НАЗВАНИЕ: The Social Network (2010)
ГОД: 2010
СЦЕНАРИСТ: Aaron Sorkin
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FROM THE BLACK WE HEAR--
                     MARK (V.O.)
           Did you know there are more people with
           genius IQ’s living in China than there
           are people of any kind living in the
           United States?
                     ERICA (V.O.)
           That can’t possibly be true.
                     MARK (V.O.)
           It is.
                     ERICA (V.O.)
           What would account for that?
                     MARK (V.O.)
           Well, first, an awful lot of people live
           in China. But here’s my question:
FADE IN:
INT. CAMPUS BAR - NIGHT
MARK ZUCKERBERG is a sweet looking 19 year old whose lack of
any physically intimidating attributes masks a very
complicated and dangerous anger. He has trouble making eye
contact and sometimes it’s hard to tell if he’s talking to you
or to himself.
ERICA, also 19, is Mark’s date. She has a girl-next-door face
that makes her easy to fall for. At this point in the
conversation she already knows that she’d rather not be there
and her politeness is about to be tested.
The scene is stark and simple.
                     MARK
           How do you distinguish yourself in a
           population of people who all got 1600 on
           their SAT’s?
                     ERICA
           I didn’t know they take SAT’s in China.
                     MARK
           They don’t. I wasn’t talking about China
           anymore, I was talking about me.
                     ERICA
           You got 1600?
                     MARK
           Yes. I could sing in an a Capella group,
           but I can’t sing.
                                            2.

          ERICA
Does that mean you actually got nothing
wrong?
          MARK
I can row crew or invent a 25 dollar PC.
          ERICA
Or you can get into a final club.
          MARK
Or I can get into a final club.
          ERICA
You know, from a woman’s perspective,
sometimes not singing in an a Capella
group is a good thing?
          MARK
This is serious.
          ERICA
On the other hand I do like guys who row
crew.
           MARK
    (beat)
Well I can’t do that.
          ERICA
I was kid--
          MARK
Yes, it means I got nothing wrong on the
test.
          ERICA
Have you ever tried?
          MARK
I’m trying right now.
          ERICA
To row crew?
          MARK
To get into a final club. To row crew?
No. Are you, like--whatever--delusional?
          ERICA
Maybe, but sometimes you say two things
at once and I’m not sure which one I’m
supposed to be aiming at.
          MARK
But you’ve seen guys who row crew, right?
                                              3.

             ERICA
No.
          MARK
Okay, well they’re bigger than me.
They’re world class athletes. And a
second ago you said you like guys who row
crew so I assumed you had met one.
          ERICA
I guess I just meant I liked the idea of
it. The way a girl likes cowboys.
             MARK
    (beat)
Okay.
          ERICA
Should we get something to eat?
          MARK
Would you like to talk about something
else?
          ERICA
No, it’s just since the beginning of the
conversation about finals club I think I
may have missed a birthday.
    (can’t get over it)
There are really more people in China with
genius IQ’s than the entire population of--
          MARK
The Phoenix is the most diverse. The Fly
Club, Roosevelt punched the Porc.
             ERICA
Which one?
          MARK
The Porcellian, the Porc, it’s the best
of the best.
          ERICA
Which Roosevelt?
             MARK
Theodore.
          ERICA
Is it true that they send a bus around to
pick up girls who want to party with the
next Fed Chairman?
          MARK
You can see why it’s so important to get
in.
                                                      4.

                    ERICA
          Okay, well, which is the easiest to get
          into?
MARK is visibly hit by that...
                    MARK
          Why would you ask me that?
                    ERICA
          I’m just asking.
                    MARK
          None of them, that’s the point. My friend
          Eduardo made $300,000 betting oil futures
          one summer and Eduardo won’t come close
          to getting in. The ability to make money
          doesn’t impress anybody around here.
                    ERICA
          Must be nice. He made $300,000 in a
          summer?
                    MARK
          He likes meteorology.
                    ERICA
          You said it was oil futures.
                    MARK
          You can read the weather you can predict
          the price of heating oil. I think you
          asked me that because you think the final
          club that’s easiest to get into is the
          one where I’ll have the best chance.
                    ERICA
          I asked--what?
                    MARK
          You asked me which one was the easiest to
          get into because you think that that’s
          the one where I’ll have the best chance.
                    ERICA
          The one that’s the easiest to get into
          would be the one where anybody has the
          best chance.
                    MARK
          You didn’t ask me which one was the best
          one, you asked me which one was the
          easiest one.
                    ERICA
          I was honestly just asking. Okay? I was
          just asking to ask. Mark, I’m not
          speaking in code.
                                            5.

          MARK
Erica--
           ERICA
You’re obsessed with finals clubs. You
have finals clubs OCD and you need to see
someone about it who’ll prescribe you
some sort of medication. You don’t care
if the side effects may include
blindness.
          MARK
Final clubs. Not finals clubs and there’s
a difference between being obsessed and
being motivated.
          ERICA
Yes there is.
          MARK
Well you do--that was cryptic--so you do
speak in code.
          ERICA
I didn’t mean to be cryptic.
          MARK
I’m saying I need to do something
substantial in order to get the attention
of the clubs.
          ERICA
Why?
          MARK
Because they’re exclusive. And fun and
they lead to a better life.
          ERICA
Teddy Roosevelt didn’t get elected
president because he was a member of the
Phoenix Club.
          MARK
He was a member of the Porcellian and yes
he did.
          ERICA
Well why don’t you just concentrate on
being the best you you can be?
          MARK
Did you really just say that?
           ERICA
    (beat)
I was kidding.
           (MORE)
                                            6.
          ERICA (CONT'D)
Although just because something’s trite
it doesn’t make it any less--
          MARK
I want to try to be straight forward with
you and tell you that I think you might
want to be a little more supportive. If I
get in I’ll be taking you...to the
events, and the gatherings...and you’ll
be meeting a lot of people you wouldn’t
normally get to meet.
          ERICA
    (smiles)
You would do that for me?
          MARK
We’re dating.
          ERICA
Okay, well I want to try and be straight
forward with you and let you know that
we’re not anymore.
          MARK
What do you mean?
          ERICA
We’re not dating anymore, I’m sorry.
          MARK
Is this a joke?
          ERICA
No, it’s not.
          MARK
You’re breaking up with me?
          ERICA
You’re going to introduce me to people I
wouldn’t normally have the chance to
meet? What the fff--What is that supposed
to mean?
          MARK
Wait, settle down.
          ERICA
What is it supposed to mean?
          MARK
Erica, the reason we’re able to sit here
and drink right now is cause you used to
sleep with the door guy.
                                            7.

          ERICA
The door guy, his name is Bobby. I did
not slept with the door guy, the door guy
is a friend of mine. He’s a perfectly
good class of people and what part of
Long Island are you from--Wimbledon?
           MARK
Wait--
          ERICA
I’m going back to my dorm.
          MARK
Wait, wait, is this real?
           ERICA
Yes.
          MARK
Okay, then wait. I apologize, okay?
          ERICA
I have to go study.
           MARK
Erica--
           ERICA
Yeah.
          MARK
I’m sorry, I mean it.
          ERICA
I appreciate that but--
           MARK
Come on.
          ERICA
--I have to study.
          MARK
You don’t have to study. You don’t have
to study. Let’s just talk.
           ERICA
I can’t.
           MARK
Why?
          ERICA
Because it’s exhausting. Dating you is
like dating a stairmaster.
                                                       8.

                     MARK
          All I meant is that you’re not likely to--
          currently--I wasn’t making a comment on
          your parents--I was just saying you go to
          B.U., I was stating a fact, that’s all,
          and if it seemed rude then of course I
          apologize.
                    ERICA
          I have to go study.
                    MARK
          You don’t have to study.
                    ERICA
          Why do you keep saying I don’t have to
          study?!
                    MARK
          Because you go to B.U.!
ERICA stares at him...
                    MARK (CONT’D)
              (pause)
          Do you want to get some food?
                    ERICA
          I’m sorry you’re not sufficiently
          impressed with my education.
                    MARK
          And I’m sorry I don’t have a rowboat so
          we’re even.
                    ERICA
          I think we should just be friends.
                    MARK
          I don’t want friends.
                    ERICA
          I was being polite, I have no intention
          of being friends with you.
                    MARK
          I’m under some pressure right now with my
          OS class and if we could just order food
          I think we should--
ERICA takes MARK’s hand and looks at him tenderly...
                    ERICA
              (close)
          You are probably going to be a very
          successful computer person.
                    (MORE)
                                                              9.
                    ERICA (CONT'D)
          But you’re going to go through life
          thinking that girls don’t like you
          because you’re a nerd. And I want you to
          know, from the bottom of my heart, that
          that won’t be true. It’ll be because
          you’re an asshole.
And with that stinger, ERICA walks off we slowly push in on
MARK. A fuse has just been lit.
CUT TO:
EXT. BAR - NIGHT
As MARK busts out of the bar and into the population of
Harvard Square.
CUT TO:
EXT. HARVARD SQUARE - NIGHT
As MARK continues on, he passes a group of people heading in
the opposite direction for a party.
As MARK’s steady and determined stride continues, he’ll pass
by all kinds of (seemingly) happy, well-adjusted, socially
adept people.
The pulsing intro of a song crashes in that will take us
through the following sequence
CUT TO:
TITLE:
                     Harvard University
                         Fall 2003
INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/LOBBY - NIGHT
As the MUSIC CONTINUES and MARK busts into the lobby of his
dorm. He doesn’t look at anyone as he heads up the stairs and
we
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
A bedroom that’s part of a three-bedroom suite. The MUSIC
CONTINUES as MARK walks in, flicks his lap-top on without
looking at it and walks out of frame as we follow MARK to his
mini-frigde where he pulls out a Beck’s beer.
MARK’s fingers dance easily on the keyboard--like a Juilliard
pianist warming up. The website he’s just called up gets
loaded onto the screen.
Zuckonit.com
                                                             10.

This is the only place he’s comfortable.
TITLE:
                      8:13 PM
He begins blogging.
                    MARK (V.O.)
          Erica Albright’s a bitch. Do you think
          that’s because her family changed their
          name from Albrecht or do you think it’s
          because all B.U. girls are bitches?
He takes a good gulp of his drink. We see the words we’re
hearing filling up his computer screen--
                    MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)
          For the record, she may look like a 34C
          but she’s getting all kinds of help from
          our friends at Victoria’s Secret. She’s a
          34B, as in barely anything there. False
          advertising.
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
TITLE:
                      9:48 PM
                    MARK (V.O.)
          The truth is she has a nice face. I need
          to do something to help me take my mind
          off her. Easy enough, except I need an
          idea.
MARK takes out a keyboard for his desktop computer takes a
drink from his beer.
BILLY OLSON walks into the room carrying a six pack. He sits
on the bed behind MARK and opens one for himself.
MARK has moved his mouse to an icon on his desktop labeled
“Kirkland Facebook”. He clicks and opens it. A menu of photos
appear. He blogs again.
                    MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)
          I’m a little intoxicated, I’m not gonna
          lie. So what if it’s not even 10PM and
          it’s a Tuesday night? The Kirkland
          facebook is open on my desktop and some
          of these people have pretty horrendous
          facebook pics.
                    (MORE)
                                                           11.
                    MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)
          Billy Olson’s sitting here and had the
          idea of putting some of these next to
          pictures of farm animals and have people
          vote on who’s hotter.
CUT TO:
INT. A BUS - NIGHT
It resembles the kind of bus that would take you to the rental
car place but on board are two-dozen COLLEGE GIRLS who are
dressed for a party. Last minute make-up touch-ups are being
done and a joint is being passed.
                    MARK (V.O.)
          I think he’s on to something.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
TITLE:
                     10:17 PM
                    MARK
          Yea, it’s on. I’m not gonna do the farm
          animals but I like the idea of comparing
          two people together. It gives the whole
          thing a very “Turing” feel since people’s
          ratings of the pictures--
CUT TO:
EXT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
A bouncer--a townie in a tuxedo and a headset--is manning the
velvet rope that guards the thick, wooden, red double-doors
that lead to, believe it or not, one of the most exclusive
clubs in the world.
Four college girls are already waiting in line but that
number’s about to grow as the bus pulls up and opens its
doors.
                    MARK (VO)
          --will be more implicit than, say,
          choosing a number to represent each
          person’s hotness like they do on
          hotornot.com. The first thing we’re going
          to need is a lot of pictures.
                    (MORE)
                                                          12.
                    MARK (VO) (CONT'D)
          Unfortunately, Harvard doesn’t keep a
          public centralized facebook so I’m going
          to have to get all the images from the
          individual houses that people are in. Let
          the hacking begin.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
There are two more kids in the room with MARK--DUSTIN
MOSKOVITZ and CHRIS HUGHES.
                    MARK (V.O.)
          First up is Kirkland. They keep
          everything open and allow indexes in
          their Apache configuration, so a little
          WGET magic is all that’s necessary to
          download the entire Kirkland facebook.
          Kids’ stuff.
On the computer screen, we’ve been seeing him download picture
after picture of Harvard girls.
CUT TO:
EXT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
THREE COEDS are talking to the BOUNCER. The BOUNCER looks up
at TWO HANDSOME CLUB MEMBERS. The MEMBERS give him the nod and
the FIVE COEDS are let past the velvet rope.
They’re led up a half flight of red-carpeted stairs to a party
that’s about a half-hour away from being in full swing.
The CLUB PRESIDENT is addressing the GUESTS from the top of
the stairs--
                    CLUB PRESIDENT
          Excuse me everybody, you are at one of
          the oldest, one of the most exclusive
          clubs--not just at Harvard but in the
          world--and I want to welcome you all to
          Phoenix Club’s first party of the fall
          semester.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
MARK finishes another drink and gets back to his work.
TITLE:
                      1:03 AM
                                                                   13.

                          MARK (V.O.)
                Next is Elliot. They’re also open but
                with no indexes on Apache. I can run an
                empty search and it returns all of the
                images in the database in a single page.
                Then I can save the page and Mozilla will
                save all the images for me. Excellent.
                Moving right along.
      Flying by at super-speed on MARK’s computer screen have been
      commands and images that the rest of us can’t possibly
      understand.
      CUT TO:
      INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
      The best and the brightest are checking out the hottest and
      the easiest.
      We see a shot of uniformed FEMALE BARTENDERS making a couple
      of drinks with top-shelf bottles, a DJ working the highest end
      equipment and 20 year old guys, some of whom look 15, in
      blazers, khakis and club ties.
      CUT BACK TO:
      INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
                          MARK (V.O)
                Lowell has some security. They require a
                username/password combo and I’m going to
                go ahead and say they don’t have access
                to main FAS user database, so they have
                no way of detecting an intrusion.
11B   INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT                                       11B
      It’s on. Body shots. A couple making out in the corner. A
      matchbox gets slid open by perfectly manicured fingers that
      take out a few white pills. Two girls are dancing with each
      other and move into a kiss.
      MARK’s voiceovers are starting to overlap and cascade into
      each other--
                          MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)
                Adams has no security but limits the
                number of results to twenty a page. All I
                need to do is break out the same script I
                used on Lowell and we’re set.
                          MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)
                Quincy has no online facebook, what a
                sham. Nothing I can do about that.
      CUT TO:
                                                           14.

MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Instructions and images fly across MARK’s screen--
                    MARK (V.O.)
          Dunster is intense. Not only is there no
          public directory but there’s no--
                     MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)
          Leverett is a little better. It’s
          slightly obnoxious that they only let you
          view one picture at a time and I’m not
          about to--
                    MARK (V.O.) (CONT’D)
          --definitely necessary to break out the
          emacs and modify that perl script with--
INT. KIRKLAND HOUSE/STAIRWAY - NIGHT
EDUARDO SAVERIN, a sweet-looking Brazilian sophomore wearing a
three-piece suit is rushing up the stairs two at a time.
TITLE:
                     2:08 AM
                    MARK (V.O.)
          Done.
EDUARDO gets to the top of the stairs and hurries into--
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - CONTINUOUS
                    EDUARDO
          What’s going on?
                    MARK (V.O.)
          Perfect timing. Eduardo’s here and he’s
          going to have the key ingredient.
                    EDUARDO
          Mark.
                    MARK
          Wardo.
                    EDUARDO
          You and Erica split up?
                    MARK
          How did you know that?
                    EDUARDO
          It’s on your blog.
                                                             15.

                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          Are you alright?
                    MARK
          I need you.
                    EDUARDO
          I’m here for you.
                    MARK
          No, I need the algorithm you use to rank
          chess players.
                    EDUARDO
          Are you okay?
                    MARK
          We’re ranking girls.
                    EDUARDO
          You mean other students?
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          You think this is such a good idea?
                    MARK
          I need the algorithm.
                    EDUARDO
          Mark--
                    MARK
          I need the algorithm.
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
EDUARDO is writing an equation with a grease marker on the
window. When the equation’s done it looks like this:
Girl A:


           Ea =                      1
                           1 + 10(Rb - Ra) / 400
                                                           16.

Girl B:


           Eb =                  1
                          1 + 10(Ra - Rb) / 400


                    EDUARDO
          Give each girl a base rating of 1400. At
          any given time “Girl A” has a rating R-a
          and “Girl B” has a rating R-b.
                    MARK
          When any two girls are matched up there’s
          an expectation of which will win based on
          their current rating, right?
                    EDUARDO
              (tapping the window)
          Yes. And those expectations are expressed
          this way.
                    MARK
          Let’s write it.
CUT TO:
INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
The two girls who we just saw get let in are now dancing on a
table in their underwear.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. MARK’S ROOM - NIGHT
MARK makes a few last key strokes and a new website comes up
on the screen.
                    FACEMASH
MARK makes a few more keystrokes and two pictures of two
Harvard girls come up on the screen.
After a moment...
                    ALL
          The one on the left.
MARK clicks the girl on the left and another picture takes the
place of the girl on the right.
                    ALL (CONT’D)
          On the right.
                                                            17.

MARK clicks the girl on the right while another picture takes
the place of the girl on the left.
                    ALL (CONT’D)
          Still the right.
                      EDUARDO
          It works.
                    DUSTIN
          Who should we send it to first?
                      EDUARDO
          Dwyer.
                      CHRIS
          Neal.
                    EDUARDO
          Who are you gonna send it to?
MARK’s made the link to e-mail and hits send.
                    MARK
          Just a couple of people. The question is,
          who are they gonna send it to?
CUT TO:
INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
We move to a room where there’s a co-ed poker game underway
with the girls smoking cigars. A bra and a couple of pairs of
stockings are out on the table. As we move through the poker
room, we see a computer behind one of the players. The
computer is indicating that there’s e-mail.
A PLAYER turns around and opens the e-mail as the poker game
and the party go on behind him.
He hits a link and FACEMASH opens. He looks at it, then--
                    PLAYER
              (to another player)
          Check this out.
CUT TO:
INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT
TWO MALE STUDENTS at a laptop.
                    STUDENT
          The one on the left.
CUT TO:
                                              18.

INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT
THREE MALE STUDENTS AT A COMPUTER
                    ALL
          On the right.
CUT TO:
INT. ALL NIGHT DINER - NIGHT
A bunch of STUDENTS around a computer.
                       ALL
          The right.
CUT TO:
INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT
Dozens of partiers are around the computer.
                    FEMALE STUDENT
          That’s my roommate.
CUT TO:
INT. CYBER CAFE - NIGHT
A bunch of students around the computer--
                    FEMALE STUDENT
          This is pathetic.
CUT TO:
INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT
A FEW STUDENTS gathered at a computer--
                    ALL
          On the left.
CUT TO:
INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Another computer--
                    ALL
          On the right.
CUT TO:
                                                          19.

INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT
This time just a single student in his pajamas as he looks at
two pictures of girls side by side.
CUT TO:
INT. ANOTHER DORM ROOM - NIGHT
And another single student voting and
CUT TO:
INT. DORM ROOM - NIGHT
We should instantly know that this dorm room is different.
It’s more modern and with less character and history than the
others.
In the background a GIRL is at her computer and in the
foreground ERICA is sitting in bed taking notes from a
textbook.
                    GIRL (ERICA’S ROOMMATE)
          Oh shit.
              (to the other GIRL)
          Albright?
                    ERICA’S ROOMMATE
          He blogged about you.
ERICA looks at her for a moment, then gets up to look at her
roommates computer--
                    ERICA’S ROOMMATE (CONT’D)
          You don’t want to read it.
ERICA ignores her roommate. We see her mortification as she
reads, and at that moment THREE GUYS appear in her open
doorway. They’re baked and smiling and one of them is holding
a bra.
                    COLLEGE GUY
          Erica.
ERICA looks over at the guys--
                    COLLEGE GUY (CONT’D)
          Is this yours? I stole it from a tranny.
                    ERICA’S ROOMMATE
          Get the hell out of here!
The three guys go on their drunken way as we SLOWLY PUSH IN on
ERICA who’s frozen in her humiliation and then
CUT TO:
                                                             20.

