>>99270765A young girl discovers the internet, gets addicted to it.
There's a split in how she acts in real life (shy/reserved) and how she acts online (Confident bad bitch)
She feels more comfortable online and devotes more and more and more time to it.
It slowly bleeds into reality, making her a confident asshole in real life. But this causes her to crash out and go into a depressive state where she hooks herself up in wires and tries to become the internet.
Her best friend shows Lain her heartbeat, re-affirming the separation from online and real life, saving her life.
It ends with the idea that even if lain is gone physically, her internet presence will always remain. She is everywhere.
MEANWHILE
A group of hackers and wealthy people form a collective called the "knights of eastern calculus" (It probably sounds better in japanese)
These people recruit internet addicts from all over the world for their suspicious activities. The show uses stereotypical people to represent this. A fat otaku in a basement, a guy so addicted he used VR in real life, an older woman who uses the computer while her husband is away (think old people on facebook)
Their activities online influence Lain's internet addiction, and try to get her to be part of the group.
She's indifferent to them, so one guy in particular takes interest in her.
This one guy is trying to become GOD using the internet's connectivity around the world to form a cult to worship him
He meets lain in person (This is disputed, it could be a parallel to the internet and real life merging in lain's eyes)
Lain basically tells him he's not the REAL GOD JESUS CHRIST (Jesus is not mentioned, but the idea of a God that exists beyond the internet is why this faker cannot be god)
Guy gets BTFO and the Japanese FBI kill the knights of calculus.
This whole separate story arc is to develop lains character and speak about the influence and consequences of the digital world
Powerlines.mp3.
