


Alice tells her to be more careful, and Lain asks, "May I go home now?" Reika responds quizzically, "You don't need our permission!" Juri asks what Lain's hurry is and Lain tells her that she can't wait to get home and work on her Navi. Juri asks, "What other rumors are there in the wired?" Lain responds, "I heard there's a game." Alice asks, "Is it a network game?" Lain responds that she doesn't play it, but adds, "I heard that all of the kids that died were hooked on it." Juri notes, "Boys like those kinds of things." Alice wonders, "A game, but why?" Lain starts to reply but then gags as she stuffs the rest of her ice cream in her mouth. Lain, pleased, responds, "You think so?" Juri agrees, but Alice looks at Lain, with worried eyes, frowning.Īfter school the girls have stopped to buy some ice cream. Could you show it to us later?" Lain agrees, noting, "but I'm modifying it a little at the moment." Juri is surprised and adds, "I didn't know that you were interested in hacking." Reika has noticed the improvement in Lain's demeanor and points this out to Lain. Juri says, "Lain wouldn't know anything about it," but Lain continues "about the suicide?" Reika is surprised and asks Lain, "You know something about it?" Lain explains, "I only heard from someone." Alice asks where, and Lain responds, "On the Wired." Alice comments, "Then you must have used your new Navi.

She is smiling and holding a computer book behind her back. Alice asks Lain, who had her back turned to them, "Right, Lain?". Apparently an upperclassman committed suicide the previous night. There will be a study hall because a special staff meeting has been scheduled. An adult voice comes from her saying in English: "Gotcha!" The scene shifts away as the man screams.Īt the school Reika, Alice, and Juri are discussing some news. She appears to be floating, her eyes closed, with a contented smile on her face. The man cries out, "Why are you doing this to me?" As he tries again for the door, the girl's hand reaches around him. As the man watches her, the girl's face shifts to appear like a head with large black holes for eyes. The girl stands and watches but her eyes cannot be seen. As he turns, he see a small girl in a frilly pink dress, holding a stuffed dog. He drops his keys and tries to find the correct one. The panicked man tries to open his apartment but cannot fit his key in the lock. The man continues to scream as night scenes float by. As the man screams, we see the feet of a small child walking in the man's direction. The scene shifts to a man running, panicked up a flight of stairs. Amazingly, Mother scolds Mika, "It is not good to talk to your father like that." As Mika leaves, Mother asks, "Is it so?" and Father says, "It is." Mother rubs Dad on the head and then Dad draws her near him. Lain's mother asks, "How is she?" Mika enters and comments: "Lain is weird, I mean she's naturally weird, but." "She's not weird," her father interjects. In the living room, Lain's father sits with her mother. In the kitchen of the house, Mika sneaks a drink of a soft drink directly from the bottle.

Lain's father peers in the room, frowning, watching Lain's activity. The computer system is significantly larger. Many pieces are strewn about, as Lain consults a textbook. In Lain's room, fans blow, cooling her upgraded Navi.