INT. HARVARD DORM ROOM - NIGHT
                       STUDENTS
          The left!
INT. COFFEE HOUSE - NIGHT
                       STUDENTS
          The right!
INT. DINING HALL - NIGHT
                       STUDENTS
          The left!
INT. GIRLS’ DORM ROOM - NIGHT
                       STUDENTS
          The right!
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
As sets of photos go flying by on his computer screen.
MARK is staring at the chaos of activity he’s created in the
middle of the night.
                     EDUARDO
          This is an awful lot of traffic.
              (beat)
          Think maybe we should shut it down before
          we get into trouble.
MARK ignores him as we pre-lap a PHONE RINGING and
CUT TO:
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
A man named COX is asleep next to his wife. It’s his phone
that’s RINGING. COX wakes up and answers it--
                    COX
              (into phone)
          Hello?
              (listens)
          Wait, what?
              (listens)
          At 4 in the morning?
INTERCUT WITH:
INT. HARVARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE - SAME TIME
A tired GRAD STUDENT who spends the night monitoring the
campus computer system is looking at his computer.
                                                          21.

                    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.
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Pictures are flying by on Mark’s computer when suddenly they
freeze.
Then an icon comes up telling him he’s no longer connected to
the internet.
Everyone is frozen silent for a moment...
                    EDUARDO
          You don’t think--
                     MARK
          I do.
                    EDUARDO
          Go see if it’s everybody.
DUSTIN, CHRIS and EDUARDO head out of the room. MARK waits as
the guys start coming back in the room.
                    CHRIS
          Can’t connect.
                    DUSTIN
          The network’s down.
                                                          22.

                    EDUARDO
          Unless it’s a coincidence I think this is
          us.
                    MARK
          It’s not a coincidence.
                       EDUARDO
              (bad)
          Holy shit.
And we stay on MARK a moment before we
CUT TO:
INT. DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
It’s three years later and MARK is sitting with his LAWYERS at
a large conference table. MARK is wearing a hoodie, sweatpants
and Adidas flip-flops--a personal uniform that we’ll come to
understand. And while it may take us a while to notice it,
MARK’s a different person in these flash-forward scenes. Still
tortured and complicated, but comfortable now with his own
power.
His lawyer is SY, who’s accompanied by some junior associates,
one of whom--a pleasant, pretty and professional young
contemporary of Mark’s named MARYLIN, we’ll get to know.
On the other side are EDUARDO and his lawyer, GRETCHEN, also
accompanied by some associates. A STENOGRAPHER is typing the
record.
The room is glass on two sides and through the windows we can
see the behemoths of Silicon Valley--Oracle, SunMicrosystems,
Google, etc.
GRETCHEN is taking MARK’s deposition.
                    GRETCHEN
          So you were called in front of the Ad
          Board.
                    MARK
          That’s not what happened.
                    GRETCHEN
          You weren’t called in front of the
          Administrative Board?
                    MARK
          No, back, I mean--That’s--back at the bar
          with Erica Albright. She said all that?
                    SY
          Mark, I wouldn’t--
                                                          23.

                    MARK
          That I said that stuff to her?
                    GRETCHEN
          I was reading from the transcript of her
          deposition so--
                    MARK
          Why would you even need to depose her?
                    GRETCHEN
          That’s really for us to--
                    MARK
          You think if I know she can make me look
          like a jerk I’ll be more likely--
                       SY
          Mark--
                    MARK
          --to settle?
                    SY
          Why don’t we stretch our legs for a
          minute, can we do that? It’s been almost
          three hours and frankly you did spend an
          awful lot of time embarrassing Mr.
          Zuckerberg with the girl’s testimony from
          the bar.
                    MARK
          I’m not embarrassed, she just made a lot
          of that up.
                    GRETCHEN
          She was under oath.
                    MARK
          Then I guess that would be the first time
          somebody’s lied under oath.
People are stretching and getting coffee and talking quietly.
MARK stays in his seat.
MARYLIN, the attractive second year associate who’s on Mark’s
legal team is still sitting too...about four seats down from
Mark.
                    MARYLIN
          The site got twenty-two hundred hits
          within two hours?
                       MARK
              (beat)
          Thousand.
                                                           24.

                       MARYLIN
          What?
                    MARK
          Twenty-two thousand.
                       MARYLIN
                 (pause--even)
          Wow.
CUT TO:
EXT. CHARLES RIVER - DAWN
The Harvard Crew is practicing on two-man sculls. There are
three boats that are running roughly even with each other and
the two-man crews are rowing with all they’ve got. We’re
gliding along with them in the water--
                    A CREW MEMBER
          Those guys are just freakin’ fast.
And we PULL BACK TO REVEAL that there’s a fourth boat which is
already five boat lengths ahead of the other three.
The fourth boat is being crewed by CAMERON and TYLER
WINKLEVOSS--identical twins who stepped out of an ad for
Abercrombie & Fitch.
They know that the others aren’t in their class and even
though they’re highly competitive athletes, they don’t like
showing anyone up, least of all their teammates.
                    CAMERON
          Is there anyway to make this a fair
          fight?
                    TYLER
          We could jump out and swim.
                    CAMERON
          I think we’d have to jump out and drown.
                    TYLER
          Or you could row forward and I could row
          backward.
                    CAMERON
          We’re genetically identical, science says
          we’d stay in one place.
                    TYLER
          Row the damn boat.
                                                          25.

And the WINKLEVOSS twins kick into full gear and open up an
even wider lead as we
CUT TO:
INT. PFORZHEIMER DINING HALL - MORNING
The room’s a couple of hundred years old and magnificent.
Long, heavy mahogany tables are dotted with club members
having breakfast. A PORTER in a white jacket is setting copies
of The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper, at the table
occupied by CAMERON and TYLER whose trays are loaded with
mountains of eggs and pancakes and carbs.
DIVYA NARENDRA, a nice looking Indian student, sits down next
to them holding a copy of the Crimson.
                       CAMERON
          What’s up?
                    DIVYA
          You guys hear about this?
                       CAMERON
          What?
                    DIVYA
          Two nights ago a sophomore choked the
          network from a laptop at Kirkland.
                       CAMERON
          Really?
                       DIVYA
          At 4AM.
TYLER picks up a copy of the Crimson and begins reading while
his brother and DIVYA keep talking.
                       CAMERON
          How?
                    DIVYA
          He set up a website where you vote on the
          hotness of female undergrads. What were
          we doing that none of us heard about
          this?
                    CAMERON
          I don’t know, a three hour low-rate
          technical row before breakfast, a full
          course load, studying, another three
          hours in the tank and then studying. I
          don’t know how we missed it. How much
          activity was there on this thing that he--
                                                             26.

                    TYLER
              (reading)
          22,000 page requests.
                     CAMERON
          22,000?!
                    TYLER
          Cam, this guy hacked the into facebooks
          of seven houses. He set up the whole
          website in one night and he did it while
          he was drunk.
                     CAMERON
          22,000.
                     TYLER
          Yeah.
                    CAMERON
          How do you know he was drunk?
                    DIVYA
          He was blogging simultaneously. You know
          what I think?
                    TYLER
          I’m way ahead of you.
                    DIVYA
          This is our guy.
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
It’s MARK and his LAWYERS again but this time on the other
side of the table are TYLER and CAMERON, DIVYA and their
lawyer, GAGE, whose family had first-class seats on the
Mayflower.
We’ll be back and forth between the two deposition rooms a
lot.
                    CAMERON
              (for the record)
          Cameron Winklevoss. W-I-N-K-L-E-V-O-S-S.
          Cameron’s spelled the usual way.
                    TYLER
              (for the record)
          Tyler Winklevoss. Tyler’s spelled the
          usual way and my last name is the same as
          my brother's.
CUT TO:
                                                          27.

INT. ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING ROOM - DAY
MARK stands before a panel of ADMINISTRATORS as well as COX,
the systems manager who was woken up in the opening sequence.
                    ADMINISTRATOR
          Mr. Zuckerberg, this is an Administrative
          Board hearing. You’re being accused of
          intentionally breaching security,
          violating copyrights, violating
          individual privacy by creating the
          website, WWW.FACEMASH.COM. You’re also
          charged with being in violation of
          university policy on distribution of
          digitized images. Before we begin with
          our questioning you’re allowed to make a
          statement. Would you like to do so?
                     MARK
              (beat)
          Uh...I’ve, you know--
MARK stands to address the Board.
                    MARK (CONT’D)
          I’ve already apologized in the Crimson to
          the ABHW, to Fuerza Latina and to any
          women at Harvard who might have been
          insulted as I take it that they were. As
          for any charges stemming from the breach
          of security, I believe I deserve some
          recognition from this Board.
MARK takes his seat.
                     ADMINISTRATOR
              (pause)
          I’m sorry?
                       MARK
          Yes.
                    ADMINISTRATOR
          I don’t understand.
                    MARK
          Which part?
                    ADMINISTRATOR
          You deserve recognition?
                    MARK
          I believe I pointed out some pretty
          gaping holes in your system.
                    COX
          Excuse me, may I?
                                                          28.

                       ADMINISTRATOR
          Yes.
                    COX
          Mr. Zuckerberg, I’m in charge of security
          for all computers on the Harvard network
          and I can assure you of its
          sophistication. In fact it was that level
          of sophistication that led us to you in
          less than four hours.
                    MARK
          Four hours?
                       COX
          Yes sir.
                    MARK
          That would be impressive except if you’d
          known what you were looking for you would
          have seen it written on my dorm room
          window.
CUT TO:
INT. CORRIDOR - DAY
As the heavy wooden door from the hearing slams shut behind
MARK. EDUARDO is waiting for him.
                       EDUARDO
          So?
                    MARK
          Six months academic probation.
They walk out onto--
EXT. QUAD - CONTINUOUS
                    EDUARDO
          Wow, they had to make an example out of
          you.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          They had my blog. I shouldn’t have
          written the thing about the farm animals.
          That was stupid. I was kidding for God’s
          sake, doesn’t anybody have a sense of--
                    EDUARDO
          I tried to stop you.
                       MARK
          I know.
                                                          29.

                    EDUARDO
          How do you do this thing where you manage
          to get all girls to hate us? Why did I
          let you--
                    MARK
          I know.
                    EDUARDO
          You can’t do that.
                    MARK
          Wardo. I said I know.
CUT TO:
INT. LECTURE HALL - DAY
MARK is in his Operating Systems class. This is considered the
hardest class at Harvard and MARK is one of the 50 students
with their laptops open as the professor takes them through an
impossibly difficult lesson.
                     PROFESSOR
          Okay, let’s look at a sample problem:
          Suppose we’re given a computer with a 16-
          bit virtual address and a page size of
          256 bytes.
A GIRL scribbles something on a piece of paper. Then hands it
to the student next to her and nods that it should be passed
over to MARK. While that’s happening--
                    PROFESSOR (CONT’D)
          The system uses one-level page tables,
          that start at address 0x0400. Maybe you
          want to have DMA on your 16-bit system,
          who knows? The first few pages are
          reserved for hardware flags, etc.
MARK opens the note. It reads “U dick”.
He looks over and sees a couple of GIRLS looking at him with
contempt.
                    PROFESSOR (CONT’D)
          Assume page table entries have eight
          status bits.
MARK closes his laptop, gets up and starts to head out of the
hall.
                    PROFESSOR (CONT’D)
          The eight status bits would be--
              (re: MARK)
          And I see we have our first surrender.
                    (MORE)
                                                       30.
                    PROFESSOR (CONT’D)
          Don’t worry, Mr. Zuckerberg, brighter men
          than you have tried and failed at this
          class.
                    MARK
              (calling back)
          1 valid bit, 1 modify bit, 1 reference
          bit and 5 permission bits.
                    PROFESSOR
          That is correct. Does everybody see how
          he got there?
MARK walks out of the lecture hall and we
CUT TO:
EXT. ACADEMIC BUILDING - DAY
As MARK comes out and heads onto the quad--
                    CAMERON (OS)
              (calling)
          Mark?
CAMERON and TYLER have been waiting by the entrance.
                    CAMERON (CONT’D)
          Are you Mark Zuckerberg?
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    CAMERON
          Cameron Winklevoss.
                    MARK
          Hi.
                    TYLER
          Tyler Winklevoss.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          You guys related?
                    CAMERON
          That’s good.
                    TYLER
          That’s funny.
                    CAMERON
          We’ve never heard that before.
                                                            31.

                    MARK
          What can I do for you? Did I insult your
          girlfriends?
                    CAMERON
          No, you didn’t insult our girl--
              (to TYLER)
          Actually, I don’t know.
                    TYLER
              (to CAMERON)
          We never asked.
                    CAMERON
          We should do that. No, we have an idea we
          want to talk to you about. Do you have a
          minute?
                    MARK
              (pause)
          You guys look like you spend some time at
          the gym.
                    CAMERON
          We have to.
                    MARK
          Why?
                    TYLER
          We row crew.
                    MARK
              (pause--then smiles a little)
          Yeah, I’ve got a minute.
                    CAMERON
          Great.
CUT TO:
EXT. PORCELLIAN CLUB - DAY
As MARK is escorted by CAMERON and TYLER toward the club.
                    TYLER
          You ever been inside the Porcellian?
                    MARK
          No.
                    TYLER
          You understand we can’t take you past the
          bike room ‘cause you’re not a member.
                    MARK
          I’ve heard.
                                                          32.

INT. 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.
                                                             33.

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
          How much?
                    MARK
          I didn’t sell it. I uploaded it for free.
                       DIVYA
          For free?
                       MARK
          Yeah.
                       DIVYA
          Why?
MARK gives a short shrug that says both “I don’t know” and
“Fuck you” at the same time.
                    CAMERON
          Okay, well. We have something that we’ve
          been working on for a while, we think
          it’s great. It’s called the
          HarvardConnection. You create your own
          page. Interests, bio, friends, pics.
                    TYLER
          And then people can go online, see your
          bio and request to be your--
                    MARK
          Yeah. How’s it different from MySpace or
          Friendster?
                    TYLER
          Harvard-dot-E-D-U.
                    CAMERON
          Harvard.edu. The most prestigious e-mail
          address in the country.
                                            34.

          TYLER
And the whole site’s kinda based on the
idea that girls--well...
          CAMERON
Not to put anything indelicately.
          DIVYA
Girls wanna get with guys who go to
Harvard.
          CAMERON
Divya and my brother don’t have trouble
putting things indelicately.
          TYLER
The difference between what we’re talking
about and MySpace or Friendster or any of
those other social networking site--
           MARK
--is exclusivity.
    (beat)
Right?
                DIVYA
Right.
                TYLER
       (beat)
Yes.
          CAMERON
We’d love fort you to work with us, Mark.
I mean, we need a gifted programmer who’s
creative.
          TYLER
And we know you’ve taking it in the
shins.
          DIVYA
The women’s groups are ready to declare a
Fatwa and this could help rehabilitate
your image.
          MARK
    (remembering what Erica said)
Wow. You’d do that for me?
          DIVYA
We’d like to work with you.
          CAMERON
Our first programmer graduated and went
to work at Google. Our second programmer
just got overwhelmed with school work.
          (MORE)
                                                    35.
                    CAMERON (CONT'D)
          We would need you to build the site and
          write the code and we’ll provide--
                     MARK
          I’m in.
                    CAMERON
          --the money. What?
                     MARK
          I’m in.
                     TYLER
          Awesome.
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
The WINKLEVOSSES and DIVYA with GAGE.
                    GAGE
          That’s what you said?
                    MARK
          It was three or four years ago, I don’t
          know what I said.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
EDUARDO with GRETCHEN.
                    GRETCHEN
          When did you come to Eduardo?
                    MARK
          I don’t understand that question.
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          Do you remember answering in the
          affirmative?
                    MARK
          The affirmative?
CUT TO:
                                                      36.

INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          When did you come to Eduardo with the
          idea for Facebook.
                    MARK
          It was called TheFacebook then.
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          This doesn’t need to be that difficult.
                    MARK
          I’m currently in the middle of two
          different lawsuits.
                    GAGE
          Did you answer affirmatively? When Tyler
          and Cameron Winklevoss and Divya Narendra
          asked you to build HarvardConnection, did
          you say yes?
                    MARK
          I said I’d help.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          When did you approach Mr. Saverin with
          the idea for TheFacebook?
                    MARK
          I wouldn’t say I approached him.
                    GRETCHEN
          Sy?
                    SY
          You can answer the question.
                    MARK
          At a party at Alpha Epsilon Pi.
                    GRETCHEN
          What’s that?
                    MARK
          The Jewish fraternity. It was Caribbean
          Night.
CUT TO:
                                                           37.

INT. LARGE MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM - NIGHT
The hall has been converted into “Alpha Epsilon Pi Caribbean
Night, 2003” and the party is about as lame as it sounds.
What’s important is that this couldn’t be less like the final
club party we saw at the beginning if they were playing Pin
the Tail on the Donkey.
Some potted palm trees have been brought in along with a steel
drum set. The man playing the steel drum set has a yarmulke
bobby pinned to his thinning hair. A table with a punch bowl
and assorted cookies is nearby.
EDUARDO, in baggy cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt buttoned
up to the top, is standing with a few similarly dressed
friends, including DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ and CHRIS HUGHES, in the
sparsely populated room. On the other side of the room are a
few girls--all Asian. One of the girls is wearing a bikini
over her clothes. A television monitor has been set up with a
DVD running of Niagara Falls.
                    EDUARDO
          It’s not that guys like me are generally
          attracted to Asian girls. It’s that Asian
          girls are generally attracted to guys
          like me.
                    DUSTIN
          I’m developing an algorithm to define the
          connection between Jewish guys and Asian
          girls.
                    EDUARDO
          I don’t think it’s that complicated.
          They’re hot, they’re smart, they’re not
          Jewish and they can’t dance.
                    CHRIS
          Mark’s here.
They see MARK come in and look around. EDUARDO waves him
over...
                    EDUARDO
              (calling)
          Mark.
MARK sees EDUARDO and waves him over to where he is. He wants
to talk privately.
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
          I’ll be right back.
EDUARDO joins MARK in the back of the room and they take up a
spot next to a bay window that’s covered on the outside with
ice.
                                                          38.

                    MARK
          I think I’ve come up with something.
                    EDUARDO
          Hang on, I’ve gotta tell you something
          you’re not going to believe.
                    MARK
          What?
                    EDUARDO
          I got punched by the Phoenix.
                     MARK
              (beat)
          Are you kidding?
                    EDUARDO
          No. I mean it’s just the first of the
          four step process but they slipped the
          invitation under my door tonight. I go to
          the first punch party tomorrow and if
          they like me--
                    MARK
          You got punched by the Phoenix.
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          It was, you know...it was probably just a
          diversity thing. It was just a diversity
          thing. I’ll just ride that horse until--
          what did you want to talk to me about?
              (pause)
          Mark?
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          You said you’ve come up with something.
It seems like MARK’s just made a small decision in his head.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          Yeah. I think I’ve come up with
          something. Come outside.
                    EDUARDO
          It’s 20 degrees outside.
                                                          39.

                     MARK
          I can’t stare at that loop of Niagara
          Falls which has nothing to do with the
          Caribbean.
CUT TO:
EXT. QUAD - NIGHT
MARK and EDUARDO come outside and are immediately met by the
freezing cold air.
                    MARK
          People came to Facemash in a stampede,
          right?
                    EDUARDO
          Yeah.
                    MARK
          It wasn’t because they saw pictures of
          hot girls. You can go anywhere on the
          internet and see pictures of hot girls.
                    EDUARDO
          Yeah.
                    MARK
          It was because they saw pictures of girls
          that they knew. People want to go on the
          internet and check out their friends. Why
          not build a website that offers that?
          Friends, pictures, profiles, whatever you
          can...visit, browse around, maybe it’s
          somebody you just met at a party. I’m not
          talking about a dating site. I’m talking
          about taking the entire social experience
          of college and putting it online.
                    EDUARDO
          I can’t feel my legs.
                    MARK
          I know, I’m totally psyched about this,
          too. But Wardo--
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          “It would be exclusive”.
CUT BACK TO:
                                                      40.

EXT. QUAD - NIGHT
                    MARK
          You’d have to know the people on the site
          to get past your own page. Like getting
          punched.
                    EDUARDO
          That’s good, that’s new.
                    MARK
          Wardo, it’s like a Final Club except
          we’re the president.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                     EDUARDO
          I told him I thought it sounded great. It
          was a great idea. There was nothing to
          hack, people were going to provide their
          own pictures, their own information. And
          people had the ability to invite--or not
          invite--their friends to join. See, in a
          world where social structure was
          everything, that was the thing.
              (beat)
          It was a big project and he was going to
          have to write tens of thousands of lines
          of code so I wondered why he was coming
          to me and not his roommates. Dustin
          Moskovitz and Chris Hughes they were
          programmers.
CUT TO:
EXT. QUAD - NIGHT
                    MARK
          We’re gonna need a little start-up cash
          to rent the servers and get it online.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - NIGHT
                    EDUARDO
          That was why.
                    GRETCHEN
          Did he offer terms?
CUT TO:
                                                      41.

EXT. QUAD - NIGHT
                    MARK
          We’ll split it 70-30. 70 for me 30 for
          you for putting up the thousand dollars
          and handling for everything on the
          business end. You’re CFO.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          And you said?
                    EDUARDO
          I said “Let’s do it”.
                    GRETCHEN
          Okay. Did he add anything else?
                    EDUARDO
          Yes.
CUT TO:
EXT. QUAD - NIGHT
                    MARK
          It probably was a diversity thing but so
          what?
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          Why do you think he said that?
                    SY
          Gretchen, excuse me for interrupting but
          whose discovery is this?
                    GRETCHEN
          Sy, if you’ll let me continue with my
          line of questioning--
                    SY
          What are you suggesting?
                    MARK
          They’re suggesting I was jealous of
          Eduardo for getting punched by the
          Phoenix and began a plan to screw him out
          of a company I hadn’t even invented yet.
                                                           42.

