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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:

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.

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?

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.

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.

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 Porcellianand 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)

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--Whatis 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.

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.

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

(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)

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.

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As MARK busts out of the bar and into the population of Harvard Square.

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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 introof a song crashes in that will take us through the following sequence

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TITLE:

Harvard University

Fall 2003

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

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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-frigdewhere he pulls out a Beck's beer.

MARK's fingers dance easily on the keyboard--like a Juilliard pianist warming up. The websitehe's just called up gets loaded onto the screen.

Zuckonit.com

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.

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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)

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.

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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.

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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--

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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.

MARK

(V.O.) (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.

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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.

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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.

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MARK finishes another drink and gets back to his work.

TITLE:

1:03 AM

MARK

(VO) (CONT'D)

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.

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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.

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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.

INT. FINAL CLUB - NIGHT11B11B

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

(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.

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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--

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--

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.

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.

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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

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.

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The two girls who we just saw get let in are now dancing on a table in their underwear.

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MARK makes a few last key strokes and a new websitecomes 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.

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 gonnasend it to?

MARK's made the link to e-mail and hits send.

MARK

Just a couple of people. The question is, who are theygonnasend it to?

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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.

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TWO MALE STUDENTS at a laptop.

STUDENT

The one on the left.

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THREE MALE STUDENTS AT A COMPUTER

ALL

On the right.

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A bunch of STUDENTS around a computer.

ALL

The right.

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Dozens of partiers are around the computer.

FEMALE STUDENT

That's my roommate.

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A bunch of students around the computer--

FEMALE STUDENT

This is pathetic.

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A FEW STUDENTS gathered at a computer--

ALL

On the left.

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Another computer--

ALL

On the right.

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This time just a single student in his pajamas as he looks at two pictures of girls side by side.

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And another single student voting and

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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

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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

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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?

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

GRAD STUDENT

(into phone)

Well there's a very unusual amount of traffic to the switch at Kirkland.

COX

You're saying it's unusual for 4 in the morning?

GRAD STUDENT

No, this'd be unusual for halftime at the Super Bowl.

COX

Alright.

COX hangs up the phone.

COX

(CONT'D)

I have to go in.

COX'S WIFE

What's going on?

COX

Harvard's network's about to crash.

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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.

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

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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--backat the bar with Erica Albright. She said all that?

SY

Mark, I wouldn't--

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. Zuckerbergwith 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.

MARYLIN

What?

MARK

Twenty-two thousand.

MARYLIN

(pause--even)

Wow.

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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.

And the WINKLEVOSS twins kick into full gear and open up an even wider lead as we

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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 websitewhere 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--

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 websitein 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.

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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.

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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 Crimsonto 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?

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.

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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--

CUT TO:

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.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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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 Porcellianclasses. He sees a bra hanging over a lamp.

DIVYA (CONT'D)

Mark?

MARK

Yeah.

DIVYA

We were talking about CourseMatch.

MARK

It was kind of a no-brainer.

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

DIVYA

And you invented something in high school, right?

MARK

An app for an MP3 player that recognizes your taste in music.

DIVYA

Anybody try to buy it?

MARK

Microsoft.

DIVYA

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 "Fuckyou" 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.

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. 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.

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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:

EDUARDO with GRETCHEN.

GRETCHEN

When did you come to Eduardo?

MARK

I don't understand that question.

CUT TO:

GAGE

Do you remember answering in the affirmative?

MARK

The affirmative?

CUT TO:

GRETCHEN

When did you come to Eduardo with the idea for Facebook.

MARK

It was called TheFacebook then.

CUT TO:

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.

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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.

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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 MOSKOVITZand 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.

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...itwas 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.

MARK

I can't stare at that loop of Niagara Falls which has nothing to do with the Caribbean.

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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 websitethat 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:

EDUARDO

"It would be exclusive".

CUT BACK TO:

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:

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 thething.

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 Moskovitzand Chris Hughes they were programmers.

