Serial Experiments Lain (1998) s01e09 Episode Script
Protocol
1
If you want to be free of suffering,
you should believe in God.
Whether or not you believe in Him,
God is always by your side.
On July 4, 1947, a strange craft crashed
in the desert in New Mexico, America.
What it was has yet to be proven.
Conjecture has become fact,
and rumor has become history.
Who's there?
In 1984, a manila envelope arrived at
the home of TV producer Jaime Shandera.
The envelope, from an anonymous source,
contained a roll of undeveloped film.
The film contained what is
called the MJ-12 Document.
Roscoe Hillenkoetter, head of the CIA
at the time of the Roswell Incident,
was at the top of the
list of 12 members.
It stated that these men concluded a
secret treaty with extraterrestrials
as a special organization
answerable only to the president.
It is now accepted that President
Truman's signature on the document
was in fact copied carefully
from another document.
Named as a member of
MJ-12 was Vannevar Bush,
head of MIT's Department
of Electrical Engineering.
Connect to Wired.
How could I turn something that did
happen into something that didn't?
Are you Lain? I see, I see
I don't know you.
But you know me
The flow of information
doesn't always go both ways.
Since the moment of the Wired's
creation, you have always been here.
Here, you are free.
I'm trying to tell you
that that's not me!
I suppose.
How long have we been here, then?
At the very least, we cannot have been
here since this world was created.
That has nothing to do with it!
If a being is remembered, that
proves that it's part of a record!
That's preposterous.
How old do you think this "Lain"
girl is? She's still a child!
Let's not worry about
me now, okay? L
The MEMEX memory expansion concept
unveiled by Vannevar Bush in 1945
was a system whereby information
recorded on microfilm
was projected onto
a translucent screen.
What he envisioned was the compression
and rapid access of information.
Even before the advent of computers,
Bush had already created the basis
for our current multimedia
while he led the Manhattan
Project atom bomb experiments.
You forgot this.
You forgot this on the
floor here yesterday.
If you don't need it, I'll toss it.
I left that here?
That's what I'm sayin'.
Conducting sensory deprivation
experiments using
Native American narcotics and isolation
tanks to probe the human unconscious,
John C. Lilly believed his experiments
connected him to cosmic entities
by way of a
communication network.
Lilly dubbed the beings
that guided him E.C.C.O.,
Earth Coincidence Control Office.
Afterwards, Lilly began work on
communication with dolphins.
Dolphins are creatures which
are able to conduct
wide-range networking in the
water via ultrasonic waves.
What?
You promised me earlier.
Promised what?
That you'd go out with me.
You said you'd go out with me!
W-What're you talking about?
Taro, is that true?
Did I?
You didn't! You didn't!
Even if I did, you aren't the you
I want to go out with right now, Lain.
Taro, you moron!
We're the same. I'm me.
I'm the only me.
Awesome!
I can't believe you put together
something like this!
Oh, okay! This syncs up
the parallel processors!
It's not pretty, but you can
keep on expanding it this way.
What're you using as coolant?
Taro
Is this liquid carbon?
Sit down over there.
Damn
I think you know what this is.
It's you, isn't it, Taro?
You're with the Knights, aren't you?
You'rethe real Lain.
I don't know whether or not
there's another me in the Wired.
But there's definitely no other
me here in the real world.
The other one with a body has
only appeared in the club.
You only need to manipulate the
memories of the people there, right?
II can't
Play track 44.
It's almost over, isn't it?
Finally.
So while we still can, we should
Roger.
Now communicating.
Stop.
It's not me!
But I knew the data coming into
JJ's place had this kind of effect.
If I had installed this chip,
what would've happened to me?
Would I have killed myself?
Gone insane?
I said I don't know!
There's no way a kid like me could
be a formal Knights member!
I'm just a
I wonder what this will do?
I-It's non-volatile memory!
It'll overwrite existing memories!
What kind of memories?
I-I don't know.
The Knights aren't just
ordinary crackers, Lain.
There's something strange
about you. That's for sure.
That's why the Knights
are so interested.
The Knights are users
who are fighting
to make the only truth
there is into a reality.
I don't understand.
What do you mean, "one truth"?
Like I said, I'm not a
formal Knights member.
They never explained it to me.
But it's true. The truth has
power because it's the truth.
And because it's the truth,
that makes it just.
It's persuasive, isn't it?
Don't you want truth like that?
I'm going.
Myu-Myu is jealous of you.
Taro? Thank you.
You
Hey, this is a date, you know?
