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Serial Experiments Lain, Ep. 4- Religion · Michelle Explains Anime, Poorly

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's your person, Michelle, I guess, and I am
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Speaker 1: here because we're gonna talk about serial experiments lay in
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Speaker 1: episode four, because that's what we do right now. Before
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Speaker 1: we get going, I wanted to say that I am
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Speaker 1: still not caught up on everything. I'm still maintaining caught
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Speaker 1: upness or something with which hat Atlie, I can't be
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Speaker 1: pronouncing that correctly, and also re zero, which are both
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Speaker 1: going okay, but uh, I'm two episodes behind Dora. Hey,
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Speaker 1: Doro now, and it is really really good. I know
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Speaker 1: I said last week that I was really enjoying it,
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Speaker 1: but I'm like really really enjoying it. This is kind
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Speaker 1: of what I wanted from the first season, I think,
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Speaker 1: so I'm very happy about this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So if you were kind of iffy about last season
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Speaker 1: but you thought it was kind of cool, please please
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Speaker 1: watch this season. We're like eight episodes in. I mean
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Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm like six episodes in, but still so like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just just reminding you that it exists and it's real
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Speaker 1: fucked up this season. If you wanted more blood and
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Speaker 1: horror elements, we definitely have them.
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Speaker 2: So yay.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, Lane, because that's really all I have to
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Speaker 1: talk about, which is fine probably. So this episode is
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Speaker 1: called Religion, and I don't know if that's a good
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Speaker 1: title because I'm not actually sure what that means with
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Speaker 1: this episode, and maybe I'll figure it out on the way,
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Speaker 1: like through talking about this, but as of right now, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. So that's whatever. So if you
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Speaker 1: remember from the end of last episode, we ended with
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Speaker 1: Lane sitting on the floor only partially clothed, and her
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Speaker 1: sister had just walked into her room and was like
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Speaker 1: super fucking confused because she's just on the floor like
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Speaker 1: with the screwdriver, like fucking around with her computers, guts everywhere,
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Speaker 1: and then she got all weird and she was like, well,
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Speaker 1: go home on Echohn, And it was scary because she
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Speaker 1: was smiling and it really just didn't feel like the
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Speaker 1: Lane that we've been shown so far. So yeah, we
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Speaker 1: don't start there because there wasn't that much going on there,
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Speaker 1: so that makes sense. So anyway, the episode starts with
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Speaker 1: that opening sequence like the statty screen and Lane and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that, and then into the opening theme yay,
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Speaker 1: and then we see other stuff that we always see,
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Speaker 1: like the Green City shot with the crosswalk and the
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Speaker 1: crosswalk light turning red, and then like weird distorted like
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Speaker 1: circular lights that are probably cars, but they're real glurry,
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Speaker 1: so we don't know exactly. And then finally new stuff.
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Speaker 1: We get a blue shot of the city and a
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Speaker 1: voice says, and it kind of sounds like Lane, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it is. I don't need parents.
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Speaker 1: Humans are all alone, they're not connected to anyone. We
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Speaker 1: see people walking and then a cab peeling away from
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Speaker 1: the curb, which you've also seen before. The voice continues,
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Speaker 1: no one at all, no one. Yeah, that's sad, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe it's not Lane, because you remember she was all
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Speaker 1: about like everyone being connected.
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Speaker 2: Who knows.
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Speaker 1: And then we see that shot of that building where
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Speaker 1: we're kind of looking up at it and there's really
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Speaker 1: fast moving clouds, and then we go to the title
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Speaker 1: card Religion, layer zero four. Okay, now we have power
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Speaker 1: lines humming on like a dark, purplish blue sky. We're
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Speaker 1: kind of panning over, I think, to the right, and
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Speaker 1: we cut to Lane stuffed animals and we hear like
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Speaker 1: her computer fan running in the background, But no, it
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Speaker 1: isn't a computer fan. It's just like a floor fan,
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Speaker 1: you know, like those pedestal fans.
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Speaker 2: Is that what that's called, just you know, standing on
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Speaker 2: the floor blowing at things?
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Speaker 1: It is blowing at her, I said, computer box thing.
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Speaker 2: I had to look up what that's called.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, like a computer case or I think
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Speaker 1: I know it as a computer tower, you know, like
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Speaker 1: the main part of the computer that's not the screen,
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Speaker 1: that part anyway. The fan is blowing on it, and
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Speaker 1: like the front panel is off and it's.
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Speaker 2: Just kind of smoking.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's overheating. That's not good. I assume eventually
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Speaker 1: that becomes a fire, but I'm not sure. We then
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Speaker 1: see some like computer like internal things, like little boardy
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Speaker 1: things and like wires and stuff. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: computer parts mean. Lene is staring really intensely at like
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Speaker 1: a bunch of computer chipboard pieces things, and we kind
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Speaker 1: of cut back a little and we can see that
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Speaker 1: there's just stuff everywhere. There's like you know, computer parts,
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Speaker 1: and like a bunch of cords all over the floor
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Speaker 1: and at least two monitors for some reason. And she
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Speaker 1: is on the floor like kneeling over a book in
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Speaker 1: that thing that I guess really is a nightgown because
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit longer than just a shirt, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like a white strappy nightgown. Yeah. We see her
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Speaker 1: dad looking in through the slightly ajar door, and he
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Speaker 1: seems like maybe he's worried, which seems like a good
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Speaker 1: call because this is weird.
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Speaker 2: He watches her for a little while.
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Speaker 1: And then he kind of closes his eyes, like almost sadly.
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Speaker 1: He then starts to leave and closes the door behind him.
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Speaker 1: We now see the fridge door being open like the
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Speaker 1: inside of the door, and there's you know, beverages. There's
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Speaker 1: three cartons of three point six milk, not sure what
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Speaker 1: that means, a thing of tea, like a bottle of water,
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Speaker 1: and then two other beverages that don't have labels and
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Speaker 1: I don't know what they are. A hand reaches for
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Speaker 1: the water, but then it like stops and it goes
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Speaker 1: for one of the nondescript beverages instead. Good choice, I guess.
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Speaker 1: We see that it is Mica, you know, Laine's sister,
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Speaker 1: and she kind of smirks and picks up this non
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Speaker 1: descript bottle of beverage. She looks over like to the side,
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Speaker 1: like maybe she's trying to make sure no one sees her,
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Speaker 1: and she just takes a swig from it. Yeah, you're
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Speaker 1: not supposed to drink directly out of bottles because gross bacteria.
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Speaker 1: We get to the living room where her dad walks
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Speaker 1: in and her mom is sitting on the couch. He
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Speaker 1: sits in a chair next to her and picks up
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Speaker 1: a newspaper that was on like a coffee table, and
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Speaker 1: you know, opens it and looks at it as you would,
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Speaker 1: and the mom says, how to go that just kind
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Speaker 1: of stares at the paper, which is usually not a
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Speaker 1: good sign. This point, Mika walks over from I guess
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Speaker 1: the kitchen because remember it's all one big room, and
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Speaker 1: she says, what's with Lane.
