The Social Network Page #4

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"

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