Chapter Summaries

Skye recovered at home with both hands in casts, while Henry and Catherine arranged a temporary caregiver and relied on BB to help care for her. Henry finished making combat suit charms for the Eternals, then met the applicant Natalie Rushman and recognized her as Black Widow.

• Skye was sent home from school to recover, and BB helped with her daily care while Lorna volunteered to assist.
• Catherine arranged an interview for a temporary caregiver, and Henry agreed to improve BB's human-care functions.
• Henry completed four Adamantium combat suit charms for the Eternals, settling his debt for their help saving Skye.
• Henry helped Ajak catch a flight to South Dakota, while Makkari moved her belongings from the Domo to Thena's apartment in New York.
• Natalie Rushman arrived for the caregiver interview, and Henry recognized her as Black Widow.

Henry watched breaking news of the Lizard rampaging on the Williamsburg Bridge and realized Kurt Connors was targeting Norman Osborn, who was trapped there with his bodyguards. He stayed home because Natalie Rushman, whom he suspected was Black Widow, was watching him, and the broadcast left Norman’s fate uncertain.

• Henry introduced Natalie Rushman to Skye and Catherine Hepburn as a temporary caregiver while concealing his identity from her.
• Henry switched on the television and saw the Lizard fighting Spider-Man on the Williamsburg Bridge.
• Henry recognized Norman Osborn’s Bentley in the traffic and connected Connors’s attack to his recent conflict with Osborn.
• Henry decided not to intervene because Natalie was monitoring him and the confrontation did not directly affect his interests.
• Norman remained inside his car with his bodyguards as the battle moved closer, apparently seeking to become a victim and improve his public standing.

Henry uncovered Norman Osborn’s plan to clear the family name by turning Harry into a public hero who would defeat The Lizard. As Green Goblin II and Oscorp’s security team pushed The Lizard back beneath the media cameras, Henry suspected Harry had used the family’s enhancement serum.

• Henry reviewed what he knew while the Spider-Women joined Black Spider-Man in fighting The Lizard on Williamsburg Bridge.
• Black Spider-Man repeatedly attacked the Spider-Women, and Marty Franklin punched him after he tried to kick her away again, turning the fight into a three-way clash.
• The Spider-Women resumed attacking The Lizard, but their infighting gave him room to charge toward Norman Osborn’s car.
• Harry Osborn appeared as Green Goblin II on a Goblin Glider and attacked The Lizard with missiles and close-range strikes while Norman’s security team fired from below.
• Henry realized Norman had arranged for Harry to appear as a superhero on live television and suspected Harry had taken Oscorp’s enhancement serum.

The Spider-Women used sonic devices to free Spider-Man from the Symbiote, but it possessed Eddie Brock and plunged him into the river. After the bridge battle, Norman Osborn and Harry Osborn made a conspicuous appearance for the news cameras, while Henry watched the report at home with Skye, Catherine Hepburn, and Natalie Rushman.

• Anya Corazon and the other two Spider-Women trapped Black Spider-Man in a sonic triangle, prompting him to tear off the Symbiote suit.
• The Symbiote escaped through a gap and possessed Eddie Brock, then shoved him off the bridge into the river before anyone could save him.
• The Lizard leapt into the water to escape Green Goblin II, whose heavy weapons had grown less effective as his ammunition dwindled.
• Spider-Man fled in his red-and-blue suit, and the three Spider-Women departed by separate routes to confuse the helicopters.
• Norman Osborn and Harry Osborn shared a carefully captured frame for the media before Norman returned to his Bentley and Harry flew away.
• At home, Henry watched the news with Skye, Catherine Hepburn, and Natalie Rushman, then boasted about his former work as a film-company CEO and producer.

Natasha Romanoff reported to Nick Fury from Henry Brown’s home while continuing her surveillance mission, and their conversation exposed the risks and conflicting motives behind S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plan. Fury ordered her to continue despite the danger, leaving their fragile trust under scrutiny.