I'm a guy. I had to do that.
Ted Nelson, who studied under
the two cult pioneers
Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly,
proposed a giant electronic library
in satellites in stationary orbit
which could be used at any terminal
on Earth via radio or phone lines.
He called this concept that would
make this database "Xanadu."
The Mongolian utopia where all written
cultures would never be lost.
This was Xanadu.
It was the concept of Hypertext
that would make it real,
and Ted Nelson's name would go
down in history as its originator.
Hello, Navi.
Click, clickMemory check
Click, click
Click, click
That'sThat's me?
Yes. This is me.
Then who are they?
I'm you, so I wouldn't know.
This is a lie.
It's a lie. It's all a lie.
Why are you doing this?
The Earth has its own specific
electromagnetic waves.
Between the ionosphere
and the Earth's surface,
there is a constant resonance at
a frequency of 8Hz in the ELF band.
This is called the
Schumann Resonance.
The extent of the effect on humans
of these "Earth Brain Waves"
that the planet constantly
gives off remains unknown.
The Earth's human population
is approaching that of
the number of
neurons in the brain.
Douglas Rushkoff proposes that the
consciousness of the Earth itself
might be awakened when all humans on
Earth become collectively networked.
The network's evolution would
follow a neural model,
and just as neurons within the human
brain are connected by synapses,
the Earth itself would
become a neural network.
There is only one truth. God.
Yes. Me.
Masami Eiri, Chief Researcher
at Tachibana General Labs,
further developed the hypothesis
of a worldwide neural network.
His hypothesis proposed a wireless
network whereby all humanity
would be plugged in at an unconscious
level without the need for any device.
Furthermore, he encoded the
Schumann Resonance Factor
and inserted it into the 7th-gen
Wired Protocol on his own initiative.
Upon discovering this, Tachibana
General Labs dismissed Eiri.
One week later, Masami Eiri's body
was found on the Yamanote train line.
I thought I was innocent,
but I'm being punished.
I didn't start this, but I
have to finish it somehow.
I can't say I didn't know about it,
but I don't remember taking part in it.
I get the feeling my
freedom cost me dearly,
but I don't remember
selling my soul cheaply.
Hey, hey!
Until I die and say goodbye
Hey, hey!
no one will ever catch me.
You probably don't know
the eternal outlaws
who wander the distant night.
If you want to be free of suffering,
you should believe in God.
Whether or not you believe in Him,
God is always by your side.
On July 4, 1947, a strange craft crashed
in the desert in New Mexico, America.
What it was has yet to be proven.
Conjecture has become fact,
and rumor has become history.
Who's there?
In 1984, a manila envelope arrived at
the home of TV producer Jaime Shandera.
The envelope, from an anonymous source,
contained a roll of undeveloped film.
The film contained what is
called the MJ-12 Document.
Roscoe Hillenkoetter, head of the CIA
at the time of the Roswell Incident,
was at the top of the
list of 12 members.
It stated that these men concluded a
secret treaty with extraterrestrials
as a special organization
answerable only to the president.
It is now accepted that President
Truman's signature on the document
was in fact copied carefully
from another document.
Named as a member of
MJ-12 was Vannevar Bush,
head of MIT's Department
of Electrical Engineering.
Connect to Wired.
How could I turn something that did
happen into something that didn't?
Are you Lain? I see, I see
I don't know you.
But you know me
The flow of information
doesn't always go both ways.
Since the moment of the Wired's
creation, you have always been here.
Here, you are free.
I'm trying to tell you
that that's not me!
I suppose.
How long have we been here, then?
At the very least, we cannot have been
here since this world was created.
That has nothing to do with it!
If a being is remembered, that
proves that it's part of a record!
That's preposterous.
How old do you think this "Lain"
girl is? She's still a child!
Let's not worry about
me now, okay? L
The MEMEX memory expansion concept
unveiled by Vannevar Bush in 1945
was a system whereby information
recorded on microfilm
was projected onto
a translucent screen.
What he envisioned was the compression
and rapid access of information.
Even before the advent of computers,
Bush had already created the basis
for our current multimedia
while he led the Manhattan
Project atom bomb experiments.
You forgot this.
You forgot this on the
floor here yesterday.
If you don't need it, I'll toss it.
I left that here?
That's what I'm sayin'.
Conducting sensory deprivation
experiments using
Native American narcotics and isolation
tanks to probe the human unconscious,
John C. Lilly believed his experiments
connected him to cosmic entities
by way of a
communication network.
