Act 1, Scene 2
An ornate desk, upon which rests the same paper Peter is reading.
HARRY: '…Spiderman.'
We see his hand curl reflexively at the name, crumpling the picture of Spiderman on the front page. Harry continues to read.
HARRY: 'For over three years now New Yorkers have lived beside this anonymous benefactor, this champion. Our fellow press delights in calling him villain, but this paper asks: what his Spiderman done except protect us when necessary from lunatics like Doc Ock or the Green Gob…'
He trails off and sits there in silence for a moment, his face betraying the inner furies raging within, the confusion.
NORMAN OSBORN (V/O): Harry…
Harry closes his eyes and grits his teeth.
HARRY: No…no, not you.
NORMAN: Lunatic. That's what they call me.
HARRY: You killed innocent people! You murdered the entire Oscorp board!
NORMAN: I did it for us, Harry! You and me! Look around you – everything you have, you to owe to me!
HARRY: Everything I have?!
He leaps up from his chair and whirls to face the full-length mirror. As ever, the dearly departed Norman Osborn – his father, the Green Goblin – is there looking back at him accusingly.
HARRY: I lost everything. Octavius saw to that. The house is all that's left.
NORMAN: The house…and everything in it.
We see a flash of the moment in Spiderman 2 where Harry discovers the hidden Goblin's cove behind the mirror from which his father speaks. The glider. The bombs. The outfit. Everything one needs to become a supervillain.
NORMAN: Rise again, son. Use what you have here! Restore our family, and destroy our enemies!
HARRY: Spiderman…
NORMAN: PETER PARKER!
Harry is agonised.
HARRY: He's my friend. He's always been my best friend.
NORMAN: He murdered me. You saw it. He knew who I was, didn't make any difference to him. Believe me, son…I would never have hurt Peter, but he came after me! He hunted me!
His face and voice change – it's the classic Osborn – Goblin switch.
NORMAN: He deserves to die. Him…and all he cares about.
Harry's agonised eyes open. They are clear and purposeful. He speaks to his father with a trace of backbone for the first time.
HARRY: No.
NORMAN: No?
HARRY: I'll never hurt MJ, or Aunt May. I'm not like you.
NORMAN: No, you're not. But you want to be, don't you Harry?
Harry doesn't reply.
NORMAN: And Parker? What about him? Will you make the same promise for him?
We can see the truth in Harry's eyes; whatever protection MJ and Aunt May could enjoy, the same cannot be said for Peter. A cold, cold hatred burns there.
HARRY: Leave me alone.
He walks away to the sound of his father/the Goblin's maniacal laughter…