ACT 2: Later, after school, Peter meets with Melissa. She cuts right to the chase and asks him what he knows about Joshua. In last issue, Peter had walked Melissa home and had been invited inside by her mother Laura. A picture of Joshua on a nearby dresser had caught Peter’s attention; as Spider-Man, he had turned him over to the police and sent to jail for a carjack attempt. Melissa had caught his reaction to the picture. Thus, the current interrogatory. As he tries to come up an answer, or rather a lie, Melissa interrupts him and accuses him of flunking her brother out of senior biology, which caused him to end up on the streets; she believes that he is only being nice to her to make up for being a creep to her brother. Peter replies that he has only been a teacher at Midtown since this semester. She is pretty much speechless at that point.

ACT 3: Peter walks Melissa back to her place. Once she is gone inside the house, he recognizes the two guys coming down the street; they were with Melissa a few nights ago when she was out looking for Joshua. He blends in the shadows of a nearby alley and listens to their conversation. Melissa suddenly appears and talks to them: "Hey guys, thanks for waiting! I had to ditch my teacher. Anyway, I only have 'til six o'clock 'cause then Mom’s home between shifts for dinner, so let's get going!" Peter knows that she will be back around 6h00 and realizes that there is one option available to keep her caged in overnight at least. The reader doesn't get to find out what Peter is going to do exactly to keep her locked in her room.

ACT 4: Thirty minutes later, at the courthouse, Peter tries to get access to records about Joshua. He needs to find out when he was paroled and what address or other information was on his parole papers when he left jail. Unfortunately, Peter meets a dead end here: all information about Joshua is strictly confidential. On his way out of the courthouse, he meets Ezekiel, who was seen briefly in last issue. Peter asks him what he is doing there. Ezekiel replies that he's attending to some legal business matters and asks Peter the same question. Peter retorts that he was looking up information about Joshua, whom he had told Ezekiel about the other day. Ezekiel replies that it is an interesting case and wishes him best of luck before they part ways. On his way down the stairs, Peter wonders why Ezekiel said that it was an interesting case. But as usual, Ezekiel has disappeared. He realizes that perhaps it was nothing. He calls up Mary Jane to tell her that he's going to be working late again and that she can reach him on his Spidey-phone, and heads over to Horan's Pub where he meets an unknown individual that tells him where to possibly locate Joshua. Peter slides him a tip and takes his leave. He switches to his Spider-Man outfit, checks on Melissa to make sure that the webbing he used around her bedroom window to keep her in is still holding up, and makes his way to the location provided to him by the anonymous source.

ACT 5: He arrives at the location and creeps into the building through a window. Several men are standing around in a circle and are having a conversation using rather peculiar words and expressions, which Spider-Man does not understand. Joshua is amongst them. Spidey is glad to have finally found him. Suddenly, however, his phone vibrates. He manages to shut it off in time before it rings. When he looks down at the screen to find out who just called him, he realizes that it was Ezekiel. Our hero is confused since he never gave him his cell phone number. He doesn't think twice about and shoves the phone back onto his belt. Suddenly, the phone rings again. Spidey had forgotten about the message beep. It's too late. The men below have heard the noise. Having blown his cover, Spider-Man jumps down from the rafters. He goes straight to Joshua and tells him that his family misses him while the other men creep up behind Spider-Man menacingly. His spider-sense having warned him, he puts them out of action. Suddenly a large garage door opens up. Out from the lights shun by a car, Ezekiel advances towards Spider-Man, asking him to stop that nonsense. Our hero is confused as to what Ezekiel is doing there. The latter explains that he recruits inmates who are now out of jail and who have studied and read great books during their stay in prison; this explains their enhanced vocabulary heard earlier by Spider-Man. However, the purpose as to why Ezekiel is doing it is not revealed here. Spider-Man tells Ezekiel and the men that he wasn't there to bust them in the first place but that he actually came there to find Joshua. He tells him about Melissa and convinces him of coming back home.

ACT 6: The next day, Peter and Mary Jane are having lunch in the park. Peter relates the events of the night before when Mary Jane asks him how it was when he first saw them together (i.e. Melissa and Joshua). It fades to a flashback and the reunion is shown. It ends with Peter walking away and thinking to himself: "One down. About one thousand, seven hundred and forty-three left to look in on".