                       GRETCHEN
          Were you?
                       SY
          Gretchen--
                    MARK
          Jealous of Eduardo?
                    SY
          Stop typing, we’re off the record.
                     MARK
          Ma’am, I know you’ve done your homework
          and so you know that money isn’t a big
          part of my life, but at the moment I
          could buy Mount Auburn Street, take the
          Phoenix Club and turn it into my ping
          pong room.
CUT TO:
EXT. QUAD - NIGHT
EDUARDO’s walking away and calls back to MARK--
                    EDUARDO
              (calling)
          I’ll let you know how the party is.
We stay on MARK for a moment longer, his wheels turning,
before we
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
EDUARDO’s in different clothes and being questioned by GAGE.
                    GAGE
          We recognize that you’re a plaintiff in
          one suit involving Facebook and a witness
          in another.
                       EDUARDO
          Yes sir.
                    GAGE
          At any time in the weeks prior to Mark’s
          telling you his idea, did he mention
          Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss,
          Divya Narendra or HarvardConnection?
                                                          43.

                    EDUARDO
          Yes. He said they’d asked him to work on
          their site but that he’d looked at what
          they had and decided it wasn’t worth his
          time. He said even his most pathetic
          friends knew more about getting people
          interested in a website than these guys.
                    GAGE
          “These guys” meaning my clients.
                    EDUARDO
          Yes. He resented--Mark resented that they--
          your clients, thought he needed to
          rehabilitate his image after Facemash but
          Mark didn’t want to rehabilitate anything.
          With Facemash he’d hacked into the Harvard
          computers, he’d thumbed his nose at the Ad
          Board, he’d gotten a lot of notoriety.
          Facemash did exactly what he wanted it to
          do.
MARK kind of nods a little to himself.
It should be noted that these depositions have an extra
element of discomfort as everything is being said within a few
feet of the people being talked about.
                    GAGE
          Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg
          was building TheFacebook he was also
          communicating with the plaintiffs?
                    EDUARDO
          Not at the time I wasn’t, but it really
          didn’t have much to do with the
          Winklevoss’s dating--
                    TYLER
          You weren’t there!
                    GAGE
          Ty.
              (to EDUARDO)
          Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg
          was building TheFacebook, he was leading
          the plaintiffs to believe he was building
          Harvard Connection?
                    SY
          You’re offering a conclusion not found in
          evidence.
                    GAGE
          We’re about to find it in evidence.
                                                             44.

MUSIC kicks in that will tie this next section together as we
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Two printouts of web pages are taped to a white board--
”Friendster” and “MySpace”. Under the two pages, MARK draws a
third page and titles it “NewCo”.
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
              (reading)
          From Mark Zuckerberg to Tyler Winklevoss.
          November 30, 2003. “I read over all the
          stuff you sent me re Harvard Connection
          and it seems like it shouldn’t take too
          long to implement, so we can talk about
          it after I get all the basic
          functionality up tomorrow night.”
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
The whiteboard is filled with diagrams now--login page,
profile page, create account...We move over to see MARK at his
computer. He opens the Emacs program and then Firefox, hits a
few keys and the diagram on the whiteboard comes to life on
his computer as we
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          From Mark Zuckerberg to Cameron
          Winklevoss. December 1, 2003. “Sorry I
          was unreachable tonight. I just got about
          three of your missed calls. I was working
          on a problem set for my systems class.”
CAMERON and TYLER are looking blankly at MARK who’s giving
them a casual “I’m not scared of you” look and we
CUT TO:
INT. PHOENIX HOUSE - NIGHT
The MUSIC CONTINUES as EDUARDO and other prospective new
members, all wearing tuxedos, are lined up in four rows.
                                                            45.

The boy at the front of each row has a bottle of Jack Daniels
and drinks as long as they can before passing the bottle,
relay style, to the boy in back of him as a few seniors look
on. EDUARDO gets handed the bottle and starts in as we
CUT TO:
INT. CLASSROOM - DAY
It’s an Art History class and as we run past the rows of
STUDENTS we see that they all have the same painting up on
their laptops as the PROFESSOR gives his lecture. When we get
to MARK’s laptop we see that he’s writing code and we
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          From Mark Zuckerberg to Cameron and Tyler
          Winklevoss. December 10, 2003. “This week
          has been pretty busy thus far with
          classes and work so I think it’s probably
          best to postpone the meeting.”
CUT TO:
INT. CAMERON AND TYLER’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
CAMERON, TYLER and DIVYA are reading the e-mail.
                     DIVYA
              (reading)
          “I’m also really busy tomorrow.”
              (beat)
          Anybody else feel like there’s something
          up with this guy?
                    CAMERON
          Tell him okay but we’ve gotta make sure
          that we meet up before we all go off for
          break.
CUT TO:
INT. EDUARDO’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
EDUARDO’s at his desk on the phone when an envelope that says
“Phoenix” is slipped under his door. He turns and looks to see
it...
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
Every available wall space is covered with a diagram or a
printout. EDUARDO comes in with the envelope.
                                                      46.

                    EDUARDO
          Mark--
                    MARK
          I need a dedicated Linux box running
          Apache with a mySQL backend. It’s gonna
          cost a little more money.
                    EDUARDO
          How much more?
                    MARK
          Two-hundred more.
                    EDUARDO
          Do we need it?
                    MARK
          Gotta handle the traffic.
                    EDUARDO
          Do it.
                    MARK
          I already did.
                    EDUARDO
          Hey, guess what?
              (shows MARK the envelope)
          I made the second cut.
                    MARK
          Good job. You should be proud of that
          right there, don’t worry if you don’t
          make it any further.
                    EDUARDO
          I’ll get outa here.
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
The MUSIC CONTINUES--
                    GAGE
              (reading)
          From Mark Zuckerberg to Tyler and Cameron
          Winklevoss and Divya Narendra. December
          15, 2003. “I have a cs problem set that
          I’m just getting started with and it
          should be about 15 hours of coding so
          I’ll be busy tomorrow night.”
CUT TO:
                                                            47.

INT. PFORZHEIMER DINING HALL - NIGHT
                    DIVYA
              (reading)
          “I won’t really be free to meet until
          next Wednesday afternoon.”
CAMERON and TYLER give each other a look--”Is this guy flaking
out?”
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
              (reading)
          “...have to cancel Wednesday afternoon.
          I’ve basically been in the lab this whole
          time and also...”
CUT TO:
INT. HAMBURGER JOINT - NIGHT
DIVYA’s reading off his blackberry to TYLER and CAMERON--
                    DIVYA
              (reading)
          “Won’t be able to do Saturday as I have
          to meet up with my parents to...”
CUT TO:
EXT. HARVARD YARD - NIGHT
The MUSIC CONTINUES--
It’s snowing and cold as hell. EDUARDO’s now with a smaller
group of prospective members, most of whom are in their
underwear with a couple of them wearing pants. They’re all
blue and shivering. They’re gathered around a statue of John
Harvard as a senior announces--
                     SENIOR
          As the plaque reads, this is John
          Harvard, founder of Harvard University in
          1638. It’s also called The Statue of
          Three Lies. What are the three lies, Mr.
          Dowd?
              (beat)
          Mr. Dowd.
                     SOPHOMORE
          The three lies--
              (beat)
          The first--
                     (MORE)
                                                             48.
                       SOPHOMORE (CONT'D)
              (beat)
          Shit!
                    SENIOR
          Take your pants off.
                       EDUARDO
          I know.
                    SENIOR
          Mr. Saverin.
                    EDUARDO
          1) Harvard was founded in 1636, not 1638.
          2) Harvard wasn’t founded by John Harvard
          and 3) That’s not John Harvard.
                       SENIOR
          Who is it?
                    EDUARDO
          A friend of the sculptor, Daniel Chester.
                    SENIOR
          Keep your jacket on.
And as another kid simply falls to his hands and knees and
throws up, we
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          39 days after Mr. Zuckerberg’s initial
          meeting with my clients and he still
          hadn’t completed work on
          HarvardConnection. But on January 11,
          2004--
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - DAY
A website called Network Solutions is up on Mark’s screen. He
hits a couple of keys and waits intently.
Then the computer shows him what he wanted to see--
www.theFacebook.com--DOMAIN NAME REGISTERED
                    GAGE (V.O.)
          Mr. Zuckerberg registered the domain name
          theFacebook via network solutions.
CUT TO:
                                                      49.

INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          To the best of your knowledge, had he
          even begun work on HarvardConnection?
                    EDUARDO
          Not to my knowledge, no.
CUT TO:
INT. PORCELLIAN - NIGHT
CAMERON’s looking at his e-mail.
                    CAMERON
          What in the world is this?
              (reading)
          “Hey Cameron. I’m still a little
          skeptical that we have enough
          functionality in the site to really draw
          the attention and gain the critical mass
          necessary to get a site like this to run.
          We’ll speak soon.”
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          This is the first time he mentioned any
          problem?
                    DIVYA
          Yes it was.
                     GAGE
          You’d sent 36 e-mails to Mr. Zuckerberg
          and received 16 return e-mails and this
          was the first time he indicated he was
          not happy.
                    DIVYA
          That’s correct. He had 42 days to study
          our system and get out ahead on--
                    MARK
          Do you see any of your code on Facebook?
                    GAGE
              (help me)
          Sy, could you--
                    SY
              (calming him)
          Mark--
                                                          50.

                    MARK
          Did I use any of your code?
                    DIVYA
          You stole our whole goddam idea!
                     SY
          Fellas.
                    MARK
          Match-dot-com for Harvard guys?
                    GAGE
          Can I continue with my deposition?
                    MARK
          You know you really don’t need a forensic
          team to get to the bottom of this. If you
          guys were the inventors of Facebook you’d
          have invented Facebook.
                    DIVYA
          I can’t wait to stand over your shoulder
          and watch you write us a check.
                     MARK
          No shit?
                    SY
              (to GAGE)
          Let’s continue.
DIVYA’s still staring at MARK, who just smiles a little as he
looks down.
                     GAGE
              (beat)
          February 4th, 2004--
CUT TO:
INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE LAB - DAY
MARK is working at a station. We can see through the windows
that it’s a frigid, snowy February day in Cambridge but MARK’s
in his hoodie and cargo shorts nonetheless. It looks like he
hasn’t slept in days. On his monitor we can see that he’s
working on the profile page for theFacebook.
DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ steps up to him quietly.
                    DUSTIN
          Mark?
              (pause)
          Mark.
MARK turns his head and looks at him...
                                                            51.

                    DUSTIN (CONT’D)
              (quietly)
          There’s a girl in your art history class.
          Her name is Stephanie Attis. Do you
          happen to know if she has a boyfriend?
MARK just keeps looking at him--barely even blinking--”Why am
I being interrupted?”
                     DUSTIN (CONT’D)
              (beat)
          Have you ever seen her with anyone?
              (beat)
          And if not, do you happen to know if
          she’s looking to go out with anyone?
                    MARK
              (pause)
          Dustin. People don’t walk around with a
          sign on them that says--
And MARK stops short right there. Because in his head, he’s
just discovered the cure for cancer.
                    DUSTIN
              (pause)
          Mark?
EXT. COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING - DAY
As MARK, with his backpack stuffed, comes flying out of the
building and into the snow, barely keeping his balance on the
ice and we
CUT TO:
INT. 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--
                                                             52.

                    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
          people take certain classes, and sit
          where they sit, and do what they do, and
          at its, um, center, you know, that’s what
          theFacebook is gonna be about. People are
          gonna log on because after all the cake
          and watermelon there’s a chance they’re
          actually gonna--
                    EDUARDO
          --get laid.
                     MARK
              (over)
          --meet a girl. Yes.
                                                           53.

                    EDUARDO
          That’s really good.
                     MARK
              (beat)
          And that’s it.
                     EDUARDO
              (beat)
          What do you mean?
                    MARK
          It’s ready.
                    EDUARDO
          It’s ready?
                       MARK
          Yeah.
                       EDUARDO
          Right now?
                    MARK
          That was it. And here’s the masthead.
MARK hits another couple of keystrokes and the website’s
masthead comes up.
                    EDUARDO
          You made a masthead.
                       MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
              (reading)
          “Eduardo Saverin. Co-Founder and CFO.”
                       MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          You have no idea what that’s going to
          mean to my father.
                       MARK
          Sure I do.
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          When’s it gonna go live?
                    MARK
          Right now. Get your laptop out.
                                                          54.

                    EDUARDO
          Why do we need my laptop?
                    MARK
          Because you’ve got e-mails for everyone
          at the Phoenix.
                     EDUARDO
              (beat)
          I’m not sure if it’s gonna be cool with
          them that I spam their--
                    MARK
          This is not spam.
                    EDUARDO
          No, I know it’s not spam--
                    MARK
          If we send it to our friends it’ll just
          bounce around the Dworkin.
                    EDUARDO
          I haven’t gotten in yet.
                    MARK
          These guys know people and I need their e-
          mails.
                       EDUARDO
              (beat)
          Sure.
                       MARK
          Good.
EDUARDO takes out his laptop--
                    MARK (CONT’D)
          Gimmie the mailing list.
                    EDUARDO
          “Jabberwock12.listserv@Harvard E-D-U.”
MARK opens up an e-mail and is writing a short message, then
includes a link to the site--
                    MARK
          These guys. They’re literary geniuses
          because the world’s most obvious Lewis
          Carroll reference--
                    EDUARDO
          They’re not so bad.
                    MARK
          I’m just saying.
                                                          55.

                    EDUARDO
          You’re right.
He hits “Send”.
                    MARK
          The site’s live.
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          You know what? Let’s go get a drink and
          celebrate. I’m buying.
MARK is staring at the computer...
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
          Mark?
MARK doesn’t hear him. We just see MARK’s head from the back
and it’s ever so slightly bobbing back and forth...
                     EDUARDO (CONT’D)
              (pause)
          Mark?
              (beat)
          Are you praying?
CUT TO:
INT. DINING HALL - NIGHT
THE KROKODILOES, Harvard’s oldest male a Capella group, are
singing at the front of the hall in their usual uniform of
white tie and tails for a packed crowd of students and
parents.
Incongruously, but with surprisingly nice results, the group
is covering a song from All-4-One--”I Swear”--and the pub full
of students is loving it.
We find a table in the back where DIVYA is sitting with his
girlfriend and some of their friends who are having a nice
time. Divya’s girlfriend, K.C., has her laptop open.
                    MALE FRIEND
          What ever happened to Cole Porter and
          Irving Berlin?
                    FEMALE FRIEND
          It’s a Valentine’s theme. They’re playing
          love songs.
                    MALE FRIEND
          Good point, ‘cause Cole Porter and Irving
          Berlin never wrote any love songs.
                                                            56.

                    DIVYA
          Honey, you should put the laptop away.
                     K.C.
          Seven different people spammed me the
          same link.
                       DIVYA
          K.C.--
She clicks on the link--
                    FEMALE FRIEND
          What is it?
                     K.C.
              (dryly)
          I don’t know, but I’m really hoping it’s
          cats that look like Hitler ‘cause I can
          never get enough of that.
              (beat)
          It’s not.
DIVYA takes K.C.’s hand and turns his focus back to the
singers but only for just a second because whatever was on the
screen gets his attention in a hurry.
He swivels the laptop toward himself--
He starts quickly scrolling and reading it and we PUSH IN on
his face as the blood starts draining away...
                       K.C. (CONT’D)
          Div!
              (beat)
          What?
DIVYA shuts the laptop, grabs it off the table--
Puts it back--
People are starting to turn and see what the commotion is
about as the singing continues.
                    K.C. (CONT’D)
          What is wrong?
DIVYA starts to bolt out of the pub. His foot gets caught on a
chair leg and he falls hard face-first to the floor.
                       DIVYA
          It’s fine.
He starts out again, then comes back for his coat, grabs it,
starts out and falls down all over again.
                                                             57.

Finally he’s got it together and flies out of the pub and we
CUT TO:
EXT. BRIDGE - NIGHT
DIVYA’s running across the Charles in the freezing February
air and we
CUT TO:
INT. BOATHOUSE - NIGHT
CAMERON and TYLER are rowing in a large practice tank--a
simulator with a hull, oars and rowable water.
They’re focused and charging away in perfect sync when the
door at the end of the century-old boathouse opens and DIVYA
charges in from the cold with his laptop and a copy of the
Crimson in his hands.
                       DIVYA
                 (calling)
          Hey!
The twins are in the zone and don’t pay any attention.
                       DIVYA (CONT’D)
                 (louder)
          Hey!
                    CAMERON
          Not now, we need 20 minutes.
                    DIVYA
              (calmly)
          Okay. I just wanted to let you know
          Zuckerberg stole our website.
TYLER stops rowing and then CAMERON. They look at DIVYA...
                    DIVYA (CONT’D)
          Mark Zuckerberg stole our website. It’s
          been live for more than 36 hours.
CUT TO:
INT. CAMERON AND TYLER’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
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.
                                            58.

          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
over 650 students had registered to use
theFacebook.com. He said he anticipated
that 900 students would have joined the
site by this morning.”
                                                      59.

                     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--
                                            60.

          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.
                                            61.

          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.
                                                      62.

                     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?
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          During the time when you say you had this
          idea, did you know Tyler and Cameron came
          from a family of means?
                    MARK
              (pause)
          A family of means?
                    GAGE
          Did you know that his father was wealthy.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          I’m not sure why you’re asking me that.
                    GAGE
          It’s not important that you be sure why
          I’m asking you.
                    MARK
          It’s not important to you.
                                            63.

             GAGE
       (asking for help again)
Sy.
          SY
    (to MARK)
Did you know that they came from money?
          MARK
I had no idea whether they came from
money or not.
          GAGE
In one of your e-mails to Mr. Narendra
you referenced Howard Winklevoss’
consulting firm.
           MARK
    (beat)
If you say so.
          GAGE
Howard Winklevoss founded a firm whose
assets are in the hundreds of millions.
             MARK
Mm-hm...
          GAGE
You also knew that Cameron and Tyler were
members of a Harvard final club called
the Porcellian.
          MARK
They pointed that out.
          TYLER
Excuse us for inviting you in.
          MARK
To the bike room.
          GAGE
    (to TYLER)
Please.
    (to MARK)
So it’s safe to say you were aware that
my clients had money?
             MARK
Yes.
          GAGE
Let me tell you why I’m asking. I’m
wondering why, if you needed a thousand
dollars for an internet venture, you
didn’t ask my clients for it.
          (MORE)
                                                      64.
                    GAGE (CONT'D)
          They’d demonstrated to you an interest in
          this kind of thing so--
                    MARK
          I went to my friend for the money because
          that’s who I wanted to be partners with.
          Eduardo was the president of the Harvard
          Investors Association and he was my best
          friend.
                    GAGE
          Your best friend is suing you for 600-
          million dollars.
                    MARK
          I didn’t know that, tell me more.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    SY
          Eduardo, what happened after the initial
          launch?
                    GRETCHEN
          I’m sorry, Sy, would you mind addressing
          him as Mr. Saverin?
                    SY
          Gretchen, they’re best friends.
                    GRETCHEN
          Not anymore.
                    SY
          We already went through this on the--
          nevermind. Mr. Saverin, what happened
          after the initial--
                    EDUARDO
          It exploded.
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    DIVYA
          Everyone on campus was using it.
          “Facebook me” was a common expression
          after two weeks.
                      SY
          And Mark?
                                                          65.

                    DIVYA
          Mark was the biggest thing on a campus
          that included 19 Nobel Laureates, 15
          Pulitzer Prize winners, two future
          Olympians and a movie star.
                    SY
          Who’s the movie star?
                    DIVYA
              (pause)
          Does it matter?
                    SY
          No.
CUT TO:
EXT./EST. AUDITORIUM - NIGHT
The lamps in Harvard Yard light the snow falling.
                    SPEAKER (VO)
          The light bulb event--the inciting action--
          was when he was at Out of Town News and
          picked up a copy of Popular Electronics
          that had the MITS Altair Kit on the cover.
INT. AUDITORIUM - SAME TIME
There’s a lower-level and a balcony and both are full.
MARK and EDUARDO are sitting in the second to last row of the
balcony.
We’ll hear the SPEAKER but we’ll only get to see him in a
slightly blurry image as our attention is on MARK and EDUARDO.
                    SPEAKER
          It was a beautiful day and I was in my
          room at Radcliffe and he brought me the
          magazine and he said, “Look, it’s going
          to happen without us, we’ve got to start
          it now.” And so I said, “Okay, you’re
          right. Let’s get BASIC out there.”
He gets an appreciative LAUGH from the STUDENTS.
                     SPEAKER (CONT’D)
          Most of you think you know the rest of
          the story but you may not.
              (beat)
          The beginnings of this industry were very
          humble. That kit computer on the cover of
          that magazine--
                                                           66.