• Natasha Romanoff told Nick Fury that Henry Brown’s household robot seemed technologically advanced and asked whether she should bring back a sample, but Fury warned her not to touch his technology because a past attempt to seize it had ended in a deadly explosion.
• Natasha reported that Henry remained guarded and that their adopted child seemed to be hiding something, while she planned to provoke Henry into revealing more than his Steel Body ability.
• Natasha admitted that she was reporting from Henry’s guest room and believed he could hear them, while Fury questioned her plan to expose him without knowing how S.H.I.E.L.D. could control him afterward.
• Nick Fury considered why he could not simply cancel the mission: doing so might damage his trust with Natasha or reveal that Skrulls under his command had created the crisis.
• Fury told Natasha to continue the mission but warned her not to sacrifice her life for it, and she challenged him about whether he would abandon her if necessary.

Nick Fury confronted Talos over the Skrulls’ poor intelligence work and negotiated the resources and limits of their space-station project. They left the meeting outwardly allied but privately suspicious, each pursuing his own goals.

• Talos brought Nick Fury a fresh drink and defended the Skrulls’ intelligence-gathering efforts while asking to bring more Skrulls to Earth.
• Nick Fury rejected Talos’s request and questioned whether the proposed orbital station would evade the limits Carol Danvers had set on the Skrull presence.
• Talos argued that the Skrulls were allies rather than prisoners and said their technological help depended on Earth supplying resources.
• Nick Fury agreed to procure more resources and pressed Talos to gather intelligence more efficiently and discreetly.
• Talos and Nick Fury privately considered their conflicting ambitions while maintaining their outward alliance.

Henry stayed under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s watch and could not reach Kurt Connors, while Carlton Drake learned that a Symbiote had bonded with Eddie Brock and ordered a search for them. The chapter left Henry waiting for events to unfold as Drake pursued the escaped Symbiote.

• Henry sent Kurt Connors a message but received no reply, and the Lizard’s bridge attack left him worried about Connors’s condition.
• Natalie Rushman tried to sneak into Henry’s bed, but Henry caught her and sent her back to her room.
• Carlton Drake watched footage of the Williamsburg Bridge incident and recognized the escaped black Symbiote and its host, Eddie Brock.
• Carlton ordered his staff to search for Eddie Brock, recover the Symbiotes, and investigate how the Spider-Women had separated one from its host.

NYP Commissioner George Stacy struggled to pursue charges against Harry Osborn and find the Lizard after the Williamsburg Bridge incident, as agencies and legal officials avoided taking responsibility. Oscorp then publicly offered to let Harry work as a police-supervised vigilante, leaving Stacy suspicious of the Osborns’ motives.

• George Stacy learned that the FB would only assist NYP and concluded that he could not arrest Harry Osborn without a warrant prosecutors would not issue.
• Stacy heard that the X-Men would not help investigate the Lizard because he was not a Mutant, leaving NYP to rely on ordinary police methods.
• An officer showed Stacy an Oscorp press conference featuring Harry and Norman Osborn.
• Harry announced that Oscorp would offer NYP a cooperation agreement allowing him to act as a police-supervised vigilante.
• Stacy suspected the Osborns were using their offer to pressure the police while keeping Green Goblin beyond their reach.

Spider-Man discovered that Professor Curt Connors had advanced the Lizard Serum and planned to build an army, then confronted Connors in the sewers. Their fight was interrupted when Sandman attacked.

• Spider-Man found Connors's research records, which showed he had abandoned efforts to control the serum's effects and wanted to turn people into Lizards.
• Spider-Man found Connors's records of Norman Osborn's schedule and saw that the plan ended with the words "I need an army!"
• The Lizard attacked Spider-Man, who tried to persuade Connors that the serum was affecting his judgment and offered to find a reversal serum.
• The Lizard argued that enhanced strength and regeneration represented humanity's next stage, while Spider-Man defended fairness and justice.
• The Lizard and Spider-Man failed to reach an understanding, and Spider-Man saw a massive wave of sand surge through a sewer tunnel as Sandman attacked.

Spider-Man fought Sandman and The Lizard in a sewer, learned that The Lizard had stolen Oscorp’s Canary Device, and realized he needed help making a Reverse Serum before the device could be used. Meanwhile, Gwen Stacy rode her new Spider-Mech around Empire State University while worrying about her future and her relationship with Henry.

