Ep. 4: Rumors of PHANTOMa suicides lead Lain to investigate the Knights of the Eastern Calculus and the Wired.
Aired on July 28, 1998
Rumors circulate at school and on the Wired regarding senior students from various high schools committing suicide while addicted to the online action game PHANTOMa. Lain investigates and discovers the game was glitched with a tag game for kids, where a little girl scares students to death. She determines the deaths were likely caused by the elite secretive hacker group known as the Knights of the Eastern Calculus. Later that night, she senses the Men in Black spying on her in a black car. When she tells them to leave, a sound wave penetrates her window, causing the two to fall back and drive away.
Episodes
- Ep. 1 · Chisa Yomoda's email leads Lain Iwakura into the Wired after her suicide.
- Ep. 2 · Alice claims Lain visited Cyberia, prompting Lain to investigate the club and its dangerous drug culture.
- Ep. 3 · Lain faces family tension and mysterious digital intrusions while exploring her dual online identity.
- Ep. 4 · Rumors of PHANTOMa suicides lead Lain to investigate the Knights of the Eastern Calculus and the Wired.
- Ep. 5 · Lain confronts Wired realities through hallucinations while Mika faces pressure from the Knights
- Ep. 6 · Lain encounters her sky image while investigating the KIDS project with Professor Hodgeson.
- Ep. 7 · Lain faces identity crisis as Knights breach Wired firewall and Men in Black investigate her origins.
- Ep. 8 · Lain investigates family behavior and rumors about Alice while questioning her Wired existence.