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Serial Experiments Lain, Ep. 8- Rumors · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle. I guess I'm here again,
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  Speaker 1: and it's warm out kind of a lot warm, but
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  Speaker 1: that's fine, I guess. I mean, it's finally the right
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  Speaker 1: time of the year for it to be warm, so yay.
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  Speaker 1: But uh yeah, yeah, still existing. I may or may
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  Speaker 1: not be making an anime mosaic in my front yard.
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  Speaker 1: Let's pretend I didn't say that, but I did, and
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  Speaker 1: it's embarrassing on all sorts of levels all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But I really messed it up yesterday just I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why. I thought I needed to lift up the
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  Speaker 1: whole mural and put it back down, but it ended
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  Speaker 1: up falling apart, so now I have to do it
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  Speaker 1: again later. I hope I can fix it, because I
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  Speaker 1: was really kind of sadly proud of the way that
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  Speaker 1: it came out. And yeah, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: can do it as good again. I'm not sure why
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  Speaker 1: you care. It's just if you're walking around and you
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  Speaker 1: see a house that has all sorts of mosaics on
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  Speaker 1: it and some of them are anime related, that's probably
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  Speaker 1: my house, so now you know. And no, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna specify what anime is related to Anyway, I'm recording
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  Speaker 1: this earlier in the week than I usually do because
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  Speaker 1: I was I don't know, I'm really busy, so I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what happened. But like, I just kept taking
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  Speaker 1: notes on episode eight, like more than I intended to
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  Speaker 1: because I got really into the episode. So it's like
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  Speaker 1: just a couple days past when the last episode aired.
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  Speaker 1: For you guys, it's Saturday, so weird, but it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of nice to get things done early. Or maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: just stressing me out more. We'll find out. But I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say, Wow, Ree zero had another really good
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  Speaker 1: episode and I was very excited about it. I hope
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  Speaker 1: Subrew is always in a sad, horrible mental space. I
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  Speaker 1: mean not really, but man, are those good episodes. Anyway. Also,
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  Speaker 1: I think I've been talking about like I've watching Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: Gul finally and I watched all of the first season
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  Speaker 1: and wow, they like really fucked up the storyline like terribly.
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  Speaker 1: There was so many changes that I don't understand why
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  Speaker 1: they were changed. I mean, I guess it all comes
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  Speaker 1: down to they were trying to fit everything in what
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  Speaker 1: was it, like eleven episodes, and I don't know, there's
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  Speaker 1: just so much stuff that was left out about like
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  Speaker 1: how goouls work and the cogune weapons, and then like
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  Speaker 1: the very end part that's all torture. It wasn't too bad,
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  Speaker 1: Like I was pretty pretty happy with the way that went,
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  Speaker 1: but like the setup didn't make sense, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: why would he just be there and that happening then?
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  Speaker 1: And then I reread that part of the manga and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, because they just skipped all these things.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, So now you know that I still
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  Speaker 1: have not great feelings about the Tokyogool anime, but at
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  Speaker 1: least I can say I watched the first season and
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  Speaker 1: that my feelings are unique to my understanding. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that that made sense. It doesn't matter. We don't
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  Speaker 1: need to talk about Tokyo Ghoul, but you should know
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  Speaker 1: I'm probably not watching anymore because why why watch them
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  Speaker 1: butcher it anymore? Sorry, guys. If you like the Tokyogol anime,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. I don't think it's bad by any means, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a lot of fun to watch, but
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  Speaker 1: like it's it's hard to watch it knowing what happened
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  Speaker 1: in the manga and if you've only seen the anime.
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  Speaker 1: You should probably read the manga. Yeah, go out and
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  Speaker 1: read Tokyo Goool yeah or something. I don't know, And
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  Speaker 1: Suzio was introduced and I love him, So let's get
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  Speaker 1: to it, because I don't need to talk about anymore
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  Speaker 1: or this shit unless you want me to. But you
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  Speaker 1: can't tell me because I'm all here by myself with
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  Speaker 1: my cat and she's not saying anything. So I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna assume that you don't want to hear about it
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  Speaker 1: anymore and you want to talk about Lane episode eight,
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  Speaker 1: because that's what we're supposed to do. So episode eight
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  Speaker 1: is called Rumors, which is a fucking perfect title for it,
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  Speaker 1: and I like loved the shit out of this episode,
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  Speaker 1: so I hope that I can do it justice. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so if you remember from the end of last episode,
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  Speaker 1: I don't oh right, that dude was killed. The guy
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  Speaker 1: was walking down the street with like the headset on
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  Speaker 1: and stuff and the like goggles and shit. He was
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  Speaker 1: killed and thrown in a ditch. I guess by maybe
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  Speaker 1: the nights and Lane was asked very easy questions like
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  Speaker 1: when are her parents' birthdays? Where was she born? And
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  Speaker 1: she could not answer them. So yeah, it's been a
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  Speaker 1: rough time. So this episode starts not over there, because
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  Speaker 1: they never start where they end in serial Expartment's lane,
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  Speaker 1: but it starts the way it normally starts, with some
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  Speaker 1: normal shit and then present day present time ahaha or
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  Speaker 1: something that's a terrible laugh. I'm still gonna work on it.
