool as an intern narrowly avoids injury.
Scene 154
Mark walks through the wrecked, geek-paradise interior of the summer house, greeting a coding-obsessed intern named Andrew, when Sean Parker turns up at the door with his girlfriend Sharon.
Scene 155
Sean tours the Palo Alto house, impressed by the setup, and asks after Eduardo, learning he stayed behind in New York.
Scene 156
This scene

156INT. RUBY SKYE - CONTINUOUS

An ultra-hip San Francisco nightclub. 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.

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 up above the music.

SEAN

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.

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN #1 (BRIANNA)

The homeless rock star of Palo Alto.

SEAN

What’s your plan for the summer?

MARK has been subtly checking out the club and not paying attention.

SEAN (CONT’D)

Mark?

MARK

I’m sorry, I was looking at the

architecture.

SEAN smiles...

SEAN

I asked what your plan--

MARK

A hundred schools by the end of the