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Serial Experiments Lain: Season 1

13 episodes · first aired Jul 6, 1998

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1 Layer:01 – WEIRD Jul 6, 1998 · 24m Lain Iwakura, a shy, 13-year-old schoolgirl, receives an email from a schoolmate after her suicide. Is it a prank? Lain doesn't feel horror, but curiosity.
2 Layer:02 – GIRLS Jul 13, 1998 · 24m Classmates Alice, Julie, and Reika wonder if that was Lain they saw at the nightclub Cyberia. To find out, they invite Lain to go with them to the club.
3 Layer:03 – PSYCHE Jul 20, 1998 · 24m Alice, Julie, and Reika are minor celebrities in their class after they witness a shooting at The Cyberia. Lain is given a black-market chip for her computer, but it seems she is also…
4 Layer:04 – RELIGION Jul 27, 1998 · 24m Some players of a Wired game called PHANTOMa are dying suspicious deaths. Lain investigates, but her growing interest in the Wired worries her father, as well as classmates Mika and Alice.
5 Layer:05 – DISTORTION Aug 3, 1998 · 24m Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
6 Layer:06 – KIDS Aug 10, 1998 · 24m Young children are acting strangely, arms outstretched and silently staring at the sky. A shocking vision suddenly appears in the skies; it looks like Lain! Determined to get to the bottom…
7 Layer:07 – SOCIETY Aug 17, 1998 · 24m As the Knights activities make the evening news, a strange man named Nazumi wanders the city with machines strapped to his body. People on the WIRED are asking: ""Who is Lain"". Meanwhile…
8 Layer:08 – RUMORS Aug 24, 1998 · 24m Still shaken by the information she received from the Men In Black, Lain discovers that she is being blamed for spreading an ugly rumor in the WIRED. Is what the MIB said is true; is she…
9 Layer:09 – PROTOCOL Aug 31, 1998 · 24m A documentary about Roswell gives Lain some valuable information about the pioneers of the WIRED. Later, at the Cyberia, J.J. tells Lain that she left something the day before and hands…
10 Layer:10 – LOVE Sep 7, 1998 · 24m Lain struggles with her identity. Is she a human being, or just a hologram? And are the Knights responsible for the Evil Lain? Lain decides to deal with the Knights once and for all.
11 Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY Sep 14, 1998 · 24m Alone and frightened, Lain immerses herself in the WIRED, processing the events of the past few weeks and searching for the truth of who she is.
12 Layer:12 – LANDSCAPE Sep 21, 1998 · 24m Troubled by what she saw, Alice decides to visit Lain at home and find out what is going on. Meanwhile, the two MIB agents receive a terrible shock and Eiri reveals his real motive for…
13 Layer:13 – EGO Sep 28, 1998 · 24m The world is crumbling, people are dying and Alice's sanity is threatened. To save humanity, there is only one thing Lain can do; she must make the ultimate personal sacrifice.