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  Speaker 1: Then we go to the opening theme hooray. Then back
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  Speaker 1: from the opening, more normal shits and buildings and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: with like a voiceover of some girl that could be
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  Speaker 1: Layin but I really don't know, saying so you want
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  Speaker 1: to hurt too? Do you do? You want your heart
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  Speaker 1: to feel like it's been scraped across with a rasp.
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  Speaker 1: If you do, don't look away whatever you do. Fuck
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  Speaker 1: title card Rumors, Layer zero eight. Oh, and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to point out that there was some texts kind of
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  Speaker 1: like morphing and scrolling in the background, and it said
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  Speaker 1: make me sad and then also make me feel Hm.
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  Speaker 1: We see like a yellow slash like cut through like
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  Speaker 1: a greenish colored screen. It kind of parts and we
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  Speaker 1: see Tato, remember the kid that Lane talked to that
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  Speaker 1: wanted to date her in Syperia that one time, and
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  Speaker 1: he is on a background that looks like maybe he's
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  Speaker 1: in a desert. He's kind of pixelated, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: think this is a real desert. He slashes with this
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  Speaker 1: like giant guts like sword and then he puts it
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  Speaker 1: on his back, and we see that in the background
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  Speaker 1: it's not like just a desert. There are all of
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  Speaker 1: these like rocky like outcrops of mountains, like it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like a nice place though there's not any vegetation,
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  Speaker 1: and Tato says, no one can be sure if there
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  Speaker 1: really is or not. He's kind of rubbing his nose
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  Speaker 1: and then he looks over his shoulder. You see, for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, it doesn't really match the user. If
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  Speaker 1: God exists in the wired you ask them and they
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  Speaker 1: don't care. He turns fully around. Now, oh hey, just
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  Speaker 1: a second lane before you go. Let me take this
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  Speaker 1: guy out. He points, and he puts his hand out
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  Speaker 1: and his sword kind of warps back into it, and
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  Speaker 1: we get a wider shot now, and we see that
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  Speaker 1: there's this big purple monster in front of him that
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  Speaker 1: has like two tongues and like it's a testines are
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  Speaker 1: exposed and I don't know if it's like a slug
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  Speaker 1: or like a tentacled or like I don't know when
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of standing up. It's real weird looking. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Lane is there too. She is standing on like one
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  Speaker 1: of the mountains, watching with her hands on her hips,
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  Speaker 1: and she does not look pixelated. She's very normal Lane looking.
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  Speaker 1: She's wearing like a sweater and like no pants, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's a long sweater I think, or like a sweatshirt
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  Speaker 1: or something. Who cares anyway, she says, what's so fun
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  Speaker 1: about this? Tato kills the monster in one swipe and
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  Speaker 1: it disappears as it would, and Lane continues, all you've
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  Speaker 1: been doing is killing other players. Oh he's a player killer.
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  Speaker 1: A blue light kind of encircles Tato from like the
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  Speaker 1: ground like comes up and he says, no one really
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  Speaker 1: knows what's fun and no one can really understand why.
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  Speaker 1: Lane stares at him and it's quiet for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Then she's like hmm. We cut to her at her computer,
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  Speaker 1: staring at the screen, resting her head in her hands.
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  Speaker 1: She says, the name that was written on the door
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  Speaker 1: plate was Tachibana General Laboratories. She presses her hand over
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  Speaker 1: her mouse and it makes some beeps, like maybe she
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  Speaker 1: pressed a button, but it didn't look like that, and
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  Speaker 1: then we see her teleport out of that game in
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  Speaker 1: like a blue light and a screen kind of warps
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  Speaker 1: in that has like a lot of neon pink in
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  Speaker 1: green and blue on it, and it says, come on
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  Speaker 1: in new pick post click here. Now you heard me
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  Speaker 1: chuckle there, basically because of the way that come is spelled.
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  Speaker 1: It's not spelled come as would be appropriate. It's spelled cum.
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  Speaker 1: So at first I thought that this was a mistake,
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  Speaker 1: and now I don't think it is, but uh yeah, come.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm a little bit worried about what Lane's
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  Speaker 1: doing right now. So we are now like the camera
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like panning up on a woman who
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  Speaker 1: is naked, but like is censored with like bright swirly
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  Speaker 1: tie dyed patterns of lights more or less, and she
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  Speaker 1: is wearing red high heels. She's got kind of longish hair,
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  Speaker 1: but her head is also kind of in that like
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  Speaker 1: ti ed eye color pattern, so she doesn't really look
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  Speaker 1: like anything in particular. She is hovering in front of
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  Speaker 1: Lane in like this greenish blueish place with like white
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, branches or something in the background. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. Anyway, she kind of bends down and says
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  Speaker 1: in a male's voice. I'm assuming that this is the
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  Speaker 1: woman that's talking. But after that first initial shot, we
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  Speaker 1: don't see her head or really even the top of
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  Speaker 1: her torso again we're just seeing like her legs, So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but she sounds like a guy anyway.