• Spider-Man battled The Lizard and Sandman in the sewer, but their knowledge of him and his lingering fear of the symbiote left the fight in a stalemate.
• The Lizard fled with Sandman covering his retreat, and Sandman dragged Spider-Man into the rushing water.
• Before being swept away, Spider-Man spotted the Canary Device and learned it could disperse Lizard Serum as a mist across a large area.
• Spider-Man reached shore and decided to find help making a Reverse Serum, since he lacked the equipment and ingredients to produce it himself.
• At Empire State University, Gwen Stacy rode her Spider-Mech while worrying that she might not be capable of the future Henry had described.

Gwen Stacy was abducted by Spider-Man, but Little Red shocked him and brought her to safety. Spider-Man then asked Gwen to make an antidote to Professor Connors’s Lizard Serum while he prepared to locate Connors’s planned attack and recruit Harry Osborn.

• Gwen rode her Spider-Car toward home while thinking about whether to stop at the library or visit East 49th Street.
• Spider-Man webbed Gwen and pulled her into the air, but Little Red raced up a building and shocked him.
• Gwen checked on Spider-Man, who recovered and asked her to help make an antidote using Oscorp’s laboratory equipment.
• Spider-Man told Gwen that Professor Connors planned to use the Canary Device to spread the Lizard Serum and had allied with Sandman.
• Gwen questioned Spider-Man’s story without agreeing to help, while he planned to find the Canary Device’s target and seek help from Harry Osborn.

Spider-Man asked Gwen Stacy to help synthesize an antidote, explaining that the police could not handle the Lizard or Sandman. Gwen agreed only if she first confirmed that the Lizard had taken the Canary Device, and Spider-Man began writing down the formula after his disk was ruined.

• Spider-Man told Gwen that involving the police against the Lizard and Sandman would only increase casualties.
• Gwen remained concerned about the Canary Device and agreed to help only if she confirmed the Lizard had taken it.
• Spider-Man accepted Gwen's condition, relieved that she would help him make the medicine if the device was missing.
• Gwen asked Spider-Man for the formula and equations, but he produced an electrocuted floppy disk while the Spider-Car pretended to be distracted.
• Spider-Man said he remembered the information, and Gwen gave him paper and a pen to write it down.

Gwen Stacy returned to Oscorp to search Professor Connors's damaged laboratory for belongings, and Harry Osborn authorized her entry. As Harry and Norman Osborn left together, Norman questioned Harry about Gwen and urged him to pursue Ivanka Trump instead of his current girlfriend.

• Gwen Stacy was stopped by Oscorp's lobby guards when she asked to enter Professor Connors's laboratory.
• Harry Osborn recognized Gwen and authorized the guards to let her upstairs to find her belongings.
• Gwen thanked Harry and went to the laboratory while Harry and Norman Osborn left Oscorp together.
• Norman asked Harry about Gwen's family, and Harry explained that her father was police commissioner George Stacy.
• Norman told Harry to give up his girlfriend and pursue Ivanka Trump, whose family he considered a more suitable match.

Gwen entered the closed Connors Laboratory and secretly made a reversal serum to help Spider-Man stop the Lizard. After leaving Oscorp, she searched for Spider-Man and found him fighting Green Goblin II near a construction site, where her father had been called to work.

• With Harry Osborn's permission, Gwen passed security and entered Connors Laboratory alone.
• Gwen confirmed that the Canary Device had been stolen and used the lab equipment to make a vial of reversal serum.
• Gwen left Oscorp with the serum hidden in her bag and decided to search for Spider-Man near the Osborn home and United Nations headquarters.
• George called Gwen to say he had to work overtime, and she spotted Spider-Man and Green Goblin II fighting near a high-rise construction site.

Gwen reached George Stacy at the construction-site command post with an antidote and warned him that The Lizard planned to spread the mutation using a stolen Oscorp device. George rebuked her for breaking into Oscorp and doubted the antidote would work, leaving Gwen unable to defend her actions.