We HEAR a little muffled giggling coming from the row behind
MARK and EDUARDO. MARK is too into the speech to notice but
the giggling registers as a slight annoyance on EDUARDO’s
face.
                    SPEAKER (CONT’D)
          --had an 8080 microprocessor in it,
          unless you paid extra for a 1K memory
          board, you had 256 bytes.
EDUARDO hears the giggling again and turns around.
In the row behind them and a few seats over are two beautiful
Asian students--ALICE and CHRISTY. They’re a little overly
made-up for a lecture. CHRISTY, the one sitting closest to
EDUARDO, is wearing a short skirt with a white shirt open one
button too far down the front and we can see a hint of the red
bra she’s wearing underneath.
She leans forward and whispers to EDUARDO--
                    CHRISTY
              (whispering)
          Your friend--is that Mark Zuckerberg?
                       EDUARDO
              (beat)
          Uh...yes.
                    CHRISTY
          He made theFacebook.
EDUARDO smiles a little...this has just never happened--
                    EDUARDO
          Yeah. I mean it’s both of ours--but, yeah
          we--yes.
                    CHRISTY
              (still whispering)
          Cool. I’m Christy. This is Alice.
EDUARDO can’t help noticing--just because it’s in his line of
sight--that down the row from the girls, someone else is
pointing at them and whispering to a friend.
Then back to the girls--
                    EDUARDO
              (whispering)
          Very nice to meet you.
                    CHRISTY
              (whispering)
          Facebook me when you get home. Maybe we
          can all go out and grab a drink later.
                                                          67.

                    EDUARDO
              (whispering)
          Certainly. Absolutely I will do that.
EDUARDO turns back to the speaker, who MARK hasn’t taken his
eyes off of--
                    SPEAKER
          There were a number of machines that came
          next--the TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore Pet--
CUT TO:
EXT. AUDITORIUM - NIGHT
As the CROWD from the lecture spills out onto the snowy quad.
EDUARDO--always in his suit--is buttoning up his overcoat as
he walks and MARK zips up his hoodie.
                     EDUARDO
          She said “Facebook me” and we can all go
          for a drink later. Which is stunningly
          great for two reasons. One, she said
          “Facebook me”. Right? And the other is,
          you know--
                    MARK
          They want to have drinks later.
                    EDUARDO
          Yes! Have you ever heard so many
          different good things packed into one
          regular-sized sentence?
A group of guys hustle up to MARK and EDUARDO--
                    STUART
          Excuse me. Mark?
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    STUART
          I’m Stuart Singer. I’m in your O.S. lab.
                    MARK
          Sure.
                    STUART
          Awesome job with theFacebook.
                    VIKRAM
          Awesome job.
                    MARK
          Thanks.
                                                          68.

                     BOB
          I’m Bob.
                    MARK
          How you doin’.
                    BOB
          You know, I could swear he was looking at
          you when he said the next Bill Gates
          could be right in this room.
                    MARK
          I doubt it.
                    BOB
          I showed up late, I don’t even know who
          the speaker was.
                     MARK
              (beat)
          It was Bill Gates.
                    BOB
          Shit, that makes sense.
                     EDUARDO
              (beat)
          Alright, thanks guys.
As MARK and EDUARDO walk on, we leave STUART, VIKRAM and BOB in
the background--with STUART and VIKRAM admonishing BOB with--
                    STUART/VIKRAM
              (to BOB)
          Are you a moron?/Are you medically
          stupid?/You can’t recognize Bill Gates
          when he’s standing in front of you for an
          hour?/Mark Zuckerberg now thinks we got
          into Harvard on a dimwit scholarship./I’m
          gonna get a Glock .39 and I’m going to
          kill you./I’m actually going to kill
          you/etc.
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
As the door opens and MARK and EDUARDO come into the
overheated warmth of the room.
                    EDUARDO
          It’s time to monetize the thing.
                    MARK
          What were their names?
                                            69.

          EDUARDO
Did you hear what I said?
          MARK
When?
          EDUARDO
I said it’s time to monetize the site.
          MARK
What does that mean?
          EDUARDO
It means it’s time for the website to
generate revenue.
          MARK
No I know what the word means. I’m asking
how do you want to do it?
          EDUARDO
Advertising.
          MARK
No.
          EDUARDO
We’ve got 4000 members.
          MARK
‘Cause theFacebook is cool. If we start
installing pop-ups for Mountain Dew it’s
not gonna--
          EDUARDO
Well I wasn’t thinking Mountain Dew but
at some point--and I’m talking as the
business end of the company--the site--
          MARK
We don’t even know what it is yet. We
don’t know what it is, we don’t know what
it can be, we don’t know what it will be.
We know that it’s cool, that is a
priceless asset I’m not giving it up.
          EDUARDO
When will it be finished?
          MARK
It won’t be finished, that’s the point.
The way fashion’s never finished.
          EDUARDO
What?
                                                             70.

                    MARK
          Fashion. Fashion is never finished.
                    EDUARDO
          You’re talking about fashion? Really?
          You?
                    MARK
          I’m talking about the idea of it and I’m
          saying it’s never finished.
                    EDUARDO
          Okay, but they manage to make money
          selling pants...
EDUARDO has seen something on the top of MARK’s mantle...
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
          Mark, what is this?
                       MARK
          What.
EDUARDO holds up a letter that’s on a lawyer’s stationary.
                       EDUARDO
          This.
                    MARK
          It’s called a cease and desist letter.
          What were their names?
                       EDUARDO
          Who?
                       MARK
          The girls.
EDUARDO’s speed reading the letter.
                    EDUARDO
          When did you get this?
                    MARK
          About 10 days ago. Right after we
          launched the site.
                    EDUARDO
          Jesus Christ.
                    MARK
          Hey, the girls. What were their names?
                    EDUARDO
          They’re saying--the Winklevoss twins are
          saying you stole their idea.
                                                     71.

                    MARK
          I find that to be a little more than
          mildly annoying.
                    EDUARDO
          They find it to be intellectual property
          theft. Why--
                    MARK
          Look--
                    EDUARDO
          --why didn’t you show this to me?
                    MARK
          It was addressed to me.
                    EDUARDO
          They’re saying we stole theFacebook from
          Divya Narendra and the Wink--
                    MARK
          I know what it says.
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          Did we?
                    MARK
          Did we what?
                    EDUARDO
          Don’t screw around with me now. Look at
          me.
MARK looks at EDUARDO--
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
          The letter says we could face legal
          action.
                    MARK
          No, it says I could face legal action.
                    EDUARDO
          It’s from a lawyer, Mark. They must feel
          they have some grounds for--
                    MARK
          The lawyer is their father’s house
          counsel.
                    EDUARDO
          Do they have grounds?
                                                      72.

                    MARK
          The grounds are our thing is cool and
          popular and HarvardConnection is lame.
          Wardo, I didn’t use any of their code, I
          promise I didn’t use anything. A guy who
          builds a really nice chair doesn’t owe
          money to everyone who has ever built a
          chair. They came to me with an idea, I
          had a better one.
                    EDUARDO
          Why didn’t you show me the letter?
                    MARK
          I didn’t think it was a big deal.
                    EDUARDO
          If there’s something wrong--if there’s
          ever anything wrong--you can tell me. I’m
          the guy that wants to help. This is our
          thing.
              (pause)
          Is there anything you need to tell me?
                    MARK
          No.
                    EDUARDO
          What are we doing about this?
                    MARK
          I went to a 3-L at Student Legal Services
          and he told me to write them back.
                    EDUARDO
          What did you say?
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
              (reading the letter)
          “When we met in January, I expressed my
          doubts about the site--where it stood
          with graphics, how much programming was
          left that I had not anticipated--
CUT TO:
                                                       73.

INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
                    EDUARDO
              (reading the letter)
          “--the lack of hardware we had to deal
          with, site use, the lack of promotion that
          would go on to successfully launch the
          website--
CUT TO:
INT. SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GAGE
          This was the first time you raised any of
          those concerns, right?
                    MARK
          I’d raised concerns before.
                    DIVYA/TYLER (NOT CAMERON)
          Bullshit./Not to us.
                     GAGE
              (quieting)
          Gentlemen.
              (back to MARK)
          I’m talking about at the meeting in
          January to which this letter is
          referring.
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    GAGE
          Let me re-phrase this. You sent my
          clients 16 e-mails. In the first 15, you
          didn’t raise any concerns.
                     MARK
              (beat)
          Is that a question?
                    GAGE
          In the 16th e-mail you raised concerns
          about the site’s functionality. Were you
          leading them on for six weeks?
                    MARK
          No.
                    GAGE
          Why hadn’t you raised any of these
          concerns before?
                                                          74.

                    MARK
              (quietly)
          It’s raining.
                       GAGE
          I’m sorry?
                    MARK
          It just started raining.
                     GAGE
          Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full
          attention?
                       MARK
          No.
                     GAGE
              (beat)
          Do you think I deserve it?
                       MARK
          What.
                     GAGE
          Do you think I deserve your full
          attention?
                    MARK
          I had to swear an oath before we began
          this deposition and I don’t want to
          perjure myself so I have a legal
          obligation to say no.
                     GAGE
          Okay. “No” you don’t think I deserve your
          attention.
                    MARK
          I think if your clients want to sit on my
          shoulders and call themselves tall they
          have a right to give it a try. But
          there’s no requirement that I enjoy
          sitting here listening to people lie. You
          have part of my attention--you have the
          minimum amount. The rest of my attention
          is back at the offices of Facebook where
          my colleagues and I are doing things that
          no one in this room, including and
          especially your clients, are
          intellectually or creatively capable of
          doing. Did I adequately answer your
          condescending question?
GAGE just looks casually at MARK. MARK doesn’t meet his gaze,
or the looks from DIVYA, TYLER and CAMERON...
                                                          75.

                     SY
              (beat)
          I’ve got 12:45. Why don’t we say that’s
          lunch.
                    GAGE
          Back at 2:30?
Everyone gets up and we
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
                    MARK
          So, what were their names?
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          Their names were Christy and Alice. They
          want to have drinks tonight.
CUT TO:
INT. MEN’S ROOM - NIGHT
It’s a nice men’s room--mahogony stalls--in a nice club in
Cambridge. We HEAR the thumping of the house music coming from
the club.
And then one of the wooden stall doors flies open and EDUARDO
is shoved in, followed by CHRISTY, who did the shoving. She’s
all over him as she presses him back against the divider.
EDUARDO’s hands are sliding under CHRISTY’S white shirt and
finding the red bra when they hear a noise.
Someone’s gone into the next stall.
                    EDUARDO
              (whispering)
          Shit.
                    CHRISTY
              (whispering)
          I don’t care.
CHRISTY keeps him pinned against the divider as she reaches
down and unbuckles his belt.
And then he hears another noise from the stall next door. A
thump against the divider. CHRISTY’s got his fly unzipped.
EDUARDO looks down at the space between the stalls. He sees a
pair of Adidas flip-flops.
                                                          76.

Then the sound of moaning. Before EDUARDO has time to say
anything, CHRISTY pulls her shirt open, revealing the red bra,
and puts her hand down his pants as we
CUT TO:
INT. CLUB/MEN’S ROOM - NIGHT
MARK and EDUARDO are standing guard outside the door. They’re
silent but very happy.
A guy comes along to use the men’s room.
                    EDUARDO
          Sorry. It’ll just be a minute. Some girls
          are freshening up in there.
                    CLUB GUY
              (nodding a little)
          Sweet.
The guy goes off.
EDUARDO taps MARK...
                     EDUARDO
              (beat)
          We have groupies.
MARK can’t help a smile. Then he sees something...
                    MARK
          I’ll be right back.
                     EDUARDO
          Mark, where you going?
              (beat)
          Mark?
MARK makes his way through the crowd toward a round booth. A
girl is sitting there and even though her back is to MARK he
can recognize her. She’s with a girlfriend and three guys.
When he makes it to the booth he says--
                       MARK
          Erica?
ERICA, from the opening scene, turns her head and looks up to
see MARK. She’s looking sexy for her Friday night on the town
and the three guys she’s with are studs. A few more friends of
theirs are standing around at the edges of the booth.
                      ERICA
                (pause)
          Hi.
                                                      77.

                    MARK
          I saw you from over there. I didn’t know
          you came to this club a lot.
                    ERICA
          First time.
                    MARK
          Mine too. Could I talk to you alone for a
          second?
                    ERICA
          I think I’m good right here.
                    MARK
          I just--I’d love to talk to you alone. If
          we could just go someplace--
                    ERICA
          Right here’s fine.
MARK is aware of everyone else around the booth...
                     MARK
              (beat)
          I don’t know if you heard about this new
          website I launched.
                    ERICA
          No.
                    MARK
          TheFacebook?
                    ERICA
          You called me a bitch on the internet,
          Mark.
                    MARK
          That’s why I wanted to talk to you. If we
          could just--
                    ERICA
          On the internet.
                    MARK
          That’s why I came over.
                    ERICA
          Comparing women to farm animals?
                    MARK
          I didn’t end up doing that.
                                                          78.

                    ERICA
          It didn’t stop you from writing it. As if
          every thought that tumbles through your
          head is so clever it would be a crime for
          it not to be shared. The internet’s not
          written in pencil, Mark, it’s written in
          ink and you published that Erica Albright
          was a bitch right before you made some
          ignorant crack about my family’s name, my
          bra size and then rated women based on
          their “hotness”.
                    REGGIE (A FRIEND OF ERICA’S)
          Erica, is there a problem?
                    ERICA
          No, there’s no problem.
              (pause)
          You write your snide bullshit from a dark
          room because that’s what the angry do
          nowadays. I was nice to you. Don’t
          torture me for it.
MARK glances at the table of Erica’s friends--
                    MARK
              (pause)
          If we could just go somewhere for a
          minute--
                    ERICA
          No, I don’t want to be rude to my
          friends.
                    MARK
          Okay.
                    ERICA
          Okay. Good luck with your video game.
It was an honest mistake on ERICA’s part but a kidney punch to
MARK.
MARK turns and goes and sees that EDUARDO has been standing
and watching from a distance with CHRISTY.
                    EDUARDO
          Hey, that was great. That was the right
          thing to do. You apologized, right?
                    MARK
              (ignoring him)
          We have to expand.
                    EDUARDO
              (over the music)
          What?
                                                           79.

And MARK heads out the door.
EDUARDO watches MARK and then looks back at the girls...
                    ALICE
          Is he mad about something?
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
The door closes behind DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ and CHRIS HUGHES. MARK
and EDUARDO are waiting and CHRISTY and ALICE are sitting on
the couch. Everyone’s got a beer.
Once the door is closed--
                    MARK
          We’re expanding to Yale and Columbia.
          Dustin, I want you to share the coding
          work with me. Chris, you’re going to be
          in charge of publicity and outreach and
          you can start by getting a story in the
          B.U. student newspaper. The Bridge.
                    CHRIS
          They hate doing stories about Harvard.
                    MARK
          Somebody at the newspaper will be a
          computer science major. Tell ‘em Mark
          Zuckerberg will do 10 hours of free
          programming.
                    EDUARDO
          Why do you want a story in the B.U. newsp--
                    MARK
          Because I do. Here’s the arrangement.
          Eduardo is CFO and owns 30% of the
          company. Dustin is Vice President and
          Head of Programming and his 5% of the
          company will come from my end. Chris is
          Director of Publicity and his
          compensation will depend on the amount of
          work he ends up doing. Any questions?
                    DUSTIN
          Who are the girls?
                    EDUARDO
          Christy and Alice.
                    DUSTIN
          Hi.
                                                          80.

                         CHRISTY
          Hi.
                         ALICE
          Hello.
                         CHRIS
          Hi.
                    CHRISTY
          Is there anything we can do?
                    MARK
          No. That’s it. Yale and Columbia, let’s
          go.
                    EDUARDO
          And Stanford.
                         MARK
          What?
                    EDUARDO
          Stanford. It’s time for them to see this
          in Palo Alto.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
MARK is sitting alone in the now empty room. There’s a
computer on a table in the corner and MARK makes a few
keystrokes and then reads the screen.
MARYLIN, the young lawyer we met early on, comes in with a
plastic salad container in her hand and sits at the far end of
the table from MARK, who doesn’t acknowledge her.
                    MARYLIN
              (after a moment)
          You don’t want any lunch?
                         MARK
                (beat)
          No.
                    MARYLIN
          You’re welcome to some salad.
                    MARK
          No thank you.
                    MARYLIN
          This must be hard.
                    MARK
          Who are you?
                                                           81.

                    MARYLIN
          I’m Marylin Delpy, I introduced myself--
                    MARK
          I mean what do you do?
                    MARYLIN
          I’m a second year associate at the firm.
          My boss wanted me to sit in on the
          deposition phase.
MARK nods...
                    MARYLIN (CONT’D)
          What are you doing?
                    MARK
          Checking in to see how it’s going in
          Bosnia.
                    MARYLIN
          Bosnia?
MARK nods...
                    MARYLIN (CONT’D)
          They don’t have roads but they have
          Facebook?
MARK nods...
                    MARYLIN (CONT’D)
          You must really hate the Winklevoss’s.
                    MARK
          I don’t hate anybody.
              (pause)
          The Winklevi aren’t suing me for
          intellectual property theft. They’re
          suing me because for the first time in
          their lives, things didn’t work out the
          way they were supposed to for them.
CUT TO:
INT. TYLER AND CAMERON’S DORM ROOM - NIGHT
TYLER and CAMERON are both studying when DIVYA busts in.
                    DIVYA
          He’s expanding.
                    TYLER
          What?
                                            82.

          DIVYA
He’s expanding to Yale, Columbia and
Stanford, it’ll be in the Crimson
tomorrow.
             TYLER
    (beat)
Really.
             DIVYA
Yeah.
          TYLER
So that Cease and Desist letter really
scared the shit out of him, huh?
          DIVYA
I want to hire a lawyer to file for
injunctive relief and get this website
taken down now!
             CAMERON
Look--
          DIVYA
Every minute the site is up, Harvard
Connection becomes less valuable. I want
an injunction, I want damages, I want
punitive relief and I want him dead.
          CAMERON
I want those things too!
          DIVYA
Then why aren’t we doing anything about
it?! Because we’re gentlemen of Harvard?!
          CAMERON
Because you’re not thinking about how
it’ll look.
          DIVYA
How’ll it look?
          CAMERON
Like my brother and I are in skeleton
costumes chasing the Karate Kid around a
high school gym.
          DIVYA
He’s violated Massachusetts state law.
When he goes to Connecticut, New York and
California he’ll have violated federal
law. And by the way, he’s in violation of
Harvard law.
          CAMERON
There’s no such thing as Harvard Law.
                                                          83.

                    TYLER
              (pause--realizing)
          Wait. Yes there is.
TYLER goes to the bookshelf and pulls down a manual.
                    TYLER (CONT’D)
          Harvard Student Handbook. Every freshman
          is issued one of these. Somewhere in this
          book it says--
                    CAMERON
              (eureka)
          --you can’t steal from another student.
          This is what we needed. We’re going to
          Summers.
                    DIVYA
          You can’t get a meeting with Larry
          Summers.
                    CAMERON
          My brother and I pay tuition at this
          school, we carry a 3.9 GPA at this
          school, we’ve won trophies for this
          school and we’ll be rowing in the
          Olympics for this school. I want a
          meeting with the goddam president of this
          school.
              (pause)
          Why Stanford?
                    DIVYA
          Why do you think?
CUT TO:
INT. A GIRL’S COLLEGE APARTMENT (PALO ALTO) - MORNING
A pretty 20 year-old co-ed, AMY, pulls a curtain open and the
darkened room immediately fills with un-welcomed sunlight.
AMY’s wearing nothing but a Stanford sweatshirt as a skinny 22
year-old guy who’s lying on her futon wakes up. There’s other
evidence on the walls that we’re at Stanford University. There
are also pieces of AMY’s clothing strewn about.
The young man on the futon is SEAN PARKER.
                    AMY
          I’m sorry, I’m late for Bio-Chem.
                    SEAN
          Okay.
                    AMY
          You don’t know my name, do you?
                                           84.

          SEAN
    (off the sweatshirt)
Is it Stanford?
          AMY
I should just kick your ass. How can you
go to a party, meet--
          SEAN
Amelia Ritter but you prefer Amy. You’re
from Orinda, your father’s in commercial
real estate and your mother’s 10 years
sober.
           AMY
    (beat)
What’s my major?
            SEAN
Trombone.
            AMY
Really?
          SEAN
I remember something about a trombone.
          AMY
Tu fais l'amour à la jolie fille et la
mets de côté.
          SEAN
French! Your major is French.
          AMY
Oui. And yours?
          SEAN
Mine? I don’t have one.
          AMY
You haven’t declared?
          SEAN
I don’t go to school.
          AMY
You’re kidding?
            SEAN
No.
          AMY
Where did you go to school?
                                            85.

          SEAN
William Taft Elementary for a little
while.
          AMY
Seriously, you’re not like 15 years old
or anything are you?
          SEAN
No.
    (beat)
You’re not like--
          AMY
No. So what do you do?
          SEAN
I’m an entrepreneur.
          AMY
You’re unemployed.
          SEAN
I wouldn’t say that.
          AMY
What would you say?
          SEAN
That I’m an entrepreneur.
          AMY
What was your latest preneur?
          SEAN
Well...I founded an internet company that
let folks download and share music for
free.
          AMY
Kind of like Napster?
          SEAN
Exactly like Napster.
          AMY
What do you mean?
          SEAN
I founded Napster.
          AMY
Sean Parker founded Napster.
          SEAN
Nice to meet you.
                                            86.

