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The Social Network · written by Aaron Sorkin · 2010
Scene 96 of 189 · ≈ 5 min on screen · Act two
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.
At a Krokodiloes concert, Divya's girlfriend K.C. gets the theFacebook link spammed to her, and Divya's reaction on reading it sends him bolting from the hall.
Divya sprints across the Charles River in the cold, laptop and Crimson in hand.
Divya bursts into the boathouse to tell Cameron and Tyler mid-practice that Zuckerberg stole their website and it's already been live 36 hours.
This scene
They’re in gear. CAMERON’s taken a quick shower but didn’t dry off. He’s in sweatpants with a towel over his shoulder, talking on the phone with his father and holding the Crimson. DIVYA’s on his cell looking for MARK and TYLER, still in his practice clothes, has his desktop computer open to theFacebook and is studying it.
CAMERON
(covering the phone)
Ty, the lawyer’s on the phone with Dad.
(into phone)
I’m here with my brother, Tyler, and our
business partner, Divya.
TYLER
(reading off the computer)
“Welcome to theFacebook. TheFacebook is
an online directory that connects people
through different social networks. You
must have a Harvard.edu address to
register.”
CAMERON
(into phone)
That’s right.
DIVYA
(into cell)
I called earlier. I’m looking for Mark
Zuckerberg.
CAMERON
(into phone)
Yes sir, he’s quoted a couple of times. I
can read it to you, “’Everyone’s been
talking a lot about a universal facebook
within Harvard’, he says”--he meaning
Mark--”’I think it’s kind of silly that
it would take the University a couple of
years to get around to it. I can do a
classier job than they can and I did in a
week.’”
DIVYA
(into cell)
Tell him Divya Narendra called, I
appreciate it.
CAMERON
(into phone)
I know, that’s how he talks.
DIVYA
(off another copy of the Crimson)
“As of yesterday evening, Zuckerberg said
theFacebook.com. He said he anticipated
that 900 students would have joined the
site by this morning.”
CAMERON
(into phone)
Yeah, Divya was just reading that 650
students signed up for it on the first
day.
TYLER
If I were a drug dealer I couldn’t give
free drugs to 650 people in one day.
DIVYA
And this guy doesn’t have three friends
to rub together to make a fourth.
CAMERON
(quieting them so he can hear)
Guys, please, come on.
(into phone)
That’s what we’ll do, Mr. Hotchkiss.
We’ll put all this together and we’ll
email it to you.
(listens)
You won’t be able to get on the website
yourself.
(beat)
Because you don’t have--a Harvard, umm--
You know what, it would just be easier
for us to email it to you.
(listens)
No, I’m sure you’re right, this is a good
guy--
DIVYA
(reacting)
Wow!!
CAMERON
(into phone)
--and he’s very bright and I’m sure he
didn’t mean to...do what he did.
(beat)
Thank you very much, and Dad--alright
love you too.
CAMERON hangs up.
DIVYA
This is a good guy?
CAMERON
We don’t know that he’s not a good guy.
DIVYA
We know that he stole our idea. We know
he lied to our faces for a month and a
half while he--
CAMERON
He never lied to our faces.
DIVYA
(DIVYA tosses the Crimson to TYLER)
He never saw our faces! He lied to our e-
mail accounts and he got himself a 42-day
head start because he knows what
apparently you don’t which is that
getting there first is everything!
CAMERON
I’m a competitive racer, Div, I don’t
think you need to school me on the
importance of getting there first, thank
you.
DIVYA
Alright. That was your father’s lawyer?
CAMERON
It was his in-house counsel, he’ll look
at it and if he thinks it’s appropriate
he’ll send a cease and desist letter.
DIVYA
What’s that gonna do?
CAMERON
What, do you wanna hire and IP lawyer and
sue him?
DIVYA
No, I wanna hire the Sopranos to beat the
shit out of him with a hammer.
TYLER
We don’t even have to do that.
CAMERON
That’s right.
TYLER
We can do that ourselves.
CAMERON
Hey--
TYLER
I’m six-five, 220 and there’s two of me.
DIVYA
I’m with this guy.
CAMERON
And I’m saying let’s calm down until we
know what we’re talking about.
DIVYA
How much more information are you waiting
for? We met with Mark three times, we
exchanged 52 e-mails, we can prove that
he looked at the code--
(then)
What is that on the bottom of the page?
CAMERON
(he’s already seen it)
It says “A Mark Zuckerberg Production”.
DIVYA
On the home page?
TYLER
On every page.
DIVYA
Shit, I need a second to let the
classiness waft over me.
CAMERON
Look--
TYLER
Cam. They wrote, “Zuckerberg said that he
hoped the privacy options would help to
restore his reputation following student
outrage over Facemash.com”.
(beat)
That’s exactly what WE said to him. He’s
giving us the finger in the Crimson. Now
while we’re waiting for Dad’s lawyer to
look this stuff over, we can at least--
CAMERON
No.
TYLER
--get something going in the paper so
that people know--
CAMERON
What?
TYLER
That this thing is in dispute.
CAMERON
We’re not starting a knife fight in the
Crimson and we’re not suing anybody.
DIVYA
Why not?
CAMERON wants to answer the question but doesn’t...
DIVYA (CONT’D)
I don’t understand, why not?
CAMERON
(beat--referring to TYLER)
He’s gonna say it’s stupid.
TYLER
Me?
DIVYA
Say it. Why not?
CAMERON
Because we’re gentlemen of Harvard.
(beat)
This is Harvard. You don’t plant stories
and you don’t sue people.
DIVYA
(pause)
You thought he was going to be the only
one who thought that was stupid?
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