SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE MOVIE SCRIPT

OVER BLACK GWEN (V.O.) Let’s do things differently this time. Like SO differently. ON MILES... Or, rather, a photo of him tucked into the bass drum of “THE MARY JANES.” We see the drum vibrating-- someone is hitting it really hard -- but we don’t hear that yet... GWEN (V.O.) His name is Miles Morales. GWEN STACY, hitting those drums like it would even make a difference. GWEN (V.O.) He was bitten by a radioactive spider... FLASHBACK PANELS are inset on screen: Miles and Gwen bumping into each other at Visions... Miles getting bit... GWEN (V.O.) And he’s not the only one. Gwen getting bit... GWEN (V.O.) He hasn’t always had it easy... Miles watching his uncle AARON die... Miles’ dad JEFF unwittingly pulling a gun on his own son... GWEN (V.O.) And he’s not the only one... Gwen’s dad GEORGE pulls a gun on Gwen... GWEN (V.O.) And now he’s on his own... Gwen and Miles say goodbye... GWEN (V.O.) And he’s not the only one. ON GWEN - falling away from Miles until she disappears. 2. GWEN (V.O.) You think you know the rest. You don’t... I thought I knew the rest, but I didn’t. FLASHES of a frightening FUTURE -- as the drumbeat gets faster, louder, more intense... GWEN (V.O.) I didn’t want to hurt him, but I did... And he’s not the only one... EM JAY (O.S.) Gwen! Gwen!!! Yo! Def Leppard! INT. HIGH SCHOOL GYM - DAY We’re in CHELSEA, N.Y. of EARTH-65. Gwen’s dimension. In the middle of BAND PRACTICE for The Mary Janes. EM JAY, GLORY and BETTY stare blankly at their bandmate. GWEN Is the song over? Seems over. EM JAY Are you okay? Ugh. Here we go... GLORY You don’t hang out, you don’t want to talk -- GWEN I didn’t join a band so I could talk about my feelings -- BETTY Well I did. GWEN -- I joined it so I could hit my feelings with sticks! Gwen hits the drums; Glory DEADENS the cymbal with her hand. GLORY If you don’t tell someone what’s going on you’re gonna snap-- GWEN I’m fine. 2. 3. EM JAY That’s not how someone who’s fine would say that. GLORY They’d say “I’m great, thanks, how are you?!” GWEN I’m GREAT! Thanks!!! Gwen knocks over the drum kit. So punk, right? GWEN (CONT’D) How are you!? ... and storms off stage. GLORY Fine...? EM JAY Gwen, come on -- MJ I don’t get you, man. GWEN You’re right! Gwen SLAMS through the double doors. Peace. Betty breaks the ice: BETTY I play drums. EXT. CHELSEA - DAY Gwen walks against the foot traffic in her paint-streaked world... though she doesn’t move through it so much as it moves around her. Reflecting less how things are and more how she is... GWEN (V.O.) I always wanted to be in a band. Guess I just never found the right one. She hurries into the subway... GWEN (V.O.) In this line of work... you always wind up a solo act. 3. 4. ... but you can’t outrun a memory: GWEN (V.O.) Before Miles, there was Peter... INT. KITCHEN TABLE - NIGHT (FLASHBACK) A simpler time. A better haircut. Gwen scrolls through photos that Peter Parker (16) took of her on his camera. GWEN How many of these did you take? PETER I think you look great. A picture of Spider-Woman... GWEN Is this... that dangerous menace? PETER No. She seems like a good guy. GEORGE Why wear a mask if you’ve got nothing to hide? AUNT MAY Alright, no politics at the dinner table. GWEN Thank you, May. As the Parkers and Stacys say grace... GWEN (V.O.) But they didn’t really know me. And I didn’t really know him either. INT. SCHOOL - DAY (FLASHBACK) A BULLY, NED, PUNCHES Peter in the face, BREAKING his glasses with an onomatopoeic “CRRAAK!” Gwen comes to his defense: GWEN Touch him again, Ned! PETER Gwen, it’s okay. 4. 