(QUAD - NIGHT)
Eduardo's walking away and calls back to Mark, "I'll let you know how the party is."
(SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY)
Eduardo's in different clothes and being questioned by Gage. "We recognize that you're a plaintiff in
one suit involving Facebook and a witness in another," Gage states.
"Yes sir," Eduardo says back. "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?" Gage asks. "Yes, He said they'd asked him to work on their site but that he'd looked at what they had and decided it wasn't worth his time. He said even his most pathetic friends knew more about getting people interested in a website than these guys," Eduardo answers with detail.
"These guys? Meaning my clients?" Gage asks.
"Yes, He (Mark) resented that they (your clients), thought he needed to rehabilitate his image after Facemash but Mark didn't want to rehabilitate anything," Eduardo explains. He goes on, "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, so Facemash did exactly what he wanted it to do."
Mark kind of nods a little to himself,
"Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg was building TheFacebook he was also communicating with the plaintiffs?" Gage asks. "Not at the time I wasn't, but it really didn't have much to do with the Winklevoss's dating--" Eduardo answers before Tyler Winklevoss interrupts.
"You weren't there!" Tyler exclaims.
"Ty," Gage says to calm his client. He turns his attention back to Eduardo. "Were you aware that while Mr. Zuckerberg was building TheFacebook, he was leading the plaintiffs to believe he was building Harvard Connection?" Gage asks. "You're offering a conclusion not found in evidence," Sy says.
"We're about to find it in evidence," Gage says.
(MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT)
Two printouts of web pages are taped to a white board. They are "Friendster" and "MySpace". Under the two pages, Mark draws a third page and titles it "NewCo".
(SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY)
Gage (reading)
From Mark Zuckerberg to Tyler Winklevoss. November 30, 2003. "I read over all the stuff you sent me re Harvard Connection and it seems like it shouldn't take too long to implement, so we can talk about it after I get all the basic functionality up tomorrow night."
(MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT)
The whiteboard is filled with diagrams now. There's one titled login page, profile page, and create account. Mark is 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.
(SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY)
"From Mark Zuckerberg to Cameron Winklevoss. December 1, 2003. "Sorry I was unreachable tonight. I just got about three of your missed calls. I was working on a problem set for my systems class."
Cameron and Tyler are looking blankly at Mark who's giving them a casual "I'm not scared of you" look.
(PHOENIX HOUSE - NIGHT)
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 drinking.
(SECOND DEPOSITION ROOM - DAY)
"From Mark Zuckerberg to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. December 10, 2003," Gage reads. He continues, "This week has been pretty busy thus far with classes and work so I think it's probably best to postpone the meeting."
(CAMERON AND TYLER'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT) Cameron, Tyler and Divya are reading the e-mail.
"I'm also really busy tomorrow," Divya reads.
"Anybody else feel like there's something up with this guy?" He asks. "Tell him okay but we've gotta make sure that we meet up before we all go off for break," Cameron says.
(EDUARDO'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT)
Eduardo's at his desk on the phone when an envelope that says "Phoenix" is slipped under his door. He turns and looks to see it...
( MARK'S DORM ROOM - NIGHT)
Every available wall space is covered with a diagram or a printout. Eduardo comes in with the envelope.
"I need a dedicated Linux box running apache with a mySQL backend, It's gonna little more money," Mark says to Eduardo.
"How much more?" Eduardo asks.
"Two-hundred more," Mark says.
"Do we need it?" Eduardo asks.
"Gotta handle the traffic," Mark says. "Do it," Eduardo tells him.
"I already did," Mark says.
"Hey, guess what?" Eduardo asks trying to ignore the fact that Mark bought it without Eduardo's permission. Eduardo shows Mark the envelope. "I made the second cut," Eduardo says with a smile.
"Good job. You should be proud of that right there, don't worry if you don't make it any further," Mark says.
"I'll get outa here," Eduardo says smiling again.
YOU ARE READING
The Social Network
Non-FictionHarvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking website that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