          AMY
    (pause)
You’re Sean Parker?
          SEAN
Ah ha. The shoe’s on the other...
          AMY
Foot?
          SEAN
--table which has turned.
          AMY
I just slept with Sean Parker?
          SEAN
You just slept on Sean Parker.
          AMY
You’re a zillionaire.
          SEAN
Not technically.
          AMY
What are you?
          SEAN
Broke. There’s not a lot of money in free
music. Even less when you’re being sued
by everyone who’s ever been to the
Grammys.
          AMY
This is blowing my mind.
          SEAN
I appreciate that.
           AMY
I have to hop in the shower and get ready
for class.
          SEAN
Bio-chem, even though you’re a French
major whose name is Amy.
          AMY
You passed.
          SEAN
I’m a hard worker.
          AMY
There’s juice or anything else you can
find. Help yourself.
                                                             87.

                    SEAN
          You mind if I check my e-mail?
                       AMY
          Go ahead.
AMY heads into the bathroom but leaves the door a little ajar.
SEAN steps over to AMY’s pink laptop and hits a key to wake it
out of sleep mode.
The shower starts running in the bathroom.
The laptop springs to life and is open to something SEAN’s
never seen before--a Facebook page.
He sees AMY’s picture and a short profile: Her major at
Stanford, courses she’s taking, books she likes, clubs she’s a
member of...
                       SEAN
                 (calling)
          Amy?
She can’t hear him in the shower.
SEAN explores around a little more. He knows his way around a
computer. He sees her “friends”. Friend after friend after
friend.
                    SEAN (CONT’D)
              (almost a whisper)
          Jesus.
He gets up and goes to the bathroom door--
                       SEAN (CONT’D)
          Amy?
                    AMY
              (calling back)
          Yeah!
                    SEAN
          Can you come out here?
                    AMY
              (calling)
          Just a second!
SEAN tries to wait but can’t--
                    SEAN
          There’s a snake in here, Amy.
                       AMY
          What?!
                                                           88.

AMY grabs a towel and jumps out of the shower--
                          AMY (CONT’D)
          Where?!
                    SEAN
          There isn’t a snake, but I need to ask
          you something.
                    AMY
          Are you kidding me?! I could have been
          killed!
                          SEAN
                 (beat)
          How?
                    AMY
              (beat--not sure)
          By running too fast...and getting twisted
          in the curtain--What do you need to ask
          me?
                    SEAN
          I went to check my e-mail and there’s a
          site open on your computer.
                    AMY
          After you passed out last night I went on
          theFacebook for a little bit.
                    SEAN
          What’s that?
                    AMY
          TheFacebook? Stanford’s had it for like
          two weeks now it’s really awesome except
          it’s freakishly addictive. Seriously, I’m
          on the thing like five times a day.
                    SEAN
          You mind if I grab a piece of paper and a
          pen?
                    AMY
          Is everything okay?
                    SEAN
          Everything’s great. I just need to find
          you, Mark Zuckerberg.
CUT TO:
INT. LARRY SUMMERS’ OUTER OFFICE - DAY
CAMERON and TYLER, in dark suits, are waiting to see the
president of Harvard.
                                                             89.

The President’s office is in one of the two oldest university
buildings in the country, and the SECRETARY sitting at the
desk is even older. You get the sense that she thinks Harvard
would be a better place if it weren’t for all these students.
                    CAMERON
              (just making small talk)
          I’ve never been in this building before.
                    SECRETARY
              (without really looking up)
          This building’s a hundred years older
          than the country it’s in. So do be
          careful.
                    TYLER
          We’re sitting in chairs.
                       SECRETARY
                 (into phone)
          Yes.
              (into phone)
          Very good.
She hangs up the phone.
                    SECRETARY (CONT’D)
          You can go in now.
She points to a door and CAMERON and TYLER get up, quickly
straighten themselves, and walk into
INT. SUMMERS’ OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
LARRY SUMMERS, a large man, is on the phone at his desk in his
well-appointed office. A fire crackles in the sitting area and
a 40-ish African-American woman, ANNE, in a pants suit is
nearby going over some papers.
SUMMERS waves the boys in--
                    SUMMERS
              (into phone)
          That’s just their own stupidity, I should
          have been there.
              (into phone)
          Darkness is the absence of light and
          stupidity in that instance was the
          absence of me.
SUMMERS motions for them to sit and they do. They take in some
of the photographs around the room--SUMMERS with BILL CLINTON,
etc.
                     SUMMERS (CONT’D)
               (into phone)
          Catherine, I have students in my office
          now.
                     (MORE)
                                                          90.
                     SUMMERS (CONT’D)
              (into phone)
          Students.
              (into phone)
          Undergrads.
              (into phone)
          I don’t know, from the looks of it they
          want to sell me a Brooks Brothers
          franchise.
              (beat)
          Alright.
SUMMERS hangs up the phone--
                    SUMMERS (CONT’D)
          Good morning.
                    CAMERON
          Good morning, sir. I’m Cameron Winklevoss
          and this is my brother, Tyler.
SUMMERS reaches to the top of a pile of papers and pulls a ten-
page letter off the top.
                    SUMMERS
          And you’re here because...
There’s silence while SUMMERS appears to read over the
letter...
                    SUMMERS (CONT’D)
          Either one of you can answer.
                    CAMERON
          I’m sorry, I thought you were reading the
          letter.
                    SUMMERS
          I’ve read the letter.
                    CAMERON
          We came up with an idea for a website
          called HarvardConnection--we’ve since
          changed the name to ConnectU--and Mark
          Zuckerberg stole that idea and--
                    SUMMERS
          I understand. I’m asking what do you want
          me to do about it.
CAMERON points to a row of Harvard Student Handbooks on the
bookshelf behind SUMMERS.
                    CAMERON
          Well sir, in The Harvard Student
          Handbook, which is distributed to each
          freshman--under the heading “Standards of
          Conduct in the Harvard Community”--
                                                      91.

SUMMERS can’t help an agonized sigh--
                    CAMERON (CONT’D)
          --it says, “The College expects that all
          students will be honest and forthcoming
          in their dealings with members of this
          community. All students are required to
          respect public and private ownership.
          Instances of theft, misappropriation--
                     SUMMERS
          Anne?
                     ANNE
          Yes sir.
                    SUMMERS
          Punch me in the face.
              (then to CAMERON)
          Go ahead.
                     CAMERON
              (beat)
          ...or unauthorized use will result in
          disciplinary action. Including
          requirement to withdraw from the college.
                    SUMMERS
          And you memorized that instead of doing
          what?
                    CAMERON
          What my brother and I came here today to
          ask of you, respectfully of course, is
          that--
                    TYLER
              (a little frustrated with this
               bullshit)
          Sir, it’s against University rules to
          steal from another student, plain and
          simple.
                    SUMMERS
          You’ve spoken to your House Master?
                    CAMERON
          Yes sir, and the House Master made a
          recommendation to the Ad Board but the Ad
          Board won’t see us.
                    SUMMERS
          Have you tried dealing with the other
          student directly?
                                            92.

          CAMERON
Mr. Zuckerberg hasn’t been responding to
any of our e-mails or phone calls for the
last two weeks. He doesn’t answer when we
knock on his door at Kirkland and the
closest we’ve come to dealing with him
face to face is when I saw him on the
quad and chased him through Harvard
Square.
          SUMMERS
You chased him?
           CAMERON
    (beat)
I saw him and I know he saw me and I went
after him but he disappeared.
          SUMMERS
I don’t see this as a University issue.
          TYLER
Of course this is a University issue.
There’s a code of ethics and an honor
code and he violated them both.
          SUMMERS
You entered into a code of ethics with
the university, not with each other.
           TYLER
    (beat)
I’m sorry President Summers, what you
just said makes no sense to me at all.
          SUMMERS
I’m devastated by that.
          CAMERON
What my brother means is that if Mark
Zuckerberg walked into our dorm room and
stole our computer that would be a
university issue, right?
          SUMMERS
I really don’t know, this office doesn’t
handle petty larceny.
          TYLER
This isn’t petty larceny.
             CAMERON
       (calming)
Ty--
          TYLER
This idea is potentially worth millions
of dollars.
                                            93.

             SUMMERS
Millions?
             CAMERON
Yes.
          SUMMERS
You might be letting your imaginations
run away with you.
          TYLER
Sir, I honestly don’t think you’re in any
position to make that call.
          SUMMERS
I was U.S. Treasury Secretary, I’m in
some position to make--
          TYLER
Letting our imaginations run away with us
is exactly what we were told to do in
your freshmen address.
          SUMMERS
Well I would suggest that you let your
imaginations run away with you on a new
project.
             TYLER
You would.
          SUMMERS
Yes. Everyone at Harvard is inventing
something. Harvard undergraduates believe
that inventing a job is better than
finding a job so I’ll suggest again that
the two of you come up with a new new
project.
          CAMERON
I’m sorry, but that’s not the point.
          SUMMERS
Please arrive at the point.
          CAMERON
You don’t have to be an intellectual
property expert to understand the
difference between right and wrong.
          SUMMERS
And you’re saying that I don’t?
          CAMERON
Of course I’m not saying that.
                                                      94.

                    TYLER
          I’m saying that.
                      SUMMERS
          Really.
                      CAMERON
          Sir--
                    SUMMERS
          Anne, how did they get this appointment?
                    ANNE
          Colleagues of their father.
SUMMERS gives a quick nod--that’s what he thought.
                    SUMMERS
          Let me tell you something, Mr. Winklevoss
          and...Mr. Winklevoss. Since you’re on the
          subject of right and wrong. This action,
          this meeting, the two of you being here,
          is wrong. It’s not worthy of Harvard.
          It’s not what Harvard saw in you. You
          don’t get special treatment.
                    CAMERON
          We’ve never--
                    TYLER
          Start another project? Like we’re making
          a diorama for the science fair?
                    SUMMERS
          And if you have a problem with that, Mr.
          Winklevoss--
                    CAMERON
          We’ve never asked for special treatment.
                    SUMMERS
          --the courts are always at your disposal.
          Is there anything else I can do for you?
                    TYLER
              (under his breath)
          Well you could take the Harvard Student
          Handbook and shoved it up--
                      CAMERON
                (stopping him)
          Ty.
              (to SUMMERS)
          Thank you very much for your time, sir.
CUT TO:
                                                          95.

INT. SUMMERS OUTER OFFICE - DAY
As CAMERON and TYLER exit, TYLER closes the door a little too
hard and the brass doorknob comes off in his hand. He drops it
on the SECRETARY’S desk as he exits--
                    TYLER
          I broke your 335 year old doorknob.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          Eduardo, spring break, you and Mr.
          Zuckerberg took a trip to New York.
                    EDUARDO
          Yes.
                    GRETCHEN
          What was the purpose of the trip?
                    EDUARDO
          As CFO, I’d set up some meetings with
          potential advertisers.
                    GRETCHEN
          Who paid for the trip?
                    EDUARDO
          It was paid for out of the thousand
          dollar account I’d set up a few months
          earlier.
                    GRETCHEN
          At this point your thousand dollars was
          the only money that had been put into the
          company.
                    EDUARDO
          Yes.
                    GRETCHEN
          How did you feel the meetings went?
                    EDUARDO
          They went terribly.
                    GRETCHEN
          Why?
                    EDUARDO
          Mark was asleep.
                    MARK
          I wasn’t asleep.
                                                          96.

                    EDUARDO
          Can I re-phrase my answer?
                    GRETCHEN
          Sure.
                    EDUARDO
          I wish he’d been asleep.
CUT TO:
INT. AD EXECUTIVE’S OFFICE - DAY
EDUARDO, in a three-piece suit, is pitching the EXECUTIVE.
MARK, in his hoodie and flip-flops, is completely detached and
staring at the floor.
                    EDUARDO
          ...and we’re at 29 schools now with over
          75,000 members. People who go on
          theFacebook tend to stay on longer than
          almost any other site, now here’s the
          most impressive statistic--91% of people
          who try it once will come back. Now if
          you’ll allow me--
                    EXECUTIVE
          Excuse me one second.
              (re: MARK)
          What sound is he making? Is that like a
          “tsk”.
                    MARK
          It wasn’t a “tsk”, it was uh...hmm...like
          a glottal stop. Almost a gag reflex.
                     EXECUTIVE
              (beat)
          Guys, what is this?
CUT BACK TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          There was one more meeting scheduled for
          the New York trip.
                    EDUARDO
          Yes. It was a dinner. It was set up
          through my girlfriend at the time.
                    GRETCHEN
          Would you say that Mark was excited about
          this meeting?
                                                          97.

                       EDUARDO
          Yes, very.
CUT TO:
INT. 66 - NIGHT
66 is a hip and trendy restaurant in Tribeca. The young crowd
is drinking cocktails of all different colors and wearing
Prada. We FIND EDUARDO in a three-piece suit and MARK in his
hoodie and flip-flops, along with EDUARDO’s now-girlfriend,
CHRISTY, sitting at a table with an empty seat waiting.
                    CHRISTY
          They’re not gonna card us.
                    EDUARDO
          They might.
                    CHRISTY
          Look around.
                    EDUARDO
          It’ll be embarrassing.
                    CHRISTY
              (to MARK)
          Tell him they’re not gonna card us.
                    MARK
          They’re not gonna card us.
                       EDUARDO
          Mark--
                    MARK
          Are you gonna talk about ads again?
                    EDUARDO
          Unless you’re the Ballet Theatre of
          Hartford, the purpose of a business is to
          make a profit.
                    MARK
          This isn’t a business yet.
                     EDUARDO
          That’s tough for me because my job is to--
          nevermind.
MARK says nothing...
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
              (pause)
          He’s 25 minutes late.
                                                            98.

                    MARK
          He founded Napster when he was 19, he can
          be late.
                    EDUARDO
          He’s not a god.
                    MARK
          What is he?
                    EDUARDO
          25 minutes late.
                    CHRISTY
          I think Wardo’s jealous.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          I honestly wasn’t jealous. I was nervous.
                    GRETCHEN
          Why?
                    EDUARDO
          I didn’t know him at all but I’d done a
          search and I’d asked around. He struck me
          as kind of a wild card.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. 66 - NIGHT
                    CHRISTY
          Why?
                    EDUARDO
          He crashed out of two pretty big internet
          companies in spectacular fashion and he’s
          had a reputation with drugs.
                    MARK
          He also founded the companies.
                    EDUARDO
          We don’t need him.
                     MARK
              (nodding toward the door)
          He’s here.
SEAN PARKER has stepped into the restaurant and is saying
hello to the hostess while hugging a waitress.
                                                          99.

                    EDUARDO
          And he does own a watch.
SEAN stops at a table to shake hands with a guy in a suit and
kiss his girlfriend. It’s sort of an incongruous sight--this
22 year old kid who’s able to work a room like Sinatra. Who
the hell is this?
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
              (quietly)
          Take your time. And he does own a watch.
                     CHRISTY
          Stop it.
SEAN makes his way over to MARK’s table--
                    SEAN
          I’m Sean Parker.
                    EDUARDO
              (shaking hands)
          How do you do.
                    SEAN
          You must be Eduardo. And Christy. And
          Mark, it’s great to meet you.
                    MARK
              (almost beaming)
          Great to meet you.
                     SEAN
          You guys don’t have anything in front of
          you.
               (to a passing WAITRESS)
          Tori.
                    EDUARDO
          We were waiting for--
                    WAITRESS
          Hey baby boy.
                    SEAN
          Can you bring out some things. The
          lacquered pork with that ginger confit?
          Tuna tartar and a lobster claws, that’ll
          get us started. Christy, what do you like
          to drink?
                    CHRISTY
          An appletini?
                                                         100.

                    SEAN
          Great. Four of those.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          From that point on it was the Sean-a-
          thon.
                    SY
          The question was “What did you talk
          about?”
                    EDUARDO
          He took us through his episode with
          Napster.
CUT TO:
INT. 66 - NIGHT
The CAMERA is moving around the table as SEAN--in and out of
MOS--is telling story after story while food is brought,
drinks put down, more food brought and more drinks put down.
MARK is enthralled, CHRISTY is sexy and EDUARDO is polite.
                    SEAN
          I didn’t want to spend my 20’s as a
          professional defendant. Who knew--the
          music industry doesn’t have a sense of
          humor. We tried to sell the company to
          pay the 35 million they said we owed in
          royalties but I guess to them that was a
          little like selling a stolen car to pay
          for the stolen gas. So we said screw it
          and declared bankruptcy.
                    CHRISTY
          But you made a name for yourself.
                    SEAN
          And you are dry. Tori?
                    CHRISTY
          No, I’m good.
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          And then he went on to his second
          business venture, which was an online
          rolodex that he got thrown out of by Case
          Equity.
                                                       101.

INT. 66 - NIGHT
                    SEAN
          And I wanted to do it nice this time. I
          put on a tie and I shined my shoes but
          nobody wants to take orders from a kid so
          let me tell you what happens to a 20 year
          old at the top of a hot dot com:
CUT BACK TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          I’m not a psychiatrist, but--
                    SY
          I’m glad we’ve got that on the record.
                    GRETCHEN
          You’re not a psychiatrist but what?
                    EDUARDO
          A psychiatrist would say he was paranoid.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. 66 - NIGHT
                    SEAN
          They’ll hire private detectives who’ll
          follow you day and night. You’re a target
          for high priced escorts. I can’t prove it
          but I know they tapped my phones.
          Whatever it is that’s gonna trip you up
          you’ve done already. Private behavior is
          a relic of a time gone by. And if
          somehow, someway, you’ve managed to live
          your life like the Dalai Lama then
          they’ll make shit up. Because they don’t
          want you, they want your idea and then
          they want you to say thank you while you--
          excuse me--wipe your chin and walk away.
                    MARK
          That’s what happened to you?
CUT BACK TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          And delusional.
CUT BACK TO:
                                                       102.

INT. 66 - NIGHT
                    SEAN
          Yes. There‘ll be payback at Case. I
          brought down the record companies with
          Napster and Case’s gonna suffer for their
          sins too.
                    EDUARDO
          You didn’t bring down the record
          companies. They won.
                      SEAN
          In court.
                      EDUARDO
          Yes.
                    SEAN
          You want to buy a Tower Records, Eduardo?
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          And he told story after story about life
          in Silicon Valley, and parties at Stanford
          and down in LA, and friends who’d become
          millionaires, but mostly how Mark had to--
          had to come to California. And then he got
          around to theFacebook.
INT. 66 - NIGHT
                    SEAN
          Tell me about your progress.
                    EDUARDO
          Well...we’re in 29 schools now and we
          have over 75,000 members--
                     SEAN
              (ignoring EDUARDO and going for
               MARK)
          Tell me about the strategy you’re using.
                    MARK
          Okay. For instance, we wanted Baylor in
          Texas but Baylor already had a social
          network on campus so instead of going
          right after them, we made a list of every
          school within a hundred miles--
                    SEAN
          --and put theFacebook on those campuses
          first.
                                            103.

          MARK
Pretty soon all the Baylor kids were
seeing their friends on our site we were
in.
          SEAN
That’s called the Little Big Horn, that’s
smart, Mark.
          EDUARDO
Thank you, it was mine.
          CHRISTY
    (to EDUARDO)
Easy.
          EDUARDO
Settle an argument for us, would you? I
say it’s time to start making money from
theFacebook but Mark doesn’t want
advertising. Who’s right?
          SEAN
Neither of you yet. TheFacebook is cool,
that’s what it’s got going for it.
           MARK
Yeah.
          SEAN
You don’t want to ruin it with ads
because ads aren’t cool.
           MARK
Exactly.
          SEAN
It’s like you’re throwing the greatest
party on campus and someone’s telling you
it’s gotta be over at 11:00.
          MARK
That’s exactly right.
          SEAN
You don’t even know what the thing is
yet.
          MARK
I said exactly that.
          SEAN
How big it can get and how far it can go.
This is no time to take your chips down.
A million dollars isn’t cool. You know
what’s cool?
                                                      104.

                    EDUARDO
          You?
CUT BACK TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                     EDUARDO
          A billion dollars.
              (beat)
          And that shut everybody up.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. 66 - NIGHT
                    SEAN
          And that’s where you’re headed. A billion
          dollar valuation. Unless you take bad
          advice in which case you may as well have
          come up with a chain of very successful
          yogurt shops. When you go fishing you can
          catch a lot of fish or you can catch a
          big fish. You ever walk into a guy’s den
          and see a picture of him standing next to
          fourteen trout?
                    CHRISTY
          No, he’s holding a 3000 pound marlin.
                    SEAN
          Yep.
                    MARK
          That’s a good analogy.
                    EDUARDO
          Okay, but we all know that marlins don’t
          really weigh 3000 pounds, right?
                    CHRISTY
          Have you seen the big ones up close?
                    EDUARDO
          I haven’t but I don’t think the guy’s
          holding a marlin the size of a Range
          Rover. That would be a really big fish
          and a very strong guy.
                     CHRISTY
          You think we might be getting away from
          the point?
                                                         105.

