岩仓玲音的同学四方田千砂自杀了。没有任何前兆的自杀事件让同学们不知所措，一周后，玲音收到了千砂的短信。明明已死的千砂居然以手机短信和玲音开始了交流。回到家，玲音用爸爸给她的电脑开始与千砂联系。当谈及为何自杀时，千砂回答说“因为我已经不需要身体了，没有身体，我可以在wired网络之间继续活着。”不解的玲音继续调查千砂的事件，发现wired网络之中隐藏的巨大秘密，玲音自己的身世也出现了谜团。玲音面对网络世界中的真相，耳边不断响起千砂的话“我生存在wired中，因为神在那里。”
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-07-06
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-07-13
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-07-20
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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 being followed.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-07-27
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-08-03
运行时间: 24 min
概述: Lain receives cryptic messages about existence, God, and a coming prophecy. Meanwhile, Mika's world changes in ways both surreal and hyperreal.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-08-10
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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 of this, Lain's investigations finally bring her to the creator of KIDS -- but what she discovers is not what she hoped for.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-08-17
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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, the two MIB agents take Lain to the Techibana offices where Lain's identity is challenged by a man; how well does she know her parents, her sister, herself? Can Lain answer him?
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-08-24
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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 another person in the WIRED? Or is she doing it herself? Lain must find out or risk losing the one true friend she has.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-08-31
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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 her an envelop with the Knight's logo on it. The envelop contains a chip. Believing this was the other 'Lain's' doing again, she decides to call Taro's bluff and go on a 'date'. Taking him to her room, Lain demands that he tell her what he knows. Together, with Taro's information and the mysterious chip, Lain finds out more then she expected.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-09-07
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-09-14
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-09-21
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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 removing the barrier between the real world and the WIRED.
编剧: Chiaki J. Konaka
播出日期: 1998-09-28
运行时间: 24 min
概述: 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.