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Speaker 2: She's been acting strange lately. Her dad looks up.
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Speaker 1: At her and he's just like, no, she's perfectly normal.
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Speaker 1: MICA's like, huh have you even seen her? Mom says Mika,
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Speaker 1: do I have to remind you about your tone of
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Speaker 1: voice again? Mika at this just kind of walks away and.
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Speaker 2: We hear her leave the room.
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Speaker 1: The mom stands and is like, is that so the
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Speaker 1: dad has like really shiny glasses, like light is reflecting
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Speaker 1: in them so we can't see his eyes, and he says, yeah,
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Speaker 1: of course it is. If we mean lane being perfectly normal.
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Speaker 2: I'm not about that.
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Speaker 1: Mom kind of walks over to Dad and she like
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Speaker 1: pets Dad on his head and he pulls her close.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Now we cut to some guy running upstairs. It's night,
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Speaker 1: and he stops at like a landing or like a
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Speaker 1: dead end. I couldn't really tell. His breathing really hard
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Speaker 1: and looks real stressed, and then he gasps. We look
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Speaker 1: down the stairs and we see this girl's feet. She's
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Speaker 1: like wearing those like black like Mary Jane's shoes, if
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. They have like black straps
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Speaker 1: on him and stuff, and he screams because little kids
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Speaker 1: are scary. We hear him screaming a bunch like, but
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Speaker 1: we have cut away from it now, and he kind
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Speaker 1: of sounds like he's in serious amount of pain or something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But then we cut back to him and he's running
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Speaker 1: like down an exterior hallway of like an apartment complex,
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Speaker 1: and he's just totally out of breath. Then we see
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Speaker 1: a hand like struggling to get a key into a lock.
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Speaker 1: Like he just keeps missing, as you might if you're
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Speaker 1: really stressed out and you just can't focus. He looks
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Speaker 1: back because he's obviously the one with the key, and
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Speaker 1: he's like shit shit. At this point, he just drops
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Speaker 1: the keys and he like bends down to get them
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Speaker 1: and like starts trying to find the right one again
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Speaker 1: because he's.
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Speaker 2: Got a lot of keys.
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Speaker 1: He turns back and behind him in the hallway is
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Speaker 1: a little girl with a pink dress holding a suffed
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Speaker 1: animal that I think is.
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Speaker 2: A dog, but I don't.
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Speaker 1: No, he screams and he starts trying to get the
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Speaker 1: key into the lock again, and he keeps like screaming
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Speaker 1: and he's like really really out of breath, and he
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Speaker 1: looks back at the girl. We can't see her eyes,
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Speaker 1: but she's got like brown hair and pigtails.
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Speaker 2: By the way, we kind of.
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Speaker 1: Zoom in on her, and then we cut to her weird.
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Speaker 2: Dog stuffed animal.
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Speaker 1: It's just got like I guess the eyes are supposed
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Speaker 1: to be closed, but they look like they're kind of knitted,
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Speaker 1: so it kind of looks like they have many eyes,
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Speaker 1: but I don't think it's apposed to. Then we cut
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Speaker 1: to her shoes and then back to her eyes that
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Speaker 1: are in shadow, and the guy's like, what do you want?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: He turns back around. What's going on. He's still struggling
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Speaker 1: to get the key in the lock. Shit. We get
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Speaker 1: a side view of his face as he's doing this,
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Speaker 1: and a hand goes right past him and touches the
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Speaker 1: door next to him. He gasps and turns around. The
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Speaker 1: girl is like right on him, basically smiling.
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Speaker 2: He kind of.
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Speaker 1: Whimpers, and we get it close up of her mouth
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Speaker 1: and she says in English, gotcha.
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Speaker 2: He freezes.
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Speaker 1: We cut to a view of the city as he screams, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that didn't seem like that probably ended well for him. Okay, anyway,
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Speaker 1: Now we see outside of the school, you know, by
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Speaker 1: the gates, and the big clock on the school is chiming.
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Speaker 1: We hear a bunch of girls voices, and I bet
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Speaker 1: some of them are characters we know, but I don't
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Speaker 1: know which ones they are, So I'm just gonna say
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Speaker 1: girl one and so on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So the first girl says, hey, Rika, our next period
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Speaker 1: is homeroom. Girl too, which might be Rayka, says lucky.
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Speaker 1: Girl three is like, don't you think it's strange that
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Speaker 1: they called for a special staff meeting? I think The
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Speaker 1: second girl says, do you really think it's true? Then
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Speaker 1: we finally see people. So Rayka's like, what she is
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Speaker 1: standing at Alice's desk, and Alice is sitting at her
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Speaker 1: desk obviously, and she says, they say a senior committed suicide. Judy,
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Speaker 1: who is at the desk in front of her, says suicide.
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Speaker 1: Alice is like, it's not just at her school either.
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Speaker 1: Someone jumped off the roof of their apartment building right Lane.
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Speaker 1: Lane was standing behind him and I didn't even notice.
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Speaker 1: She was like reading a book and she turns and
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Speaker 1: is like, huh. She puts the book behind her back.
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Speaker 1: I can't read what it says, but I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: it's a computer something E book. It looks like it
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Speaker 1: could be. They all kind of stare at her for
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Speaker 1: a second, and she's like, sorry, what she seems different,
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Speaker 1: Like she feels lighter, like friendlier, even with just what
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Speaker 1: we just heard there, aside from her holding the book
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Speaker 1: behind her back. Alice just kind of stares at her,
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Speaker 1: and Judy says, you don't really think Lane would have
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Speaker 1: heard about this, do you. Lane's like, the suicide? You mean?
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Speaker 1: Riga says, where did you hear about it? Alice is
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Speaker 1: like for real, Laane smiles. It feels like it's a
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Speaker 1: cross between a genuine smile and like a customer service
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Speaker 1: smile that you're just putting on for someone. But it's
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Speaker 1: very different than what we've seen so far. And she
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Speaker 1: just says, well, yeah, I only heard about it. Alice
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Speaker 1: is like, oh where, Lane says, I'm the wired. Alice
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Speaker 1: is like, oh, you must have got the hang of
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Speaker 1: your new nobbyd. Now you'll have to let me see
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Speaker 1: it sometime. Lane's like, sure, but after I finished modifying it,
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Speaker 1: Jerdy's like, you're modifying it. I didn't know you were
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Speaker 1: into all that hacking stuff, right, because, like you know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but you've changed. Lane's
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Speaker 1: like really, how? So? She smiles weird, like her eyes
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Speaker 1: narrow slightly. I don't really know how to describe it,
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Speaker 1: but I've actually seen this smile before in an anime,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, this made me uncomfortable when I
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Speaker 1: saw it last time.
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Speaker 2: But I don't remember what anime.