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  Speaker 1: She says, a company as big as Tachibana General Labs
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  Speaker 1: would never dream of doing anything illegal. Really, is that
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  Speaker 1: a thing I've heard rumors? Though. Lane is looking off
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  Speaker 1: to the side. She looks kind of pissed off. She
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  Speaker 1: has her hands on her hips, and I assume that
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  Speaker 1: the idea of being in front of this kind of
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  Speaker 1: woman who kind of looks like she might be some
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  Speaker 1: sort of stripper thing might be a little uncomfortable for her,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure. Anyway, she says, rumors fishnet stockings
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  Speaker 1: start to kind of appear on the woman, and she says,
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  Speaker 1: in the wire, do you have any idea how we're
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  Speaker 1: able to exchange information like this? She like disappears. Lane's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: so you think you're testing me. The woman's legs appear
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  Speaker 1: on the screen again. They like step back into it,
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  Speaker 1: kind of closer up, and Lane continues, I know you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about IP, aren't you. The woman chuckles, Sorry, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: We rarely know of the protocol's existence, especially with the
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  Speaker 1: advanced levels. However, the sixth generation protocol has reached its
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  Speaker 1: absolute data throughput limit as far as I can tell.
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  Speaker 1: Lane's like, so it's the seventh generation protocol. The woman says, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the seventh generation protocol. She is just running her hands
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  Speaker 1: up her leg sure and kind of like kneeling. She continues.
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  Speaker 1: Big companies are the ones making it into the new infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: You see. To control the protocol means to control the
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  Speaker 1: entire economy of the wired without any interference. I hear
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  Speaker 1: that there's constant sabotage attempts going on, and the party
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  Speaker 1: behind all of this is Lane cuts her off tauchy
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  Speaker 1: bound of general lapse. She starts to walk away. The
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  Speaker 1: woman chuckles, and we fades black. We cut to electrical
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  Speaker 1: wires humming on a purply blue like night sky, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Then he cuts it black again and Lane opens the door,
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  Speaker 1: like from her room out into the hallway, and she
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  Speaker 1: walks out. It's hitch black in the hallway. I mean
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  Speaker 1: her room is usually dark too, but like it has
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  Speaker 1: the glow of computers coming from it, but the hallway
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  Speaker 1: is like nothing, like there's not a there's no lines
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  Speaker 1: in the background, just black, which is upsetting. I made
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  Speaker 1: a note that she's kind of off modeled here, like
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  Speaker 1: her eyes are very far apart, but you know, it happens.
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  Speaker 1: Can't draw people right all the time. Anyway, She gasps
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, and we see down the hall that
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  Speaker 1: there's someone slumped over by like the window, which is
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  Speaker 1: the only source of light we have, and it's really
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  Speaker 1: not doing anything for this dark hallway, but we can
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  Speaker 1: see the outline of this person. Lane says, are you
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  Speaker 1: o ka on echan? Mika's head is down, she is
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  Speaker 1: looking at the floor and just making sounds. Lane just
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  Speaker 1: kind of stares at her as she tries to say something,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: but it's just like my mama, like there's nothing going
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  Speaker 1: on in there. And I don't know if she's actually
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  Speaker 1: trying to tell Lane something or if she's just making
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  Speaker 1: sounds because she's so far gone. I'm not sure. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we cut to a very bright window and then Lane
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  Speaker 1: walks up and slides it so it's actually a door,
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  Speaker 1: a sliding door, not a window, and it's the one
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  Speaker 1: that separates the living space from the hallway. So she
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  Speaker 1: walks into the living space, like the living room area,
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  Speaker 1: and we see that the TV is on, turned to
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  Speaker 1: the news and the sound is off again. It's like
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  Speaker 1: why even have it on. Lane stares at it, and
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  Speaker 1: then she looks towards the kitchen and she sees her parents.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that they were like standing, but they're not,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: because I saw this in a couple of scenes. They're
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the table facing the living room so towards her,
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  Speaker 1: and she just kind of stares for a minute, and
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  Speaker 1: then she kind of gasps, like very slightly. Both of
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  Speaker 1: her parents are totally motionless. Her mom is looking down,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, at the table, and we can't tell what
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: her dad's eyes are doing because his glasses are reflecting
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  Speaker 1: the light. But they are just sitting there. Lane walks over,
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  Speaker 1: and this is when I was like, oh, they are
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the table. She passes by them, and they
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  Speaker 1: like don't move at all, They don't turn, they don't
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  Speaker 1: say anything to her. She goes into the kitchen and
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: she grabs a glass out of the drawing rack. She
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: opens the fridge and takes out a brown beverage. It's
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  Speaker 1: just in a glass bottle that doesn't have any sort
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  Speaker 1: of label. Maybe it's iced tea. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: it is. And she fills her glass and closes the fridge,
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  Speaker 1: and she just kind of stares down at her drink.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: While she's just looking at her glass, she says, Mom, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: can I ask? She turns and realizes that they haven't
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  Speaker 1: reacted at all. They're still sitting at the table facing
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  Speaker 1: the living room with their BackStar. She has this look
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  Speaker 1: on her face that I wasn't sure what it is,
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: but I think it's like one of those looks where
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: like you're worried to tell somebody something, but you also
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: feel like it's really stupid to bring this thing up
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: because it can't be real, right. So anyway, she says,
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  Speaker 1: a while ago, some somebody asked me a strange question.
