Purin is on the case of a mid-manager who died at an airport when 3 million hackers were somehow directed to attack his cyberbrain at the same time. She tracks down a suspect named Koji, who leads her to a master hacker called the "Nameless King." The King tells Purin about their program "Think Pol," used to enact mob justice on a chosen target remotely, when Motoko finds out the King is a highschool student named Uotori. Uotori tells Motoko that someone else from his middle school wrote the original program, but he spun off Think Pol to "democratize" it. Suddenly, the program chooses Tate as its next target, forcing PSS9 to spring into action and save him.