In Hari Kunzru’s Transmission, Arjun Mehta, a young Indian programmer, travels from his homeland to California to find a job. Appalled at the prospect of getting laid off and having to return home in shame, Arjun unleashes a rabid computer virus that causes catastrophic consequences and turns him into FBI wanted. Does the author attempt to suggest that in the collision between the East and the West, between “voluntary migrants” in today’s global economy and their capitalized host country, the former is doomed to be defeated and then expelled by the latter? Not necessarily. Arjun at the end of the novel disappears and, as the author describes, “[steps] into legend.” The paper argues that the spreading of misinformation and chaos, accompanied with Arjun’s disappearance, disclose the fallibility of the media and the protection agency in American culture in this novel. These two institutes, according to Jean Baudrillard, render the society we live today “irreversible” by distributing seemingly credible messages and the sense of security as a kind of “gift” that “nothing is allowed to retort.” Baudrillard, therefore, proposes the notion of “reversibility” to “defy the system with a gift to which it cannot respond save by its own collapse and death.” Interweaving Baudrillard’s notion and theorizations of gift from Marcel Mauss and Jacques Lacan with Arjun’s story, I shall suggest that Arjun’s disappearance, rather than a pathetic fleeing, serves as the counter-gift from the Other that forces the dominant institutes witness their credibility and stability as illusion.