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  Speaker 1: She kind of sniffs, and she looks like she's gonna cry.
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  Speaker 1: They said, are you iwa Cara Laine, And then they
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  Speaker 1: also wanted to know, are your parents really your parents?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that funny? Or silence? Lane continues, It's funny, right,
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: people say the funniest things, huh. Her parents make no
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: attempt to answer her. She continues, right at this point,
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  Speaker 1: she just starts to drink her beverage, and then we
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  Speaker 1: see the kitchen faucet running, and we don't see Lane
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: clean the cup, but I assume that's what she did,
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  Speaker 1: because she what's it in the drying wreck. And then
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  Speaker 1: she turns and looks up and gasps. Both of her
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  Speaker 1: parents have craned their heads towards her, and they're just
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  Speaker 1: staring at her coldly or really sternly, I'm not sure,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: but it feels not good. She gasps again, and they
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  Speaker 1: just continue to stare at her for like way too long,
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  Speaker 1: and then we fade out. What the fuck? Okay, let
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: me just pause there, because that actually made me really upset.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how alone she must feel like.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, she's got all of these like really scary
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  Speaker 1: things happening, and it really upsets me that like she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have like there's there's just nothing there between her
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  Speaker 1: and her parents. She must be so scared. Yeah. I
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with them, but something is
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  Speaker 1: going on. It's not like they don't see her. Why
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  Speaker 1: are they not responding. I mean, you could respond anything.
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  Speaker 1: They could tell the truth, whatever that is. They could
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  Speaker 1: lie to her, but to just ignore her and then
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  Speaker 1: just to like stare through her. It's fucked up, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like you didn't know that anyway, Let's move on. We
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: get two wires humming on a white background and kids
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: walking into the school grounds. Everyone's like talking and shit,
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  Speaker 1: and we see Lane walking like from behind, and a
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: shadow kind of approaches her back and we see a
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  Speaker 1: hand reach out. The hand rests itself on Lane's shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: and Lane stops and turns and she's like, uh, Alice,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. Alice is obviously there, and so were the
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  Speaker 1: other two behind her. Alice looks surprisingly blank, like that's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what emotion this is, and Judy and
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Raka look kind of pissed off, and no one says anything,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: which has got to be a little bit scary because
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Layne is dealing with this with her parents and with
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Mega and just nobody's talking anyway. Lane says, what's wrong? Hey,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: they just keep staring at her. Fuck. Eventually Alice says,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I just don't believe it. Lane's like, huh,
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  Speaker 1: what Alice is Like, Lane, you didn't do it right?
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Lane says, what? Rayas like, I'll bet she's been playing
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  Speaker 1: innocent all along. Alice turns and is like, Weika, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know that for sure? Judy says, seriously, you mean
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't you Lane. Alice is like Layne in the wire,
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  Speaker 1: did you? But she just kind of stops because she
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: realizes that Laine looks like she's about to cry. Alice
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: exhales and then smiles and says, no, never mind, forget
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  Speaker 1: about it. It couldn't have been you. What somebody tell me?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Lane is beginning to sweat, and Alice continues, It's all right,
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  Speaker 1: I trust you, Okay, we hear Judy say, Alice. Alice
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  Speaker 1: turns and she's like what Judy motions like with her
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: head off to the side. And Alice turns and gasps,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: and we see like this red car like at this
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: security gate. I guess when you drive into the school
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: grounds you have to stop at like a little station
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: or whatever the hell. And we can't see in the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: car because the windshield is reflecting the sunlight. But Alice
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: is like staring at this, and then we see the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: guy in the car. He's got short black hair and
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: he's maybe wearing like a green suit, I'm not sure,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: or jacket or something. Alice gasps again and kind of
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: looks a little bit enthralled. Actually gross. The car drives
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: in and we get a shot of his profile as
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: he drives off to the left. He is not really attractive.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not like ugly. But if Alice has
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a crush on him, I'm not saying it. When the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: car's out of you, Alice just and Raca's like Alice,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Rika and Judy kind of giggle and run after her. Gross.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Blaine watches them and then looks back to where the
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: car was and lowers her head. I don't know, man.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: We cut to the teacher writing on the chalkboard. This
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: scene has been repeated in so many episodes. It's like
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: we're panning left to right, like past all the students
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: with the teacher like, you know, using chalk on the blackboard.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: But there's nothing on the board, so maybe she just started.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: But it's okay. It sets up the scene anyway. We
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: see Lane's red pen hovering over her phone screen and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the screen is blue with like some circles on it
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: and it says like tool manager, and she touches one
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: of the circles with the pen and a screen comes
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: up that says internets with a bunch of things I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: can't read because they're not legible. She clicks on it
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: again and it goes away, and we get a shot
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of this from below her desk as she is, like,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: you know, clicking on things, and then she opens something
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: that has like a bunch of little circle windows with
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: like text that's I think in Japanese, and we fade out.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: We cut to some kind of platform I think, floating
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: on a black screen, and it gets closer and then
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: it like kind of goes through, like the perspective of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the viewer I guess, like passes us. We see Lane's profile.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: She's looking at something, but we can't see what it is,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and we hear a man say it's just too dangerous.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: We have to avoid any more builts. So we're seeing