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Speaker 1: I kind of almost feel like it was in eighty six,
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Speaker 1: but I can't remember where it would have been in
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Speaker 1: eighty six, and I've been thinking about it since I
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Speaker 1: took notes on this. I do not know, but it's
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Speaker 1: like a weird It's like it doesn't come off as
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Speaker 1: like mean or scary or anything, but it just was unsettling.
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Speaker 1: I think. I don't really think that explained it very well,
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Speaker 1: but that's all I got anyway. Alice is looking at
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Speaker 1: her really worried me too, and Lane it still has
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Speaker 1: the book behind her back. By the way, Judy says,
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Speaker 1: Reca's right. Recu is like, yeah, I'm not sure what
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Speaker 1: it is. Now. We are panning rights, we're outside. There
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Speaker 1: are like some people sitting at tables I guess on
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Speaker 1: the outside patio area of a restaurants. And we hear
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Speaker 1: someone that's one of the girls, but we don't see them,
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Speaker 1: so I don't know who it is. Say so, what
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Speaker 1: sort of rumors have you heard on the Wired lately?
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Speaker 1: We see dresses in a store window that are pretty ugly,
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Speaker 1: and then we hear probably Lane say, well that it's
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Speaker 1: some kind of interactive game. Someone says game a network game?
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Speaker 1: You mean? We see some men's shirts on a rack
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Speaker 1: in a store, really trying to save on animation, and
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Speaker 1: Lane's like, I don't know, I haven't played it yet.
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Speaker 1: We finally see them. They are walking down a street
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Speaker 1: together holding some food item, but I don't know what
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Speaker 1: it is. First I didn't know what it is because
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Speaker 1: it was too far away, and then even up close,
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Speaker 1: I still don't know. It's almost like it's in an
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Speaker 1: ice cream cone or something, but I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: ice cream. But I thought maybe it could be, but
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Speaker 1: it's not. Maybe I don't know anyway, Lane says, But
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Speaker 1: they're saying all the kids who committed suicide were really
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Speaker 1: into it. Jerdy's like, and guys really like that stuff too,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, it doesn't have to be about
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Speaker 1: guys all the time, Jerdy. Alice says, hmm, it sounds dangerous.
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Speaker 1: Lane kind of runs slightly ahead of them and turns
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Speaker 1: back and stops, and it's like, I know, but she
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Speaker 1: eats the rest of the beige food thing that is
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Speaker 1: in the cone in like one bite and kind of
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Speaker 1: coughs a little, and Alice is like.
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Speaker 2: Hey, don't choke.
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Speaker 1: Lane kind of, like you know, hits her chest and
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Speaker 1: it's like, I'm okay, do you guys mind if I
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Speaker 1: head home now? Like I says, you don't need to
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Speaker 1: ask our permission for everything.
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Speaker 2: Judy's like, got something to do?
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Speaker 1: Lane says, I want to put the finishing touches on
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Speaker 1: my noavvy, it's still in pieces. Judy's like, ah, you
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Speaker 1: like that thing better than your friends. Huh well, Lane's
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Speaker 1: like what, Alice says, guy, that's enough, stop badgering her.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that makes it better.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, anyway, Driddy's like, who's just asking? Alice says Lane,
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Speaker 1: let us know when you're done. Laine looks at Alice
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Speaker 1: with a little bit of concern, but then smiles and
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Speaker 1: says sure, I'll see you later, and she takes off
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Speaker 1: running down the street. Alice looks kind of concerned and
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Speaker 1: is like, you know, I think it's true she's changed.
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Speaker 1: We hear a loud bang sort of at this point,
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Speaker 1: and Alice looks down and that stuffed dog from that
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Speaker 1: girl who was chasing that guy who just kind of
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Speaker 1: lands on the ground. She leans down to pick it
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Speaker 1: up and is like, oh, sorry, here, and she hands
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Speaker 1: it to that girl.
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Speaker 2: Uh oh, that girl is maybe a murderer or something.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: The girl, who looks totally normal, shakes her head and
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Speaker 1: is like, no, it's my fault, I dropped it. She
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Speaker 1: takes it from Alice and then runs over to an
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Speaker 1: adult woman person who's probably your mom, and like she
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Speaker 1: turns back to them and waves and it's like sorrio Naissan,
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Speaker 1: and they kind of walk off. We cut to buzzing
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Speaker 1: power lines on a dark blue sky. Clouds are moving
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Speaker 1: quickly overhead behind them. Now we see glowing green computer insides.
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Speaker 1: Then we see that fan. Then we see like lots
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Speaker 1: of boxes which might be computer towers. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why I just wrote down boxes and like shit plugged
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Speaker 1: in to them with like yellow lights and then tons
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Speaker 1: of extension cords. Lane is sitting at her desk and
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Speaker 1: she says log in Lane in English she's in her
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Speaker 1: nightgown again because that's what she wears when she does
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Speaker 1: computer work, and Navi in English says authorized. We kind
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Speaker 1: of pan out now from her at her desk, and
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Speaker 1: like there's just shit everywhere everywhere, Like there are those
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Speaker 1: computer towers or computer cases or whatever with the computer
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Speaker 1: parts of them piled on top of each other. There's
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Speaker 1: I was counting there's at least eighteen of them in
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Speaker 1: one stack, which is a little concerning because they're super
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Speaker 1: super tall, like high up there.
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Speaker 2: I mean they're on their sides, but they're.
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Speaker 1: Like way up, and I was looking at her and
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Speaker 1: going like how did she even reach up there to
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Speaker 1: keep putting them up there? And then there's like another
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Speaker 1: pile that's like smaller, and there's like this big thing
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Speaker 1: in the back with lots of cords plugged into it
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Speaker 1: that I think is this gigantic surge protector. And wires
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Speaker 1: are like everywhere, and there are cables hanging from the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: like big cables that have probably multiple cables inside. What
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Speaker 1: is that it's probably a raceway is when you have
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Speaker 1: all the cables in the cable thing. Yeah, they're like
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Speaker 1: hanging from the ceiling and there's at least three monitors
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Speaker 1: just hanging out. And I don't know where all this
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Speaker 1: shit came from because I don't think she has any money,
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Speaker 1: But what do I know? And I don't think she's
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Speaker 1: like dad, what are mean more computers? I don't know
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Speaker 1: where this all came from anyway, Lane says.
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Speaker 2: Mail.
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Speaker 1: We see on the screen mail Receive. She clicks on it,
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Speaker 1: and some options kind of like bounce up. They say
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Speaker 1: like replay fast forward, stop play voice mail voice few.
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Speaker 1: She clicks on voicemail and a voice says hello Lane.
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Speaker 1: Lane stands up and looks at something like behind the
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Speaker 1: computer and then does something computer related on the floor
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Speaker 1: as this voice is talking. So the voice continues, I
17:26
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out the answer to your question by myself,
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Speaker 1: so I asked a colleague at the lab about it.
