Lain's life is thrown into further disarray as she begins to recognize that she is being spied upon by a car containing Men in Black agents near her house. At school, Lain is anonymously sent a mysterious computer chip, about which she initially asks her father, and then the similarly aged Taro at Cyberia.
Taro then recalls seeing Lain in the Wired once, noting her Wired personality being the complete opposite of her restrained real world personality and mind, bringing about the possibility that there could be two entirely separate Lains; one in the Wired and one in the physical world.