5. Off his look, MATCH CUT TO -- Peter, working on what we’ll come to learn is LIZARD FORMULA. GWEN (V.O.) ... until it was too late... DAYS LATER-- Gwen enters the PROM in THE GYM-A-TORIUM. GWEN Peter? Her spider-sense goes off. LIZARD shows up and TRASHES the place, cornering NED. Gwen (quickly changed into Spider-Woman) leaps into action, fights Lizard in an homage to a memorable moment from Amazing Spider-Man 1. Eventually she KICKS the reptilian through the wall behind the stage; the Lizard is CRUSHED by falling rubble... ... but he’s not dead: A HAND reaches out of the wreckage. A lizard hand... that then morphs into a HUMAN one... GWEN (CONT’D) What? No -- Gwen runs up and THROWS the rubble off with super-human strength, as Lizard transforms back to Peter. GWEN (CONT’D) No, what did you do?! PETER I just, wanted to be special... like you... Gwen... He tries to pull up her mask but she stops his hand. GWEN Gwen? Who’s Gwen? PETER Don’t worry. Everything’s gonna be okay... GWEN Don’t go -- PETER Everything’s gonna be okay. 5. 6. His hand drops. ... right as GEORGE ARRIVES in his captain’s uniform to find Spider-Woman kneeling over a dead kid. From this angle, we see how he’d think she killed this guy... and how she’d know he’d think that. ... so by the time he raises his weapon, she’s GONE. GEORGE Hey!! HEY!!! (then, realizing) Peter? Oh Peter... Gwen watches from the rafters, devastated. Her own father thinks she killed her best friend. GWEN (V.O.) I never really made another friend after that... EXT. CHELSEA - RIGHT NOW Gwen leaves the subway, her thoughts drifting to Miles... GWEN (V.O.) ... Except one. But he’s not here. And there’s no way to get there. LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE HOVERS around her. J. JONAH JAMESON (V.O.) Pressure mounts as Captain George Stacy leads the manhunt for SpiderWoman. Who is she? And why won’t she show her face? George stands resolute before a crowd of reporters. GEORGE I’ve known May and Ben Parker for twelve years. Peter Parker ate at my table. He was my daughter’s best friend. And I will not rest until I find the Spider-Woman! EXT./INT. STACY APARTMENT - LATER Gwen enters through the fire escape, trying not to -- GEORGE How’s the band? 6. 7. GWEN Uh, yea great. I quit. So, y’know, thumbs up. She hides in her room. Dad tries to keep the convo afloat: GEORGE We caught a break in the SpiderWoman case. GWEN Oh? That’s... good. GEORGE We’re close. I can feel it. GWEN Me too. Gwen gathers some clothes... GEORGE It’ll be good for us. GWEN (under her breath) Don’t be so sure... GEORGE She killed your friend. GWEN You don’t know that. GEORGE I do know that. I was there. She ran from the scene. GWEN Maybe she didn’t have a choice. That stings. GEORGE I got a job to do, Gwen-- GWEN It won’t bring him back. GEORGE I don’t want to argue about this-- GWEN Yeah, I can tell. 7. 8. Gwen packs her clothes. Might not sleep here tonight... GEORGE (taking a risk) Say... You too punk rock to give your old man a h-- Gwen flies across the room and wraps her father up in a hug. An over-hug, even, because... what if it’s the last one? George melts. It’s all he’s ever wanted... DISPATCHER (OVER GEORGE’S RADIO) All units... possible superhuman event... Guggenheim Museum... Of course. GEORGE (an apology) Hey. This could be it. DISPATCHER ... suspect is Adrian Toomes, also known as The Vulture... The Vulture?... GEORGE So, I’ll uh, see you later? Afraid so. GWEN Cool. IN GWEN’S ROOM - CONTINUOUS Gwen digs out a POLICE SCANNER from inside a cute STUFFED ANIMAL PENGUIN... or Spider-guin, if you will... oh you won’t? YURI (ON SCANNER) 49-20 on scene. It’s a real mess down here. We’re gonna need all the help we can get. She kicks open her BASS DRUM. Her SPIDER-WOMAN GEAR inside. THAT PICTURE of Miles catches her eye; if only he was here she’d have someone to talk to... ... but instead she pulls down her mask... 8. 