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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 188 of 189 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act three
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.
Mark at the campus bar: brilliant, status-obsessed, unable to read the room he's sitting in.
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.
He takes the Winklevoss pitch as a springboard, builds theFacebook in its place, and launches it into a world he can't control.
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.
Thiel's angel investment and the re-incorporation give Mark the company he wanted — total control, real money, a real office.
The price is Eduardo: diluted to 0.03% and walked out by security, the cost of the company Mark built is his oldest friendship.
Sean looks out to see police cars surrounding the house before officers burst through the front door.
Police catch Sean and the partygoers mid-cleanup, find cocaine residue on his hand, and arrest him as underage guests admit their real ages.
Alone in the office at 4:40AM, Mark takes a call from Sean about his arrest.
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SEAN, freezing with no coat on, is sitting on the bottom of the steps to the police station.
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
Interns?
Back on SEAN’s side--
SEAN
It was just a party.
MARK
(evenly)
This is gonna be news, Sean, it’s gonna
be online any second.
SEAN
(beat)
I know.
MARK
(blank)
You know with an intern and--
SEAN
It’s cool, I’ve got it under control.
MARK
(no panic)
I’ll get it under control. I’ll call
someone and see what the next move is.
But this is gonna be news now.
SEAN
(beat)
You don’t think Eduardo was involved do
you? Do you think--
MARK
No.
SEAN
Or Manningham. One of them. Somebody.
Somebody sent that coke in their ‘cause
it got in there. You believe me. This is
gonna be fine, right?
MARK
(cool as ice)
Go home, Sean.
MARK clicks the phone shut. He sits there a moment.
He looks at the small package that Ashleigh dropped on his
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...Bitch
And over this we HEAR a woman’s voice...
MARYLIN (V.O.)
Mark?
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