The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

Divya and the twins pitch Mark on programming HarvardConnection, an exclusive Harvard-only social site, and Mark says he's in.

Scene 50 of 189 · ≈ 3 min on screen

Save the Cat: Catalyst
Cameron
Mark
Divya
Tyler

Act oneAct two

Begins 32 min into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 50

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.
Just before
Scene 47
In his brutal Operating Systems class, Mark is publicly shamed by a note calling him a dick, but nails the professor's pop quiz answer on his way out.
Scene 48
Cameron and Tyler intercept Mark outside the academic building and pitch him a minute of their time, softening him up by talking crew.
Scene 49
Tyler and Cameron walk Mark toward the Porcellian Club, warning him he can't go past the bike room since he's not a member.
Scene 50
This scene

50INT. PORCELLIAN CLUB - DAY

The most exclusive of all the final clubs. DIVYA is sitting in the main living room with a textbook open as the heavy wooden door opens and the three of them come into the bike room.

CAMERON

Would you like a sandwich or something?

MARK

Okay.

CAMERON disappears for a moment.

DIVYA

Mark, right?

MARK is stealing a glance around the room.

MARK

Yeah.

TYLER

This is Divya Narendra, our partner.

MARK

Hi.

DIVYA

We were really impressed with Facemash

and then we checked you out and you also

built CourseMatch.

TYLER

I don’t know CourseMatch.

DIVYA

You go online and see what courses your

friends are taking.

(to MARK)

Really smart, man.

MARK is looking at the framed black and white group pictures on the wall of old Porcellian classes. He sees a bra hanging over a lamp.

DIVYA (CONT’D)

Mark?

MARK

Yeah.

DIVYA

We were talking about CourseMatch.

MARK

It was kind of a no-brainer.

CAMERON comes back in with a sandwich wrapped in cellophane. MARK opens it on his lap and eats it uncomfortably.

DIVYA

And you invented something in high

school, right?

MARK

An app for an MP3 player that recognizes

your taste in music.

DIVYA

Anybody try to buy it?

MARK

Microsoft.

DIVYA