Lilly dubbed the beings
that guided him E.C.C.O.,
Earth Coincidence Control Office.
Afterwards, Lilly began work on
communication with dolphins.
Dolphins are creatures which
are able to conduct
wide-range networking in the
water via ultrasonic waves.
What?
You promised me earlier.
Promised what?
That you'd go out with me.
You said you'd go out with me!
W-What're you talking about?
Taro, is that true?
Did I?
You didn't! You didn't!
Even if I did, you aren't the you
I want to go out with right now, Lain.
Taro, you moron!
We're the same. I'm me.
I'm the only me.
Awesome!
I can't believe you put together
something like this!
Oh, okay! This syncs up
the parallel processors!
It's not pretty, but you can
keep on expanding it this way.
What're you using as coolant?
Taro
Is this liquid carbon?
Sit down over there.
Damn
I think you know what this is.
It's you, isn't it, Taro?
You're with the Knights, aren't you?
You'rethe real Lain.
I don't know whether or not
there's another me in the Wired.
But there's definitely no other
me here in the real world.
The other one with a body has
only appeared in the club.
You only need to manipulate the
memories of the people there, right?
II can't
Play track 44.
It's almost over, isn't it?
Finally.
So while we still can, we should
Roger.
Now communicating.
Stop.
It's not me!
But I knew the data coming into
JJ's place had this kind of effect.
If I had installed this chip,
what would've happened to me?
Would I have killed myself?
Gone insane?
I said I don't know!
There's no way a kid like me could
be a formal Knights member!
I'm just a
I wonder what this will do?
I-It's non-volatile memory!
It'll overwrite existing memories!
What kind of memories?
I-I don't know.
The Knights aren't just
ordinary crackers, Lain.
There's something strange
about you. That's for sure.
That's why the Knights
are so interested.
The Knights are users
who are fighting
to make the only truth
there is into a reality.
I don't understand.
What do you mean, "one truth"?
Like I said, I'm not a
formal Knights member.
They never explained it to me.
But it's true. The truth has
power because it's the truth.
And because it's the truth,
that makes it just.
It's persuasive, isn't it?
Don't you want truth like that?
I'm going.
Myu-Myu is jealous of you.
Taro? Thank you.
You
Hey, this is a date, you know?
I'm a guy. I had to do that.
Ted Nelson, who studied under
the two cult pioneers
Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly,
proposed a giant electronic library
in satellites in stationary orbit
which could be used at any terminal
on Earth via radio or phone lines.
He called this concept that would
make this database "Xanadu."
The Mongolian utopia where all written
cultures would never be lost.
This was Xanadu.
It was the concept of Hypertext
that would make it real,
and Ted Nelson's name would go
down in history as its originator.
Hello, Navi.
Click, clickMemory check
Click, click
Click, click
That'sThat's me?
Yes. This is me.
Then who are they?
I'm you, so I wouldn't know.
This is a lie.
It's a lie. It's all a lie.
Why are you doing this?
The Earth has its own specific
electromagnetic waves.
Between the ionosphere
and the Earth's surface,
there is a constant resonance at
a frequency of 8Hz in the ELF band.
This is called the
Schumann Resonance.
The extent of the effect on humans
of these "Earth Brain Waves"
that the planet constantly
gives off remains unknown.
The Earth's human population
is approaching that of
the number of
neurons in the brain.
Douglas Rushkoff proposes that the
consciousness of the Earth itself
might be awakened when all humans on
Earth become collectively networked.
The network's evolution would
follow a neural model,
and just as neurons within the human
brain are connected by synapses,
the Earth itself would
become a neural network.
There is only one truth. God.
Yes. Me.
Masami Eiri, Chief Researcher
at Tachibana General Labs,
further developed the hypothesis
of a worldwide neural network.
His hypothesis proposed a wireless
network whereby all humanity
would be plugged in at an unconscious
level without the need for any device.
Furthermore, he encoded the
Schumann Resonance Factor
and inserted it into the 7th-gen
Wired Protocol on his own initiative.
Upon discovering this, Tachibana
General Labs dismissed Eiri.
One week later, Masami Eiri's body
was found on the Yamanote train line.
I thought I was innocent,
but I'm being punished.
I didn't start this, but I
have to finish it somehow.
I can't say I didn't know about it,
but I don't remember taking part in it.
I get the feeling my
freedom cost me dearly,
but I don't remember
selling my soul cheaply.
Hey, hey!
Until I die and say goodbye
Hey, hey!
no one will ever catch me.
You probably don't know
the eternal outlaws
who wander the distant night.