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: now lots of torsos with like clothing on them and stuff,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: but like no heads or necks, but lips where they
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: should be, but nothing else. So all of the lips
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: are kind of moving at the same time, so I
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: can't tell which voice goes to which lips. So I'll
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: do my best here. So anyway, someone else says, I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: can't believe it. How could such a nice guy get
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: himself into such a collection of weird stuff. Someone else says,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: there's an extremely serious bug that's been detected in Protocol six.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Damage caused by this may prove disastrous in the wired.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Someone else is like, you haven't heard the best part.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Every night, a childlike person in a red and green
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: striped sweater appears in her room. Lane is standing on
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: like a path. That's what the platform was. It was
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: actually a path at Both sides of the path are
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: flanked by these headless sitting people, so we're seeing more
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: than Torso's now, and all of them are complete excepts
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: for their heads, which of course are just lips and
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: nothing else. Someone else says when she was in high
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: school that pops in or hit someone with her boyfriend's car,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and she just fled the scene. Lane is walking now
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: past all these people. Someone else is like, I tell
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you it's got to be true. I heard the information firsthand.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Someone laughs. The building's a famous haunted spot, you know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: If you look at its terminal at night, internal email
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: shows up, but no one's there. Ooh. Someone else is like,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the nights don't exist. Some American students started it as
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a joke. Lane stops shut up? Who cares about any
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: of this? Another person says, don't you find any of
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: it interesting? I mean, it feels like we're just scrolling
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: through message boards or something. Lane turns, who's there? She's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: looking around. I guess this person isn't one of the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: chattering things on the side of her anyway. The person,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: who has a man's voice, by the way, continues, you're
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: looking for me, Lane, aren't you. Lane's like, So, God
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: makes his grand entrance. I guess, God says, but how
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: do you define your God? Is it the creator of
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the world. If it's the creator of the world, that's
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: not me, the all powerful ruler of the world. Surely
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: you're mistaken. You give God too much credits. Lane says,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: so then where are you? God's like, Well, if you
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: define God as the one who exists everywhere in that
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: other world out there, If that's what you mean, then yes,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I suppose you could call me that I have only
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a slight influence on the overall work the world. However,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Laane kind of whips her head around and looks up,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and she's like, who the hell are you? God says,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I'm you. Fuck. Surely you must realize that it's sometime
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that another you has always existed on its own terms
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: in the wired. Lane sighs and kind of hangs her head,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and God continues, you are merely a hologram of the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: other you. Fuck, but it's not what people want to hear.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: God continues, you are essentially just a body. Lane says,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you expect me to believe that she puts her hand
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: over her eyes. Impossible, that's crazy. God laughs. But you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: don't think that the you in the real world is
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the same as the one standing here on the wire,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: do you? Laine falls to her knees. She has her
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: hand still over her face, and the other one is
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: like bracing her against the ground, and she says, well, no,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: because I'm me, I'm me. The screen kind of blurs out,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and we go to a close up of Lane with
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: her hand over her face and her pen is in
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: her hand, by the way, so this is not happening
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in the wired, and she's panting and she looks down
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: at those like weird circles on her screen and she
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: clicks them away. Then she looks up and she sees
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that everyone in the class is staring at her. This
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: has not been a good day. She looks around and
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: gasps and realizes the teacher is standing directly in front
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: of her, also staring at her. She looks down at
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: her screen and it says mail receive and then in Japanese,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Lane is a peeper like what. She stares at it
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: like terrified and sweating, and then she looks back up
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: at the classroom full of students just staring at her,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and we fade to black. We see a door. It
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: slides open, and Lane exits the room and she runs
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: down the hallway clutching her phone. She stops and she
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: sees that people ahead of her in the hallway are
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: staring at her as well, which could just be because
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: she's running down the hallway and they're confused, but I
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: don't think so. Anyway, she the bolts past them and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: they keep their eyes locked on her. As she passes,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: she stops again at like the lockers, which I think
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: are just for your shoes, but I'm still not sure,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and everyone there is also staring at her. Yeah, she
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: kind of starts to back away, and then she, you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: catches a glimpse of a classroom with the door open,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and the kids in the classroom are wearing like aprons
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: or something. Maybe they're doing, like cooking, I'm not sure,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and they are all staring out at her. Now. It's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: getting weird because they should be engrossed in whatever they're doing,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: not just staring at Lane. She gasps and backs up
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and looks out the window that's behind her, and the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: kids outside, who are maybe doing gym things, have all
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: stopped and are staring up at her as well. Lane
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: says Alice. She opens her phone, Alice, where are you?
