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[train horn blaring]
I can't believe it!
A date with Felicia Hardy. Finally!
Sure, I'm only taking her to a science exhibit as her physics tutor,
but after that Spider-slayer business
I didn't think she'd let me see her again.
[man on speaker] Who's there?
Peter Parker, I'm here to--
[gate opens]
[Peter thinking] Relax, Parker.
Felicia's just a simple, sweet, regular girl.
With a front lawn the size of Central Park.
So, when is this place applying for statehood?
Maybe I should have worn a suit.
Or at least a new shirt.
Come in, Mr. Parker.
I'll announce you.
[Peter] Yep, definitely a new shirt.
[metal crushing]
[radio static]
Camera three, negative function.
Please investigate.
Wow.
Aunt May's whole place could fit in this one room,
and there'd still be space for the Jets
to hold a scrimmage.
Security, code red!
Parker.
How sweet, you brought flowers.
Thank you.
Oh, it's nothing.
So, where's your mom?
Parker, she's out buying a new yacht.
Well what happened, the old one get wet?
Shall we take the convertible?
It's kinda chilly out, but I'll keep you warm.
I'll get a jacket, if it's all the same to you.
No!
Let me go!
Felicia!
-[gasps] -[groaning]
Let go! [screams]
Help!
No!
[Peter groaning]
Four metallic arms?
Yes, that's what I saw.
I keep telling you.
Did you notice anything else about him?
Couple extra heads, maybe?
Look, I don't care whether you believe me or not.
Felicia's gone.
You should be out looking for her.
My daughter, where is she?
What happened to her? Who are you?
Mrs. Hardy, I'm Agent Ford, FBI.
I have bad news.
Your daughter's been kidnapped.
Kidnapped?
We found this note out front.
It says ransom instructions will follow.
That signature.
Doctor Octavius.
-[Hardy] You know him? -Well, that explains it.
The Hardy Foundation refused to grant money
for his outlandish experiments.
He must want revenge.
[Peter] Dr. Octavius?
Otto Octavius?
It can't be.
When I was 10, Uncle Ben enrolled me at science camp
and the man who ran the camp was Dr. Otto Octavius.
He was a genius.
Had a real gift for teaching.
I remember once, I tried an experiment of my own.
-It blew up in my face, -[children laughing]
and the other kids started laughing at me.
But then Dr. Octavius said something I'll never forget.
Their laughter is meaningless.
Science is the important thing.
It justifies all that we do in its service.
[Peter] What could have changed him?
Where did he take Felicia?
[grunts] What do you want from me?
Who are you?
Who am I?
What's in a name? Mmm?
An octopus by any other name would still be as deadly.
[screams]
Please.
I've never done anything to you.
No, of course you haven't.
That's what they all say.
No one's ever done anything to Dr. Octopus.
It started with my colleagues.
They ridiculed me.
Those mindless fools could not comprehend how
a cold fusion reaction could be generated in a battery.
So I approached The Hardy Foundation
for funding of my experiments.
They promised to grant me the money I needed.
I knew I would master fusion power eventually.
But it wasn't quick enough for your mother,
great friend of science that she was.
She cut off the grant.
I had to move my laboratory to a miserable basement.
I could no longer afford vital safeguards,
but I was determined.
Nothing would stop me.
[grunting]
And I paid the price.
Dr. Octavius vanished in that explosion,
and Dr. Octopus was born.
[maniacal laughter]
This is J. Jonah Jameson,
President and CEO of J3 Communications.
I have a message for Dr. Otto Octavius.
Felicia Hardy's family and friends
are deeply concerned for her safety.
We're prepared to meet your demands,
but we need to know what you want.
Please, call me here at the J3 studio
as soon as this broadcast is over.
We want Felicia back.
We'll do anything you ask, as long as she isn't harmed.
I will personally guarantee that.
[phone ringing]
[man] Cut to station ID.
Jonah, if it's him, whatever you do, keep your cool.
Don't I always, Robbie?
And try to keep him talking as long as you can.
