Act 2, Scene 16

The riverbank, about half a mile downriver. A figure washes up, crawling on its hands and knees. It's Spiderman. The remains of a spider-suit cling to him at various points. His mask is in tatters. Finally he loses all strength and collapses face-first. We see the skin on his back is mottling, fading into black before going back to normal and then back to black. It looks as if snakes are crawling beneath his skin. His head raises and we see the same is happening there - only his eyes are unaffected, but they scream of someone at the very end of their endurance for pain.

We hear a car screeching to a halt. Footsteps approach.

SPIDERMAN: MJ...

But it's not Mary-Jane. It's two men. They bend down and pick up Spiderman very gently, almost reverentially, before taking him to the back of a van.

CARRIER: We got him. Go.

The female driver nods in front and the van moves off. As we follow it, it passes a taxi going in the opposite direction. We linger long enough to see the passenger is a heartbroken Mary-Jane, little suspecting that the man she seeks has just been driven past her.

In the back, Spiderman tries to sit up.

SPIDERMAN: (weakly)Who are you...

The world swims. We cut to Mary Jane, running in slow-mo from the taxi to the water's edge before collapsing to her knees, sobbing helplessly.

SPIDERMAN: Mary-Jane…

He passes out again, and we see the world go black above him.