ACT 2: Fearing for his life and the life of his daughter, Forelli offers Spider-Man a job as his personal bodyguard against Digger for the hefty sum of $10,000.00 per day plus expenses. Spider-Man agrees to the deal providing that Forelli gives him background information about Digger. Reluctant, but having no other choice, Forelli agrees to pull some strings to find out more about their common enemy. Forelli gives Spider-Man a pager so that he can contact him more easily. He asks Spidey to refrain from making any plans for the weekend, as he has something in store for him. Our hero is left perplexed.

ACT 3: Meanwhile Digger is scouring the sewers, trying to find out more about where he is, or more exactly when he is. The next page jumps back and forth between Peter Parker teaching his science class and Digger reading old newspapers, trying to absorb forty-six years of changes. His ultimate goal, however, remains the same: to annihilate Forelli and all who will stand in his way.

ACT 4: Peter's apartment. He and Mary Jane are having dinner. He tells her that the main reason he accepted Forelli's offer is because he wants to give her the life she deserves to have; he wants to get an apartment big enough for both of them. His pager suddenly goes off. He is being summoned by Forelli.

ACT 5: The New York Docks. Spider-Man meets Forelli. The latter tells him about what just happened to one of his boats that was carrying smuggled goods from overseas suppliers: it was assaulted by Digger; the boat and the majority of the crew now lay at the bottom of the river. Forelli again requests that Spider-Man help him; if not for him, then at least for his daughter, who knows little of what is said about him (Forelli, not Spider-Man) and believes less, and whom should not have to pay the price of his sins of the past. Spider-Man agrees to continue helping Forelli. Forelli then tells Spider-Man to pack his bag because he is going on a trip.

ACT 6: Forelli's private jet. Not much happens here except some funny moments between Spider-Man and a special lady who was told by Forelli to make sure our hero had everything and "anything" he wanted.

ACT 7: Las Vegas, Nevada. Driving the slickest set of wheels he's ever touched, Peter Parker makes his way towards an unknown site using a map provided to him by Forelli. He reaches the site, which is revealed to be some kind of military compound. Hundreds of people with banners and posters are lined up in the middle of the road, protesting against gamma rays experiments, blocking the way to the compound. He speaks with some of the protesters, who see the map that Peter is holding up and tell him that he's holding the map to "ground zero".

ACT 8: Later that night, Spider-Man infiltrates the military base. He notices a group of men dressed with anti-radioactive suits heading towards a nearby hangar. He grabs a spare suit and puts it on. One of the men speaks: "Ever since we found the first tissue samples, we've been carefully digging through the layers, pulling out whatever we can find. So far, we've identified the remains of nearly a dozen people. We're pretty sure all of them were males but we're still running tests. We also found traces of bullet fragments. Apparently this used to be some kind of chemical dump, decades ago." Another man asks why the bodies are there. The first man replies: "Unknown. All we do know is that all these chemicals saturated the skins of the deceased, preserving them against the ravages of time. The desert climate also helped, the heat cooking the chemicals over the course of decades. When the gamma bomb was detonated above ground, it must have interacted with the chemicals and the preserved organic material and the skin samples we've removed so far from the site have essentially reconstituted themselves. Even absent a heart, or a circulatory system, or oxygen, they continue to survive. We can't figure out how to kill the tissue". The man adds: "But this is what we're worried about the most. As you can see, something dug its way out of the blast crater after the explosion." All present are puzzled. Nothing could have survived that explosion. The same man adds that "nothing was alive prior to the blast, however, that does not cover something that was dead, or artificially preserved before the explosion. We don't know for sure but given the missing body parts, it's possible that some of the pieces may have actually merged into one coherent form. Given what it would have taken to dig out from under tons of debris, the gamma burst may have also given it tremendous strength." It is at that moment that Spider-Man realizes that disposing of Digger may prove more difficult a task than he had thought.