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Speaker 1: If that is a pushu que processor that you're trying
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Speaker 1: to install, then you probably should set the oscillation to variable,
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Speaker 1: just like you thought. Novin motherboards are designed to be
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Speaker 1: compatible with just about anything, but you might run into
17:43
Speaker 1: some glitches.
17:44
Speaker 2: Good luck.
17:45
Speaker 1: Remember if you need anything else, just ask And then
17:47
Speaker 1: it makes it beep. Lane sits back down at the
17:50
Speaker 1: computer and stares at it's There are some weird stuff
17:53
Speaker 1: on the screen. I don't know how to describe it.
17:56
Speaker 1: And then we cut to the Siberia build. I guess
18:00
Speaker 1: wires like from telephone lines in front of it are
18:03
Speaker 1: in focus, and it and the logo on it are
18:05
Speaker 1: out of focus and blurry, and then they shift into focus,
18:08
Speaker 1: which I always like when that happens. We cut to
18:11
Speaker 1: the disco ball and then to a record on a
18:14
Speaker 1: record player, as it would be. Some guy is like
18:18
Speaker 1: behind these turntables. I guess he's a DJ, and he's
18:22
Speaker 1: looking at some music there's like a whole wall that
18:25
Speaker 1: has like CDs I think, and records on it, and
18:30
Speaker 1: we hear Lane say JJ. The DJ guy who was
18:33
Speaker 1: probably JJ says, yeah, he's still looking at CDs. He
18:37
Speaker 1: doesn't like look up or anything. We hear Lane say,
18:40
Speaker 1: do you know anything about that net game the kids
18:42
Speaker 1: are playing? JJ is still looking at a CD. By
18:45
Speaker 1: the way, is wearing a black beanie and he has
18:47
Speaker 1: sunglasses and he looks like he's probably pretty cool. He says, oh, fantoma, huh,
18:52
Speaker 1: and the don't like, you wouldn't be into a game
18:54
Speaker 1: like that. He puts the CD back on the wall
18:57
Speaker 1: and finally turns around, So why do you ask? And
19:00
Speaker 1: then is silent and no one is there, and he's like, seriously,
19:05
Speaker 1: are my ears playing tricks on me? Already kind of
19:08
Speaker 1: rubs his head. We kind of zoom out to see that, Yeah,
19:11
Speaker 1: he's totally alone.
19:12
Speaker 2: We are now looking up at.
19:13
Speaker 1: The night sky and some buildings and now we see
19:16
Speaker 1: a street light. We're like panning, and then we see
19:20
Speaker 1: some exterior walkways I guess for an apartment building, kind
19:24
Speaker 1: of like that last thing that we saw. And this guy,
19:27
Speaker 1: who I guess is like an older teenager. He looks
19:30
Speaker 1: like maybe he's sixteen, seventeen or something like that, or
19:33
Speaker 1: maybe in his early twenties, who's wearing like a cat shirt.
19:36
Speaker 1: He puts his hands on a chaining fence, and it's
19:39
Speaker 1: a really tall fence, so it's not like he can
19:41
Speaker 1: just hop over. He turns around. He's breathing really hard,
19:45
Speaker 1: and we get a close up on his like semi
19:47
Speaker 1: terrified face, and then we cut to like a computer
19:52
Speaker 1: looking hallway like. I think I'm talking about the right
19:56
Speaker 1: video game, but I could be wrong. So if I
19:58
Speaker 1: am wrong, could you let me know? Can you email
20:01
Speaker 1: me and tell me that I said the wrong thing?
20:03
Speaker 1: But it looks like like it's computer like, and I
20:06
Speaker 1: think it is supposed to look like Doom.
20:09
Speaker 2: It has like.
20:10
Speaker 1: Block walls and maybe like a floor that's like stone
20:15
Speaker 1: or something, and it's like really dark, and there's like
20:19
Speaker 1: a lot of like visual noise on top, if you
20:22
Speaker 1: understand what I'm saying.
20:23
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's.
20:24
Speaker 1: Weird for it to just be there all of a sudden,
20:27
Speaker 1: and the guy with a lot of reverb on his
20:30
Speaker 1: voice for some reason, says no more, I already quit.
20:33
Speaker 1: He like runs for it. He's on a rooftop by
20:36
Speaker 1: the way, and he kind of trips down some stairs
20:38
Speaker 1: and lands on a stomach. It wasn't a ton of stairs,
20:40
Speaker 1: so I think he's okay. He looks back, like still
20:44
Speaker 1: on the ground on his stomach, and he sees a
20:46
Speaker 1: really shiny person walking towards him in like the doom
20:51
Speaker 1: hallway that he sees, and he like screams and he's
20:55
Speaker 1: breathing really irregularly. I understand this is all very strange.
20:59
Speaker 1: And we get kind of a closer shot on the
21:02
Speaker 1: shiny person, and it's Lain in her nightgown, being all
21:06
Speaker 1: shiny on the rooftop.
21:09
Speaker 2: He kind of.
21:10
Speaker 1: Whimpers and manages to get to his feet and continues
21:13
Speaker 1: to run. At this, he grabs like a light pole.
21:16
Speaker 1: I think he's still on the building, so I don't
21:18
Speaker 1: want to call it a street light, and he's like
21:20
Speaker 1: trying to catch his breath at that, Like this really
21:23
Speaker 1: big light kind of comes and the background all changes
21:26
Speaker 1: to like that doom hallway.
21:28
Speaker 2: He's no longer on the roof.
21:30
Speaker 1: He looks back and starts running again, like through some
21:35
Speaker 1: like hanging laundry, you know, like laundry on lines, which
21:38
Speaker 1: makes sense for a roof but what doesn't make sense
21:40
Speaker 1: and what pisses me off is all of the stuff
21:43
Speaker 1: on the lines are just white sheets. Like, really, maybe
21:46
Speaker 1: this is a thing, but every time I hang laundry,
21:50
Speaker 1: which I haven't done in a while but I used to,
21:52
Speaker 1: it would not be white sheets. I mean, it might
21:54
Speaker 1: be a sheet, but not all of my sheets are white.
21:56
Speaker 1: But most of the time it's like underwear, socks, the shirt.
22:00
Speaker 1: But anyway, in this world, it's all white sheets. So
22:04
Speaker 1: it's running through them and he stops again to catch
22:06
Speaker 1: his breath, and honestly, like he needs to do more
22:11
Speaker 1: exercise because he's like barely running it all before he
22:14
Speaker 1: has to stop again. But anyway, he takes something out
22:16
Speaker 1: of his back pocket and like throws it on the ground.