CUT TO:

MARK

We're gonnaneed a little start-up cash to rent the servers and get it online.

CUT TO:

EDUARDO

That was why.

GRETCHEN

Did he offer terms?

CUT TO:

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:

GRETCHEN

And you said?

EDUARDO

I said "Let's do it".

GRETCHEN

Okay. Did he add anything else?

EDUARDO

Yes.

CUT TO:

MARK

It probably wasa diversity thing but so what?

CUT TO:

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.

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:

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:

The MUSIC CONTINUES--

GAGE

We recognize that you're a plaintiff in one suit involving Facebookand 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?

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 websitethan 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.

MUSIC kicks in that will tie this next section together as we

CUT TO:

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:

GAGE

reading

From Mark Zuckerbergto 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:

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:

GAGE

From Mark Zuckerbergto 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

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The MUSIC CONTINUES as EDUARDO and other prospective new members, all wearing tuxedos, are lined up in four rows.

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:

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:

GAGE

From Mark Zuckerbergto 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:

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:

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:

Every available wall space is covered with a diagram or a printout. EDUARDO comes in with the envelope.

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:

The MUSIC CONTINUES--

GAGE

reading

From Mark Zuckerbergto 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:

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:

GAGE

reading

"...have to cancel Wednesday afternoon. I've basically been in the lab this whole time and also..."

CUT TO:

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:

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

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:

GAGE

39 days after Mr. Zuckerberg'sinitial meeting with my clients and he still hadn't completed work on HarvardConnection. But on January 11, 2004--

CUT TO:

A websitecalled 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. Zuckerbergregistered the domain name theFacebook via network solutions.

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GAGE

To the best of your knowledge, had he even begun work on HarvardConnection?

EDUARDO

Not to my knowledge, no.

CUT TO:

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:

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--

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:

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 the Facebook.

DUSTIN MOSKOWITZ steps up to him quietly.

DUSTIN

Mark?

(pause)

Mark.

MARK turns his head and looks at him...

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?

CUT TO:

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:

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

Then another.

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

EDUARDO

We were supposed to meet at 9.

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

EDUARDO (CONT'D)

Have you slept yet?

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

MARK

I have to add something.

EDUARDO

What?

MARK's in his own world as he sits at the computer and calls up the Facebook. 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 the Facebook 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.

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.

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.

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?

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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.

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.

Finally he's got it together and flies out of the pub and we

CUT TO:

DIVYA's running across the Charles in the freezing February air and we

CUT TO:

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 - CHARACTER IMPLIED REACTION]

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:

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 the Facebook and is studying it.

CAMERON

(covering the phone)

Ty, the lawyer's on the phone with Dad.

(into phone)

I'm here with my brother, Tyler, and our business partner, Divya.

TYLER

(reading off the computer)

"Welcome to the Facebook. The Facebook 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 the Facebook.com. He said he anticipated that 900 students would have joined the site by this morning."

CAMERON

(into phone)

Yeah, Divya was just reading that 650 students signed up for it on the first day.

TYLER

If I were a drug dealer I couldn't give free drugs to 650 people in one day.

DIVYA

And this guy doesn't have three friends to rub together to make a fourth.

CAMERON

(quieting them so he can hear)

Guys, please, come on.

(into phone)

That's what we'll do, Mr. Hotchkiss. We'll put all this together and we'll email it to you.

(listens)

You won't be able to get on the website yourself.

(beat)

Because you don't have--a Harvard, umm--You know what, it would just be easier for us to email it to you.

(listens)

No, I'm sure you're right, this is a good guy--

DIVYA

(reacting)

Wow!!

CAMERON

(into phone)

--and he's very bright and I'm sure he didn't mean to...do what he did.

(beat)

Thank you very much, and Dad--alright love you too.

CAMERON hangs up.

DIVYA

This is a good guy?

CAMERON

We don't know that he's not a good guy.

DIVYA

We know that he stole our idea. We know he lied to our faces for a month and a half while he--

CAMERON

He never lied to our faces.

