ACT 1: A rainy nights in Forest Hills, Queens. Aunt May is cooking in the kitchen when someone knocks at the door. She answers the door and comes face to face with her nephew, Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, who is soaked to the bones, his clothing drenched. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn is at the cemetery visiting the grave of his son Harry who died back in Spectacular Spider-Man #200. While there, he tells Harry how he tried to treat him fairly and how his death from a drug overdose as well as most of his life was a disappointment to him. He tells him that he offered Peter the mantle of the Green Goblin but that he declined the offer. He adds that this will be the last time he is going to visit him because of what is going to happen next.

ACT 2: Back in Forest Hills, Peter is wrapped up in a blanket on the couch and sipping hot chocolate, while Aunt May sits nearby and asks him what's wrong. Peter replies that he's had the same dream every night for a while and that he just doesn't know what to do about it. He tells May that there is only one person who would understand him but that person is not alive anymore (i.e. Uncle Ben). Meanwhile at his office, Norman Osborn has changed to his Green Goblin costume and he glides out into the night.

ACT 3: The story switches to Mary Jane Watson-Parker who is in Los Angeles at her other apartment. The phone rings and she picks it up but no one answers at the other end of the line; we know it's Peter since we see him in the next panel. Angry, she yells in the phone that she's had to deal with psychopaths before and that she is not afraid of anybody. The person at the other end of the line hangs up. Mary Jane realizes that it was Peter.

ACT 4: Peter, as Spider-Man, web-slings away and lands on the rooftop of a nearby building where he starts walking around in the rain, pondering about his recent dreams and the fact that Mary Jane used her mayden name when she answered the phone. Suddenly, the Green Goblin arrives and after exchanging a few words, the two go at it. The battle rages on for several pages and when the Goblin is thought defeated, he grabs a piece of pipe that's lying on the ground nearby and he stabs the wall-crawler in the arm. Instead of finishing off Spider-Man right there and then, he tells him that, whether he likes it or not, he is part of the Osborn family and that as a result, he is invited to partake in an Osborn family reunion. He adds that because it is so difficult to get all of the Osborns together at one place at the same time, there is only one way to bring them all in: a funeral. To be continued.