Serial Experiments Lain is a TV mini-series starring Kaori Shimizu, Bridget Hoffman, and Dan Lorge. Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of “The Wired”.
Release Date: July 1998
10. Infornography
Air Date: 14 Sep. 1998Season 1, Episode 11
Lain risks a meltdown by uploading a Navi clone into her own brain. Later, the border between reality and the wired is threatened when Lain forces the world forget a secret that never should have been revealed.
9. Girls
Air Date: 13 Jul. 1998Season 1, Episode 2
Accela – a designer drug born of nanotechnology – is a big hit with the club kids, but what’s that got to do with Lain? Only a madman who painted the dance floor with blood can answer that question – and he’s dead.
8. Protocol
Air Date: 31 Aug. 1998Season 1, Episode 9
A DJ at the club passes Lain a plain brown envelope containing a computer chip of unknown origins. Hoping to learn more about the clandestine technology, Lain abducts a young boy for a “date.”
7. Religion
Air Date: 27 Jul. 1998Season 1, Episode 4
The more involved with computers she becomes, the more Lain begins to transform. In the cybernetic cocoon that was once her room, she’s hard at work blurring the lines between reality and the wired.
6. Kids
Air Date: 10 Aug. 1998Season 1, Episode 6
When an image of herself appears in the clouds, the “real” Lain enters the wired on a search for answers. Her quest leads to a “child-killer” scientist whose devious work is being exploited by the Knights.
5. Rumors
Air Date: 24 Aug. 1998Season 1, Episode 8
Lain’s unsavory behavior within the wired turns her into an outcast at school. Confused and alone, Lain investigates her own cyber-lifestyle only to be shocked by a voyeuristic incarnation of herself.
4. Society
Air Date: 17 Aug. 1998Season 1, Episode 7
Covert agents in black suits take Lain in for questioning. When the interrogation hits too close to home, Lain flips from real to wired in the blink of an eye.
3. Ego
Air Date: 28 Sep. 1998Season 1, Episode 13
Lain’s guilt over the havoc caused by her interaction within the wired provokes her to take drastic – and irreversible – action.
2. Psyche
Air Date: 20 Jul. 1998Season 1, Episode 3
Lain has questions about a computer chip someone left in her locker, and her Dad’s not talking. Some kids at the club say they know all about it – but they want a piece of Lain’s wired wild side.
1. Landscape
Air Date: 21 Sep. 1998Season 1, Episode 12
“God” preaches that our bodies are simply an obstacle preventing the evolution of mankind. An exhausted Lain appears willing to sacrifice her own flesh and blood until Alice convinces her to take a stand against the digitalized deity.