DIVYA

(DIVYA tosses the Crimson to TYLER)

He never saw our faces! He lied to our e-mail accounts and he got himself a 42-day head start because he knows what apparently you don't which is that getting there first is everything!

CAMERON

I'm a competitive racer, Div, I don't think you need to school me on the importance of getting there first, thank you.

DIVYA

Alright. That was your father's lawyer?

CAMERON

It was his in-house counsel, he'll look at it and if he thinks it's appropriate he'll send a cease and desist letter.

DIVYA

What's that gonna do?

CAMERON

What, do you wanna hire and IP lawyer and sue him?

DIVYA

No, I wanna hire the Sopranos to beat the shit out of him with a hammer.

TYLER

We don't even have to do that.

CAMERON

That's right.

TYLER

We can do that ourselves.

CAMERON

Hey--

TYLER

I'm six-five, 220 and there's two of me.

DIVYA

I'm with this guy.

CAMERON

And I'm saying let's calm down until we know what we're talking about.

DIVYA

How much more information are you waiting for? We met with Mark three times, we exchanged 52 e-mails, we can prove that he looked at the code--

(then)

What is that on the bottom of the page?

CAMERON

(he's already seen it)

It says "A Mark Zuckerberg Production".

DIVYA

On the home page?

TYLER

On every page.

DIVYA

Shit, I need a second to let the classiness waft over me.

CAMERON

Look--

TYLER

Cam. They wrote, "Zuckerberg said that he hoped the privacy options would help to restore his reputation following student outrage over Facemash.com".

(beat)

That's exactly what WE said to him. He's giving us the finger in the Crimson. Now while we're waiting for Dad's lawyer to look this stuff over, we can at least--

CAMERON

No.

TYLER

--get something going in the paper so that people know--

CAMERON

What?

TYLER

That this thing is in dispute.

CAMERON

We're not starting a knife fight in the Crimson and we're not suing anybody.

DIVYA

Why not?

CAMERON wants to answer the question but doesn't...

DIVYA (CONT'D)

I don't understand, why not?

CAMERON

(beat--referring to TYLER)

He's gonna say it's stupid.

TYLER

Me?

DIVYA

Say it. Why not?

CAMERON

Because we're gentlemen of Harvard.

(beat)

This is Harvard. You don't plant stories and you don't sue people.

DIVYA

(pause)

You thought he was going to be the only one who thought that was stupid?

CUT TO:

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.

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. 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:

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:

DIVYA

Everyone on campus was using it. "Facebook me" was a common expression after two weeks.

SY

And Mark?

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:

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.

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--

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 the Facebook.

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.

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:

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 the Facebook.

VIKRAM

Awesome job.

MARK

Thanks.

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:

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?

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 the Facebook 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?

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.

MARK

I find that to be a little more than mildly annoying.

EDUARDO

They're saying we stole the Facebook 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?

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:

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:

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:

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?

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...

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:

MARK

So, what were their names?

EDUARDO

pause

Their names were Christy and Alice. They want to have drinks tonight.

CUT TO:

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.

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:

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.

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 websiteI 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.

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 publishedthat 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?

And MARK heads out the door.

EDUARDO watches MARK and then looks back at the girls...

ALICE

Is he mad about something?

CUT TO:

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.

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:

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?

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:

TYLER and CAMERON are both studying when DIVYA busts in.

DIVYA

He's expanding.

TYLER

What?

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 shitout 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.

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:

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?

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 didyou go to school?

SEAN

William TaftElementary for a little while.

AMY

Seriously, you're not like 15 years old or anything are you?

SEAN

No.

beat

You'renot 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.

AMY

pause

You're Sean Parker?

SEAN

Ah ha. The shoe's on the other...

AMY

Foot?

SEAN

--tablewhich 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.

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 Facebookpage.

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?!

AMY grabs a towel and jumps out of the shower--

AMY (CONT'D)

Where?!

SEAN

beat

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--Whatdo 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:

CAMERON and TYLER, in dark suits, are waiting to see the president of Harvard.

