Kidnapping

Despite Oscorp's stock price plummeting recently, the Osborn family was not panicking in the slightest, with plenty of silver bullets prepared.

Even when the bank-affiliated directors threatened them outright, old Osborn said with considerable confidence that they could simply buy back the shares held by the banks.

Everyone operated in financial circles. A little inquiry into trading movements on the open market would reveal what was going on. Under such circumstances, anyone still selling Oscorp stock at a low price could be labeled an "idiot."

Catching old Osborn shorting his own company's stock, with its possible insider trading implications, might not have been easy. But buying up shares dumped by retail investors who had lost confidence was obvious enough, and it was not illegal.

Although Harry Osborn, the young master still in college, had been pushed into the spotlight since last year's Green Goblin Incident, Norman Osborn still held real power over Oscorp and went to work without fail every day.

The purpose of this was to show certain people that he was keeping himself in line. Naturally, his commute and schedule were relatively fixed, with no particularly elaborate methods of concealing his movements.

Under normal circumstances, any trouble old Osborn encountered could be handled by the guards at his side. There was no need to make further adjustments to his itinerary. That blind confidence did indeed make things easier for certain people.

For example, the scientist he had just made an enemy of, Doctor Otto Octavius.

Whether Norman Osborn had anticipated that Doctor Octopus would come looking for trouble, or whatever mindset had led him to maintain his usual schedule during this period, old Osborn's motorcade encountered an unimaginable ambush.

Two cars dropped from the sky, cutting off the motorcade's path and pinning one of its vehicles between them,