Scenes:

Australian:

Limbo:

(Enters running)
Charlie: AHHHH

Nate: Boo!

Charlie: oh my fu-

Nate: Ah ha! You can see me! And you met Rafa. Little Champion.

Charlie: You’re not real. So…

Nate: A bit mean. I may not be a living organism, but I’m very real.

Charlie: Im asleep. Im… im asleep.

Nate: What are you doing?

Charlie: Waking up.

Nate: you’re not asleep. This is happening.

Charlie: Oh nah nah you’re dead man.

Nate: Yep! Im back for an encore. In apparition form.

Charlie: So what, you’re a ghost?

Nate: Oh, I prefer the term ‘wandering soul’. You know its more mysterious.
Its like im in a Jeff Buckley song.

Charlie: sorry is this funny to you?

Nate: No, Charlie. Its terrifying. This is the last place I want to be, and yet
here i am.
Charlie: Do you have any idea how much you hurt Freya and Annabel?

Nate: Yes / I do and I’m sorry.

Charlie: / then why did you do it?

Nate: I cant talk about that!

Charlie: Why not?

Nate: I dont know mate. I tried to talk about it in the past. I really did but I
just… I cant.

Charlie: So… why are you here?

Nate: I dont know. There must be some unfinished business I needed to

take care of before I ascend.

Charlie: My moneys on descend.

Nate: Hurtful, let’s just go with crossover.

Charlie: So whats your unfinished business?

Nate: I don’t know. Im just coming to terms with being Metaphysical. All I
know is that I can’t do it alone and I need your help.

Charlie: Why me?

Nate: Because you’re my best friend.

Charlie: Don’t say best friend. It’s weird. We’re not six.

Nate: and you’re the only one who can see me.

Charlie: there / it is

Niko: yeah yeah, I tried haunting Niko for putting the dunny on my ute. He
didn’t react at all. So then I popped in on Beth while she was having a bath
didn’t bat an eyelid.

Charlie: Ha-Ha
Niko: her new bathroom reno is really good, did you do that?

Charlie: are you being serious? If you-

Niko: im kidding! Jesus mate I make one innocent comment about how how
your ex-wife probably looks in a bubble bath. You lose your shit but its all
fine for you to come in here twirling Rafa around like you’re Harry Potter.

Charlie: you certainly sound like he did.

Nate: It’s cause I am him mate. I know this is weird but its happening. Im
stuck in limbo and you’re stuck with me until we find a way for my soul to
cross over. Please, mate. Will you help me?
Ladies in black
George: We need to speak

Magda: This can wait

George: I just wanted to say thank you for what you did for me today.

Magda: George this is not really the time

George: No, that costume idea of yours really shot my tips up. I might wear
these stickers every time I play.

Magda: why are you here?

George: I told you. To say thank you for the outfit idea.

Magda: No, I mean, in Australia. You didnt know me. So you didnt come to ruin
my life. And evidently you have no interest in your father. And this now?
You’ve never come to speak to me before.

George: no you made it crystal clear that you didnt want to talk to me.

Magda: oh, you have no place else to go huh?

George: I came here to meet my father who left me.

Magda: he put you on a plane for a better future and im guessing you just
threw it away.

George: You dont know me or my life.

Magda: I do know that life can change in an instant.

George: like when you kicked out your husband cause his son turned up? or
when you took him back in but refused to have me under your roof. Huh?

Magda: your mother lied to you, but Stefan was many things.

George: You think that makes things okay? That lets him off the hook?

(Beat)

Magda: Excuse me
Thou shalt not steal
Robert: Gidge, open the bloody door!

Gidge: Wheres Mum?

Robert: What?

Gidge: Where is she?

Robert: I dont know

Gidge: Why isnt she here?

Robert: Oh God, how would I bloody know?

Gidge: You killed her.

Robert: What?

Gidge: For wanting a divorce. You, you murdered her like you murdered that
lady.

Robert: Gidge, open the bloody door.

Gidge: No! I saw the divorce papers. Dad, I am not going to let you out until
you tell me what happened.

Robert: Alright, okay. Yes, she left me. Look Gidge, I loved your mother. I love
your mother but she didnt love me. She hurt me. So I hurt her back. I stole you.

Gidge: You said… she didnt want me.

Robert: Gidge, where are you going?

Scene 2

Gidge: Dad… look I , I came to say that… I appreciate what you… you coming
all this way to-

Robert: You look like a woman.

Gidge: This, this is how I dress now.

