1 00:00:04,020 --> 00:00:10,094 iSubDB.com - fast, modern, simple Subtitles search by drag & drop 2 00:02:08,717 --> 00:02:15,191 If you can hear it, it is speaking to you. 3 00:02:16,291 --> 00:02:21,297 And if you can see it, then it is your... 4 00:02:29,638 --> 00:02:33,984 Mankind is a creature that no longer evolves, is it not? 5 00:02:35,043 --> 00:02:39,185 Compared to other animals, the cancer rate in man is exceedingly small. 6 00:02:39,881 --> 00:02:44,626 One theory says that man is a neoteny, and is no longer able to evolve. 7 00:02:45,487 --> 00:02:51,267 If this is true, then what an absurd creature man has evolved into. 8 00:02:52,494 --> 00:02:55,907 Not knowing what it is that drives them, 9 00:02:56,164 --> 00:03:00,271 they keep their bodies merely to satisfy the desires of the flesh. 10 00:03:01,102 --> 00:03:03,605 They're worthless, don't you think? 11 00:03:05,207 --> 00:03:08,051 That's all mankind is. 12 00:03:14,115 --> 00:03:18,154 But it is no longer necessary to remain a wretched human being. 13 00:03:19,487 --> 00:03:24,459 Mankind has finally created an exit whereby he may escape. 14 00:03:26,528 --> 00:03:27,734 What do you mean? 15 00:03:27,762 --> 00:03:32,438 The network. The Wired, Lain. 16 00:03:33,401 --> 00:03:35,506 Who are you? 17 00:03:35,537 --> 00:03:39,007 I'm God. 18 00:03:55,557 --> 00:03:57,764 Wanna go get something to eat? 19 00:03:57,993 --> 00:04:00,234 Hey, aren't you hungry? 20 00:04:05,433 --> 00:04:08,573 Hey, wanna go to the pool next time? 21 00:04:28,857 --> 00:04:30,564 Oh, man... 22 00:04:54,949 --> 00:04:56,360 Tell me a story! 23 00:05:11,933 --> 00:05:14,038 Come on, please! 24 00:05:18,707 --> 00:05:21,051 Tell me a story, okay? 25 00:05:22,110 --> 00:05:25,250 What kind of story would you like to hear, Lain? 26 00:05:25,447 --> 00:05:27,120 Let's see... 27 00:05:30,452 --> 00:05:32,261 Something I don't know about! 28 00:05:36,591 --> 00:05:40,403 There is nothing that you don't know. 29 00:05:40,428 --> 00:05:44,069 I can't tell you a story that doesn't exist. 30 00:05:44,766 --> 00:05:47,007 You understand, don't you? 31 00:05:49,170 --> 00:05:51,707 Well, how about this, then? 32 00:05:51,773 --> 00:05:56,381 For every event, there is first a prophecy. 33 00:05:56,978 --> 00:06:01,051 An event first comes into existence when there is a prophecy. 34 00:06:01,783 --> 00:06:04,855 Who? Who makes the prophecies? 35 00:06:09,657 --> 00:06:14,800 Throughout Tokyo today, the VTCZX road traffic information transmission system... 36 00:06:14,929 --> 00:06:16,636 sent out incorrect information. 37 00:06:16,798 --> 00:06:22,441 Especially at congested intersections, traffic signals interfered with the... 38 00:06:22,470 --> 00:06:26,646 auto-drive program in cars and trucks, sending them out of control. 39 00:06:27,342 --> 00:06:30,949 There was a fatality in Shibuya, Tokyo, 40 00:06:31,012 --> 00:06:34,289 but the Information Ministry says that the system is already back up, 41 00:06:34,349 --> 00:06:36,920 and that such an accident will never happen again. 42 00:07:17,559 --> 00:07:19,061 Excuse me. 43 00:07:19,594 --> 00:07:20,402 Huh? 44 00:07:20,929 --> 00:07:21,930 Uh... 45 00:07:26,067 --> 00:07:28,570 Mind if I hit on you? 46 00:07:37,779 --> 00:07:39,190 Oh, shit... 47 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:40,350 Later! 48 00:07:40,615 --> 00:07:42,856 H-Hey! 49 00:07:46,855 --> 00:07:48,664 That little creep... 50 00:07:48,890 --> 00:07:55,102 Damn it, this is gonna stain... 51 00:08:05,306 --> 00:08:07,843 W-What the heck is this? 52 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,923 Some kind of bad joke... 53 00:08:18,653 --> 00:08:19,893 What the hell...? 54 00:08:19,921 --> 00:08:20,922 What's she doing? 