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: We see male from Alice that says, don't mind the rumors,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: don't mind them. Lane says Alice, Alice, where are you?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: She falls to her knees and kind of doubles over Alice.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: She starts to cry. The window behind her cracks what
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: We cut to a silhouette of Lane on a black,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: red and purple screen with like colors morphing, and she says,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: where are you? Alice? She turns, and then we get
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: a close up shot of her mouth and it looks
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like she smiles, and I still don't know what that means.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: We go to black back from Black, Lane is hugging
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: her knees somewhere outside on the school grounds, like leaning
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: against a door on some steps She's crying, which is
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: just what she's doing all episode, which sucks, and she says,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: what did I What did I do? What did I do?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: In the wired she's shaking. What's the other being doing
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: while I'm sitting here? She lifts her head and then
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: looks down at her phone and she sees Alice's message
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: that says, you know, don't mind the rumors open on it,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and she's just kind of softly crying to herself. Then
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: she lifts her phone and puts her head down. And
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: this was weird. So this ball of yellow light just
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: kind of comes out of her body and like expands
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: like fire or an explosion or something like around her,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and it like melts the door behind her. What and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: this glowing like hot ball of whatever is just pushing
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: through the gym equipment room, which is I guess what
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: she was in front of, Like it's an explosion. Then
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: we see her she stands like dazed and upset and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: she's just walking through the fire. What we get to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a screen that says searching. It's like pulsing and beeping
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: is searching. Then we see a silhouette of an apartment
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: building and it's night. I want to know what happened
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: with the explosion whatever. We kind of pull up to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: a lit bay window and we see silhouettes of two people,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I guess through curtains, so we're looking in on them,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and one of them is kind of standing over the other,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and then we cut to a finger kind of wiping
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: or caressing, you know, above someone's lip. I think that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: that's how you would describe it. And we see that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that person with the lips is Alice, and it kind
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: of looks like she's asleep in someone's arms. And I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: was having some trouble with this scene figuring out exactly
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: what was going on, which it should have been pretty
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: evident immediately, but she's making some noises that I couldn't
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: tell if they were like she's like passed out and
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: she's like having a weird dream or not. And we
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: see that the person who is standing up and wiped
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: above her lip is that guy who I believe is
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: a teacher, fuck, and he's looking down at her. Alice
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: opens her eyes, so she wasn't asleep, and she kind
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of inhales and we see a better shot. Now she's
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: in a chair and the guy is standing behind her
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: with his arms around her, I guess, and the guy says,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: are you sure it's all right for you to be
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: doing this with a teacher? What? No, it's not all right,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Alice says, no, it's it's not. The guy's like, so,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: then why are you doing it? Won't she get into trouble?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I think you'll probably into more trouble, asshole, because you
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: are an adult and this is a child. What the fuck?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Alice looks up at him and says, because I want to.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: She kind of gasps and looks to the side, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: in the reflection of her eye, we can see that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Lane is sitting on the bed, cross legged, smiling. What.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: She gasps and turns because yeah, and we see that,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: like the guy is gone, and I thought like this
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: was like a hotel or something. No, this is just
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: her room. Lene is on her bed, smiling slyly and chuckling.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: So it took me the entire scene to be like, oh, okay,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: this is her fantasy, and I mean, kids are kids whatever.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Thank god that the teacher is not really involved, but fuck,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And also like fuck, so anyway, Alice is real for
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: because yeah, you would be. And she turns away and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: she's like sweating like a lot, and she slowly removes
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: her hand from inside her skirt. I'm so sorry, Alice,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and Lane is like, shame on you, Alice. No, say,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: do you have any idea who Mizuki? Alice likes? Alice gasps,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Lane smiles. Fuck. Alice slowly moves her eyes to look
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: at Lane, and Lane continues, and do you have any
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: idea who she's thinking of when she plays with herself? Fuck?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Alice turns abruptly and says, they were right. It was
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you that told everyone, wasn't it The rumors that were
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: going around the school were true? Lane laughs. Alice is like, Lane,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: she stands, You've always been sitting here quietly watching me.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: You saw what I didn't want anyone to know about
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: when I didn't ever want anyone to see what I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: was doing here. And that's when I Lane laughs. Alice
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: is crying now because fuck yeah, I would be too baby,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and she says, tell me it can't be Laane, Tell
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: me Lane. Lane is just still laughing because this is fun.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Alice is like, you deceived me. We cut to electricity
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: passing over two wires on a blue sky. Lane is
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: laying in bed and the electricity is passing through the
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: wires like right outside her window, and we get a
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: better shot of her now, and she looks just fucking terrified.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: She's gripping her covers really tightly. Her mouth is open wide,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and tears are just running down her face. I'm sorry, Lane.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: We cut to the wires and cables like above her head,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and they kind of like morph into like the outside wires,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and then into like a building kind of near the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: top of it at the corner, and you can see
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the roof. I don't know what that was, and then
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: it just bursts into whites. We slowly fade into a
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: disco ball and then the green crosswalk sign and then
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: wires with electricity again. Lane is in a black place
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: now and there are all these like wires like wiggling
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: in front of her, and she's wearing her bear onesie
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: by the way, which we haven't seen since like episode one.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: She has her head in her hands and her shadow
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: is kind of red and blotchy, and it's kind of
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: growing and morphing, and then we see her just kind
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of superimposed up like in the sky by the high
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: tension lines, which I thought was super weird. The background
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: kind of like contracts into a circle and then disappears.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Lene is still there though, and slowly the bare onesie fades,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: which is weird, leaving her as this very terrified looking
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: red and black blotchy form God to black and we
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: hear her laughing. We fade into her sitting on Alice's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: bed in that black place, and we hear Lane say,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: who are you? The Lane on the bed which I'll
