ACT 2: Spider-Man arrives at the hospital, holding MJ in his arms. "I need a doctor!" A nearby doctor agrees to help out Spider-Man and he begins asking him some question. At the same time, Peter's spider-sense kicks in as a voice echoes in his head: "Peter...can you hear me, Peter? The doctor asks Peter if she's ingested something, or if it was a blow on the head. Peter tells him he's not sure. The doctor tells him that he'd better get sure and quickly since MJ's unresponsive. Again, the voice echoes in his head: "I have her Peter. She is safe with me for the time being. Her mind is my prisoner. But you won't be able to do anything for her...there's nothing that can be done. Only I decide if she lives or dies." Peter asks where the man is. The latter responds: "The swan, Peter...remember the swan? If you want her, that's where I'll be..." Peter is suddenly brought back to reality when the doctor asks him to fill out the paperwork. He apologizes to the doctor and flees through the window. All of a sudden, one of the nurses realizes that the patient Spider-Man's brought in is none other than Mary Jane Parker, the super model.

ACT 3: "Pain is a flood. It's a series of desperate moves, all ending in failure. Pain is finding someone, and losing them. And finding them again. And losing them again." Spider-Man finally arrives at the swan pond and finds the individual nourishing the swans.

ACT 4: The man reminisces that time where Mary Jane had been chased by a swan while Peter and her were walking along the bank of the pond. Peter demands to know how the man could knew about this. He replies that they are tied together, both of them vying for the same place. Spider-Man retorts that if they are so connected, then the man should know that he's about two seconds away from wiping the floor with his head. The man, oblivious to Spider-Man sarcasm replies that he has another secret he's never told anyone before: he can see the future. He tells Peter that there's going to be a lot of pain, more than any man should have to endure. Peter tries to convince the man to bring this to an end. He responds that Peter's going to endure a terrible agony, and that in exactly four minutes and twelve seconds from now, Peter was going to die. The man explains that before that happens, he's going to withdraw everything Peter has in his vault of memories and emotions. Becoming him (the man becoming Peter). "Dream on nutweed.", replies Spider-Man. As the man apologizes to Peter for what he's done, his eyes lit up in a bright yellow. He then suddenly turns towards Peter and knocks him off his feet.

ACT 5: Back at Peter's Forest Hill home in Queens, Aunt May picks up a call coming in on the other line. At the other end of the phone, Anna Watson, Mary Jane's aunt informs May of MJ's return. Aunt May is bewildered as the news is announced to her. She agrees to meet Anna at the hospital and hangs up the phone. She then picks up a picture of Peter and MJ off a bookshelf and holding it to her heart she says: "Oh, Peter..."

ACT 6: Spider-Man screams in pain as he manages to slowly get back up. The man says it was never his fault, that he can't fight this obsession to become Peter any longer, that he can't continue being so ridiculous and afraid. As the man continues to speak, Spider-Man throws water in his face, which blinds him. The man then gets really mad and Spider-Man is thrown several meters away right through a small walking bridge (note that this is done without the man lifting one finger – it's all done psychologically). Spider-Man is then lifted off the ground and thrown through a bunch of trees to finally crash into a rock outcrop. He is then thrown at a nearby parked garbage truck. "UHH...keep it up, Kreskin. You really think...this dream is real – you kill me and take my place?" says Spider-Man. "I have already taken your place. I'm you, Peter – mind and soul. My power has seen to that.", replies the man. "Funny thing about power, retorts Peter, I remember a great man who once told me, with great power..." The man suddenly interrupts Peter with a hand gesture and says: "there must also come great responsibility. And he was right wasn't he? In all this time, you’ve never killed anyone. If I kill you, I'll never become you. No matter how hard I try." As the man walks away, he adds: "The stupid thing is, I always knew it was going to end this way – everything else was just a lie. Twenty seconds. I’m not sure if I ever had the power to stop what I was doing, Peter. It's like being thrown off a cliff: you see the rocks below, but that doesn't mean you can avoid them. Now that I'm fully cloaked in your feelings, I realize the mistake I was going to make: I've simply swapped my old pain for yours. The sad truth is, I don't have the strength to deal with it. I never did...not like you do. But it won't matter anymore...you're free now...we all are." The man, who had disappeared from Peter's view suddenly explodes violently.

ACT 7: Peter has to go through a herd of journalists as he makes his way into MJ's room. As he comes into the room, he finds the bed empty, his Aunt May and Anna Watson standing nearby: "Aunt May...Mary Jane...is she?". "Am I what?" respond Mary Jane, standing up and looking out the window. "Hey Tiger, y'know, I had this really good joke worked out for the first time I saw you again...I had it all planned and everything...but now I can't remember what it is." "I thought you were gone, Mary Jane.", replies Peter as he crumbles to his knees, crying. "Are you real?" Mary Jane comes close to Peter and they embraced each other, both with tears of joy filling their eyes.