Act 1, Scene 5

…a girl, falling, screaming her lungs out. Spiderman dives off a rooftop as she plummets toward the ground. He snags her with a webline and pulls her falling body to his own before using another webline to deposit them both to safety on the ground. The girl sobs hysterically, throwing her arms around Spiderman.

We hear the classic 'click-click-whirr' sound of a camera taking a picture, and Spiderman and the girl freeze in place for a moment, before the action resumes.

GIRL: Oh thank you, oh thank you, oh my God thank you-

SPIDERMAN: No problem…uh…really…you can let go now.

GIRL: No!!! I'll fall without you!!!

SPIDERMAN: Uh, we're on the ground. So no falling. Sorry, I got something to do.

Free from her grasp, he leaps and is gone. The girl stares after him, before her eyes roll back in her head and she collapses limply to the ground.

A helicopter zips and zags through the buildings. Four gun-toting men are inside, one flying, two guarding large cloth bags, one holding a gun on a middle-aged man.

HOOD #1: Is he gone? Did he catch her?

HOOD #2: No sign of him…and who cares? If he gets too close we've got another little distraction for him.

He's talking about the middle-aged man, who moans in fear.

HOOD #3: Hey man, I hear he nailed your cousin?

PILOT: Yeah, just last night. Antwon was the best damn driver in the city too.

HOOD #3: Well, if you wanna talk about it…

PILOT: Thanks m…what the-

Suspended between two buildings up ahead is the largest spiderweb ever constructed. Big enough, in fact, to trap one escaping helicopter. The pilot leans on the stick and the helicopter attempts to veer off, but it's too late; the thin but incredibly strong strands affix themselves to the craft and refuse to let go.

HOOD #1: Where is he? Where the hell is he?

HOOD #2: I don't see him. Let's give him something to think about.

HOSTAGE: Please, no…

But his cries fall on deaf ears. The hood grabs him with one meaty arm and tosses him out the open side door. The man's scream fills the night sky.

HOOD #3: You idiot! He was our last hostage!

We cut to Spiderman nimbly catching the falling man. As he does there is another rapid succession of 'click-click-whirr' noises - the entire sequence is being captured on camera.

SPIDERMAN: Do you trust me?

MAN: Why d – aaaagh!

Spiderman tosses him into the air in order to continue his pursuit of the helicopter. Without even looking his wrist shoots a safety web onto a nearby rooftop, which the man falls into…bounces back up and out of…and then falls back into again. We linger on his dazed face for a second before climbing high to rejoin Spiderman again.

Still trapped in the web, the crooks have given up trying to fly their way out of it. Realising they won't last long within the helicopter, they're now – very gingerly – climbing their way out. Spiderman swings towards them. He's spotted and they open fire, forcing Spiderman to execute another one of his ultra-flexible mid-air dodges. Web-bullets fire in response, knocking clear two of the crooks' guns. A burst of sustained webbing affixes the criminals to the web, pinning them in place.

Click-whirr.

We cut to see the photographer for the first time. He's a man of about forty, and he has a woman with him. They're looking up at the high-rise dramatics going on above their heads and wearing expressions approaching awe.

As the man repositions the camera to snap another few pictures we see a small spider-web tattoo on his wrist. The woman has one too, in the same place.

A police helicopter finally emerges on the scene, powerful searchlight illuminating proceedings. One of the crooks, the pilot, who has climbed to the top of the web like a rope ladder, looks down at Spiderman coming up after him. He levels his gun at the police helicopter, to Spiderman's horror.

PILOT: Can they dodge like you can?

SPIDERMAN: Don't-

A single shot rings out. The pilot twitches and slowly, ever so slowly topples from his perch. We follow his fall in slow-mo until he's caught, gently, by Spiderman and set down on a nearby rooftop. The man coughs blood as Spiderman checks his pulse and the entry wound of the bullet, somewhere around the sternum.

PILOT: Guess they really…can't dodge…huh?

SPIDERMAN: You'll be alright.

PILOT: You got…my cousin…too.

SPIDERMAN: You've gotta hold still.

PILOT: You know something? This really hurts.

And with that, he slips away and dies. Spiderman reaches over and closes his eyelids. As he does the police helicopter rises above the roof of the building, shining the searchlight on the body.

POLICE LOUDSPEAKER: REMAIN WHERE YOU ARE AND PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE…

Spiderman's nowhere to be seen, however. We cut to the interior of the police helicopter, where the officer speaking into the loudspeaker curses.

There's a knock to his left. Instinctively, he turns his head…and recoils in shock. Spiderman forcibly opens the side door of the helicopter. The sniper attempts to react, but his gun is slapped away. Spiderman grabs him. The pilot, unable to let go of the controls, is forced to witness.

SPIDERMAN: I had things under control. I was about to bring him in for you, do your job for you, and I would have left him alive.

SNIPER: They were throwing people out the door!

SPIDERMAN: For me to catch.

With a squeeze of his hand he destroys the sniper rifle.

SPIDERMAN: Next time you wanna help me…don't.

And with that, he's gone.