Serial Experiments Lain: Season 1
Episodes
Layer:01 – WEIRD
Jul 6, 1998 · 24 min
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.
Layer:02 – GIRLS
Jul 13, 1998 · 24 min
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.
Layer:03 – PSYCHE
Jul 20, 1998 · 24 min
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 a
Layer:04 – RELIGION
Jul 27, 1998 · 24 min
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 an
Layer:05 – DISTORTION
Aug 3, 1998 · 24 min
Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
Layer:06 – KIDS
Aug 10, 1998 · 24 min
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 th
Layer:07 – SOCIETY
Aug 17, 1998 · 24 min
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"". Me
Layer:08 – RUMORS
Aug 24, 1998 · 24 min
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;
Layer:09 – PROTOCOL
Aug 31, 1998 · 24 min
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
Layer:10 – LOVE
Sep 7, 1998 · 24 min
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 al
Layer:11 – INFORNOGRAPHY
Sep 14, 1998 · 24 min
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.
Layer:12 – LANDSCAPE
Sep 21, 1998 · 24 min
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
Layer:13 – EGO
Sep 28, 1998 · 24 min
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.