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

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.

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 Zuckerbergstole 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"--

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?

CAMERON

Mr. Zuckerberghasn'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 Zuckerbergwalked 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.

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 someposition 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 newnew 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.

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 neverasked 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:

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:

GRETCHEN

Eduardo, spring break, you and Mr. Zuckerbergtook 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.

EDUARDO

Can I re-phrase my answer?

GRETCHEN

Sure.

EDUARDO

I wish he'd been asleep.

CUT TO:

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 stayon 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:

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 thismeeting?

EDUARDO

Yes, very.

CUT TO:

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 hoodieand flip-flops, along with EDUARDO's now-girlfriend, CHRISTY, sitting at a table with an empty seat waiting.

CHRISTY

They're not gonnacard us.

EDUARDO

They might.

CHRISTY

Look around.

EDUARDO

It'll be embarrassing.

CHRISTY

to MARK

Tell him they're not gonnacard us.

MARK

They're not gonnacard us.

EDUARDO

Mark--

MARK

Are you gonnatalk 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.

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:

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:

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 foundedthe 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.

EDUARDO

And he doesown 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 isthis?

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?

SEAN

Great. Four of those.

CUT TO:

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:

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.

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.

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:

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:

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 gonnatrip 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 shitup. Because they don't want you, they want your idea and then they want you to say thank you while you--excuseme--wipeyour chin and walk away.

MARK

That's what happened to you?

CUT BACK TO:

EDUARDO

And delusional.

CUT BACK TO:

SEAN

Yes. There'll be payback at Case. I brought down the record companies with Napster and Case's gonnasuffer 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?

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--hadto come to California. And then he got around to theFacebook.

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.

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?

EDUARDO

You?

CUT BACK TO:

EDUARDO

A billiondollars.

(beat)

And that shut everybody up.

CUT BACK TO:

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?

SEAN

I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just a fan who came to say hi.

CUT TO:

EDUARDO

He owned Mark after that dinner.

CUT BACK TO:

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.

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 bea party unless it's cool.

(beat)

What'd you think?

EDUARDO

Sure, let's drop the "the".

MARK

I meant catching the marlin instead of the 14 trout. Doesn't that sound good?

EDUARDO

If you're a trout.

CUT TO:

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?

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:

MARK

I can't have this, Wardo.

MARK's talking about the Crimsonarticle 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:

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:

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:

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:

MARK

This is scathing.

DUSTIN

(without looking up)

Nine-hundred and fifty-six.

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:

MARK

Somebody's gonnahave to answer for this.

DUSTIN

Nine--hundred sixty-nine.

CUT TO:

EDUARDO

The dining hall was serving chicken for dinner and I had to feed mychicken 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:

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 isbetter to be accused of necro--

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:

GRETCHEN

Mr. Zuckerbergwas 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 Crimsonarticle. In fact when we raised the subject with him he defended you.

MARK

(beat)

Oops.

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DUSTIN

Nine ninety-three, we are so close.

MARK

That reminds me, we're gonnaneed 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 gonnahave 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--

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'vegot connections to VCs.

MARK

The realplayers 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?

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.

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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--

--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.

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.

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

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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...howmuch could go wrong in three months?

CUT TO:

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 gonnacut into the security deposit.

MARK walks into--

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 Facebookand 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?

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.

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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.

(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:

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.

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. 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 500million 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. 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. 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 ourtime. 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.

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--withthe 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.

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:

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.

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:

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--

CUT TO:

Where an AIDE greets him--

AIDE

Mr. Winklevoss.

TYLER

Tyler.

AIDE

Tremendous race.

TYLER

Thank you.

CAMERON comes along.

TYLER

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.

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.

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.

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

Screw it. Let's gut the freakin' nerd.

DIVYA grabs CAMERON and hugs him.

TYLER

That's what I'm talking about.

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.

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:

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:

SEAN

(into phone)

I saw him getting into his turbo Carrera 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!

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

(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.

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