The Social Network Page #2

MARK:

Erica--

ERICA:

You're obsessed with the finals clubs.

You have finals clubs OCD and you need to

see someone about this who'll prescribe

some sort of medication. You don't care

if side effects may include blindness,

okay, just do it.

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 saving I need to do something

substantial in order to get the attention

of the clubs.

ERICA:

Why?

MARK:

Because they're exclusive.

(BEAT)

And fun and they lead to a better life.

ERICA:

You think Teddy Roosevelt got elected

president because he was a member of the

Phoenix Club?

MARK:

He was a member of the Porcellian and yes

I do.

6.

ERICA:

Maybe he sang in an a Capella group.

MARK:

I want to be straight forward and tell

you that I think you should be a lot more

supportive. If I get in I'll be taking

you to the parties and you'll be meeting

people that you wouldn't normally get to

meet.

ERICA:

(SMILES)

You would do that for me?

MARK:

You're my girlfriend.

ERICA:

okay, well I want to be straight forward

and tell you that I'm not anymore.

MARK:

(BEAT)

What do you mean?

ERICA:

I'm not your girlfriend anymore,

MARK:

Is this a joke?

ERICA:

No, I'm sorry, it's not.

MARK:

You're breaking up with me?

ERICA:

You're going to introduce me to people I

wouldn't normally get to meet? What the

f*** is that supposed to mean?

MARK:

Take it easy.

ERICA:

What was it supposed to mean?

MARK:

It was--Erica, the reason we're able to

sit here and drink is that you used to

sleep with the door guy.

ERICA:

(PAUSE)

I want to really try not to lose it now.

(MORE)

7.

ERICA (CONT'D)

The door guy's name is Bobby. I haven't

slept with the door guy, the door guy's a

friend of mine. He's a perfectly good

class of people and what part of Long

Island are you from--England?

MARK:

I'm from Westchester.

ERICA:

I'm going back to my dorm.

MAFT:

Wait, wait, thisi reel?

ERICA:

Yes.

MARK:

I apologize, okay? Siddown.

ERICA:

I'm going back to my dorm, I have to

study.

MARK:

ERICA---

ERICA:

Yeah.

MARK:

I'm sorry and I mean it..

ERICA:

I appreciate that but--

MARK:

Come on.

ERICA:

---I have to study.

MARK:

You don't have to study. Let's just talk.

ERICA:

I can't..

MARK:

Why?

ERICA:

Because it's exhausting. Going out with

you is like dating a stairmaster.

S.

MARK:

All I meant is that you go to B.U. and so

you're not likely to--I wasn't making a

comment on your parents--I was saying you

go to B.U.

ERICA:

I have to go study.

MARK:

You don't have to study.

ERICA:

How do you know I don't have to study?!

MARK:

Because you go to B.U.!

ERICA stares at him...

MARK (CONT'D)

(BEAT)

Do you want to get some food?

ERICA:

I'm sorry you're not sufficiently

impressed with my education.

MARK:

And I'm sorry T don't have a rowboat.

ERICA:

I think we should just be friends.

MARK:

I don't need friends.

ERICA OF:

I was being polite, I had no intention

being friends with you.

MARK:

You're really leaving.

ERICA takes MARK's hand and looks at him tenderly..

ERICA:

(CLOSE)

Listen, You're going to be successful and

rich. But you're going to go through life

thinking that girls don't like you

because you're a tech geek. 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 a**hole.

9.

And with that stinger, ERICA walks off and we stay on MARK as

the pulsing intro to Paul Young's "Love of the Common People"

CRASHES IN----

ERICA (CONT'D)

(calling over her shoulder)

And you're never getting into a final

club.

Along with the MUSIC, we slowly push in on MARK. A fuse has

just been lit.

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HARVARD:

Fall. Semester, 2008

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