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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 189 of 189 · ≈ 3 min on screen · Last scene of 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's arrest and departure return the company to something closer to what it was before he arrived, minus the two people who built it with Mark at the start.
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.
Sean, arrested and freezing outside the police station, tries to reassure Mark the situation is under control, but Mark coolly tells him to go home and opens the box of 'I'm CEO...Bitch' business cards Ashleigh delivered.
MARK is sitting alone in the conference room. The only one left is MARYLIN, whose voice we just heard. The lights of the San Francisco skyline fill the huge picture windows.
MARYLIN
Mark?
MARK looks up at her...
MARYLIN (CONT’D)
We’re done for the day.
MARK
(pause)
Yeah. Yeah. I was just sitting here.
MARYLIN
What happened to Sean?
MARK
He still owns 7% of the company. All you
had all day was that salad. You want to
get something to eat?
MARYLIN
I can’t.
MARK
I’m not a bad guy.
MARYLIN
I know that. When’s there’s emotional
testimony I assume 85% of it is
exaggeration.
MARK
And the other 15%?
MARYLIN
Perjury. Creation myths need a devil.
MARK
What happens now?
MARYLIN
Sy and the others are having a steak on
University Ave. Then they’ll come back up
to the office and start working on a
settlement agreement to present to you.
MARK
They’re gonna settle?
MARYLIN
Oh yeah. And you’re gonna have to pay a
little extra.
MARK
Why?
MARYLIN
So that these guys sign a non-disclosure
agreement. They say one unflattering word
about you in public and you own their
wife and kids.
MARK
I invented Facebook.
MARYLIN
I’m talking about a jury. I specialize
This scene
the jury sees when they look at the
defendant. Clothes, hair, speaking style,
likability--
MARK
Likability?
MARYLIN
I’ve been licensed to practice law for
all of 20 months and I could get a jury
to believe you planted the story about
Eduardo and the chicken. Watch what else.
Why weren’t you at Sean’s sorority party
that night?
MARK
You think I’m the one who called the
police?
MARYLIN
Doesn’t matter. I asked the question and
now everybody’s thinking about it. You’ve
lost your jury in the first 10 minutes.
MARK
(pause)
Farm animals?
MARYLIN
Yeah.
MARK
I was drunk and angry and stupid.
MARYLIN
And blogging.
MARK
And blogging.
MARYLIN
(pause)
Pay them. In the scheme of things it’s a
speeding ticket. That’s what Sy will tell
you tomorrow.
MARK
Do you think anybody would mind if I
stayed and used the computer for a
minute?
MARYLIN
I can’t imagine it would be a problem.
MARK
Thanks. I appreciate your help today.
MARYLIN
You’re not an asshole, Mark. You’re just
trying so hard to be.
MARYLIN, who’s been putting on her coat, takes her briefcase and exits.
MARK sits down at the computer. He logs on to Facebook.
He types a name in the search box: “Erica Albright”.
Erica’s name and picture come up, along with Boston University, ‘07. Mark smiles. She’s on Facebook.
He moves the mouse back and forth between two boxes: “Send a Message” and “Add as a Friend”.
He clicks on “Add as a Friend”.
A box comes up that reads: “Your request to add Erica Albright as a friend has been sent.”
Then MARK clicks to his homepage and waits for the response.
And waits...then hits “Refresh”.
TITLE:
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss received a settlement of 65 million dollars and signed a non-disclosure agreement.
They rowed for the U.S. Olympic Team in Beijing and placed sixth.
MARK is still waiting...then hits “Refresh”.
Eduardo Saverin received an unknown settlement. His name has been restored to the Facebook masthead as a Co-founder.
MARK is settling into his chair. He’ll wait all night if he has to.
Facebook has 500 million members in 207 countries. It's currently valued at 25 billion dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world.
MARK waits...
And waits...
And we
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