9. GEORGE (ON SCANNER) This’s Captain Stacy, I’m five out. Need you to look alive. Good chance our girl shows up. ...and turns off the scanner. Yep. EXT. NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT Gwen swings out into the city. Balletic. Free in flight. It’s just simpler up here... ... because down there? It’s a MESS: EXT. THE PEGGY GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM - NIGHT Police everywhere. Choppers, the whole deal. George bursts out of his squad car; Officer YURI WATANABE immediately hands him a file with a picture of The Vulture -- or what he’s supposed to look like, anyway... GEORGE Yuri, explain to me how a guy with a forty foot wingspan just waltzed into the Guggenheim unnoticed? YURI It’s New York. Everyone’s got their thing -- An explosion. Screams. A strange MEDIEVAL ITALIAN VOICE? ADRIANO (O.S.) Arrivederci ragazzi! GEORGE Know what he wants? YURI Do you speak Italian? GEORGE I’m an Irish cop. YURI Maybe you love pasta or something. GEORGE Everybody on my signal -- Look out for signs of Spider-Woman! 9. 10. THWIP! Captain Stacy is pulled back by WEBBING. Yuri too. Within seconds the whole crew is WEBBED to their cars; George is also MUFFLED: GEORGE (CONT’D) Hey ymfghhmmf-- YURI Yep, we got our sign. Gwen drops down. GWEN (deep, accented voice) How’s the manhunt for me going? GEORGE (muffled) You’re under arrest! GWEN Good to know! And with that she backflips into the INT. GUGGENHEIM - CONTINUOUS Where her acrobatics land in a SMOKY LOBBY: GWEN Vulture! (shrugs) Screaming their name usually works. A silhouette flies up behind her -- WHAM! Gwen tumbles... GWEN (CONT’D) I guess that worked. She turns to the manic figure flapping above her, finally gets a good look at -- ADRIANO (medieval Italian accent) I am-a the Vulture! The pinnacle of man’s genius! Not Adrian Toomes but ADRIANO TUMINO -- and he looks like a drawing from DaVinci’s notebook. GWEN You’re not my Vulture. Are you... made of parchment? 10. 11. ADRIANO What cursed world have you brought me to--ARGHAHGASDFASDG!!! He GLITCHES. GWEN You’re glitching, huh? Been there. Where you from bud? ADRIANO I am an artist! An engineer! GWEN Oh great. A renaissance man. Gwen swings onto his back like a cowboy slowing a runaway mustang. GWEN (CONT’D) Let me guess: You were having an espresso in some old timey Leonardo da Vinci-dimension and suddenly a portal opens up and you wind up here. Am I warm? ADRIANO Yes, that’s pretty much it. The damage Vulture is causing looks... glitchy... GWEN Sidebar? Uh maybe you could stop making a mess of the art museum for no reason? Vutlure points to a huge Jeff Koons balloon animal sculpture. ADRIANO You call this art?! GWEN We’re talking about it, aren’t we? Vulture’s wings slice off the metal head of the balloon dog. Hundreds of regular size balloon dog sculptures spill out. MUSEUM-GOER Ooh, that’s cool. GWEN I mean it’s more of a metacommentary on what we call art, but it’s also art? 11. 