The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

On the phone with Eduardo, Mark furiously accuses him of jeopardizing the company by freezing the account, unaware Christy is setting his gift on fire behind Eduardo's back — until Mark reveals Thiel's investment and calls Eduardo back in.

Scene 169 of 189 · ≈ 3 min on screen · Act two

Mark
Eduardo
Christy

Act oneAct two

Begins 2:20 into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 169

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.
Scenes 93–156
Expansion to Yale, Columbia, Stanford; the move to Palo Alto; the costs mount — Eduardo sidelined, the twins circling, the company outgrowing its dorm-room shape.
Just before
Scene 166
Mark and Sean wait to meet investor Peter Thiel, trading small talk about the building's film history.
Scene 167
Peter Thiel commits a $500,000 angel investment and Maurice outlines a corporate restructuring, before Thiel asks pointedly who Eduardo Saverin is.
Scene 168
Eduardo's girlfriend Christy shows up unannounced at his cramped New York sublet, confronting him over his 'single' Facebook status and unanswered texts.
Scene 169
This scene

169INT. 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.

MARK

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 permanently destroyed

everything I’ve been working on?

EDUARDO

We’ve been working on.

MARK

Without money, the site can’t function.

Let me tell you the difference between

Facebook and everybody else: WE DON’T

CRASH EVER!

What EDUARDO can’t see behind his back is that CHRISTY 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 entire reputation is irreversibly

destroyed. Users are fickle. Friendster

has proven that fact.

And CHRISTY’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--

MARK

Even a few people leaving would

reverberate through the entire user base.

The users are interconnected, that’s the

whole point! College kids are online

because their friends are online and if

one domino goes, all the dominos go! Do