22:19
Speaker 1: It smashes, and I don't know what it was because
22:22
Speaker 1: it's all smashed now, but it kind of looks like
22:24
Speaker 1: maybe a cell phone or a computery thing. It has
22:27
Speaker 1: a screen that's like kind of still lit up, and
22:29
Speaker 1: then it starts flashing like maybe it's gonna go out,
22:31
Speaker 1: but it doesn't go out. It just keeps flashing, and
22:34
Speaker 1: we hear him running again. As we fade out, we
22:36
Speaker 1: cut to the doom hallway in first person perspective, and
22:40
Speaker 1: we're hearing him pant as he runs down the hall
22:43
Speaker 1: like there's a hole in the floor or something. Maybe
22:46
Speaker 1: it was a stairway, I couldn't really tell. And he
22:47
Speaker 1: kind of drops into another place and we hear him say,
22:50
Speaker 1: this isn't the wired Why what am I doing here?
22:54
Speaker 1: He fade into his side profile as he runs. We're
22:57
Speaker 1: like really close up and he's like kind of yellowish
22:59
Speaker 1: for some reason, and we hear a girl and I'm
23:03
Speaker 1: pretty sure this is Lane say wait, don't run away.
23:06
Speaker 1: He runs a little more, which is not helpful, and
23:09
Speaker 1: then he stops again to catch his breath in like
23:11
Speaker 1: this really weird dark place where we kind of just
23:13
Speaker 1: see the ground and nothing else, but everything is kind
23:16
Speaker 1: of red orange tinted, which is weird. And then all
23:19
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like the normal color comes back of everything,
23:21
Speaker 1: and he stands more erect, like he was kind of
23:24
Speaker 1: hunched over, and he kind of fully looks around and
23:26
Speaker 1: he says, who are you. We are now looking down
23:30
Speaker 1: at him from above as the camera is pulling further up,
23:33
Speaker 1: and he says, are you a PK two? Please help me.
23:37
Speaker 1: I'll stop there and say in tease. You just don't
23:39
Speaker 1: know p K is player killer, So I don't know
23:41
Speaker 1: if that means he is a player killer or he
23:44
Speaker 1: is being attacked by player killers.
23:46
Speaker 2: Either way, someone who kills other players in the game.
23:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, we hear Lane say, I can't go where you are.
23:53
Speaker 1: A guy puts his hands over his face and he's like,
23:55
Speaker 1: what's going on. He starts running again, but then stops
23:58
Speaker 1: and gasps because in front of him there were all
24:01
Speaker 1: of these like glowing hands reaching out from the darkness,
24:04
Speaker 1: just blocking his path. He's like, stop fucking around, and
24:08
Speaker 1: he starts to back away. He kind of whimpers a
24:11
Speaker 1: bunch and then turns and a little girl not the
24:15
Speaker 1: same one though, and not a Lane, is right in
24:17
Speaker 1: front of his face, smiling. Yay. He screams, because even
24:22
Speaker 1: if it wasn't the little girl, that would have been scary.
24:25
Speaker 1: And she makes this weird like mony growy screaming noise.
24:29
Speaker 1: He screams again, backs away, raises both of his hands
24:32
Speaker 1: in the air like he's got a gun and is
24:34
Speaker 1: like bullet charge lock gate five what He racks an
24:39
Speaker 1: invisible gun like we hear it rack and we see
24:41
Speaker 1: him do the movement which is weird, and he's like
24:45
Speaker 1: stop right there. He points this gun not gun that
24:50
Speaker 1: doesn't exist at her as she screams or snarls or something,
24:53
Speaker 1: and then he shoots and we see a flash like
24:58
Speaker 1: as if there really was a gun, and then he
25:00
Speaker 1: shoots like four more times and he says, I think stop, stop,
25:06
Speaker 1: and he's just saying it over and over again. I
25:08
Speaker 1: think the translation said die, but it was absolutely not die.
25:11
Speaker 1: So I'm saying stop, but I'm not sure.
25:13
Speaker 2: If I'm right.
25:14
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter because he's just saying something over
25:17
Speaker 1: and over.
25:18
Speaker 2: Again to try to get her to stop.
25:20
Speaker 1: So he keeps shooting and saying like stop, stop, stop,
25:23
Speaker 1: over and over again. And for some reason, the girl,
25:25
Speaker 1: well I mean maybe because she's like a demon or something,
25:27
Speaker 1: is like floating in the air now and we can
25:30
Speaker 1: just see her silhouette and it's getting like pummeled by bullets,
25:33
Speaker 1: like he is constantly shooting, and her body just keeps
25:36
Speaker 1: jolting as they hit her.
25:38
Speaker 2: Then we see.
25:39
Speaker 1: Entrance wounds, like a bunch of them, and then we
25:42
Speaker 1: see her eyes and she looks scared. He keeps shooting
25:49
Speaker 1: and saying stop or whatever he's saying, and she collapses
25:53
Speaker 1: to the ground, and he keeps going and then he
25:56
Speaker 1: runs out of bullets. So his invisible gun is just
25:59
Speaker 1: clicking as it tries to shoot, but it can't be
26:02
Speaker 1: goes no bullets, but he is just sweating and trying
26:07
Speaker 1: to continue to shoot the gun. We cut to the
26:10
Speaker 1: sheets on the lines blowing in the breeze, and then
26:15
Speaker 1: to a bunch of sheets on the ground I guess
26:17
Speaker 1: from all of the commotion, but one of them is
26:21
Speaker 1: rolled up. It looks like something is inside it. It
26:25
Speaker 1: looks kind of body shaped. The guy is just like
26:28
Speaker 1: sitting on the ground near this body shaped rolled up blanket,
26:33
Speaker 1: like he's against the fence, hugging his knees, just looking
26:37
Speaker 1: totally blank. As the wind blows. We pan back a
26:41
Speaker 1: little and see the lane is standing a little bit
26:43
Speaker 1: away from him on the roof, just staring at him.
26:46
Speaker 1: She's glowing still, by the way, and she looks pretty
26:50
Speaker 1: fucking distressed. We fade out. We cut now to a
26:55
Speaker 1: close up of the guy. Maybe this was a commercial
26:57
Speaker 1: or something. He's still sitting on the roof, looking pretty blank,
27:02
Speaker 1: but there's a little bit of visual snow kind of
27:04
Speaker 1: noise to it. So I'm wondering if we're seeing it
27:07
Speaker 1: through something, and he says, I was scared. I didn't
27:11
Speaker 1: know it was just a little girl. I didn't even
27:14
Speaker 1: know who she was.
27:15
Speaker 2: We got to black. We hear him say, she just
27:18
Speaker 2: came out of nowhere.
27:20
Speaker 1: We cut to first person perspective of like the doom hallway,
27:24
Speaker 1: and he says, the game Fantoma uses this dedicated client
27:28
Speaker 1: server application. It lets you fight in the wired without
27:31
Speaker 1: any boundaries. I downloaded the app from an illegal server
27:35
Speaker 1: so I could play it just a little while ago.
27:37
Speaker 1: For us, it had the most advanced dungeon style action
27:40
Speaker 1: game interface, but it somehow got linked up with a
27:43
Speaker 1: game of tag played by kindergarteners.
27:46
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know how that happens.
