Chiaki Konaka clutters his already-fragmented screenplay with references to alien contacts and some odd theology. Lain greets these revelations and questions with her usual fixed stare and little indrawn breaths. The Knights, who seemed omnipotent within the Wired, lose a critical power struggle: its members are executed by agents of Tachibana Laboratory. Does she need a body any longer? Does she still possess one? Her father departs, announcing that her family has never been anything but a group of actors. The cyber-Lain grows bolder and more unpleasant, spying on her friends and spreading rumors, while her real-world counterpart seems to be fading out of existence. As Lain's story continues to unfold, she-and the viewer-become increasingly unsure of what is real and what exists in the cyberrealm of the Wired.
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