The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010

Mark shows Eduardo the finished theFacebook homepage, adds a Relationship Status field on the spot, and the two of them e-mail the launch link to the Phoenix listserv, putting the site live.

Scene 92 of 189 · ≈ 3 min on screen

Plot Point I
Save the Cat: Break into Two
Eduardo
Mark

Act oneAct two

Begins 52 min into a 2:44 film

The story so farBefore scene 92

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.
Scene 50
Cameron, Tyler, and Divya recruit Mark to build HarvardConnection — the idea that becomes Facebook arrives from outside him.
Just before
Scene 89
Divya accuses Mark outright of stealing their idea in deposition, and Mark needles him back by asking if he can see any of his own code on Facebook.
Scene 90
Working through exhaustion on theFacebook's profile page, Mark is asked by Dustin whether a girl in his art class has a boyfriend — and the exchange sparks Mark's idea for a relationship-status field.
Scene 91
Mark bolts out of the CS building into the snow, backpack stuffed, chasing his new idea.
Scene 92
This scene

92INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/LOBBY - MORNING

The heavy door bursts open and MARK comes busting through. He makes his way with speed and intent up a flight of stairs.

Then another.

And then another until he gets to his floor. He sprints down his hall toward his dorm room and barely notices EDUARDO leaning against the door.

EDUARDO

We were supposed to meet at 9.

MARK is searching the pockets of his shorts for his keys.

EDUARDO (CONT’D)

Have you slept yet?

MARK opens the door and they go into his suite--

MARK

I have to add something.

EDUARDO

What?

MARK’s in his own world as he sits at the computer and calls up theFacebook. The home page fills the screen.

EDUARDO (CONT’D)

(simply)

Shit.

(beat)

That looks good.

(beat)

That looks really good.

MARK

It’s clean and simple. No Disneyland, no

Live Nude Girls.

The CAMERA surveys the screen as MARK slips through some functions to show EDUARDO and we see things that are now familiar--A photo, sex, a profile, a list of attributes, a poke application, etc.

MARK (CONT’D)

But watch.

MARK’s called up a the Emacs program and quickly writes out several lines of code...

EDUARDO

What’d you write?

MARK goes back to the profile page. There’s a new area to be filled in...

MARK

“Relationship Status”, “Interested In”.

(beat)

This is what drives life at college. Are

you having sex or aren’t you. It’s why