                    SEAN
          I don’t have a dog in this fight. I’m
          just a fan who came to say hi.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          He owned Mark after that dinner.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. 66 - NIGHT
SEAN’s signing the check.
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          He picked up the check, he told Mark
          they’d talk again soon and he was gone.
          But not before he made his biggest
          contribution to the company.
                    SEAN
              (signing the check)
          Drop the “the”. Just Facebook. It’s
          cleaner.
And SEAN heads out, patting backs and kissing waitresses along
the way.
After a moment...
                    MARK
              (knocked out)
          Shit.
INT. NY TAXICAB - NIGHT
                    EDUARDO
          That’s gotta be some kind of land speed
          record for talking.
                    MARK
          You want to end the party at eleven.
                    EDUARDO
          I’m trying to pay for the party.
                     MARK
          There won’t be a party unless it’s cool.
              (beat)
          What’d you think?
                    EDUARDO
          Sure, let’s drop the “the”.
                                                      106.

                    MARK
          I meant catching the marlin instead of
          the 14 trout. Doesn’t that sound good?
                    EDUARDO
          If you’re a trout.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          I’m going to enter this into the record.
          Incorporation papers for Facebook, an LLC
          registered in Florida--
              (to EDUARDO for the record)
          Why Florida?
                    EDUARDO
          That’s where my family lives.
                     GRETCHEN
          --and ask the respondent to stipulate
          that the articles of incorporation state
          the ownership as follows: 65 percent for
          Mark Zuckerberg, 30 percent for Eduardo
          Saverin and 5 percent for Dustin
          Moskovitz.
                    SY
          We stipulate.
                    GRETCHEN
          And that was April 13th, 2004.
                    SY
          You can mark it.
                    GRETCHEN
              (to SY)
          Do you have anything here?
                    SY
          Yes, thank you. Mr. Saverin, have you
          ever done anything that might be
          considered legitimate grounds for
          termination?
                    EDUARDO
          No.
                    SY
          You never did anything to embarrass the
          company or even seriously jeopardize it?
                                                         107.

                         EDUARDO
                (beat)
          No.
                         SY
          No?
                         EDUARDO
          No.
                    SY
          You were accused of animal cruelty.
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          Wait--
                    SY
          You weren’t?
                    EDUARDO
          This isn’t happening.
                    SY
          I have an article here from The Crimson--
                    EDUARDO
          Jesus Christ--
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - DAY
                    MARK
          I can’t have this, Wardo.
MARK’s talking about the Crimson article in his hand. EDUARDO
is standing next to a crate that’s holding--wait for it--a
live chicken.
DUSTIN is sitting at the desktop computer staring at something
intently.
                    EDUARDO
          Oh come one, this is bullshit, this is
          another club playing a prank.
CUT BACK TO:
                                                      108.

INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          I’d gotten into the Phoenix. I’d been
          accepted and as part of my initiation I
          had to, for one week, carry with me at
          all times and take of, a chicken.
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - DAY
                    MARK
          They identify you as one of the founders
          of Facebook. “Junior Eduardo Saverin”--
          I’m not the expert but being connected to
          torturing animals is probably bad for
          business.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          I did not torture the chicken, I don’t
          torture chickens, are you crazy?
                    SY
          No and settle down please. I have here
          an article from the Crimson--
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - DAY
                    MARK
          This is scathing.
                    DUSTIN
              (without looking up)
          Nine-hundred and fifty-six.
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
              (trying to be calm)
          I was having dinner in the Kirkland
          Dining Hall with Mark and I had the
          chicken with me because I had to have the
          chicken with me at all times. This was
          college.
CUT TO:
                                                         109.

INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - DAY
                    MARK
          Somebody’s gonna have to answer for this.
                    DUSTIN
          Nine--hundred sixty-nine.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    EDUARDO
          The dining hall was serving chicken for
          dinner and I had to feed my chicken so I
          just...I took little pieces of chicken
          and I gave it to the chicken. Someone
          must have seen me because the next thing
          I knew I was being accused of forced
          cannibalism.
At the end of the table, MARYLIN tries but fails to stifle a
small laugh.
EDUARDO looks down the table...MARYLIN does her best to look
serious.
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
          I didn’t know you can’t do that. I dealt
          with the various animal rights groups, I
          dealt with the Associate Dean of the
          College, this was all resolved.
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - DAY
                    DUSTIN
          Nine-hundred and eighty-eight.
                    EDUARDO
          Someone from the Porc or the Fly must
          have reported it. For all I know it was
          the Winklevosses.
                    MARK
          Alright, let’s just forget about it.
                    EDUARDO
          This is absurd. I’m being accused of
          animal cruelty. It’s better to be accused
          of necrophilia.
                    MARK
          It is better to be accused of necro--
                                                         110.

                    EDUARDO
          I’m going to have to explain this to my
          father, I’m going to have to explain this
          to everybody, I’m going to have to--what
          is happening on that?
EDUARDO’s referring to a laptop that’s open and displaying
images of four paintings.
                    MARK
          I have my final coming up for “Postwar
          and Contemporary Art” and I haven’t been
          to class. I’m supposed to write about
          those four paintings.
                    EDUARDO
          That’s a Facebook page.
                    MARK
          Yeah, I opened it under an alias. I
          posted the paintings and asked people to
          comment. Every once in a while I hop on
          and stir the pot to get a good debate
          going.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                    GRETCHEN
          Mr. Zuckerberg was cheating on his final
          exam?
                    EDUARDO
          I’d rather not answer that, Gretchen.
                     GRETCHEN
          Why not?
                    EDUARDO
          Because I’m not suing him for cheating on
          his final exam that’s not what friends
          do.
                    GRETCHEN
          Well you just told us he was cheating.
                    EDUARDO
          Oops.
              (to MARK)
          You told your lawyers I was torturing
          animals?!
                    SY
          No, he didn’t tell us about it at all.
          Our litigators are capable of finding a
          Crimson article. In fact when we raised
          the subject with him he defended you.
                                                      111.

                       MARK
              (beat)
          Oops.
CUT TO:
INT. MARK’S DORM ROOM - DAY
                    DUSTIN
          Nine ninety-three, we are so close.
                    MARK
          That reminds me, we’re gonna need more
          money, Wardo.
                    EDUARDO
          Yeah, no, I agree. More servers, more
          help--
                    MARK
          --I’m interviewing two interns to come to
          Palo Alto and we’re gonna have to pay
          them something.
                       EDUARDO
          What?
                    MARK
          I already found a house for rent on a
          street two blocks from the Stanford
          campus. It’s perfect and it’s got a pool.
                    EDUARDO
          When did you decide to go to California
          for the summer?
                     MARK
              (beat)
          You mean when did I actually decide?
                    EDUARDO
          Somewhere in the middle of The Sean
          Parker Variety Hour?
                    MARK
          He was right. California’s the place
          we’ve gotta be.
                    EDUARDO
          You’re Jed Clampett?
                    MARK
          I didn’t know you guys got The Beverly
          Hillbillies in Bra--
                                                         112.

                    EDUARDO
          Yes, we got the show in Brazil, it was
          genius.
                    MARK
          What’s your problem with Sean?
                    EDUARDO
          He doesn’t bring anything to the table.
          He doesn’t have money, Dustin’s a better
          programmer--
                    MARK
          He’s got connections to VCs.
                    EDUARDO
          We don’t need VCs, we need advertisers
          and I’ve got connections to VCs.
                    MARK
          The real players and--
                     EDUARDO
          Look--
                     MARK
          --as someone who’s just really
          embarrassed the company in a bad way I
          wouldn’t--
                    EDUARDO
          It was the Winklevosses, Mark!
                    MARK
          Hang on.
              (to DUSTIN)
          Hit refresh.
DUSTIN hits “refresh” on the desk-top computer. Then smiles...
                     DUSTIN
          150,004.
                    MARK
          150,000 members, Wardo.
                    EDUARDO
              (beat--sincerely)
          Congratulations, dude.
                    MARK
          Congratulations.
                     EDUARDO
              (beat)
          You don’t think it was strange that he
          was followed by private detectives?
                                                           113.

                    MARK
          Who came up with nothing.
                    EDUARDO
          Enough to get him out of the company. The
          drugs, the girls--
                    MARK
          We don’t know any of that’s true.
                    EDUARDO
          You can read about it.
                    MARK
          And I can read about you torturing birds.
          Since when does reading something--
                    EDUARDO
          Don’t fish eat other fish?! The marlins
          and the trout?!
                    DUSTIN
          What’s he talking about?
                    MARK
          I’m interviewing interns at 10 tomorrow
          night in the CS lab. Get on board with
          this, man. You know, I don’t know what
          else to say.
CUT TO:
INT. COMPUTER SCIENCE BUILDING/BASEMENT CORRIDOR - NIGHT
EDUARDO steps through double doors and stops for a moment as
he HEARS an odd sound--RAUCOUS CHEERING from a CROWD that’s
gathered in one of the classrooms.
EDUARDO walks down to the classroom, opens the door and walks
into--
INT. CLASSROOM - NIGHT
--where 60 or so STUDENTS are in a semi-circle, five and six
deep, cheering on the contestants for the internship.
All the desks in the room have been moved to the sides and
five desks with laptops set up in the middle. Next to each
laptop is a shot glass filled with Jack Daniels.
DUSTIN’s holding a watch and MARK is walking slowly back and
forth behind the five “interviewees” who are intensely typing
at their keyboards.
EDUARDO slowly makes his way through the crowd to MARK. He can
see that on the computer screens are a whole lot of numbers
and letters that neither he nor we can understand.
                                                         114.

He stands next to MARK and watches this for a moment. Every
once in a while, one of the contestants will throw back their
shot of Jack Daniels which will instantly get re-filled by a
PRETTY ASIAN GIRL. Throughout all this the CHEERING CONTINUES.
                    DUSTIN
              (waving EDUARDO over)
          Eduardo!
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          Yo. Mark?
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          What’s goin’ on?
                    MARK
          They have 10 minutes to get root access
          to a Python webserver, expose its SSL
          encryption and then intercept all traffic
          over its secure port.
                    EDUARDO
          They’re hacking.
                    MARK
          Yes, all behind a Pix Firewall Emulator.
          But here’s the beauty.
                    EDUARDO
          You know I didn’t understand anything you
          just said, right?
                    MARK
          I do know that.
                    EDUARDO
          What’s the beauty?
                    MARK
          Every 10th line of code written, they
          have to drink a shot. And hacking’s
          supposed to be stealth, so anytime the
          server detects an intrusion, the
          candidate responsible has to drink a
          shot. I also have a program running that
          has a pop-up window appear simultaneously
          on all five computers--the last candidate
          to hit the window has to drink a shot.
          Plus every three minutes they all have to
          drink a shot.
                    DUSTIN
              (calling out)
          Three minutes.
                                                            115.

All five candidates drain their shot glasses and slam them
down where they get re-filled by the pretty Asian girl.
                    EDUARDO
          Can I ask--what part of the interns’ jobs
          will they need to be able to do drunk?
                    MARK
          You’re right. A more relevant test might
          be seeing if they can keep a chicken
          alive for a week.
              (pause)
          That was mean.
EDUARDO hands MARK a thick envelope--
                    EDUARDO
          Here.
                    MARK
          What’s this?
                    EDUARDO
          I opened a new account and put $18,000 in
          it. Will that get you through the summer?
MARK looks at EDUARDO...
Suddenly two of the candidates hands shoot up almost at the
same time--
                    INTERN [ERIC]
          Here!
                    INTERN [IAN]
          Right here!
MARK glances over at the first screen, then the second...
                    MARK
          Welcome to Facebook.
The place ERUPTS. The pretty ASIAN GIRL hits an mp3 player
that’s been hooked up to speakers and a Dr. Dre song blares
out--”California, it’s time to party...”
The two winners are hugging each other and getting wild
congratulations from the crowd.
MARK looks back at EDUARDO and smiles...EDUARDO gives him a
pat on the back and we
CUT TO:
                                                      116.

INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY
                     GRETCHEN
          $18,000.
                     EDUARDO
          Yes.
                    GRETCHEN
          In addition to the $1000 you’d already
          put up.
                     EDUARDO
          Yes.
                    GRETCHEN
          A total of $19,000 now.
                     EDUARDO
          Yes.
                     MARK
          Hang on.
MARK’s scratching something out on a pad...
                    MARK (CONT’D)
          I’m just checking your math on that. Yes,
          I got the same thing.
                    GRETCHEN
          May I continue?
MARK motions “yes”...
                     GRETCHEN (CONT’D)
               (to EDUARDO)
          After expressing misgivings about Mr.
          Zuckerberg taking the company and moving
          it to California for the summer, why did
          you put $18,000 in an account for his
          use?
                    EDUARDO
          I figured we were partners and I wanted
          to be a team player. I figured Mark,
          Dustin and the new interns could work on
          the site while I was generating
          advertiser interest in New York. But
          mostly I figured...how much could go
          wrong in three months?
CUT TO:
                                                           117.

EXT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - DAY
We’re outside of this small, campus-area house as LOUD MUSIC
plays. A zip line is tied from the chimney and runs down over
a small swimming pool where it’s attached to a telephone pole
on the other side.
MARK is standing in the pool and video taping as DUSTIN, who’s
on the roof, grabs the handle, takes off and jumps into the
pool to everyone’s cheers.
We HEAR the GUYS joke about the quality of the jump.
The handle gets pulled back on a rope, an INTERN grabs it,
jumps--
--and the brick chimney comes crashing down.
The INTERN drops into patio furniture as bricks from the
chimney come cascading down.
No one moves--
                      INTERN [ERIC]
          I’m okay.
                      MARK
          You sure?
                      ERIC
          Yeah.
                      DUSTIN
          Yikes.
And at that moment a stray brick drops from the roof and
crashes through a glass patio table.
From inside the DOORBELL RINGS--
                    DUSTIN (CONT’D)
          That’s the doorbell.
                    MARK
          I didn’t know we had a doorbell.
                    DUSTIN
              (shouting inside)
          Andrew! Get the door!
                    MARK
          No, he’s wired in.
                    INTERN [IAN]
          That’s gonna cut into the security
          deposit.
                                                          118.

MARK walks into--
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - CONTINUOUS
The place is computer geek paradise. Computers are everywhere,
along with some of the empty boxes they came in. Pizza boxes,
Chinese food containers, empty beer bottles and white boards
filled with indecipherable code fill the room. There are a
couple of large mattresses on the floor and a large map of the
U.S. with pins and tags showing the schools where they’ve
already put Facebook and different pins showing the schools
they’re going for.
As MARK walks to the door, he walks past ANDREW, who’s sitting
at a computer, writing code and completely oblivious to
everything around him.
                    MARK
              (snapping his fingers)
          Andrew.
                      ANDREW
          Not now.
                      MARK
          Good boy.
MARK gets to the door and opens it.
He’s stunned to see SEAN PARKER standing there with his
girlfriend, SHARON.
They all look at each other for a moment--
                      MARK (CONT’D)
          Sean?
                    SEAN
          Mark? Do you live here?
                    MARK
          Yeah. Do you?
                    SEAN
          We were right across the street, we saw
          the chimney come--
                      MARK
          Yeah.
                    SEAN
          Is anybody hurt?
                    MARK
          No. You live across the street?
                                                         119.

                    SHARON
          I’m Sharon.
                    SEAN
          This is my--Sharon. She lives across the
          street I was helping her move out when we
          saw the chimney--
                    MARK
          Yeah, we had a zip line to the pool.
                    SEAN
          You came to California.
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    SEAN
          You made the right choice.
CUT TO:
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - LATER
SEAN’s looking around the place. DUSTIN and the INTERNS are
standing off to the side, happy to be in the presence of Sean
Parker. ANDREW’s still locked into his computer. MARK’s off in
the kitchen.
                    MARK (OS)
          Here you go.
A beer comes flying out of the kitchen and SEAN catches it.
                    MARK (OS) (CONT’D)
          Sharon.
Another beer comes flying out which SHARON had no idea was
coming and so it smashes into the fireplace.
                    SHARON
              (pause)
          I’m so sorry. I didn’t know you were--
                    MARK (OS)
              (calling)
          No problem. Here you go.
                    SHARON
          Wait--
And another bottle comes flying out that SHARON isn’t ready
for and it crashes to the floor.
                    SEAN
          This house and this team are great. It’s
          exactly what it should be.
                    (MORE)
                                                         120.
                    SEAN (CONT'D)
              (to ANDREW)
          I’m Sean Parker.
ANDREW pays no attention as MARK comes out of the kitchen--
                    MARK
          He’s wired in.
                    SEAN
          That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Where’s
          Eduardo?
                    MARK
          He’s got an internship in New York.
                     SEAN
              (beat)
          Eduardo didn’t come out?
MARK shakes his head, “No.”
CUT TO:
INT. RUBY SKYE - CONTINUOUS
An ultra-hip San Francisco nightclub. It’s a hundred-year old
theater that’s been converted into a 21st Century hot spot for
Silicon Valley’s rock stars. The lower level is a giant dance
floor packed with sweating 20-somethings bouncing to pounding
house music. There are raised blocks where scantily dressed
professional dancers perform non-stop. A huge lighting grid
hangs from the ceiling shooting colored lights and lasers
everywhere. Also hanging from the ceiling are two trapeze bars
with two performers swinging and contorting.
The staircase leads up to the 2nd level which is all VIP
tables that look out over the dance floor. Each VIP area has a
couple of couches and a table covered in bottles of vodka,
tequila, rum, mixers, ice, glasses and a private waitress
who’s happy to bend over and pour a drink for you.
And that’s where we catch up with MARK and SEAN. Sitting next
to SEAN is a BEAUTIFUL WOMAN and there’s another standing
behind him and leaning against the couch.
MARK and SEAN have to speak up above the music.
                    SEAN
          I was crashing there for a little bit
          while I’m taking care of some things. But
          she’s done for the summer so she’s back
          at her parents’ place.
                    BEAUTIFUL WOMAN #1 (BRIANNA)
          The homeless rock star of Palo Alto.
                                                            121.

                    SEAN
          What’s your plan for the summer?
MARK has been subtly checking out the club and not paying
attention.
                       SEAN (CONT’D)
          Mark?
                    MARK
          I’m sorry, I was looking at the
          architecture.
SEAN smiles...
                    SEAN
          I asked what your plan--
                    MARK
          A hundred schools by the end of the
          summer.
                    BRIANNA
          I’m going to the restroom.
                       SEAN
          Okay.
                    BEAUTIFUL WOMAN #2 (KELSEY)
          I’ll go with you.
The two girls exit--
                    MARK
          Your date looks so familiar to me.
                    SEAN
          She looks familiar to a lot of people.
                    MARK
          What do you mean?
SEAN takes a sip of his drink...
                    SEAN
              (simply)
          A Stanford MBA named Roy Raymond wants to
          buy his wife some lingerie but he’s too
          embarrassed to shop for it in a
          department store. He comes up with an
          idea for a high end place that doesn’t
          make you feel like a pervert. He gets a
          $40,000 bank loan and borrows another
          forty-thousand from his in-laws, opens a
          store and calls it Victoria’s Secret. He
          makes a half-million dollars his first
          year.
                    (MORE)
                                            122.
           SEAN (CONT'D)
He starts a catalogue, opens three more
stores and after five years, he sells the
company to Leslie Wexner and The Limited
for four million dollars. Happy ending,
right? Except two years later the
company’s worth 500 million dollars and
Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate
Bridge.
    (beat)
Poor guy just wanted to buy his wife a
pair of thigh-highs, you know?
          MARK
Was that a parable?
          SEAN
My date’s a Victoria’s Secret model,
that’s why she looks familiar to you.
          MARK
God.
           SEAN
Don’t be impressed by all this, I read
your blog.
          MARK
Oh, you know, that was--
          SEAN
You know why I started Napster? A girl I
loved in high school was with the co-
captain of the varsity lacrosse team and
I wanted to take her from him so I
decided to come up with the next big
thing.
          MARK
I didn’t know th--
          SEAN
Napster wasn’t a failure. I changed the
music industry for better and for always.
It may not have been good business but it
pissed a lot of people off. And wasn’t
that what your Facemash was about?
They’re scared of me, pal, and they’re
gonna be scared of you. What the VC’s
want is to say, “Good idea, kid. The
grown-ups’ll take it from here.” But not
this time. This is our time. This time
you’re gonna hand ‘em a business card
that says “I’m CEO...bitch”, that’s what
I want for you, so where the hell’s
Eduardo?
          MARK
He’s in New York.
                                                       123.

                    SEAN
          Suckin’ up to ad execs.
                    MARK
          He’s got an--
                    SEAN
          --an internship? The company’s here. A
          billion dollar company is here. Do you
          live and breathe Facebook?
                       MARK
          Yes.
                    SEAN
          Wardo wants to be a businessman and for
          all I know he’s gonna be a good one but
          he shouldn’t be in New York kissing
          Madison Avenue’s ass. This is a once-in-a-
          generation-holy-shit idea and the water
          under the Golden Gate is freezing cold.
          Look at my face and tell me I don’t know
          what I’m talking about.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          Do you ever think about the girl?
                       SEAN
          What girl?
                    MARK
          The one--the girl in high school who was--
          with the lacrosse thing.
                       SEAN
                 (are you kidding?)
          No.
The girls comes back--
                    BRIANNA
          If you guys are gonna talk about
          bandwidth we need shots.
                    SEAN
          A hundred schools by the end of the
          summer?
                       MARK
          Yeah.
                    SEAN
          Tell you what, gesture of good faith.
          While you’re getting into a hundred
          schools, I’ll put you on two continents.
                                                         124.

