Spider-Man: The New Animated Series Season 2
Episode 10: Night of the Man-Spider
The episode begins just after the events of The Consequence. The Man-Spider is now rampaging through the streets of New York, with the police hounding him. The news coverage is still hounding the Man-Spider since he, as Spider-Man fought his last battle against the Green Goblin on the Queensboro Bridge. Meanwhile, back at the church where the angels are hiding, Ugly Kid calls Jeff, the angel from Evil's Ugliness: Part Two, and tells him that the time for his cover among the angels is now over; he should return to the Antichrist as soon as possible, for the end is going to begin. Jeff accedes, but not before he barges into Beatrice Lange's office, gets into a brief fight with her, and kills her by slitting her throat with a switchblade before any angels can stop the confrontation. Before he does kill her, however, he explains that he was the one who deliberately allowed Peter to visit his Aunt May so that Ugly Kid could manipulate him into doing his bidding, and thus, ruin Spider-Man's life. Jeff, having done away with Lange, then slits his own throat with the blade, and dies off.
Back in the rest of Manhattan, Brian and Bernie, in the aftermath of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin's final battle on the Queensboro Bridge, both agree that they should at least be the ones to kill the Man-Spider instead of the police; they owe it to their friend, Peter, that much. So they go out looking for him, going by the sound of police sirens echoing throughout Manhattan that indicate the chase for the Man-Spider. However, those sirens soon die down, as the Man-Spider is able to soon enter the subway and disappear on top of a passing train. The search for the Man-Spider falls into a brief, half-hour hiatus, during which Brian and Bernie go on their own search by simply walking through city, hoping they would meet the Man-Spider. During their search, however, they run into Niske, Botya, and Majes in an alley. A brief fight ensues, from which all of the combatants lose their guns, and a vial of black liquid falls from a pocket from Niske, and Bernie picks it up in between a break from combatting the three demons. The fight ends in a stalemate when the Man-Spider barges his way in from out of the sewers, and begins his rampage anew. Niske, Botya, and Majes break off their fight from their two opponents and attack the Man-Spider, but Niske finds that she is missing something vitally important to combatting the monster while Botya and Majes distracts Man-Spider. The police then show up, with Niske, Botya, and Majes discreetly moving out of the conflict, and they once again begin chasing down the monster. Brian and Bernie, forgetting about their guns, then decide to join in on the chase when they outright steal a motorcycle from the owner who was just parking it (though Bernie is able to make a promise to the owner that they'd return the bike). Niske, Botya, and Majes also join in on the chase by breaking in, hot-wiring, and stealing a car (and they forget about their guns, too).
As the chase commences, Bernie is able to show Brian, who is riding the motorcycle, the vial he got from Niske. Brian barely gives it a moment's thought before returning his attention to the road as the Man-Spider arrives at the Daily Bugle and begins spreading chaos throughout the building. He kills many people there on the night shift, including his boss, J. Jonah Jameson, while the police arrive a few minutes behind the monster and enter the building to hunt him down. Brian and Bernie arrive less than a minute later on the bike, and in spite of their hurry, Brian takes a look at the vial Bernie took and ponders what it is. He then remembers the reaction Niske had when she found out that she was missing something when it came to fighting the Man-Spider, and Bernie suggests that it maybe used to cure him. Brian asks why that would be possible, for turning Man-Spider back into Peter Parker would be a good thing; something unbecoming of the Antichrist. Bernie also brings up that it could be that Ugly Kid wants Peter to live further to endure more torture, just as he had Peter go through in the aftermath of saving Aunt May by serving the Antichrist; Brian considers it, but nevertheless concludes that whatever the case, the vial needs to be destroyed. He tries to smash it on the ground, but it doesn't break. Brian then tries to open it up to get rid of the contents out into the sewers, but it still won't do.
Suddenly, Niske, Botya, and Majes ride in on the car they stole, and seeing Brian with the vial, Botya proceeds to run both him and Bernie over so that he and his friends can retrieve the vial. In haste, Brian throws it through a sewer grate before he and Bernie roll out of the way of the car. The three demons then abandon the car and enter the sewers to retrieve the vial while Man-Spider, fresh from killing several Daily Bugle employees and cops, exits the Bugle by jumping out of a window and swinging off towards Forest Hills, Queens. Brian agrees to go after Man-Spider by stealing one of the cop cars while Bernie not only returns the motorcycle, but also retrieves their guns from the alley (he'll hail a cab over to Forest Hills).
At Forest Hills, Man-Spider is able to disappear through the suburbia of the area and discreetly enters the home of his Aunt May, though Brian, abandoning the police cruiser he stole, figures where his quarry could be and arrives there in advance . There, Man-Spider goes to his sleeping aunt to see her, and Brian attacks with a knife. May wakes up as Man-Spider and Brian fight, and, reacting in terror, screams and tries to run away. Her screams wake up the neighbours and alert the cops as to where Man-Spider could be. They track Man-Spider down just as May is able to escape her home in time, with Man-Spider and Brian now cornered by the police all around the perimeter of the house. At the same time as all this happens, Niske, Botya, and Majes were all able to locate the vial and return to their stolen car, killing the cops prepared to impound it, and drive off to Forest Hills (Niske interrogated the last surviving cop as to where Man-Spider could be before she killed him). Meanwhile, Bernie, having retrieved his own Heaven gun and Brian's, pays the cabbie extra to drive him to Forest Hills, even though it goes against the police's radio broadcast for all those outside the neighbourhood to stay away because of their search for the Man-Spider.
As the Man-Spider confronts and kills several of the cops who rush into Aunt May's home so that they could try and kill him, the showdown moves outside, where Man-Spider is able to evade the incoming bullets from the police blockade and kill several of them, including Officer Barr. Niske, Botya, and Majes arrive in the heat of the conflict, kill several cops themselves just as their attention is focussed onto Man-Spider, and the three demons get ever closer to the monster. Bernie arrives and fights Majes while Brian fights Botya, which distracts the two adolescents while Niske is able to confront Man-Spider head-on with the vial, now that all of the cops are either dead, unconscious, or absent because they took Aunt May back to the police station for her safety. Man-Spider and Niske get into a brief fight which Niske wins by opening up the vial and splashing the black liquid upon Man-Spider, which immediately reverts him back to Peter Parker. With that, Botya and Majes win their fights against Brian and Bernie, take their stolen car, and drive off just as the sun rises.
The episode ends with Peter, his head clearing mere moments after reverting back to normal, looks out among the scene of death and carnage he just caused. His thoughts are silent, numb about all that occurred, and he swings away; to where, and why, he hasn't figured out yet.