The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

Upstairs, Sean pitches an intoxicated crowd on Facebook's next feature, photo tagging, while sorority girls do coke off each other until the music outside abruptly stops.

Scene 184 of 189 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act three

Fraternity Guy
Sorority Girl #2
Sorority Girl
Sean
Ashleigh

Act oneAct two

Begins 2:34 into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 184

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.
Scenes 157–180
Thiel's angel investment and the re-incorporation give Mark the company he wanted — total control, real money, a real office.
Scene 181
The price is Eduardo: diluted to 0.03% and walked out by security, the cost of the company Mark built is his oldest friendship.
Just before
Scene 181
Sean coldly tells Eduardo he's no longer part of Facebook and has security remove him, tossing him a worthless check drawn on the frozen account as Eduardo accuses Mark of planting the chicken story before being escorted out.
Scene 182
College kids spill out onto the lawn of a sorority house mid-party.
Scene 183
Partygoers dance in the dark, packed sorority house.
Scene 184
This scene

184INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

We hear the thumping music from the party. SEAN’s in there with a couple of guys, ASHLEIGH and two other girls. SEAN’s got his cell phone out and will snap a picture every once in a while.

FRATERNITY GUY

Do it on anything. You can use a CD.

SORORITY GIRL #2

You can do it off me.

The girl’s sat on the bed and unbuttoned her top. Her shirt’s unbuttoned all the way but we can’t really see anything--just the part of her chest that’s being used as a surface off of which to snort coke.

SORORITY GIRL

Alright!

The GIRL taps out some coke from a vial onto the other girl’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--

SORORITY GIRL #2

Would this be easier without the bra?

FRATERNITY GUY

It’s worth finding out.

The girls start happily slipping off their bras--

SEAN

I’ve spent hours watching what people do

when they log on.

ASHLEIGH

Wait, that’s weird. Why did the music

stop?

ASHLEIGH has a point. The music stopped in the middle of SEAN’s speech and the sound outside from the party just