Act 1, Scene 7
The Brooklyn Bridge. Spiderman lands on one of the girders. He looks up to see the Goblin standing above him, with Mary-Jane dangling from his left arm and a cable attached to a cable car full of children in his right. It is, of course, the end sequence from the first Spiderman movie.
GOBLIN: Spiderman! This is why only fools are heroes...because you never know when some lunatic will come along with a sadistic choice.
Terrified, Mary-Jane screams.
GOBLIN: Let die the woman you love...or suffer the little children.
The children in the cable car scream.
CHILD #1: Save us!
GOBLIN: Make your choice...and see how heroes are rewarded.
SPIDERMAN: Don't do it, Goblin!
GOBLIN: We are who we choose to be! Now...choose!
He releases MJ and the cable. And here is where things go wrong. Spiderman moves, sprinting and diving from the summit, to catch MJ and swing across to catch the car magnificently...
...except that he's not Spiderman anymore. The moment he jumped from the bridge, he's Peter Parker pre-Spiderman, wimpy nerd, glasses, the whole works. He reaches out a hand to web something, anything, and nothing happens. We see a flash of Mary-Jane's terrified face as she falls to her death, shortly before Peter himself, screaming, impacts the freezing waters below-
-we cut to Peter's apartment, Peter's bed. He sits bolt upright.
PETER: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Mary-Jane is up and beside him in an instant. Out the window we see lights go on across the street. Distant shouts of resentment filter through.
MARY-JANE: Peter...Peter, sssh, Peter...it was just a nightmare.
Peter runs a hand through his hair, his head between his knees. His whole body is shivering.
LANDLORD (V/O, FROM DOWNSTAIRS): Parker! Damn you, one more time and you are OUT, you hear me! Crazy son of a bitch!
Mary-Jane makes a face in the direction of the doorway. She hugs Peter, who's still trembling. Realisation dawns.
MARY-JANE: Again?
PETER: Again.
MARY-JANE: Peter, that's four times this month.
PETER: (getting out of bed and fixing himself a glass of water) I know.
MARY-JANE: I have to ask, Peter...why always the Goblin? Why do you never dream about Octavius, or any of the others?
Peter pauses with the glass at his lips.
PETER: Because I didn't want to kill any of the others.