Robert: It’s that girl, isnt it. The one you’ve been running around with? Where
is she?

Gidge: No, I, I don’t know. Why?

Robert: Well because she stole something that doesnt belong to her, and I’ve
come to get her back.

Gidge: Well, well, I mean, you know, we’re… we’re not together anymore. So…

Robert: A girl like that. Nothing but trouble.

Gidge: No, she isn’t. The woman you’re with, theres the trouble. I know Robyn
doesn’t like her.

Robert: Son… you’re not a gin burglar now, are ya?

(Beat, Gidge pushes Robert)

Gidge: Take that back.

Robert: Thats the look your mother used to give me.

(Gidge throws a punch at Robert)

Robert: Come on then.

(Gidge lunges at Robert knocking him to the ground)

Of an age
Kol: Where’s Ebony?

Adam: I imagine not asking herself where you are.

(Beat)

Adam: You promise me one thing? With my sister? Can you just… just cut her.
First chance you get. Im not being a dick. Yeah? You deserve better friends.
Guy like you, much better.

Kol: I love Ebony. Not like love-love. Obviously. Just like a friend, I mean. I
know she can be, like, a mess. But deep down I think she brought me out here
tonight to say she’s sorry.

Adam: She brought you out tonight cause I told her to call you.

Kol: I dont really have any other… not many other friends. Dont tell her I said
that. Sorry. You probably just want to go to bed.

Adam: Actually I was gonna go for a drive.

Kol: Can I come?

Adam: Why not.

Kol: Your know your sister never told me about you.

Adam: About me what? Im a linguist?

Kol: No that you’re, you know.

Adam: A sodomite.

Kol: Were you like openly… in high school?

Adam: What, at Watsonia High? Are you fucking kidding? Why did you have an
openly gay guy the last couple of years?

Kol: No
Adam: Everyone was straight then? What that? There’d be 900 students. All
upstanding heterosexuals. Every last one.

(Beat)

Kol: I lied before. About Kafka. I did read the trial but… could barely follow it.

Adam: What about Borges?

Kol: Im trying. I dont really know whats going on most of the time.

Adam: What about the Balkans? Was your mum actually born in Altona?

Kol: The Balkan part was true. Alas.

(Beat)

Adam: Is there anything else that you maybe have been lying about?
Adventureland
Em: Here have some Rum.

(Em hands James a flask)

James: Thanks. Oh shit. Sorry my mother, she’s very nosy. Yeah she used to
read my journals. I had to start writing them in Italian. I took Italian for a year.
I went to an opera- okay shes gone.

(Takes a swig)

Em: So Joel told me you’re gonna go to Columbia for grad school.

James: Yeah

Em: Wow. Im at NYU right now.

James: Oh really? Oh, thats cool. Maybe I’ll run into you on the streets of NYC.

Em: What are you studying?

James: Journalism. Yeah I want to be, like, a travel essayist. But I want to
report on the real state of the world. You know, like Charles Dickens for
example, wrote what you might call travel books, but he visited prisons and
mental asylums.

Em: Thats cool

James: yeah is it?

Em: Yeah

James: okay.

Em: No it is (clears throat) but why do you have to go to grad school for that?

James: No thats a valid question, but actually journalism is kind of like this old
boys’ network still. You need the right connections. Its very Ivy League, very
exclusive. (Under breath) Stupid. I think my mother would rather I intern at
some Fortune 500 company or something like that.

Em: Fuck that right?

James: Yeah… yeah.

Em: I got to go. I have to meet a friend.

James: Okay. Yeah, thanks for the ride.

Em: Sure

(James leaves)

Scene 2

James: Hey I feel like I should tell you.

Em: tell me what?

James: yeah I had my heart broken recently. Is that… i dont know, I just
thought I should tell you.

Em: that sucks.

James: yeah.

Em: Who broke your heart?

James: A girl at school. Yeah it was typical. I actually… I think there was… i
think there was something there. I think that we actually had, like, potential. I
dont know. I think she was afraid.

Em: Afraid of what?

James: I dont know. Afraid of it being good or something.

Em: Was the sex good?

James: She was very sexy

Em: You’ve been with a lot of girls?

James: yep. Are we talking about like, intercourse specifically.

Em: yeah.

James: No, in that case there were actually a few times that I… Yeah a few
times I could’ve done that. But it wasn’t, it wasn’t exactly right.

Em: So you’re telling me you’re a virgin.

James: There were circumstances-

Em: Oh my god.