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: call Lane to lifts her head amused, Lane says, you're
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: not me. There's just no way. They're both just floating
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: in the black now. Lane continues, I'd never do the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: kind of things that you've been doing. Lane Two's like, oh,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: spare me. Lane says, stop it. Why are you acting
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: like the part of me I hate? I wish you
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: would just go away. Yeah, I'm gonna come back to that.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: At the end, Lane two starts to laugh again. Lane
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: looks pissed, and she sort of phases out and then
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: appears like hovering with her hands around Lane Two's neck.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: She's like, I'll kill you. She presses her thumbs into
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Lane two's throats, and Lane two just laughs like none
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: of this is happening, and these flashes of bright white
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: light start just going off in the darkness. Maybe they're
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: like camera flashes. I'm not sure. Lane two says, look
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: at me, I'm committing suicide and she laughs. The flashes stop.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Lane's like, why why are you so warm? Why is it?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Why do I have to feel your body heats? Is
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: there no escaping you? Lane two's like, but how can you?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I'm Lane just like you are right? Fuck? Lane's like no.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: We see her shadowy, blotchy form, like crying for a second,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and she says no. Lane two laughs and fades out.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: We now see lots of people flanking that path that
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: we saw Lane at, you know, when she was in
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: her classroom daydreaming or whatever was happening. But instead of
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: no heads but lips, they have heads now. But all
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: of the heads are Lane heads, and they look really
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: awkward on all these different sized bodies because they're all
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the same size, and they're kind of like making clicking noises,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and the mouths are just kind of opening and closing
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: like they're chattering. They don't look like they're real. They
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: look like there's some sort of wind up toys. But
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: they're on all these people's shoulders. Yay. Lane's like, what
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: the fuck? What are they a mercury like metallic morphing
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: blob like appears next her and says, they're all you.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I said, You've always existed in the wire, didn't I. Oh,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: it's God, Lane says, yeah, God continues, You're exactly the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: same as me. You're omnipresent in the wire forever, wherever
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: anyone is, wherever they go, you have always been there.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You've watched what they didn't allow any of the others
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to see. You've told everyone about it. That's all. It's
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the right thing to do. What don't worry. The wired's
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: information should be shared, right uck. Lane looks horrified, me too.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: She looks at the ground and says, all of it
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: all you've said it's a lie, I hope. So God's like,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: why is that, Lane continues, Alice and all the others
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: they said they saw me in the wired, when I
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: know it wasn't me. What really matters is that as
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: long as I'm aware of myself, my true self is
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: always right here inside me. She runs over to the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: people flanking the path and she starts to like push
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: down the lane dolls and their heads just pop out
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: like they were never connected to begin with. They're like
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: attached to like a cylinder that's almost like a neck.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: But that was just kind of sitting on their should not,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: you know, really attached or anything. She says, you're telling
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: me that you've been passing off these dupes? Is me
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: all along? What a load of shit? If I'm really
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: what you say and I'm just totally deluded, then God says,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: then what Lane? Lane continues all their memories of being
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: seen by Lane. I could perhaps delete that information. God's like,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: that's true, give it a try. You're born with that
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: kind of power inside you. What. Laine looks pretty stressed,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: But then we go to a screen that just says
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: deleting and it's like beeping. We had to wires on
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: a white sky. Girls walking into the school courtyard. Lane
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: is walking. She stops and just kind of stares ahead blankly.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Her shadow is weird, but it has weird whitish lines
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: in it instead of the normal weird blotchy red things.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: And we hear Alice say Lane. Lane gasps and looks
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: really scared because y U. She turns and she sees
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: all three girls running over to her, giggling. Raca's like Lane,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: wait up, Lane thinks, could they really have forgotten. Alice
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: is giggling as she runs over, and Lane thinks, really,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: all three of the girls are like Lane. Lane smiles
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: and she thinks they really did. She turns Alice. She
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: starts to step forward, but like she steps out of her,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: like something else steps out of her that looks like her,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and she watches herself run to meet them, and she's
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: like what whatever this is? High fives Alice and then
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: like grabs her by the arm and they giggle, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: it says, hey, I want to go to Siberia day,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: come on, let's go. Jury's like a second. Raca's like
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: this is unusual. Alice says, sure, we can get changed
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: at my place again and go from there. The other
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Lane says great. They're all just kind of giggling and
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Lane is just staring at them as like this. Other
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Lane snuggles Alice basically, and she says, hey, Alice, what
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: do you think I should wear? Lane says, stop it,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I'm over here. It's me. They all just walk past her,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: laughing with the other Lane pulling Alice along and Lane's like,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I'm over here. Jerdy says, come on, hurry up. He
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: is like, hey, wait for me. Lane gasps and starts
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: to just take these really short, panicky breaths. And she's
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: doing so, the other Lane enters the frame next to
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: her and says, that's right, it's just like you said.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Lane is Lane, and I am me. Lane gasps. The
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: other Lane smirks, and then she just blips out of existence.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Lane gasps again and looks around and it is totally quiet.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: She is alone. Basically, the courtyard is gone. It's everything
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: has been really really overexposed this whole time. Like now
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: there's just nothing, and she's just on white and the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: image slowly fades out. We hear Lane say hello Navi.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: We see a computer screen turn blue and it gets
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: like little water droplet things on it, and Navi says
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: hello Lane. Lane puts her hand on the computer screen,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and with tears in her eyes, she says, I am me.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I'm the only me, right, and there isn't any other
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: me but me. A tear slides down her cheek. Isn't
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: that right? To be continued? And then we go to
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: the ending theme and that's it. Yeah, Oh my god, okay,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: so ah closing thoughts. Wow, Okay, so I really really
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: really liked this episode. First, I just want to say,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know how much of this is real anymore,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: like cause I'm pretty sure that Laane didn't burn down
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: part of the school, for instance. I'm not even sure
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: like when she's in the Wired, is she just imagining?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I like don't know what's real at all right now?