                     MARK
           If you don’t have a place to crash I
           think you should definitely come and live
           with us.
                      SEAN
               (nods)
           Let’s line up some shots.
               (getting the server)
           Excuse me.
                      SERVER
           Yes sir.
                     SEAN
           You can take this away and bring out the
           1942.
                     SERVER
           Absolutely, Mr. Parker.
MARK takes this in a moment before we
CUT TO:
EXT. THE THAMES - DAY
We’re looking at a stone bridge crossing a perfectly straight
stretch of water against the backdrop of the medieval town of
Henley, England--founded in 1179.
And after a moment of placid quiet--
--BOOSH!
Two razor thin skulls explode for the final, agonizing hundred-
meter stretch of the ancient and prestigious Henley Royal
Regatta.
The two boats are neck and neck. The port-side boat is being
crewed by the two Dutch members of the Hollandia Roeiclub. The
starboard boat is being crewed by a pair of identical twins
wearing tank tops bearing the “H” of Harvard.
We HEAR the ROAR come up from the CROWD in the viewing
section. The crowd is dressed as if for opening day at Ascot--
the women in flowing dresses and wide-brimmed hats, the men in
blazers and brightly colored floral ties.
But the young men in the boats can barely hear the crowd. Just
their own breathing as they pull against the longest natural
straight stretch of water in the world--a mile and a half
torture test against the best competition they’ve ever faced.
And they’re neck and neck. CAMERON and TYLER can’t shake the
Dutch.
                                                         125.

The CROWD is going crazy. Mixed in with the British crowd is a
small contingent waving the flag of Holland and a slightly
larger contingent of Americans.
We’ll notice a stoic man in a VIP viewing section and later
we’ll be introduced to him as Cameron and Tyler’s father. Next
to him is their mother, who can barely watch.
Back on the boats it’s just the breathing as the skulls slice
through the water like jet-powered knives. 50 meters now and
there’s still no daylight between them.
25 meters and the Dutch and American fans are going crazy--
even the British aristocracy can’t help but get caught up in
the closest race in the history of the competition. The FATHER
is silently willing his boys one more fraction of boat speed--
the MOTHER has her hands over her mouth in praying position.
POP!
--the finish gun is fired into the air, the oars come out of
the water and the bodies of the crewmen slump over.
CAMERON turns his head to the cheering crowd to see the Dutch
group holding a giant flag and jumping up and down. The
Americans bring their giant flag down and fold it up.
The two DUTCH CREW MEMBERS pump their fists in the air and hug
as the two boats skim along to a gentle stop.
The MOTHER drops her head and looks down. The FATHER refuses
to look away.
From CAMERON and TYLER, just the breathing.
CUT TO:
INT. AWARD CEREMONY - DAY
CAMERON and TYLER are watching as the Dutch team is having
their picture taken with their newly-won trophy in the press
room. TYLER doesn’t want to watch anymore and steps into--
INT. RECEPTION ROOM - CONTINUOUS
Where an AIDE greets him--
                    AIDE
          Mr. Winklevoss.
                    TYLER
          Tyler.
                    AIDE
          Tremendous race.
                                                         126.

                       TYLER
          Thank you.
CAMERON comes along.
                    TYLER (CONT’D)
          This is my brother, Cameron.
                     AIDE
          Excellent.
              (to the blue-blazered man
               behind him)
          Sir. His Royal Highness, Prince Albert.
                       PRINCE ALBERT
          Ah.
                    AIDE
          Your highness, this is Cameron and Tyler
          Winklevoss.
                    PRINCE ALBERT
          Of course. Brilliant race. I’ve never
          seen a race that close.
                       TYLER
              (beat)
          Yes, sir.
                    PRINCE ALBERT
          My grandfather, Jack Kelly, was one of
          the premiere rowers of his day. I’ve been
          coming to Henley for 30 years and I’ve
          never seen a race that close. Have you
          seen a race that close?
CAMERON is thinking about starting a war with Monaco right now
so he lets his brother do the talking.
                      TYLER
               (beat)
          No, Your Highness. Mile and a half races
          are more commonly won by a boat length or
          two.
                    PRINCE ALBERT
          Yes, that’s absolutely right. Brutally
          close.
                    TYLER
          May I introduce my teammates? This is
          Dave, he’s our--
                    AIDE
              (quietly to PRINCE ALBERT)
          I’m sorry, you’ll have to excuse us.
                                                         127.

                    PRINCE ALBERT
          On to the Dutch!
CAMERON and TYLER step over to DIVYA who’s waiting near the
bar--
                    TYLER
          I’m sorry you had to fly all the way over
          to see that.
                    DIVYA
          I wouldn’t have missed it, brother. How
          was the royalty?
                    CAMERON
          I just wanted him to tell me a couple
          more times how close the race was a
          couple of more times. Brutal. It was
          brutally close. Excruciatingly brutal.
          Never seen a race so excruciatingly
          JESUS!
That was an unusual outburst from CAMERON...
                    DIVYA
          Cam, the guy’s the prince of a country
          the size of Nantucket, relax it’s fine--
MR. WINKLEVOSS has made his way over--
                    MR. WINKLEVOSS
          Boys.
                    TYLER
          Dad.
                    MR. WINKLEVOSS
          Divya.
                    DIVYA
          Mr. Winklevoss.
                    MR. WINKLEVOSS
          That was a tough beat.
                    CAMERON
          I’m sorry, that you and mom flew all the--
                     MR. WINKLEVOSS
          No, don’t you ever apologize to me for
          losing a race like that. Don’t ever
          apologize to anyone for losing a race
          like that.
Another man comes along, MR. KENWRIGHT.
                                                      128.

                    KENWRIGHT
          Boys.
                     TYLER
          Oh. Mr. Kenwright. Dad, this is Mr.
          Kenwright, the head of our host family
          this week.
                    KENWRIGHT
          Pleasure to meet you.
                    MR. WINKLEVOSS
          Good to meet you.
                    KENWRIGHT
          I just had a phone chat with my daughter.
          She told me that she and her friends are
          already talking about the race, which
          they’ve seen via their computers. A new
          website called Facebook. Do you have this
          in America?
Everyone is frozen...
                    MR. WINKLEVOSS
          I’m going to find your mother.
                    KENWRIGHT
              (pause)
          Have I said something wrong?
                    DIVYA
              (pause)
          Your daughter doesn’t go to school in the
          States?
                    KENWRIGHT
          No no. Cambridge. Majoring in French
          Literature, though I wasn’t aware there
          was such a thing.
                    TYLER
              (pause)
          They have Facebook at Cambridge?
                    KENWRIGHT
          And apparently Oxford and the London
          School of Economics--that’s where her
          friends are.
                    DIVYA
          That’s awesome.
                    KENWRIGHT
          Good race, boys. Take the bitter with the
          better.
                                                         129.

The men leave and CAMERON, TYLER and DIVYA are alone. CAMERON
looks at them for a moment...
                    CAMERON
              (pause)
          I’m gonna watch the race film. If this
          online I wanna see it.
                     TYLER
          Stop it. Stop it, Cameron. Knock it off.
          I don’t mind that we lost to the Dutch
          today by less than a second. That was a
          good race, that was a fair race and
          they’ll see us again. What I mind--and
          what you should mind--is showing up on
          Monday for a race that was run on Sunday.
              (beat)
          We tried talking to him ourselves, we
          tried writing a letter, we tried the Ad
          Board, and we tried the president of the
          University. Now I’m asking you. For the
          last time! Let’s take the considerable
          resources at our disposal and sue him in
          federal court!
CAMERON looks at his brother and DIVYA...
                     DIVYA
          Come on.
                    CAMERON
              (pause)
          I need a real drink.
CAMERON takes a few steps away as TYLER and DIVYA drop their
heads in surrender but then CAMERON turns right back--
                    CAMERON (CONT’D)
          Screw it. Let’s gut the freakin’ nerd.
DIVYA grabs CAMERON and hugs him.
                    TYLER
          That’s what I’m talking about.
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT
There’s a thunderstorm going on outside and rain is beating
hard against the windows. DUSTIN, ANDREW and the INTERNS are
hard at work writing code. Green Day is pumping from the
speakers.
SEAN is pacing the house on a cordless phone while two YOUNG
WOMEN--dressed to go out for a party--are at the moment each
on a free computer playing each other in a game of Counter-
Strike. Basically they’re shooting at each other and missing
and laughing their heads off.
                                                         130.

It wouldn’t appear as if the house has been cleaned since the
last time we saw it and in fact there are signs of more
wreckage as well as futons, pillows and blankets on the floor.
There’s also a 12-foot bong that reaches the middle landing of
the staircase.
                     SEAN
              (into phone)
          Check it out, I saw him today.
              (beat)
          Manningham, Mitchell Manningham, my Case
          Equity guy--hang on.
              (to the girls)
          Are you guys using spikes or ghost
          missiles?
                    GIRL #1
          We don’t know, we’re just shooting at
          each other.
The DOORBELL RINGS but no one pays attention--
                    SEAN
          Use sweet kamakazis.
                    GIRL #1
          Like we know what that is.
Now there’s a KNOCKING at the door and we
CUT TO:
EXT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT
Rain is soaking down on EDUARDO as he stands at the front door
with a suitcase in his hand. A taxi is turning around in the
driveway and heading off. EDUARDO knocks on the front door
again as we
CUT BACK TO:
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - NIGHT
                     SEAN
              (into phone)
          I saw him getting into his turbo Carerra
          and he saw me too, I know he did.
              (beat)
          Don’t sweat it, I’m on a land line.
SEAN leans over one of the girls, casually hits a few keys and
easily kills several of the other girl’s soldiers.
                    GIRL #1
          Yes!
                                                          131.

                      GIRL #2
          Hey!
                      GIRL #1
          Bong hit!
She has to take one as a penalty.
                    DUSTIN
          Does, anybody hear that banging?
                    SEAN
              (to DUSTIN)
          You don’t hear anything, you’re writing
          code.
                    DUSTIN
          Dude, somebody’s at the door.
SEAN goes back to the phone conversation as he heads to the
door--
                    SEAN
              (into phone)
          It’s not a dish best served cold. It’s
          best served immediately and relentlessly.
SEAN opens the door and the soaking wet EDUARDO is standing
there...
                     SEAN (CONT’D)
              (into phone)
          I’m gonna call you back.
              (to EDUARDO)
          What’s up?
                     EDUARDO
              (long pause)
          What’s up?
              (beat)
          Mark was supposed to pick me up at the
          airport an hour ago, I’ve been calling
          his cell.
                    SEAN
          He was on a 36 hour coding tear so he
          took a nap for a couple of hours.
EDUARDO walks into the house and surveys the wreckage--
                    EDUARDO
          What happened here?
                    SEAN
          Not happened--happening. The next big
          thing.
                                                      132.

                     DUSTIN
          Wardo!
                     EDUARDO
          Hey man.
                    SEAN
              (to DUSTIN)
          Back to work.
                    GIRL #2
          The more bad I get at this, the more
          wasted I get. I meant the more--
                    SEAN
          We understand.
                    EDUARDO
          How old are they, Sean?
                    SEAN
          It’s not polite to ask.
                    EDUARDO
          Sean, how old are they?
                    SEAN
          You think you know me. Right?
                    EDUARDO
          I’ve read enough.
                    SEAN
          You know how much I’ve read about you?
          Nothing.
MARK comes down the stairs--
                     MARK
          Wardo.
                    EDUARDO
          I waited an hour for you at the airport.
                    MARK
          What time is it?
                    EDUARDO
          It’s midnight. Or 3AM in New York where I
          just came from.
                    MARK
          You’ve gotta see some of the new stuff
          we’ve got. Dustin, show him the wall. I’m
          just calling it the wall.
                                            133.

          SEAN
Forget the wall, tell him about the
meeting I’ve got set up.
    (to EDUARDO)
You know Peter Thiel?
             EDUARDO
No.
          SEAN
No reason you should. He just runs a two-
billion dollar hedge fund called Clarium
Capital.
          EDUARDO
    (to MARK)
Why’s he setting up meetings?
          MARK
Thiel may want to make an angel
investment.
          EDUARDO
I don’t care if he’s an actual angel,
why’s he setting up business meetings?
          MARK
You’ve had a long flight.
          EDUARDO
No, I’ve had a long wait on the tarmac at
JFK, then a long wait at the passenger
loading and unloading zone at SFO and in
between there was a long flight. I’m the
business end of this company and he’s a
house guest living here rent-free on a
generous grant from the Eduardo Saverin
Foundation.
          SEAN
I heard about your big ticket ad buys
lined up.
             EDUARDO
Hey, man--
          SEAN
Gary’s Tuxedos, the Harvard Bartending
Course. You’re just one small step away
from bagging Snookies Cookies, I can feel
it.
          EDUARDO
    (to MARK)
Want to talk to me alone for a minute?
             MARK
Sure.
                                                      134.

                    SEAN
              (calling out)
          Bong hit!
                    GIRL #2
          I’m so high.
                    SEAN
          You’re not.
EDUARDO’s followed MARK into--
INT. KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS
                    MARK
          How’s it going? How’s the internship?
          How’s Christy?
                    EDUARDO
          How’s the internship?
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          Mark...Jesus, I quit the internship.
          We’ve talked about this on the phone,
          were you even--I quit on my first day.
                    MARK
          I do remember you saying that. How’s
          Christy?
                    EDUARDO
          Christy’s crazy.
                    MARK
          Is that fun?
                    EDUARDO
          No I mean she’s actually psychotic. She’s
          insanely jealous, she’s irrational and
          I’m frightened of her.
                    MARK
          Still, it’s nice you have a girlfriend.
                    EDUARDO
          I do not want that guy representing
          himself as part of this company.
                    MARK
          You gotta move out here, Wardo, this is
          where it’s all happening.
                    EDUARDO
          Did you hear what I just said?
                                            135.

          MARK
The connections, the energy--
          EDUARDO
Mark--
          MARK
I’m afraid if you don’t come out here
you’re going to get left behind. I want--
I want--I need you out here, please don’t
tell him I said that.
          EDUARDO
What did you just say?
          MARK
It’s moving faster than any of us ever
even imagined and--
          EDUARDO
What do you mean get left behind?
          MARK
It’s moving fast and Sean even thinks
that--
          EDUARDO
Sean is not part of the company.
          MARK
We have over 300,000 members, Wardo,
we’re in 160 schools including--
          EDUARDO
I’m aware of that.
          MARK
--five in Europe.
          EDUARDO
I’m aware of that, Mark, I’m the CFO.
          MARK
We need more servers than I ever imagined
we’d need. We need more programmers. And
we need more money. And he set up the
Thiel meeting. He’s set up meetings all
around town.
          EDUARDO
He’s set up other meetings?
          MARK
Yes.
          EDUARDO
Without me knowing anything about it?!
                                                         136.

                    MARK
          You’re in New York!
                    EDUARDO
          I’m in New York riding subways 14 hours a
          day trying to find advertisers!
                    MARK
          And how’s it going so far?!!
                    EDUARDO
          What did you mean get left behind?
EDUARDO looks at MARK for a long moment before we
CUT TO:
INT. BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH- DAY
EDUARDO comes through the doors with single-minded intent,
heads past the tellers and straight to a desk where he takes a
bankbook out of his pocket and slaps it on the desk.
                     BANKER
              (beat)
          Can I help you?
                    EDUARDO
          I’d like to freeze this bank account and
          cancel all existing checks and lines of
          credit.
                    BANKER
          May I see some ID, please?
                    EDUARDO
          Yeah, sure.
CUT TO:
EXT./EST. SAN FRANCISCO SKYSCRAPER - DAY
80 stories of polished granite.
INT. THIEL’S OUTER OFFICE - DAY
We’re in the offices of a guy who’s hero is Gordon Gekko. MARK
and SEAN are waiting--seated side by side--for a verdict.
SEAN’s wearing his best Prada, MARK’s wearing his hoodie and
Adidas flip-flops.
After a moment an ASSISTANT comes out...
                    ASSISTANT
          Sean, he’ll be right with you.
                                                         137.

                    SEAN
          No problem.
              (to MARK)
          You know this is where they filmed
          Towering Inferno.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          That’s comforting.
The office door opens and PETER THIEL sticks his head out--
                    PETER
          Hey, guys. Come on back.
They get up and walk into--
INT. THIEL’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS
Several of Thiel’s lieutenant’s are sitting around.
                    PETER
          She offer you guys some waters?
                    SEAN
          Oh yeah, we’re cool.
                    MAURICE
          Sean, come on in. You must be Mark.
                    MARK
          Hi.
                    PETER
          We took a look at everything and
          congratulations. We’re gonna start you
          off with a $500,000 investment. Maurice
          is gonna talk to you about some corporate
          restructuring.
                    MAURICE
          We’ll file as a Corporation in Delaware
          and come up with a stock structure that
          allows for new investors.
                    PETER
          Now lemme ask you something. Who’s
          Eduardo Saverin?
CUT TO:
INT. EDUARDO’S APARTMENT - NIGHT
A summer sub-let. A studio apartment the size of a small tool
shed.
                                                         138.

EDUARDO is asleep on top of the covers in the un-air
conditioned apartment when he wakes up to the sound of a key
in the door.
One lock un-locks, then another--
--and then the last.
The door opens and CHRISTY is framed by the dingy light of the
hallway.
                    EDUARDO
          Jesus Christ.
                    CHRISTY
          When did you get back?
                    EDUARDO
          You scared me. I need you to knock.
                    CHRISTY
          When did you get back?
                    EDUARDO
          I got back this afternoon.
                    CHRISTY
          And when were you going to call me?
                    EDUARDO
          Chris, it was kind of a rough trip and I
          was tired and--
                    CHRISTY
          Or answer one of my 47 texts? Did you
          know I sent 47 texts?
                    EDUARDO
          I did, and I thought that was incredibly
          normal behavior.
                    CHRISTY
          Are you mocking me?
                    EDUARDO
          I brought you a present.
                    CHRISTY
          Why does your status say “single” on your
          Facebook page?
                       EDUARDO
              (beat)
          What?
                                                      139.

                    CHRISTY
          Why does your relationship status say
          “single” on your Facebook page?
                    EDUARDO
          I was single when I set up the page.
                    CHRISTY
          And you just never bothered to change it?
                         EDUARDO
                (beat)
          I--
                         CHRISTY
          What?!
                    EDUARDO
          I don’t know how.
                    CHRISTY
          Do I look stupid to you?
                    EDUARDO
          No. Calm down.
                    CHRISTY
          You’re asking me to believe that the CFO
          of Facebook doesn’t know how to change
          his relationship status on Facebook?
                    EDUARDO
          It’s a little embarrassing so you should
          take it as a sign of trust that I would
          tell you that.
                    CHRISTY
          Go to hell.
                    EDUARDO
              (calming)
          Take it easy.
                    CHRISTY
          No, you didn’t change it so you could
          screw Silicon Valley sluts every time you
          go out to see Mark.
                    EDUARDO
          That is not even remotely true and I can
          promise you that the Silicon Valley sluts
          don’t care what anyone’s relationship
          status is on Facebook. Please, open your
          present.
EDUARDO’s cell phone RINGS--
                                                         140.

                    CHRISTY
          Oh, your phone does work.
EDUARDO reaches for his cell but CHRISTY grabs it first to
check the ID.
                       CHRISTY (CONT’D)
          It’s Mark.
CHRISTY tosses the still ringing phone back to him--
                    EDUARDO
          Okay, this is gonna be tricky. Here, open
          your present. It’s a silk scarf.
                    CHRISTY
          Have you ever seen me wear a scarf?
                    EDUARDO
          This’ll be your first.
EDUARDO’s gotten the gift box out of his half un-packed
suitcase, tossed it to CHRISTY and finally answered the phone.
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
              (into phone)
          Yeah.
INTERCUT WITH:
INT. PALO ALTO HOUSE - SAME TIME
                    MARK
              (into his cell phone)
          You froze our account?
In the background there’s a small celebration going on with
SEAN, DUSTIN, the INTERNS and of course some GIRLS. Champagne
is being sprayed from shaken bottles and the girls are dancing
to triumphant music.
                       EDUARDO
          I did.
                    MARK
          You froze the account.
                    EDUARDO
          I had to get your attention, Mark.
                    MARK
          Do you realize that you jeopardized the
          entire company? Do you realize that your
          actions could have permanently destroyed
          everything I’ve been working on?
                                                         141.