12. Vulture slings her into Koons’ chromed bust of Louis XIV... GWEN (CONT’D) Oh look, it’s your cousin. Vulture’s had enough of her quips: his mechanical beak opens, revealing a FLAMETHROWER... GWEN (CONT’D) I wouldn’t play with fire dude, you’re kind of made of paper. Gwen evades the flames, but not the... HARPOON? It pins her to the wall; she braces for the end -- ADRIANO Ciao Ragazza. GWEN This such a stupid way to die. -- until a HARDLIGHT laser-web lassos Adriano’s arm. What the- -?! A HEXAGONAL PORTAL crowbars itself into the room. A blinding LIGHTSHOW. A sub-woofing SOUND PACKAGE. ... and then a blue and red BLUR bodyslams Adriano across the room. Gwen swings over for a closer look... at SPIDER-MAN 2099, aka MIGUEL O’HARA. He rises into view, cool and seemingly in control. Gwen notes his futuristic SPIDER-WATCH -- it flashes E-65... GWEN (CONT’D) I’m sorry, who exactly are you supposed to be? MIGUEL It’s classified. GWEN You’re The Blue Panther. MIGUEL No. GWEN The Caped Blue-sader? Dark Garfield. Macho Libre! MIGUEL (CONT’D) No. I’m-- No, stop-- 12. 13. MIGUEL (CONT’D) I’m from another dimension. GWEN You are?! Wow... actually I’m not confused. MIGUEL My name is Miguel O’Hara. I lead an elite strike force dedicated to the security of the multi-verse-- A MIGUEL COMIC drops. A cool stylized intro begins... ... and immediately ends. GWEN Actually, forget it. Can you go to any dimension you want with that watch? MIGUEL It’s much cooler than a watch. GWEN Okay. Sensitive. Look, there’s a big flying turkey from the Renaissance I have to bring to justice so if you don’t mind -- MIGUEL It’s alright, kid. I’ll take it from here. Gwen looks behind him... GWEN Okay. Knock yourself out. MIGUEL Why are you saying it like that? BAM! Vulture wrecking-balls Miguel from behind. That’s why. MIGUEL (CONT’D) You’re not funny!! GWEN I don’t know... As Gwen and Miguel engage Vulture... George leads some cops into the main atrium. He looks up at the three fighting. Typical super hero nonsense... 13. 14. MIGUEL Been really fun cleaning up your shocking mess by the way. GWEN What mess? MIGUEL Kingpin’s collider! ADRIANO What are you guys talking about? MIGUEL You shut up! Callate! GWEN None of your business! Nosy! GWEN (CONT’D) (to Miguel) We saved the multi-verse! MIGUEL You left a hole wide enough for guys like him to randomly get shot into the wrong dimension. Vulture bulldozes another art installation. George is nearly crushed by a big bronze lobster. MIGUEL (CONT’D) Now I’m stuck putting everybody back where they belong before all of time and space collapses. And don’t even get me started on Dr. Strange and the little nerd back on Earth-199999. GWEN Who’s Doctor Strange? Sounds like he maybe shouldn’t practice medicine -- Gwen webs George to a wall, keeping him out of harm’s way. GWEN (CONT’D) (deep, accented voice) Sorry Captain, can’t talk right now. ADRIANO Attenzione! The Vulture laughs maniacally as he releases hundreds of Da Vinci styled wooden drones... 14. 15. GWEN (to Miguel) So you want me to handle this one, or-- Miguel masterfully destroys the drones in one awesome swoop. GWEN (CONT’D) Huh, okay. Miguel tears one of Vulture’s wings off; Adriano immediately REBUILDS it out of thin air as if he were drawing it in a Da Vinci codex... MIGUEL Ay por dios! He’s got hammerspace!* [*an infinite extra-dimensional storage area for cartoon hammers and the like -Ed.] MIGUEL (CONT’D) LYLA! Can you please, you know... LYLA -- Miguel’s A.I. HOLOGRAM assistant -- appears: LYLA Nah, you gotta say it first. MIGUEL (so quiet) Call for backup. LYLA What? MIGUEL (through gritted teeth) Call for backup. LYLA C’mon... MIGUEL Please just call for-- LYLA Yeah, I already called her. (off Miguel’s wince) But I enjoyed that. A NEW PORTAL emits a very rad and also pregnant JESS DREW, SPIDER-WOMAN of Earth-332. She THROTTLES Vulture, stripping his feathers off his back with the wheels of her badass MOTORCYCLE... 