55 00:08:20,955 --> 00:08:22,559 Is she crazy? 56 00:08:39,607 --> 00:08:41,245 Lain? 57 00:08:43,978 --> 00:08:46,288 What's her problem? 58 00:09:27,055 --> 00:09:30,525 The prophecy is being fulfilled, Lain. 59 00:09:31,526 --> 00:09:34,166 But then it's not a prophecy... 60 00:09:34,195 --> 00:09:36,266 No, it is a prophecy. 61 00:09:36,331 --> 00:09:40,802 History is not merely a linear collection of points that... 62 00:09:40,835 --> 00:09:44,749 we pass through on a timeline. 63 00:09:44,772 --> 00:09:47,616 They are connected by a line. 64 00:09:47,642 --> 00:09:52,751 No, perhaps it is more accurate to say that they are made to connect. 65 00:09:53,381 --> 00:09:57,295 By who? Who connects them? 66 00:10:21,209 --> 00:10:22,517 Lain! 67 00:10:29,183 --> 00:10:31,356 What did you do? 68 00:10:32,353 --> 00:10:36,267 I had no idea. I guess you're pretty good. 69 00:10:36,557 --> 00:10:40,300 I didn't know you could pull off a hacky stunt like that already. 70 00:10:40,662 --> 00:10:42,164 What're you talking about? 71 00:10:42,196 --> 00:10:44,301 Playing innocent again, huh? 72 00:10:44,532 --> 00:10:47,376 I really don't... 73 00:10:47,602 --> 00:10:49,912 You didn't do it, Lain? 74 00:10:51,039 --> 00:10:52,313 Do what? 75 00:10:56,244 --> 00:10:59,282 The Information Control Bureau of the Information Ministry... 76 00:10:59,313 --> 00:11:02,192 began investigating yesterday's information network abnormality, 77 00:11:02,216 --> 00:11:05,322 stating that it was very likely a deliberate act. 78 00:11:06,054 --> 00:11:10,730 With the network now a lifeline for not only the city, but for society, 79 00:11:11,092 --> 00:11:14,505 such an act is tantamount to... 80 00:11:28,676 --> 00:11:30,917 Your total is 948 yen. 81 00:11:31,512 --> 00:11:33,992 Out of 948 yen. Please, enjoy your meal. 82 00:11:34,949 --> 00:11:37,520 Huh? There it is again. 83 00:11:37,819 --> 00:11:38,889 Again? 84 00:11:39,220 --> 00:11:40,358 What? 85 00:11:40,388 --> 00:11:42,732 Spam. Indiscriminate mail. 86 00:11:42,757 --> 00:11:44,293 I'm really getting tired of this... 87 00:11:44,358 --> 00:11:46,770 "Fulfill the prophecy," right? 88 00:11:46,794 --> 00:11:50,003 Is it a declaration of war by some cult group? 89 00:11:50,798 --> 00:11:55,770 I asked some geeks I met on the Wired about it a while ago. 90 00:11:55,970 --> 00:11:58,473 They said it might be the Knights. 91 00:11:58,506 --> 00:12:00,713 Knights? Who's that? 92 00:12:01,309 --> 00:12:04,347 Some kind of super-hacker group. 93 00:12:04,378 --> 00:12:08,224 But I thought hackers don't usually work together. 94 00:12:08,549 --> 00:12:14,227 True. But maybe this Knights group really isn't a group at all. 95 00:12:14,489 --> 00:12:20,462 They say they have a lot of power in the Wired, and that they do a lot in secret. 96 00:12:20,495 --> 00:12:22,873 So they're a secret society. 97 00:12:23,064 --> 00:12:26,671 Geez, do they get their kicks out of this stuff? 98 00:12:27,268 --> 00:12:29,305 I'm not sure why... 99 00:12:29,370 --> 00:12:30,371 Huh? 100 00:12:31,873 --> 00:12:36,379 but something tells me that they're not in it for fun or for money. 101 00:12:52,794 --> 00:12:57,800 It's reasonable to see the Wired as an upper layer of the real world. 102 00:12:58,032 --> 00:13:02,105 In other words, physical reality is nothing but a hologram... 103 00:13:02,136 --> 00:13:05,015 of the information that flows through the Wired. 104 00:13:06,307 --> 00:13:07,718 Morn? 105 00:13:07,809 --> 00:13:11,621 This is because the body — the activity of the human brain — is merely... 