                    EDUARDO
          We’ve been working on.
                    MARK
          Without money, the site can’t function.
          Let me tell you the difference between
          Facebook and everybody else: WE DON’T
          CRASH EVER!
What EDUARDO can’t see behind his back is that CHRISTY has
taken the gift box and lit it on fire with a cigarette
lighter.
                    MARK (CONT’D)
          If the servers are down for even a day,
          our entire reputation is irreversibly
          destroyed. Users are fickle. Friendster
          has proven that fact.
And CHRISTY’s now dropped the flaming cardboard box into the
wastebasket where the fire grows larger. She casually kicks
the basket over with her foot.
                    EDUARDO
          Look--
                    MARK
          Even a few people leaving would
          reverberate through the entire user base.
          The users are interconnected, that’s the
          whole point! College kids are online
          because their friends are online and if
          one domino goes, all the dominos go! Do
          you get that?! I’m not going back to
          Caribbean Night at A-E-Pi!
                     EDUARDO
              (finally seeing the fire)
          Holy shit!
              (to CHRISTY)
          What is wrong with you?
                    MARK
          Did you like being nobody?! Did you like
          being a joke?! Do you wanna go back to
          that?!
                    EDUARDO
          Hang on, hang on.
EDUARDO hits a button on his cell and tosses it down. We’ll
keep hearing MARK’s voice as EDUARDO runs out into the
hallway, grabs a fire extinguisher from its wall bracket,
comes back in and sprays out the fire.
                    MARK
          That was the act of a child, not a
          businessman.
                    (MORE)
                                                      142.
                     MARK (CONT'D)
          And it certainly wasn’t the act of a
          friend. You know how embarrassed I was
          for me to try and cash a check today? I’m
          not going back to that life.
              (beat)
          Maybe you were frustrated.
                    EDUARDO
              (shouting)
          Yeah!
                    MARK
          Maybe you were angry.
                    EDUARDO
              (calling out)
          I was!
                    MARK
          But I’m willing to let bygones be bygones
          because, Wardo, I’ve got some good news.
EDUARDO--with the fire now out--picks up the phone.
                     EDUARDO
          I’m sorry. I was angry and maybe it was
          childish. But I had to get your
          attention.
                    MARK
          Wardo, I said I’ve got some good news.
                    EDUARDO
          What is it?
                    MARK
          Peter Thiel’s just made an angel
          investment of a half a million dollars.
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          What?
                     MARK
          A half a million dollars and he’s setting
          us up in an office. They want to re-
          incorporate the company, they want to
          meet you they need your signature on some
          documents so get your ass on the next
          flight back to San Francisco.
              (beat)
          I need my CFO.
                    EDUARDO
              (beat--smiles)
          I’m on my way.
                                                            143.

                       MARK
          Wardo.
                       EDUARDO
          Yeah.
                       MARK
          We did it.
EDUARDO clicks the phone shut. After a moment...
                    CHRISTY
              (like nothing’s happened)
          Wardo?
And EDUARDO jumps because CHRISTY was standing behind him--
                       EDUARDO
          Aaggh!
                    CHRISTY
          You going back there already?
                    EDUARDO
          Yes. Also I’m breaking up with you.
CUT TO:
INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - DAY
A glass conference room in the corner of a glass bullpen on a
high floor of a high rise.
Cartons are being unpacked, computers are everywhere along
with bags of potato chips and boxes of cereal.
In the conference room, EDUARDO is sitting with three LAWYERS
at a round, glass table and documents have been put out in
front of him.
We can see through the glass that MARK is working at a
computer nearby. SEAN is also hovering in the background.
                     LAWYER
          Four documents. The first two are common
          stock purchase agreements allowing you to
          buy stock in the newly re-incorporated
          Facebook as opposed to the old shares
          which are now worthless. The third is the
          exchange agreement, allowing you to
          exchange the old shares for new shares
          and then finally a voter holding
          agreement.
                    EDUARDO
          How many shares of stock will I own?
                                                         144.

                       LAWYER
          1,328,334.
                    EDUARDO
          Jesus Christ.
                    LAWYER
          That represents a 34.4% ownership share.
          Why the increase from the original 30%?
                    EDUARDO
          Because you may need to dilute it to
          award shares to new investors.
                    LAWYER
          I like working with business majors.
                       EDUARDO
          Economics.
                    LAWYER #2
          You should know that Mark’s already taken
          his percentage from 60 down to 51.
                    EDUARDO
          Mark doesn’t care about money and he
          needs to be protected.
                    LAWYER
          Dustin Moskovitz owns 6.81%, Sean Parker
          6.47%--
                    EDUARDO
          I can live with that.
                    LAWYER
          And Peter Theil 7%. Would you like to use
          my pen?
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING
It’s dusk now and the sky outside the room is turning purple.
EDUARDO seems lost in thought.
                    GRETCHEN
              (helping)
          Eduardo?
EDUARDO looks up.
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          Could you please repeat the question?
                                                      145.

                    SY
          No. It was an outrageously leading
          question the first time around and now
          you want us to hear it again?
                    GRETCHEN
          Yes, would you read it back, please.
                    SY
          Well, go ahead.
                    COURT REPORTER
          Counsel: “And when you signed these
          documents, were you aware that you were
          signing your own death certificate?”
                      EDUARDO
                (pause)
          No.
              (pause)
          It was insanely stupid of me not to have
          my own lawyers look over all the...the,
          uh...in all honesty I thought they were
          my lawyers.
              (then to MARK)
          I was your only friend. You had one
          friend.
              (beat)
          My father won’t even look at me.
                     GRETCHEN
              (beat)
          Okay. Eduardo? Did Mr. Zuckerberg say
          anything to you after you signed the
          papers?
                    EDUARDO
          There was a lot of handshaking and a lot
          of congratulations. He’d already told me
          that he wouldn’t be coming back to school
          for at least a semester so we were saying
          goodbye for a while. And then before I
          left, he said--
CUT TO:
INT. FACEBOOK OFFICE - DAY
                    MARK
          But you gotta come back. Somewhere around
          the end of November/early December. Peter
          wants to throw us an amazing party when
          we hit a million members, it’s gonna be
          out of control. You’ve gotta come back
          for it.
                                                         146.

                    EDUARDO
              (quietly can’t believe it)
          A million members.
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          Remember the algorithm on the window at
          Kirkland?
                    MARK
          Yeah.
                    EDUARDO
          Yeah, I’ll be here.
CUT TO:
EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET - DAY
A brand new black Escalade pulls up in front of a gleaming
glass and chrome office building. SEAN is at the wheel and
MARK, in the passenger seat, is wearing brightly colored
pajamas with his hair a mess.
They get out of the car and huddle on the sidewalk.
                    MARK
          You sure about this?
                    SEAN
          You’re 20 minutes late. You’re going to
          walk in there and say you overslept and
          you didn’t have time to get dressed.
          They’re gonna pitch you. Case Equity is
          gonna pitch you. They’re gonna beg you to
          take their money. You’re gonna nod,
          you’re gonna nod, you’re gonna nod and
          then you’re gonna say, “Which one of you
          is Roth--” No, not Roth, Manningham.
          “Which one of you is Mitchell
          Manningham?”. And he’ll say, “I am”. And
          you say, “Sean Parker says ‘Fuck you’ and
          on walk out.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          Okay.
CUT TO:
                                                         147.

INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING
                    EDUARDO
          In late November I got the e-mail from
          Mark telling me to come out for the
          millionth member party.
                    GRETCHEN
          What else did the e-mail say?
                    EDUARDO
          It said that we had to have a business
          meeting. That Mark and Sean had played
          some kind of revenge stunt on Case Equity
          and that Manningham was so impressed that
          he was making an investment offer that
          was hard to turn down.
CUT TO:
INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          I went out to California and I went
          straight to the new offices.
And it’s clear that we’re in the offices of a new, high-tech,
very successful internet company. The Facebook logo in blue
metallic letters on the wall, the maple desks, new computer
monitors, carpeting, a wall covered in graffiti by an artist
commissioned for the job and tons of young employees.
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          I didn’t know whether to dress for the
          party or for the business meeting so I
          kind of dressed for both.
We see that most of the employees, especially the women, are
dressed to go to an after-work, late-night party.
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          But it didn’t matter.
                     GRETCHEN (V.O.)
          Why not?
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          Because I wasn’t called out there for
          either one.
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING
                    GRETCHEN
          What were you called out there for?
                                                           148.

                       EDUARDO
          An ambush.
CUT BACK TO:
INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT
                    LAWYER
          Mr. Saverin, hey.
EDUARDO turns to see the LAWYER he dealt with earlier standing
by the door to a glass conference room.
                    LAWYER (CONT’D)
          In here. Right over here.
EDUARDO walks across the bullpen, where no one makes eye
contact, and into--
INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - CONTINUOUS
                    EDUARDO (V.O.)
          At first I thought he was joking, giving
          me more contracts to sign. But then I
          started reading.
As EDUARDO reads, we rack focus to MARK, who’s sitting at a
computer with his back to EDUARDO, focused on his work.
And then we see SEAN step into the frame and lean against a
desk a few yards away.
And then back to EDUARDO, who’s almost shaking...
                    EDUARDO
          Wait, what is this?
                    LAWYER
          Well, as you know we had some new
          investors--
                    EDUARDO
          What is this?
                    LAWYER
          If you’ll let me--
EDUARDO goes back out into--
INT. BULLPEN - CONTINUOUS
                       EDUARDO
          Mark?
MARK doesn’t look up from his computer--
                                                         149.

                       EDUARDO (CONT’D)
          Mark.
MARK still doesn’t look up--
                    SEAN
          He’s wired in.
                     EDUARDO
              (pause)
          I’m sorry?
                    SEAN
          He’s wired in.
                       EDUARDO
          Is he?
                       SEAN
          Yes.
EDUARDO picks up MARK’s laptop over his head and smashes it
down on the desk, breaking it into pieces.
                    EDUARDO
          How ‘bout now, are you still wired in?
                    SEAN
              (to the girl at the desk he’s
               leaning against)
          Call security.
Everyone in the office is frozen, silent and watching.
                    EDUARDO
          You issued over 24-million new shares of
          stock.
                    MARK
          You were told that if new investors came
          along--
                    EDUARDO
          How much were your shares diluted? How
          much were his?!
CUT TO:
INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - EVENING
                    GRETCHEN
          What was Mr. Zuckerberg’s ownership share
          diluted down to?
                       EDUARDO
          It wasn’t.
                                                     150.

                    GRETCHEN
          What was Mr. Moskovitz’s ownership share
          diluted down to?
                       EDUARDO
          It wasn’t.
                    GRETCHEN
          What was Sean Parker’s ownership share
          diluted down to?
                       EDUARDO
          It wasn’t.
                    GRETCHEN
          What was Peter Thiel’s ownership share
          diluted down to?
                       EDUARDO
          It wasn’t.
                    GRETCHEN
          What was your ownership share diluted
          down to?
                    EDUARDO
              (pause)
          Point-zero-three percent.
CUT TO:
INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT
                    MARK
          You signed the papers.
                    EDUARDO
          You set me up.
                    MARK
          You’re gonna blame me because you were
          the business head of the company and you
          made a bad business deal with your own
          company?!
                    EDUARDO
          It’s gonna be like I’m not part of
          Facebook.
                    SEAN
          It’s won’t be like you’re not part of
          Facebook, you’re not part of Facebook.
                    EDUARDO
          My name’s on the masthead.
                                                       151.

                    SEAN
          You might wanna check again.
EDUARDO is momentarily frozen...
                    EDUARDO
          This is because I froze the account?
                    SEAN
          You think we were gonna let you parade
          around in your ridiculous suits
          pretending you were running this company?
                    EDUARDO
          Sorry, my Prada’s at the cleaners along
          with my hoodie and my fuck-you flip-flops
          you pretentious douchebag.
                    SEAN
          Security’s here. You’ll be leaving now.
Two SECURITY GUARDS have come in--
                    EDUARDO
          I’m not signing those papers.
                    SEAN
          We’ll get the signature.
                    EDUARDO
              (turning to MARK)
          Tell me this isn’t about me getting into
          the Phoenix!
              (pause)
                    EDUARDO (CONT’D)
          You did it. I always knew you did it. You
          planted the story about the chicken.
                    SEAN
              (pause)
          What is he talking about?
                    EDUARDO
          You had me accused--
                    SEAN
          Seriously, what the hell’s the chicken?
                    EDUARDO
          And I’ll bet what you hated the most is
          that they identified me as a co-founder of
          Facebook--which I am! You better lawyer-
          up, asshole, ‘cause I’m not comin’ back
          for my 30 percent, I’m comin’ back for
          everything!
                                                         152.

                    SEAN
              (to SECURITY)
          Get him outa here.
                       EDUARDO
          I’m going.
                       SEAN
          Hang on.
SEAN hands EDUARDO a folded check.
                    SEAN (CONT’D)
          I almost forgot, there’s your $19,000. I
          wouldn’t cash it, though, I drew it on
          the account you froze.
EDUARDO looks at SEAN...then suddenly and quickly cocks his
fist back to punch him in the face. SEAN flinches as EDUARDO
holds his punch and lets out a small laugh.
                    EDUARDO
          I like standing next to you, Sean. It
          makes me look so tough.
EDUARDO exits with the security escort.
There’s a long silence in the room...
                    SEAN
          That’s it, that’s our show for tonight,
          people. So I want to see everybody here
          geared up for a party. We’re gonna walk
          down to the club like it’s the Macy’s
          Parade. Mackey, put it up on the big
          screen, we’ve gotta be almost there.
A young employee hits a remote and a few keys on his computer
and a huge flat-screen displays a Facebook page with a read-
out of the number of members.
                     999,942
There’s scattered applause and excitement as everyone watches.
SEAN takes MARK aside.
                    SEAN (CONT’D)
          You alright?
                     MARK
          Yeah.
              (beat)
          You were kinda rough on him.
                    SEAN
          That’s life in the NFL.
                                                          153.

                    MARK
          You know you didn’t have to be that rough
          on him.
                    SEAN
          Listen, I’m putting together a party--
                    MARK
          Sean? You didn’t have to be that rough on
          him.
                    SEAN
          He almost killed it. I’ll send flowers.
          Speaking of flowers, I’m putting together
          a party after the party at Kappa Eta
          Sigma. Ashleigh’s a sister.
                    MARK
          Uh...Ashleigh?
                    SEAN
          The intern.
                    MARK
          No, yeah, I know who she is. Are you guys--
                    SEAN
          Ashleigh? Me? No. A little bit. Oh no, do
          you like her? Dude--
                    MARK
          No. No. I was just, no.
An intern, ASHLEIGH, comes along with a small package--
                    ASHLEIGH
          Excuse me, Mark?
                    SEAN
          We were just talkin’ about you.
                    MARK
          Just that you’re doing a really good job.
                    ASHLEIGH
          Thanks, I appreciate that.
              (to MARK)
          These came in for you.
                    MARK
          Put them on my desk.
ASHLEIGH puts the small package on Mark’s desk.
                    SEAN
          What’s the package?
                                                           154.

                       MARK
          Nothing.
                    SEAN
              (calling out)
          Mackey!
                    MACKEY
              (calling back)
          Yes sir!
                       SEAN
          Refresh!
MACKEY hits the “refresh” key and the big screen shows--
                 1,000,046
CHEERS erupts throughout the place. SEAN grabs MARK and hugs
him but MARK doesn’t quite hug back...
CUT TO:
EXT. SORORITY HOUSE - NIGHT
We can hear the thumping music coming from the party inside
and college kids have spilled out onto the front lawn of this
pristine, four-columned house.
INT. SORORITY HOUSE - NIGHT
It’s dark but we can make out people dancing. The place is
packed.
CUT TO:
INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT
We hear the thumping music from the party. SEAN’s in there
with a couple of guys, ASHLEIGH and two other girls. SEAN’s
got his cell phone out and will snap a picture every once in a
while.
                    FRATERNITY GUY
          Do it on anything. You can use a CD.
                    SORORITY GIRL #2
          You can do it off me.
The girl’s sat on the bed and unbuttoned her top. Her shirt’s
unbuttoned all the way but we can’t really see anything--just
the part of her chest that’s being used as a surface off of
which to snort coke.
                       SORORITY GIRL
          Alright!
                                                           155.

The GIRL taps out some coke from a vial onto the other girl’s
chest and starts passing around a rolled up 20-dollar bill for
everyone to have a turn and she herself will unbutton her
shirt too for the same purpose. All this while SEAN is
talking.
                    SEAN
          The next transformative development? A
          picture sharing application. A place
          where you view pictures that coincide
          with your social life. It is...the true
          digitalization of real life. You don’t
          just go to a party anymore, you go to a
          party with your digital camera and your
          friends relive the party on Facebook. And
          tagging. The idea--
                    SORORITY GIRL #2
          Would this be easier without the bra?
                    FRATERNITY GUY
          It’s worth finding out.
The girls start happily slipping off their bras--
                    SEAN
          I’ve spent hours watching what people do
          when they log on.
                    ASHLEIGH
          Wait, that’s weird. Why did the music
          stop?
ASHLEIGH has a point. The music stopped in the middle of
SEAN’s speech and the sound outside from the party just
doesn’t sound like a party anymore.
                    SEAN
          How they check their friends’ status
          updates, checked to see which of their
          friends had changed their profiles,
          changed their photos and mostly...
                    ASHLEIGH
          Seriously, what happened to the music?
                    SEAN
          We lived on farms and then we lived in
          cities and now we’re gonna live on the
          internet.
                    ASHLEIGH
          Sean. Stop. I think something’s going on
          downstairs.
SEAN stops talking...he senses it too now.
SEAN walks out of the room to the--
                                                         156.

INT. STAIRCASE LANDING - CONTINUOUS
And out the window he sees a fleet of police cars with their
lights flashing parked in front of the house. Then before he
can react, the front door flies open--
POLICE with flashlights walk in--the beams of light streaking
across the darkened party floor and the faces.
We HEAR muffled murmurs from the cops of “party’s over” and
“step to the side” and “nobody’s leaving just yet”, etc.
SEAN bolts back into--
INT. BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS
--leaving the door open.
                    SEAN
          It’s the cops.
And they all spring into action. The girls are putting their
bras back on, SEAN is wiping down a night table with the palm
of his hand to get the coke dust off.
                     SORORITY GIRL
          Shit.
                     FRATERNITY GUY
          Be cool.
They turn to see TWO POLICEMEN standing in the doorway, their
flashlights scanning the room and hitting SEAN’s eyes.
                    SEAN
          Good to see you officer. What can I do
          for you?
                    POLICEMAN
          What’s goin’ on?
                     SEAN
              (beat)
          Was the music too loud? We have a
          celebration going.
                    POLICEMAN
          Miss, I need you to button your blouse.
                    SEAN
          I can have them turn the music down.
One of the policemen casually takes SEAN’s hand and sees that
his palm looks like he just used it to erase a blackboard.
                    SEAN (CONT’D)
          That’s not mine.
                                                         157.

                    POLICEMAN
          Okay, we’re gonna need identification.
          Keep your hands where we can see them.
And the handcuffs start to come out and we’ve got a room of
terrified children.
                       SORORITY GIRL
          Oh my God.
We start to move in on SEAN...
                    POLICEMAN
              (to SEAN)
          You got anything in your pockets I should
          know about?
                    SEAN
          No sir, no.
                    POLICEMAN
          Don’t be stupid now.
                       SEAN
          I don’t.
                    POLICEMAN
              (out of SEAN’s shirt pocket)
          What’s this?
                    SEAN
          It’s an Epipen.
                       POLICEMAN
          And this?
                    SEAN
          That’s my inhaler.
                    POLICEMAN #2
              (to the GIRLS)
          How old are you?
                       SORORITY GIRL
          I’m 21.
                       ASHLEIGH
          I’m 21.
                    POLICEMAN
          Lying only makes it worse.
                    ASHLEIGH
          I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have lied.
                                                         158.

SEAN closes his eyes at hearing this news as we HEAR the sound
of the cuffs lock around his wrists and we
CUT TO:
INT. NEW FACEBOOK OFFICES - NIGHT
A digital LED clock on the wall tells us it’s 4:40AM.
MARK is sitting at his computer alone. No one else is in the
office. The San Francisco skyline is beautiful outside the
floor-to-ceiling glass.
His cell phone RINGS and he answers.
                    MARK
              (into phone)
          Hello?
INTERCUT WITH:
EXT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT
SEAN, freezing with no coat on, is sitting on the bottom of
the steps to the police station.
                    SEAN
              (into phone)
          Listen, something’s happened.
We see MARK listening on his end but can’t hear SEAN’s end of
the conversation.
                    MARK
              (pause)
          Shit.
                    SEAN
          It’s alright, it’s gonna be alright. I’ve
          posted bond and I wasn’t doing anything.
          I mean, I’ve got allergies so I can’t--
We’re back on MARK’s side. He listens...listens...
                     MARK
          Interns?
Back on SEAN’s side--
                    SEAN
          It was just a party.
                    MARK
              (evenly)
          This is gonna be news, Sean, it’s gonna
          be online any second.
                                                            159.

                       SEAN
              (beat)
          I know.
                    MARK
              (blank)
          You know with an intern and--
                    SEAN
          It’s cool, I’ve got it under control.
                    MARK
              (no panic)
          I’ll get it under control. I’ll call
          someone and see what the next move is.
          But this is gonna be news now.
                     SEAN
              (beat)
          You don’t think Eduardo was involved do
          you? Do you think--
                       MARK
          No.
                    SEAN
          Or Manningham. One of them. Somebody.
          Somebody sent that coke in their ‘cause
          it got in there. You believe me. This is
          gonna be fine, right?
                    MARK
              (cool as ice)
          Go home, Sean.
MARK clicks the phone shut. He sits there a moment.
He looks at the small package that Ashleigh dropped on his
desk earlier. He opens up the brown paper wrapping and there’s
a box.
He opens the box--a thousand brand new business cards. He
takes one of the business cards out and looks at it.
                I’m CEO...Bitch
And over this we HEAR a woman’s voice...
                       MARYLIN (V.O.)
          Mark?
CUT TO:
                                                        160.

INT. FIRST DEPOSITION ROOM - NIGHT
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?
                                            161.

          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
in voir dire--jury selection. And what
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.
                                                           162.

                    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.
                                                            163.

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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