15. 16. ... before landing with a 720°exclamation point. JESS (introducing herself) Spider-Woman. GWEN (awed) Me too. Gwen looks at Jess’ belly. GWEN (CONT’D) Are you? Uh... JESS Oh this? We don’t know the sex yet, my husband wants it to be a surprise. He’s really corny, but SO hot. GWEN Will you adopt me? JESS What? GWEN (CONT’D) What? MIGUEL GUYS!!! Can we focus on the big fire-breathing threat to time and space please? JESS Yep yep yep yep yep yep. Jess PEELS OUT. Gwen swings and heels Vulture in the mandible. Damn. JESS (CONT’D) What about her? MIGUEL No. JESS We could use the help. MIGUEL No. JESS Is it cause she called you Dark Garfield? 16. 17. MIGUEL No. JESS Do you say anything but “no?” MIGUEL No. ...yes. JESS Why not? MIGUEL You know why. Miguel leaps onto Vulture, clawing his way in past the renaissance armor. He’s an ANIMAL. ADRIANO Take a good look at my greek fire from my backpack. Vulture SLINGSHOTS one of his homemade bombs through the ceiling, sending glass shattering down into the hall. MIGUEL DON’T LET HIM OUT! He’ll disrupt the canon! Vulture activates sulfuric boosters, soars upwards. Miguel still on his back as he finally reaches open sky... ... and PAUSES, taken aback by the sheer beauty of this astoundingly colorful new world he is in: ADRIANO Che meravigliosa bellezza. MIGUEL You get used to it. Miguel bares his fangs, about to put this bird to sleep -- SHING! A BRIGHT LIGHT BLINDS THEM BOTH -- A POLICE HELICOPTER meddling with Miguel’s kill! CHOPPER COPPER GO TO THE GROUND. MIGUEL Will you get out of here?! CHOP COP WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED! 17. 18. MIGUEL But I’m a good guy! CHOP COP YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE A GOOD GUY. MIGUEL You’re just gonna have to shut up and trust me! Adriano launches a flock of medieval blades that SLASH into the helicopter, send it spinning down into the building... CHOP COP MAYDAY! MAYDAY! CLEAR THE BUILDING! Gwen takes stock of everyone in harm’s way. INCLUDING GEORGE. She LISTENS as the rotor beats just like the beat of her drumkit. She locks in on the rhythm... and leaps into action: She spins a MASSIVE WEB from one side of the room to the other as she flies through the helicopter bay door and rescues the pilots. She’s more than a pro -- she’s an artist. Jess and Miguel follow her lead, using Gwen’s web to slow the plummeting helicopter. A solo act could never pull this off. But a trio? This trio? It’s like a symphony... ... that finally stops the chopper mere inches from the floor. The crowd gawks in awe... MANSPLAINER Yeah, I think it’s a Banksy. Gwen is proud to earn a nod from Jess... who then looks pointedly at Miguel. Told you she’s special. Miguel, noselling it: MIGUEL (re: Gwen’s moves) That’s what I was gonna do. Miguel picks a tied-up Vulture up off the floor. As he cleans up GWEN finally collapses in the rubble, exhausted... ... but her SPIDER-SENSE won’t let her rest -- Because GEORGE STACY has his GUN pointed right at her. She tries to yank the weapon out of his hand -- but she’s OUT OF FLUID! 18. 19. GEORGE HANDS IN THE AIR! GWEN Captain. Come on. Her voice shakes. His hand does not. GEORGE Suspect is armed. GWEN With what? I’m out of webs. GEORGE Get down on the ground. GWEN (tries a joke) Which is it? Hands in the air or get down on the ground? GEORGE You’re under arrest -- GWEN I just saved a bunch of people! GEORGE -- for the murder of Peter Parker. GWEN Captain, come on, I -- GEORGE You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say -- GWEN You don’t understand!