• Green Goblin II used experimental weapons and rotating Goblin Gliders to weaken the giant Sandman, while Spider-Man fought The Lizard atop the construction site.
• Gwen found senior officer William and persuaded him to take her to George Stacy at the police command post.
• George ordered the officers to continue their plans and contact the X-Men, then pulled Gwen aside to hear her urgent news.
• Gwen revealed that she had an antidote, but refused to hand over her only dose and explained The Lizard's plan to use the stolen Canary Device to create an army of Lizards.
• George scolded Gwen for breaking into Oscorp and warned that good intentions did not excuse the damage or prove the antidote worked; Gwen could not answer him.

George Stacy brought the Reverse Serum to Spider-Man and tried to help him stop the Lizard, but the Lizard fatally stabbed him and threw him from the platform. An unseen figure caught George as the Lizard turned back to pursue Spider-Man.

• George Stacy took the Reverse Serum from Gwen and rode the construction elevator toward the battle, leaving her behind.
• George reached the unfinished upper floors and found Spider-Man struggling to fight the Lizard and destroy the Canary Device.
• George threw the serum to Spider-Man and fired his shotgun at the Lizard to slow him down.
• The Lizard leaped onto George's platform and stabbed him through the abdomen before throwing him off.
• A black shadow caught George's falling body while the Lizard went after Spider-Man.

Black Super saved George Stacy with emergency surgery and left after telling him to seek hospital care. Spider-Man reported that the battle had ended and the antidote had reversed the Lizard Serum, while Harry Osborn arrived to help George contact the police.

• Black Super operated on George Stacy at the scene, stopping his bleeding and warning him to rest and get hospital care.
• Black Super saw that Spider-Man had launched the antidote through the Canary Device, then left to return home with his soy sauce.
• Spider-Man arrived and told George Stacy that the Lizard and Sandman had disappeared and that the antidote should reverse the serum's effects on the police.
• Harry Osborn arrived and offered help, and Spider-Man retrieved George's radio from his coat.
• As George Stacy prepared to call for support, two figures suddenly appeared before him.

Spider-Man and Green Goblin II agreed to a truce with Curt Connors and Flint Marko, who had lost their powers. John Jameson revealed himself as Riot, leader of the Symbiotes, then distracted them while his companions ambushed the group.

• Spider-Man and Green Goblin II confronted Curt Connors and Flint Marko, but the two former villains said they had no intention of fighting and had become ordinary men.
• Curt Connors and Flint Marko agreed to talk, explaining that they had lost their abilities.
• John Jameson appeared and revealed that Riot, a Symbiote, controlled his body while its original personality slept.
• Riot transformed into a monstrous form and declared himself the Symbiotes' leader and future master of Earth.
• Spider-Man's Spider-Sense warned him in time to grab George Stacy and leap away, while the Symbiotes attacked Curt Connors, Flint Marko, and Harry Osborn.

Riot’s symbiotes attacked Spider-Man, Green Goblin II, and the others, but the three Spider-Women used ultrasonic emitters to disrupt the parasitism. Riot escaped with the parasitized Curt Connors and Flint Marko, while Harry Osborn survived and the Spider-Women left before the police arrived.

• Riot’s symbiotes parasitized Curt Connors and Flint Marko, while another struggled to take control of Harry Osborn.
• Spider-Man searched the construction site for a source of high-frequency sound as symbiotes closed in around Green Goblin II.
• Spider Blue, Spider Black, and Spider Silva arrived, restrained the symbiotes with webs, and attacked them with ultrasonic emitters.
• The sonic assault freed Harry Osborn from the symbiote, and Riot fled with Curt Connors and Flint Marko.
• Spider-Man checked on Harry Osborn, who insisted he was fine, while the three Spider-Women left before the police reached the building.

The Life Foundation sent armed security teams to capture Eddie Brock, hoping to recover the Symbiote he had bonded with. Eddie escaped on a motorcycle with the Symbiote, while the Foundation’s SUVs pursued him.

• The Life Foundation’s security commander organized a team in Brooklyn to find Eddie Brock and bring him to Carlton Drake.
• The team raided Eddie’s apartment, but Eddie fought his way out and escaped by jumping from a window.
• Eddie took a motorcycle and fled as the security team realized he was their target and gave chase.
• Eddie questioned the Symbiote inside his body, learned it had once attached itself to Peter Parker, and accidentally discovered that Peter was Spider-Man.
• The Symbiote warned Eddie that the Life Foundation was catching up and argued that they could become partners.