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No matter where you go, everyone's connected.
— Serial Experiments Lain · 1998
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Released when the web was still new, the line reads as both promise and threat: a connected world that dissolves the boundary between self and network. Fans quote it as the series' mission statement and it has aged into an eerie prophecy of the always-online era.
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In context
Spoilers for Serial Experiments LainShow the scene
The words appear as the tagline of Serial Experiments Lain (1998), and they echo a scene in the second episode, "Girls" (Layer 02, aired July 13, 1998). After a shooting at the Cyberia nightclub by a man under the influence of the drug Accela, Lain eerily tells him that everyone is connected in the Wired no matter where they are, and the traumatised man promptly shoots himself. The idea of a network joining every mind runs through the whole series.
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- Wikipedia: List of Serial Experiments Lain episodesEpisode 2 summaryReference checked
- Wikiquote: Serial Experiments LainGirls sectionReference checked
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