-- He FIRES a warning shot in the air. GEORGE You don’t understand. She’s out of options. A face off between his reality and hers. ... and so the only thing left to do is tell the truth: Gwen takes off her mask. 19. 20. George takes a step back. Processing. GWEN Dad... I’ve thought about telling you, but you can see why I didn’t want to... I didn’t murder Peter. I didn’t know it was him. I didn’t have a choice. What’s he even supposed to say? Every version of this is going to be hard... So he takes the easy way out: GEORGE How long have you been lying to me? GWEN Can you just not be a cop for a second and be my dad and listen to me? Do you really think I’m a murderer? No. Yes. He doesn’t know what to say. GWEN (CONT’D) You’re in this to help people, right? How could my girl... GWEN (CONT’D) Well so am I. And the way to help right now is to listen to me. My sweet girl... GWEN (CONT’D) Please, you’re all I have left. ... GEORGE You have the right to remain silentGWEN What? GEORGE Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law-- GWEN Are you really this afraid of me?! 20. 21. He barely holds it together. GEORGE You have the right to an attorney-- GWEN Dad! Stop! GEORGE Don’t get any closer! She pulls her arm out towards him. He instinctively lifts his weapon -- That’s enough. Hardlight webs grab the gun as Miguel disarms George and traps him in a glowing CONTAINMENT FIELD (it won’t be the last time we see one). The harder George fights, the tighter it binds him... [Metaphor Alert - Ed.] GWEN Dad!!! Jess drops in and pulls Gwen towards her. JESS Hey hey hey. C’mon. Just breathe. We got you. Right Miguel? A challenge from Jess. Miguel will have none of it: MIGUEL LYLA, scan this mess. LYLA scans the room. LYLA No further anomalies. Canon remains intact. Miguel activates a PORTAL and throws Vulture into it. JESS We can’t just leave her here. She’s doing this on her own. Gwen barely hears them. Her eyes are locked on George. GWEN I don’t know how to fix this. Jess looks at Miguel. Into him. 21. 22. ... and something -- is that a fatherly instinct? -- kicks in. Barely: MIGUEL Yeah, well... join the club. Miguel tosses Gwen a WATCH. She takes it in -- a way to escape. To be understood. One last look at George... as Miguel and Jess disappear... and then Gwen TURNS into the light... And our opening credits DROP. TURN IT UP. - A subway train rushes past. - People waiting on the subway station. - Folks walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. We don’t need a title card to tell us we’re in BROOKLYN - EARTH-1610 (MILES’ DIMENSION) INT. COLLEGE COUNSELOR'S OFFICE - DAY Teachers and students fill the Visions Academy office. Filling out paperwork, waiting for appointments, etc. Rio and Jeff sit before MS. WEBER, a COLLEGE COUNSELOR. RIO I know he's just a sophomore but we want to get a jump on the college conversation, so, I'm sure he's gonna be here. Any minute. JEFF He's very serious about his future. A STARE OF DOOM from Weber, who’s heard it all before. INT. BODEGA - DAY A DING-DONG! 22. 