James: No I went… okay… all right, for example, junior year I was dating this
girl, Betsy Cooke. Betsy was kind of like… she was kind of like a prude,
actually. Um Anyway, one day, I was reading Shakespeare, and I realised I
don’t really love this person. You know? It was one of the sonnets. Um “being
your slave, what should I do but tend upon the hours and times of your
desires”, and I realised I dont want to tend to Betsy’s hours if her times. I
mean tha- that doesnt matter. Anyway, I drove to Betsy’s house, and I was
literally about to tell her, and thats the night she said she wanted to have sex.
Can you believe it? It was the same… you know, it was the same night, so…

Em: And you didnt just fuck her anyway?

James: hmm? No.

(Beat)

James: So uh what about you and intercourse?

Em: can you stop saying intercourse?

James: sure, sure.

Em: i dont know. There were guys in high school, and then, like, there were
other ones.

James: were you in love with any of them?

Em: No. Hell no.

James: Gotchya.
Social network
Eduardo
Mark

Eduardo: Its time to monetise the thing

Mark: what were their names

Eduardo: Did you hear what I just said

Mark: What?

Eduardo: I said its time to monetise the site.

Mark: what does that mean?

Eduardo: I mean its time for the website to start generating revenue

Mark: No, I know what the word means, I am asking how you wanna do it.

Eduardo: Advertising

Mark: No

Eduardo: Well, we got 4000 members-

Mark: Cause the facebook is cool and if we start installing pop-ups for
Mountain Dew / its not gonna be cool.

Eduardo: / Doesnt have to be Mountain Dew but still some point and I am
talking as the business end of the company.

Mark: We dont know what it is yet, we dont know.. what it is. We dont know
what it can be what it will be. We know that it is cool. That is a priceless asset
im not giving up.

Eduardo: So when will it be finished.

Mark: It wont be finished. Thats the point the way fashions never finished.

Eduardo: What?
Mark: Fashion, Fashions is never finished.

Eduardo: You’re talking about Fashion really you?

Mark: I am talking about the idea of it and I am saying that it is never finished

Eduardo: okay but they manage to make money selling pants um (sees note)
what is this?

Mark: What?

Eduardo: this?

Mark: its called a cease and desist letter, what were their names.

Eduardo: Who?

Mark: the girls.

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 that you stole their
idea.

Mark: I find that a little more than mildly annoying.

Eduardo: oh well they find that to be intellectual property theft. / why didnt
you show this to me?

Mark: / Look it was addressed to me.

Eduardo: they’re saying we stole the facebook from Divya Narendra and the
Winklevoss

(Mark snatches letter)

Mark: I know what it says

Eduardo: did we?

Mark: did we what

Eduardo: dont screw around with me now. Look at me. The letter says we
could face legal action.

Mark: No it says I could face legal action.

Eduardo: This is from a lawyer Mark they must feel they have some grounds.

Mark: the Lawyer is their father’s house council.

Eduardo: do they have ground?

Mark: the grounds are that our thing is cool and popular and and Harvard
connection is so lame, Eduardo I didnt use any of their code I promise I didnt
use anything. Look, a guy who builds a nice chair doesnt owe money to
everyone who ever has built a chair, okay? He came to me with an idea and I
had a better one.

Eduardo: Why didnt you show me this letter?

Mark: I didn’t think it was a big deal.

Eduardo: (exhales) okay, if there is something wrong, If there is ever anything

wrong, You can tell me, im the guy who wants to help. This is our thing. Now is
there anything that you need to tell me?

Mark: No

Eduardo: What are we doing about this?

Nice guys
Holland: “Do you wanna see my dick?” Unbelievable. This is what im talking
about. Its over. The days of ladies and gentlemen are over. This is what Holly’s
looking down the barrel of. This is what she’s dealing with the fucking chets
and that idiot.

Jackson: Well, one thing we know for sure something funny’s going on.

Holland: No its not. No. A guy burned up. It happens.

Jackson: It happened three days ago, the exact same day Amelia fell off my
radar

Holland: Your radar? Your radar (laughs) let me tell you what two days of
detective work looks like. Ok? You drive around like an asshole, you’re gonna
spend half the time interviewing the fucking chets of the world, you spend the
other half trying to translate fuckwit to english and when its over, the only
thing that’s changed is that the sun went down twice.

Jackson: And nothing ever works out. Is that what you’re tryna say.

Holland: Never

Jackson: but you get paid.

Holland: sometimes

Scene2

Holland: What the hell is going on?

Jackson: It just makes sense, it connects up.

Holland: What makes sense?