27:49
Speaker 1: We see what I think is a Phantoma logo screen
27:52
Speaker 1: on a computer. It's like black with red and there's
27:55
Speaker 1: like a red slash and like a yellow liny thing
27:57
Speaker 1: and then maybe an eye in the middle, but I
27:59
Speaker 1: couldn't really tell. Well, it looks interesting, and we see
28:03
Speaker 1: that it is on Lane's nave and she is sitting
28:06
Speaker 1: in her chair facing away from the computer, kind of
28:09
Speaker 1: you know, sitting backwards in the chair with her arms
28:12
Speaker 1: over the headrest.
28:14
Speaker 2: Kind of looking cool.
28:15
Speaker 1: Navi like meeps and the screen turns blue and makes
28:18
Speaker 1: some little ting noises, and Navi says, Lane has mail,
28:23
Speaker 1: and Lane's like, open it. We hear JJ say yo, Lane,
28:27
Speaker 1: it's JJ. I didn't know you were.
28:29
Speaker 2: Into something like Phantoma. He laughs.
28:32
Speaker 1: I checked around, but I didn't find all that much anyway.
28:35
Speaker 1: The basic game isn't that unusual for the Wired nowadays,
28:38
Speaker 1: so my guess is that they just modified it. The
28:41
Speaker 1: problem is with how the programs connect to each other.
28:44
Speaker 1: It looks like there's some kind of weird hole in
28:46
Speaker 1: the protocol. My buddies and I think it might.
28:48
Speaker 2: Be the work of the nights.
28:50
Speaker 1: Lane moves the mouse and clicks twice. The Phantoma screen
28:55
Speaker 1: comes back up and it's got some eerie music, and
28:58
Speaker 1: Lane says the night we heard dad say Lane. Lane
29:03
Speaker 1: gasps yeah and looks kind of over her shoulder slightly,
29:07
Speaker 1: and her dad is standing behind her in the dark
29:10
Speaker 1: because that's not creepy at all, and her dad says,
29:13
Speaker 1: looks like you've gotten comfortable talking to people on the Wired.
29:16
Speaker 1: Laine is quiet for a second and then says yeah.
29:19
Speaker 1: Her Dad's like, let me give you just one warning
29:23
Speaker 1: Lane turns her head fully. Now what we get a
29:25
Speaker 1: close up on her dad's mouth. For some reason, I
29:28
Speaker 1: think my little girl has perhaps become obsessed with the wired.
29:33
Speaker 1: It's just an advanced medium for communication. Don't ever get
29:36
Speaker 1: it confused with the real world. Lane kind of blinks
29:40
Speaker 1: her dad like, we're now just seeing his eyes, and
29:42
Speaker 1: he says, do you understand?
29:44
Speaker 2: Lane smirks, you're wrong.
29:48
Speaker 1: Her dad's like, huh. Lane continues, the border between the two,
29:51
Speaker 1: isn't that clear? Her dad frowns. His glasses are glowing now,
29:55
Speaker 1: so we can't see his eyes, and she continues, and
29:57
Speaker 1: I'll be able to enter it soon, full.
30:00
Speaker 2: Range in motion.
30:01
Speaker 1: I'll be completely metamorphosed what her dad's like.
30:07
Speaker 2: But even with the top of the line.
30:08
Speaker 1: Civilian use NAVVI, you couldn't possibly, Lane chuckles. I can
30:13
Speaker 1: do it. I've upgraded it. Her dad's like a pushoec
30:18
Speaker 1: process or huh. But Lane, Lane's like, don't worry, it's
30:22
Speaker 1: still me, you know, do we know that? Her Dad's
30:27
Speaker 1: like is that? So he turns to leave. Lane watches
30:31
Speaker 1: him leave, and she's got like this weird look on
30:34
Speaker 1: her face, like it's a smile, And maybe it's just
30:37
Speaker 1: the way the lighting is reflecting from the novie, but
30:40
Speaker 1: it kind of looked like she was almost trying.
30:42
Speaker 2: Not to laugh. I don't know.
30:44
Speaker 1: Anyway, she turns back to the computer and we see
30:47
Speaker 1: her hand clicking the mouse a few more times, and
30:50
Speaker 1: she stares intently at the screen like a system console
30:54
Speaker 1: panel like pops up on nave and it's got like
30:57
Speaker 1: lots of controls that I can't read, you know, like
30:59
Speaker 1: little words and shit.
31:01
Speaker 2: Let's say like.
31:01
Speaker 1: Exc you know stuff I don't know how to say
31:03
Speaker 1: words code something like that. Anyway, it's like scrolling up,
31:07
Speaker 1: so like we're just seeing lots and lots of stuff
31:09
Speaker 1: on the screen, and in this whole kind of area,
31:12
Speaker 1: there's this really nice guitar driven rock in the background
31:15
Speaker 1: that kind of.
31:15
Speaker 2: Like makes this scene a little bit.
31:17
Speaker 1: It's really the only good thing about this scene, because
31:20
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird.
31:21
Speaker 2: Anyway.
31:21
Speaker 1: We hear a woman say I waited for you, Why
31:24
Speaker 1: the hell didn't you come. Then we hear a very
31:27
Speaker 1: distorted man's voice.
31:28
Speaker 2: Say, damn you, damn you, I guess.
31:31
Speaker 1: Then a woman say this male is one of happiness.
31:35
Speaker 1: We are seeing her stuffed animals in the blue, you know,
31:39
Speaker 1: light from the outside, and the woman continues by agreeing
31:43
Speaker 1: to receive this, she'll be happier than you've ever dreamed possible. Yeah,
31:47
Speaker 1: that sounds like chain letter. We hear a man say.
31:51
Speaker 1: In other words, the Knights don't physically exist, but are
31:54
Speaker 1: rather thought itself. That occurs inside the wired We see
31:58
Speaker 1: buildings in the dark that are just kind of lilt
32:00
Speaker 1: by the green lights in their windows, kind of The
32:03
Speaker 1: man continues, this can be thought of as a religion
32:06
Speaker 1: spreading through the wires into your subconscious. Okay, I understand
32:10
Speaker 1: the title now, I totally forgot about that.
32:12
Speaker 2: Okay.
32:13
Speaker 1: We cut to a yellow background with black power lines
32:16
Speaker 1: on it. We're really not doing any animation now, and
32:20
Speaker 1: then we're kind of looking up at a building with
32:22
Speaker 1: this really weird exposure, and another man says, would you
32:26
Speaker 1: go out with me if you already have a boyfriend?
32:28
Speaker 2: I apologize.
32:29
Speaker 1: We see like a black and white parking garage. It's
32:31
Speaker 1: got kind of like red and green tints, like the
32:33
Speaker 1: colors don't really line up, you know, And this man continues,
32:37
Speaker 1: if you really like him, I'll give up on you,
32:38
Speaker 1: but please browse the code J nine four sixty five
32:42
Speaker 1: four eight eight A eight nine We cut back to Lane,
32:46
Speaker 1: and then we see that city again with like the
32:48
Speaker 1: lights in the windows, but now the lights are kind
32:50
Speaker 1: of yellowish peachish. This is really not that interesting, and
32:54
Speaker 1: a woman says, whoever gets this, male, please help me.
