The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

A Harvard IT grad student tells Cox the traffic spike out of Kirkland is Super Bowl-sized for 4AM.

Scene 38 of 189 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Grad Student
Cox
Cox’S Wife

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Begins 21 min into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 38

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.
Just before
Scene 35
Students shout their vote from a girls' dorm room.
Scene 36
Eduardo warns Mark the traffic spike could get them in trouble, but Mark, transfixed by what he's built, ignores him as the phone starts ringing.
Scene 37
Network administrator Cox is woken at 4AM by a call about the surge and heads in, telling his wife Harvard's network is about to crash.
Scene 38
This scene

38INT. HARVARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE - SAME TIME

A tired GRAD STUDENT who spends the night monitoring the campus computer system is looking at his computer.

GRAD STUDENT

(into phone)

Well there’s a very unusual amount of

traffic to the switch at Kirkland.

COX

You’re saying it’s unusual for 4 in the

morning?

GRAD STUDENT

No, this’d be unusual for halftime at the

Super Bowl.

COX

Alright.

COX hangs up the phone.

COX (CONT’D)

I have to go in.

COX’S WIFE

What’s going on?

COX

Harvard’s network’s about to crash.

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