Jackson: John Boy, just something that blueface mentioned yeah.

Holland: What do you mean he mentioned, mentioned how?

Jackson: Oh you know he… “theres a guy coming to kill you” that kind of crap
yeah.

Holland: We should probably just stay here.

Jackson: Smart move

(Pause)

Jackson: Unless of course hes up there killing her right now.

Holland: Nobody’s getting killed at the Burbank Airport Hotel.

Jackson: Because?

Holland: That would be national news.

Jackson: Yeah so?

Holland: Yeah well whens the last time you were on national news?

Jackson: February

Holland: Really?

Jackson: Yeah

Holland: For what?

Jackson: I got shot in a diner.

Holland: Where?

Jackson: In my arm. I told you this last night.

(Beat)

Holland: We should call the cops.

Jackson: No, it’ll take too long. I mean, she could die.

Holland: You just said it was the right move to stay down here.

Jackson: No, I said smart move. Different.

Social network 2
Mark: So hows it going? Hows the internship? Hows Christy?

Eduardo: Hows the internship?

Mark: Yeah

Eduardo: Mark, Jesus, I quit the internship. We talked about this on the phone.
I, I quit on my first day.

Mark: I do remember you saying that. So how’s Christy?

Eduardo: Christy’s crazy.

Mark: Is that fun?

Eduardo: No, shes actually psychotic, shes insanely jealous, she’s irrational
and im frightened of her.

Mark: still its nice you have a girlfriend.

Eduardo: I do not want that guy representing himself as part of this company.

Mark: You gotta move out here Eduardo this is where its all happening / The
connections, the energy…

Eduardo: / Did you hear what I just said?

Eduardo: Mark, Mark! You got…

Mark: I’m afraid if you dont come out here you’re gonna get left behind. i wan-
I need you out here. Please dont tell him I said that.

Eduardo: What did you just say?

Mark: Its moving faster than any of us ever imagined it would. Its moving fast
/ and sean thinks we have / and Sean thinks we have over 300,000 members
Eduardo / and we’re in 160 schools including 5 in Europe / We need more
servers than I ever expected we’d need we need more programmers and we
need more money and he set up the Thiel meeting. He set up meetings all over
town.
Eduardo: / What do you mean? / Sean is not part of this company / I am
aware of that / I am aware of that! Mark I am the CFO!

Eduardo: He set up other meetings?

Mark: Yes

Eduardo: Without me knowing anything about it.

Mark: You’re in New York

Eduardo: I’m in New York riding subways 14 hours a day trying to find
advertisers!

Mark: yeah And hows that going so far?

(Beat)

Eduardo: What did you mean “get left behind”?

SCENE

Eduardo: Mark? Mark! Mark!!

Sean: He’s Wired in.

Eduardo: Is he?

Sean: Yes

Eduardo: How about now, are you still wired in? You issued over 24-million
new shares of stock.

Mark: You were told if new investors came along-

Eduardo: How much were your shares diluted? How much were his?!

Mark: (Pause) It wasn’t

(Beat)

Mark: You signed the papers.

Eduardo: You set me up.

Mark: You’re gonna blame me because you were the business head of the
company and you made a bad business deal with your own company?

Eduardo: It’s gonna be like im not part of the facebook.

Mark: It wont be like you’re not part of Facebook, you’re not part of Facebook.

Eduardo: My name’s on the masthead.

Mark: You might want to check again.

Eduardo: This is because I froze the account?

Mark: You think we were gonna let you parade around in your ridiculous suits
pretending you were running this company?

Eduardo: Sorry! My Prada at the cleaners along with my hoodie and my fuck-
you flip flops you pretentious douchebag.
Mark: Security’s here. You’ll be leaving now.

Eduardo: I am not signing those papers.

Mark: We’ll get the signature.

Eduardo: Tell me this isn’t about me getting into the Phoenix. (Pause) You did
it. I always knew you did it. You planted the story about the chicken…

Mark: I didn’t plant the story about the chicken.

Eduardo: You had me accused of Animal Cruelty. And I’ll bet what you hared
the most is that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, which I am.
You better Lawyer up asshole, cause I’m not coming back for my 30 percent,
I’m coming back for everything!

(Eduardo goes to leave)

Mark: Hang on, I almost forgot, theres your $19,000. I wouldnt cash it though,
I drew it on the account you froze.

(Eduardo cocks his fist back to punch him in the face to flinch and scare.
Eduardo holds his bunch and gets a small laugh)

Eduardo: I like standing next to you Mark. It makes me look so tough.