32:58
Speaker 1: We see a bunch of buildings and things. They're just stuff,
33:01
Speaker 1: and the woman continues, you may not believe this, but
33:04
Speaker 1: I'm always being followed.
33:05
Speaker 2: We get back to Lane.
33:07
Speaker 1: Maybe that first woman says, Lane, why won't.
33:10
Speaker 2: You hurry up and come here.
33:11
Speaker 1: At this point, a red light passes over her face.
33:14
Speaker 2: She looks up.
33:15
Speaker 1: A red laser dot is on the wall. Now fuck,
33:19
Speaker 1: and it's like moving around like a cat toy. Like
33:22
Speaker 1: it didn't look like it had any intention. It was
33:23
Speaker 1: just like I'm just moving across the walls. I don't
33:26
Speaker 1: know why that was happening like that, but it's like, Lane,
33:28
Speaker 1: you need to chase this. It's like exactly what I
33:30
Speaker 1: do with my cat, except I don't use a laser.
33:32
Speaker 1: I use sunlight because that's what she likes. She got
33:35
Speaker 1: really bored of lasers, but she thinks sunlight is cool
33:38
Speaker 1: when I reflect off my phone. So it's like the
33:40
Speaker 1: same thing as that, just kind of like moving around randomly,
33:43
Speaker 1: and Lane's like, huh. She gets up and looks out
33:46
Speaker 1: the window, and those two men are just standing in
33:48
Speaker 1: the middle of the street outside, Like the fuck dudes,
33:51
Speaker 1: you were so conspicuous, like so fucking conspicuous. Anyways, she
33:56
Speaker 1: kind of like snarls at them as a lasers just
33:58
Speaker 1: kind of like run over her body. And then there's
34:01
Speaker 1: just like a lot of like her watching them and
34:04
Speaker 1: them clearly like looking back at her, and the laser's
34:07
Speaker 1: kind of like moving over her, which makes no sense actually,
34:10
Speaker 1: because they aren't moving. So how are the lasers moving
34:13
Speaker 1: Because the lasers are just attached to their goggles, so
34:16
Speaker 1: the only way they would move is if they were
34:17
Speaker 1: turning their heads, and they're not. So this is a
34:20
Speaker 1: problem and I'm having trouble suspending my disbelief now. Anyway,
34:24
Speaker 1: Lane's finally like, just go away. At this point, the
34:27
Speaker 1: smaller guy has like turned his head and he's talking
34:30
Speaker 1: to the bigger guy, but obviously we're looking at this
34:32
Speaker 1: through the window, so we don't hear what they're saying.
34:34
Speaker 1: He looks back up at Lane, and Lane says, go away.
34:38
Speaker 1: At this the window like morphs like almost like it
34:42
Speaker 1: is water kind of it gets kind of clearer in
34:44
Speaker 1: the middle, like almost like if a water droplet fell
34:47
Speaker 1: into it. It kind of like fluctuates, and all of
34:51
Speaker 1: a sudden, the smaller guy's goggles like break right off
34:54
Speaker 1: his face and like cut him in the process. He
34:57
Speaker 1: puts his hand over his eye, and we cut to
35:00
Speaker 1: Nabby's screen, which is getting kind of pixelated, and there's
35:03
Speaker 1: like worrying in the background from the computer and all
35:06
Speaker 1: like the little uh computer towers are like blinking really rapidly,
35:10
Speaker 1: and we see that fan and then we go back
35:12
Speaker 1: to Lane looking out the window and we see that
35:15
Speaker 1: they are leaving.
35:16
Speaker 2: The car door.
35:16
Speaker 1: Closes, they make like a k turn and they speed off.
35:20
Speaker 1: We hear Nab say, intruder interrupted. There are like a
35:25
Speaker 1: lot of computer noises now as we are just kind
35:27
Speaker 1: of pulling away from Lane, who's still standing up the window.
35:30
Speaker 1: We cut to the exterior. The computer noises are still
35:33
Speaker 1: present in the background, but now the power lines are
35:35
Speaker 1: humming over them too.
35:37
Speaker 2: To be continued, let me go to the ending theme
35:40
Speaker 2: and that's it. So, yeah, hooray. Closing thoughts.
35:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So I have a lot of questions and
35:49
Speaker 1: some of them are just like what are we doing,
35:51
Speaker 1: and some of them are about the plots. So first
35:54
Speaker 1: of all, the lazer thing was weird, but also like,
35:57
Speaker 1: I don't understand this voicemail thing that's happening. We were
36:00
Speaker 1: not doing that in nineties. We're really not doing that now.
36:03
Speaker 1: Like no one is leaving voicemails on your computer.
36:06
Speaker 2: It's weird.
36:06
Speaker 1: It's like she's listening to an answering machine. So I
36:09
Speaker 1: don't get why it's being done that way. I mean
36:11
Speaker 1: I kind of do, because if it was just Navvi
36:14
Speaker 1: reading all of these emails or her just looking at
36:17
Speaker 1: the emails, it would be kind of bland. So at
36:20
Speaker 1: least like this has a little bit of it adds
36:22
Speaker 1: a little bit of interest when you have like different
36:24
Speaker 1: voices and like, you know, different emotions and shit. I guess,
36:28
Speaker 1: but I just thought it was weird because I just
36:30
Speaker 1: don't really understand exactly how it's working like this. But
36:35
Speaker 1: I guess this is the way things have developed in
36:38
Speaker 1: this world that we have like voicemail on computers.
36:41
Speaker 2: But it's weird.
36:43
Speaker 1: And unfortunately the scenes where people are like talking and
36:47
Speaker 1: shit through voicemail or like just really uninterested. I mean, visually,
36:52
Speaker 1: it's always like we're cutting between Lane staring at the
36:55
Speaker 1: computer and then like just random shots of shit like
36:59
Speaker 1: cities power lines, which, yeah, they had to put something there,
37:04
Speaker 1: and I don't really know what would be a better choice,
37:06
Speaker 1: but it's a little bit repetitive and just not great.
37:11
Speaker 1: But hey, whatever, So I wanted to talk about this
37:14
Speaker 1: before and I stop myself, but the thing about Lane changing,
37:18
Speaker 1: she's definitely acting different, Like she was very timid and
37:22
Speaker 1: quiet before, and she is obviously acting more not timid
37:27
Speaker 1: and quiet, or at least not as timid. Maybe she's
37:31
Speaker 1: still kind of quiet, but I guess there's kind of
37:34
Speaker 1: a I don't know if I want to say joy
37:36
Speaker 1: to her that she didn't have, like, which is good.
37:39
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird that this is what brought.