Stop fussing, I've seen enough crime movies.
[man] You're on, JJ.
Jameson here.
This is Dr. Octopus,
accepting your generous offer.
I'll switch us off the air.
No.
I insist we keep it on the air.
I want the whole world to know how I've been treated.
What about Miss Hardy, is she OK?
Sometimes sacrifices must be made in the name of science.
If anything happens to her I'll--
[Octavius] You'll what?
You're not in a position to do anything.
Don't count on that, you six-armed squid!
No, Jonah, no!
[Jameson] You're a symbol of everything
that's wrong with this country.
[Peter] J. Jonah Jameson.
The great communicator.
You should be put away for the rest of your--
You dare talk that way to a scientist?
Scientist?
You're just a coward who kidnapped a helpless girl.
Coward am I?
We'll see who the coward is.
I want you personally to deliver the ransom money to me.
What?
Come alone, unless you're the coward.
I'll fax you the instructions later.
He wants me to bring it.
[car screeches]
Hello?
Octavius?
Where are you?
Show yourself!
[screaming]
Face to face at last.
I trust we're alone.
The FBI promised to stay clear.
Now show me the girl.
Sorry, I don't take requests.
If you've hurt her!
She's in perfect condition.
But as for you...
[Spider-Man] Hands up!
All of them.
[Jameson] Spider-Man, what are you doing here?
That's simple, you brought him, didn't you?
Me? I never.
You web-headed foul-up!
Hey, it's nice to see you too, pickle puss.
You really think your spider powers
can compare with the shattering impact
of my unbreakable hydraulic tentacles?
[Spider-Man] It was a thought.
Don't waste your time thinking.
It may very well be the last thought you'll ever have.
Your pathetic acrobatics are no threat to me.
Listen carefully.
Now that I have twice as many hostages
I want twice the ransom, and I want it in 24 hours.
You're won't get rid of me that...
They're gone.
I really blew it this time.
Who asked you to help?
If you'd kept out of it I'd have my daughter back now.
I don't think he would have released her, even if we--
Oh, now you're a mind reader too?
For all I know, you might be working with that lunatic.
I used to defend you against Jonah.
Told him the city was better off because of you.
Maybe I was wrong.
Coming from Robbie, that hurt,
more than anything Octavius' tentacles could do to me.
The worst part is, they may be right.
Listen to me, sinking into self-pity.
That's not gonna get them back.
And if spidey can't do it,
maybe Peter Parker can.
This video just arrived.
[Felicia] Oh.
Felicia.
What's he done to you?
Time's running out.
I'll be calling you at 10 o'clock.
Two minutes from now.
Robbie, I have to talk to you.
Not now, Peter.
It's about Dr. Octopus.
Listen, kid, we don't have time--
You don't understand, I know him.
He was my teacher.
We're professionals.
We know how to deal with these situations.
But I think I know how to get to him.
No, no, wait. let's hear him out.
We're tampering with the most important
thing in Octavius' life.
Science.
Unless we understand that,
Felicia and Mr. Jameson will be...
[phone ringing]
Let me talk to him.
Hello, Dr. Octavius?
This is Peter Parker.
I was one of your students years ago at science camp.
[Octavius]Hmm, Parker?
[Peter] You probably don't remember me,
but you taught me how important science is.
I've read every paper you've published.
Sustained fusion-fission reactions.
Neurochemical fusion.
[Octavius] What about fusion potential
of the super-collider?
You never wrote that.
You were testing me, weren't you?
[Octavius] And you passed.
Do you know about my cold fusion battery?
Of course.
I'd give anything to see that battery.
Then you're the perfect one to bring me the ransom.
And after that, I'll show it to you.
[Peter] Usually it's the spider that traps the fly,
not the octopus that traps the spider.
An abandoned rocket assembly plant.
What a perfect hideout for a loony scientist.
-Peter! -[Jameson] Parker!
Don't worry, everything's going to be OK.
I'll believe that when I see it.
Is that the money?
Excellent.
Now, let me show you the purpose this will serve.