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Is she just kind of running through scenarios in her
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: head of what could happen? I said, I wanted to
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: talk about the part where she says, why are you
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: acting like the part of me I hate? I thought
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that was really interesting, especially because I feel like the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Internet has and I'm sure you agree. It's not like
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I'm having like a really interesting thought, but the Internet
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: has a way to bring out like the absolute worst
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: in people. I think, mostly because we feel like we
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: can hide behind a screen and this isn't really real
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: life even though it is, and we can really hurt people,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: like in this situation this other Lane figure did to Alice.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: So I mean, it's definitely working as a kind of
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: metaphor for real situations. But I don't know if Lane
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: is if this is all really Lane, or if there
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: really is another force acting as her within the Wired.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: I like the whole thing about God saying that information
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: should be shared, right, I mean, the Internet is there
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: when you're doing a lot of your most private things,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and the idea that it is just presence and seeing
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: you at your worst and then turning it back on
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: you is real fucked up and we should be cognizant
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: of that. But yeah, I'm just like Wheeling, I'm trying
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: to figure out how to like process my thoughts on
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: this and makes sense something is really wrong, I mean, obviously,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: so I think in the last episode. I mean, I
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: know in the last episode, I was talking about, well,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: maybe Leanne has dissociative identity disorder, and I was gonna
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: come into talking about this episode saying and I think
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but now I'm not actually sure anymore. Or
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: it's kind of like a code switching thing, like she
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: does not feel like she's being her real self and
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: she doesn't feel like she can be her real self
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: around these kids. Maybe, and it's hard when you feel
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: like you have to put on a show more or
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: less to get people to like you. And I wonder
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: if that's what we're trying to communicate here with that
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: like end scene where she goes off with her friends,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: but it's not really her, and she, the real her,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: has to just watch all of this and not be accepted. Yeah,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm going with this. And if
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: you're listening to this and you're like, wow, Michelle, that
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense, that's fine. It might not make
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: any sense. I'm thinking of this as I'm doing this,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: But hopefully we'll find out, like how much of this
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: is really her? Because I mean, what we're being told
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: is that she's basically god. I mean, she didn't create
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the Wired, but she is this omnipresent force and she's
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: responsible for a lot of shit. It's not great, But
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: how does that make sense? She's just a fucking teenager.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Teenagers can't be gods, I don't think so. Yeah, it
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: could be that everyone is lying to her too, but
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I'm starting not to feel that way. I'm really worried
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: about the way her parents are treating her. They obviously
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: know things. I mean, we've known her dad knows things
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: from the beginning, But what do they know and why
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: are they making no attempt to help when she's clearly
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: having a crisis. Also, just from a like a my standpoint,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: the idea of having somebody act like you but not
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: be you, and like stuff is really upsetting to me,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: so I get it. And the idea of like not
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: understanding or not knowing what makes you you and that
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: something else could be more you than you are is
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know, really interesting and kind of upsetting. So
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I just feel really bad for Lane, and I wish
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: I could hug her and make the Internet go away
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: so that she could live a happy, normal life or something.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but it worries me that she was
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: able to delete all of that information, with all of
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: the peeping and stuff, unless that didn't happen at all.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: At this point, I have no way to prove that
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: anything has happened. I mean, I don't know if the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: whole thing with her lab exploding happened, or I don't
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: know if any of this stuff is happening. So hopefully
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I figure that out and we figure that out. And
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: this isn't so confusing because it sounds like I don't
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying to myself at least. So yeah,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I hope you're enjoying this. If you're not, I'm really sorry.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: If you are enjoying it, yay, let's do a little
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: high five. Ready, set Yay, we did it. So yeah,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing next. We have five
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: episodes of this left. I'm considering taking the summer off
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: to just like cry and stuff, but I'm not sure yet.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: If you have any ideas and you want to tell
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: me what to do, I don't know. But yeah, so
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: that's what's going on. Lane is all distressed and maybe
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: she's destroying the world or not, she's at least destroying
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: herself and that's something I guess. Anyway, I'm gonna go
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: work on my mosaic and try to fix it, and
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I hope that you have a really good whatever, and
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, I will be here next week unless you
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: know the bad things yep. Later weeves