106 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:18,324 a physical phenomenon caused by synapses delivering electrical impulses. 107 00:13:21,322 --> 00:13:27,762 The body exists only to verify one's own existence. 108 00:13:29,931 --> 00:13:33,242 Are you... Are you really my morn? 109 00:13:38,172 --> 00:13:39,446 Are you? 110 00:14:15,810 --> 00:14:17,084 Lain? 111 00:14:18,412 --> 00:14:19,516 Huh? 112 00:14:20,314 --> 00:14:23,693 Didn't I see you at Shibuya? 113 00:14:32,293 --> 00:14:34,773 Forget it. It's nothing. 114 00:15:42,930 --> 00:15:44,739 Thank you! 115 00:15:45,933 --> 00:15:48,641 Hey, don't you think he's pretty cute? 116 00:15:55,176 --> 00:15:57,315 How did it go with him? 117 00:15:57,345 --> 00:15:59,484 Come on, you can tell us! 118 00:16:34,715 --> 00:16:37,218 W-What? What prophecy? 119 00:17:13,521 --> 00:17:15,159 What's going on? 120 00:17:15,289 --> 00:17:17,997 I usually have dinner with Morn and Dad about now... 121 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,262 Wha— 122 00:17:24,698 --> 00:17:26,939 What's happening? 123 00:17:39,647 --> 00:17:42,457 I-Is someone there? 124 00:17:50,124 --> 00:17:53,105 Come on, I know you're there. 125 00:18:44,345 --> 00:18:47,451 Are you my real dad? 126 00:18:48,249 --> 00:18:53,722 It may be that what flows through the Wired isn't merely electrical information. 127 00:18:54,321 --> 00:18:55,595 Huh? 128 00:18:55,890 --> 00:18:59,269 If we assume that it was the development of electricity and phones... 129 00:18:59,293 --> 00:19:01,330 that brought about the formation of the Wired, 130 00:19:01,362 --> 00:19:07,574 then I have to wonder if another world was created at that moment. 131 00:19:08,235 --> 00:19:09,305 Uh... 132 00:19:09,336 --> 00:19:14,285 Here in the real world, God exists only as a concept. 133 00:19:14,308 --> 00:19:19,382 But in the Wired, there may be a sort of Deus-like embodiment. 134 00:19:19,914 --> 00:19:21,188 God? 135 00:19:22,483 --> 00:19:26,021 I don't know whether or not it should be called a god. 136 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,657 But at the very least, I think it has the same kind... 137 00:19:28,856 --> 00:19:32,269 of power that is written of in myths. 138 00:19:33,127 --> 00:19:36,973 I think I may have talked with God. 139 00:19:37,498 --> 00:19:41,708 It's possible that the Deus of the Wired may already have enough power... 140 00:19:41,735 --> 00:19:45,808 to affect the real world in some instances. 141 00:19:46,106 --> 00:19:49,280 Yes... In the form of prophecy. 142 00:19:52,046 --> 00:19:54,083 Prophecy? 143 00:21:03,050 --> 00:21:04,825 What's wrong? 144 00:21:04,952 --> 00:21:08,559 It's nothing. Forget about it. 145 00:22:07,881 --> 00:22:10,487 Who is it today? 146 00:22:28,902 --> 00:22:37,378 I thought I was innocent, but I'm being punished. 147 00:22:37,644 --> 00:22:42,644 I didn't start this, but I have to finish it somehow. 148 00:22:57,097 --> 00:23:05,676 I can't say I didn't know about it, but I don't remember taking part in it. 149 00:23:06,106 --> 00:23:12,148 I get the feeling my freedom cost me dearly, 150 00:23:12,713 --> 00:23:19,426 but I don't remember selling my soul cheaply. 151 00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:20,798 Hey, hey! 152 00:23:20,821 --> 00:23:27,261 Until I die and say goodbye... 153 00:23:28,562 --> 00:23:29,802 Hey, hey! 154 00:23:29,830 --> 00:23:37,180 no one can catch me. 155 00:23:38,972 --> 00:23:45,014 You probably don't know the eternal outlaws... 156 00:23:45,312 --> 00:23:50,421 who wander the distant night. 157 00:23:51,325 --> 00:24:01,325 OpenSubtitles recommends using Nord VPN from 3.49 USD/month —-> osdb.link/vpn