37:42
Speaker 2: It out of her.
37:42
Speaker 1: And it's honestly really weird that she knows how to
37:46
Speaker 1: take up our computers and install shit, and she knows
37:49
Speaker 1: what oscillation.
37:50
Speaker 2: The thing is supposed to go at.
37:52
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, she could read books and shit, and
37:54
Speaker 1: she's obviously communicating with people online and stuff, but like,
37:58
Speaker 1: what is going on her? I mean, she just got
38:01
Speaker 1: like really really into this all of a sudden. And yeah,
38:06
Speaker 1: and as I said before, like what's going on with
38:08
Speaker 1: all these extra computers and shit, Like where are they
38:11
Speaker 1: coming from? I mean, her dad is definitely right, she
38:14
Speaker 1: is obsessed. But yeah, the whole thing with her friends
38:17
Speaker 1: being like, oh, she's changed, I mean, I guess she has,
38:21
Speaker 1: but I just didn't get the impression that they like
38:22
Speaker 1: really knew her to begin with. So it could even
38:26
Speaker 1: just be that she is getting friendlier with them so she's.
38:29
Speaker 2: More open with them, honestly.
38:31
Speaker 1: I mean, if this wasn't insane, that could be the case. Also,
38:35
Speaker 1: there's something about having people say you've changed, you've changed,
38:39
Speaker 1: you've changed, over and over again that I hate, Like
38:42
Speaker 1: it's just one more of those show don't tell things
38:44
Speaker 1: for me, Like I can see the Lane has changed
38:47
Speaker 1: and she's acting weird. We can see in Alice's face
38:50
Speaker 1: that she's not comfortable with the way Lane's acting. I
38:53
Speaker 1: don't need every character in her friend group that's not
38:56
Speaker 1: they're like they're barely friends, to say like, you've changed changed, No,
39:01
Speaker 1: because we can clearly see what's going on, So don't
39:03
Speaker 1: like spoon feed it to me. Yeah, but yeah, something
39:06
Speaker 1: is really really wrong, And like, how much power does
39:10
Speaker 1: all this shit take in her house?
39:12
Speaker 2: Is it?
39:12
Speaker 1: Responsible to use that is she like, you know, stressing
39:15
Speaker 1: out her circuit breaker and shatterer?
39:18
Speaker 2: Is this all okay?
39:19
Speaker 1: I mean her dad does have like a million monitors,
39:21
Speaker 1: so maybe it's fun.
39:23
Speaker 2: So we got all that happening.
39:25
Speaker 1: Obviously, we have all of this stuff with the Knights
39:27
Speaker 1: and this weird game of tag that got messed up
39:30
Speaker 1: and shoved into a game of doom where like children
39:33
Speaker 1: are going around trying to tag people, but those people
39:36
Speaker 1: think they're in a game. I mean, I think it's interesting,
39:40
Speaker 1: but also like I don't want to give credence the
39:42
Speaker 1: idea that like video games make you violent, which I
39:45
Speaker 1: almost feel like it's about to do, like we're right there.
39:47
Speaker 1: I also wonder this dude had a gun. Where the
39:50
Speaker 1: fuck did he get a gun from? Like we didn't
39:52
Speaker 1: see it, but he obviously shot that little girl lots
39:56
Speaker 1: and lots and lots of times, So where the fuck
40:00
Speaker 1: did that come from? And why does Lane want to
40:03
Speaker 1: go in the wired Like if I were her dad,
40:07
Speaker 1: like when she said that, I would have been like, no,
40:09
Speaker 1: that's like not a thing. It's not like a place
40:12
Speaker 1: that you can go into, Like no, instead of being
40:16
Speaker 1: like even with the top of the line, computer.
40:18
Speaker 2: You couldn't do that.
40:19
Speaker 1: No, it's not a thing. You can't go into the
40:21
Speaker 1: internet physically. So yeah, I don't know. I'm worried about her.
40:26
Speaker 1: And I'm worried that she's got these men standing outside
40:30
Speaker 1: her house with laser sights on. There are goggles staring
40:33
Speaker 1: at her, and how did she break that guy's thing?
40:36
Speaker 2: Like, what is going on?
40:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, that's all I got. I just said
40:41
Speaker 1: a bunch of things. Oh, one more thing. This is
40:43
Speaker 1: gonna come off as weird to some of you. Probably
40:47
Speaker 1: it's not a nitpick about the show. It's just about
40:49
Speaker 1: a character relationships. But like, I don't like Alice. I
40:54
Speaker 1: don't like the way that she defends Lane.
40:57
Speaker 2: She defends her in a.
40:58
Speaker 1: Way that makes me feel like she also has the
41:01
Speaker 1: same feelings that the other people have. I don't know
41:04
Speaker 1: how to describe it, because I've had people stand up
41:07
Speaker 1: for me like this and it just made me feel worse.
41:10
Speaker 1: Like when Judy was like saying, oh, you liked the
41:13
Speaker 1: computer more than you like your friends, and Alise was like, hey,
41:17
Speaker 1: leave her alone. I just didn't think it was that
41:19
Speaker 1: big of a deal. Like Lane didn't react in a
41:21
Speaker 1: way to that that made me think that she was
41:24
Speaker 1: severely hurt by that. So like when someone else makes
41:28
Speaker 1: it into a bigger deal, like stop teasing her, like
41:30
Speaker 1: stop making her feel bad. Shit, it actually in those
41:34
Speaker 1: cases made me feel worse. Well, like I didn't know
41:37
Speaker 1: when it was appropriate to defend myself. I don't know
41:39
Speaker 1: how to describe it, but I like hate these interactions
41:43
Speaker 1: between her and these girls, and I hate these girls,
41:47
Speaker 1: all of them, So sorry everyone if you like them.
41:51
Speaker 1: This all just reminds me of high school in middle school, and.
41:54
Speaker 2: I don't like it.
41:55
Speaker 1: Except I didn't go into the internets when I was
41:58
Speaker 1: in middle school in high school at all. So yeah, okay,
42:03
Speaker 1: so I think that's pretty much it. I thought I
42:06
Speaker 1: was gonna have a really stressful week because I thought
42:08
Speaker 1: I had like a really big inspection tomorrow.
42:10
Speaker 2: But they canceled.
42:11
Speaker 1: Yay, no money, So I don't have a really stressful week,
42:16
Speaker 1: at least not at this exact moment when I'm.
42:18
Speaker 2: Recording this, but maybe tomorrow.
42:21
Speaker 1: So hopefully, as long as the world does an end,
42:24
Speaker 1: I will see you next week, and I'm gonna go
42:28
Speaker 1: and do whatever the hell it is I do. I'm
42:30
Speaker 1: gonna plant flowers. Yeah, in the ground like you do,
42:35
Speaker 1: so actually in a pod, but whatever. I hope that
42:38
Speaker 1: you have a really good whatever, and
42:42
Speaker 2: I will see you soon I assume later weeks.