What about Felicia and Mr. Jameson?
Them, they can hang around for a while.
Fusion energy, billions of kilowatts.
Enough power to lift mankind from the depths of poverty.
A power I will control.
Think of it. A battery only twice the size of this
could replace a dozen nuclear power plants.
Yes, but when you exceed this size it becomes unstable.
-The last time it-- -You're right, Mr. Parker.
It blew up.
But there was a dividend.
The explosion that destroyed my laboratory
also welded these arms to my spine.
A neurologically augmented exoskeleton.
It responds to my thoughts.
A melding of metal to flesh and bone.
Incredible.
Reminds me of Flash Thompson, all hands.
They let me do my work four times as fast,
and they are the greatest weapons imaginable.
Dr. Octavius, you've been paid.
Now release Felicia and Mr. Jameson.
Release them?
Don't insult my intelligence.
But you've got your money.
A good first installment.
You promised to let them go.
What? A broken promise?
Sound familiar?
That's one of the perks of power, my student.
Listen and learn.
[Peter] I'm no longer your student,
and there's nothing more you can teach me.
Oh, no?
[Felicia] Peter!
Even Parker didn't deserve that.
[sobs] You--
You heartless freak!
Freak?
I'm merely the victim of an accident,
and anyone can have an accident.
[Spider-Man] Don't touch her!
Spider-Man!
You're making a career of interference.
Some career.
No salary, no vacation.
And talk about on-the-job health hazards.
Clinging to walls won't help.
My tentacles will turn you into a blood smear.
I've got to find a way to immobilize
at least some of those arms.
A dynamo.
Dynamos make electricity by spinning a coil
between the poles of either a magnet
or an electromagnet.
What's the matter, doc?
Stuck on that dynamo's magnet?
You lamebrain!
You've started the assembly test line.
When the rocket engine's overhead,
it will fire on top of us.
Double jeopardy, Spider-Man.
If you manage to turn off the dynamo
you'll face the full fury of Dr. Octopus.
And if you don't, perhaps you'll live long enough
to see your friends' molecules fry.
Well that's what I love about life.
Choices.
Hurry!
[Spider-Man] I'm going as fast as I can, Miss Hardy.
How does it feel to know that you could
change things, Spider-Man, but be helpless to do so?
[Spider-Man] About as bad as I'd feel
if I had a name like Doc Oc.
An electromagnet!
If i can just find the controls.
[Octavius] Let me give you a few last thoughts to contemplate
before I put an end to your puny--
I really hate to interrupt a megalomaniac
when he's on a roll, but here's web in your eyes.
Come on, drop me.
Come on!
Perfect.
Now if I can just get Oc over here.
[groaning]
You six-armed neanderthal.
Why don't you get over here and fight like an octopus?
No fool am I, Spider-Man.
I won't fall for the same trick twice.
Besides, I can wait, unlike your friends.
[computer beeping]
[alarm blares]
[screaming]
Spider-Man!
Do something!
[Spider-Man] Octavius is right.
I'll never get past him to shut off that dynamo.
Unless...
Get away from that.
[Spider-Man] Tell you what, let's make a trade.
My friends for your life's work.
[snarls]
It worked like a charm.
[Felicia screaming]
[gasp]
Hang on!
[Jameson screaming]
[engine whirring off]
Oh, how can I ever thank you?
Well this seems like a pretty good way.
Oh, no, Peter!
Peter!
Peter?
[Peter groaning]
Are you OK?
Sure, fine.
Some date, huh?
That's one way of putting it.
You wanna give it another try?
Well Parker, you have to understand something.
I don't usually allow myself to be
taken hostage on a first date.
I respect that.
[lightning]
Stone walls do not a prison make,
nor iron bars a cage.
Not against the genius of Dr. Octopus.
[maniacal laughter]
[theme music playing]
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♪ Radioactive Spider-Man ♪
♪ Spider blood, spider blood ♪
♪ Radioactive spider blood ♪
♪ Spider blood, spider blood ♪
♪ Spider-Man ♪