23. -- announces the arrival of a total ding-dong: Johnathon Ohnn, aka THE SPOT, a goofy-looking villain-of-the-week covered in HOLES. He casually passes by LENNY, the shop ownerSPOT Excuse me, do you have an ATM Machine? LENNY Yeah, around here in the back. SPOT Preferably not chained to the wall? Spot stops in front of the ATM. SPOT (CONT’D) Should be simple enough. Just make a hole, grab the money. He peels a spot off his body(!) and places it onto the ATM, then pushes his hand through it to grab the cash inside. SPOT (CONT’D) Where are you money? C’mere-- Spot accidentally makes another hole over by the soda -- dang it -- then one behind his head -- hold on -- a big hole under the machine -- uh oh -- which the ATM falls halfway into and gets STUCK. Through a window, Lenny sees the bottom half of the ATM pop up in the middle of the street. PEDESTRIAN Hey, who left this ATM on the sidewalk?! As Spot tries to slam the rest of the ATM through the floor: LENNY Yo! What you doin' back there, man? SPOT Sorry, sir, I’ll just be a moment-- Lenny comes at Spot with a BAT! LENNY Get yourself out of here! Spot evades by portaling in and out of the different aisles like those Whac-A-Mole* games at arcades. 23. 24. [*code name alert -Ed.] SPOT Sir, please just let me rob you! LENNY I'm going to rob your little spotted face. A familiar gloved HAND enters frame to snag a BEEF PATTY from the deli case and place it in the microwave. SPOT Well see I'm a scientist -- or I was -- I am. You heard of Alchemax? Well, I used to work there... I was actually considered handsome by scientist standards... anyway I had a little accident -- The microwave BEEPS. A web THWIPS open the microwave. Lenny swings the bat through a hole and into his own face. SPOT (CONT’D) Sorry! First of all I'm not even robbing you, I mean this ATM machine doesn't even belong to you, right? This belongs to the bank! They're the real criminals. LENNY You're the real criminal! You're robbing me! SPOT I can’t really get a job anywhere anymore being like this so I’ve turned to a life of crime -- MILES MORALES drops into frame upside-down. A classic entrance for SPIDER-MAN. MILES Why do people say ATM Machine? The “M” stands for “Machine.” SPOT Spider-Man! AAAH!! Spot stumbles backwards into one of his own holes and gets portaled into the snack aisle. 24. 25. MILES Hey Lenny, how much I owe you for this beef patty, man? LENNY Spidey, if you catch him, it's on the house. Spot hops to his feat, excited. SPOT Spider-Man. Wow. This is real! MILES So... are you like a cow or a dalmatian? SPOT I am... (dramatic pause) The Spot. Miles LAUGHS. SPOT (CONT’D) We meet again, Spider-Man. A loaf of bread slides out of a hole in Spot’s stomach. Miles laughs HARDER. SPOT (CONT’D) Oh that’s funny to you? MILES Of course not. So is that a costume? SPOT Unfortunately for both of us, this is skin. MILES Oh dang. SPOT I’m from your past. You see, one year ago... VVVVP! MILES Hold up-- Miles gets a TEXT from DAD: “Where are you?!” 25. 26. MILES (CONT’D) Uh oh. Well this has been fun, but I really gotta wrap this up. Miles tries to web Spot; Spot reflexively holes the webs right back at Miles’ face. Miles is trapped in a FACE-PALM. Lenny asses this from behind the counter: LENNY Maybe just pay me now. EXT. AVENUE OF PUERTO RICO - CONTINUOUS As Miles runs out in pursuit of Spot... MILES (V.O.) Ok, let’s do this one last time. A TITLE SLAPS on the screen. “MILES MORALES” We are now in a HAND DRAWN notebook. Everything is illustrated by an untrained, if talented, TEENAGER... MILES (V.O.) My name is Miles Morales. I was bitten by a radioactive spider. And for the last year and four months I’ve been Brooklyn’s one and only Spider-Man. Miles is drawn heroically on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. MILES (V.O.) And things are going...great. BACK TO REALITY: Miles falls out of a Spot-hole straight into a hot dog cart. MILES Come on, man. You could hurt somebody! Miles webs a flying CAB before it crashes into a newsstand. MILES’ NOTEBOOK: MILES (V.O.) Catching all sorts of bad guys... 26. 27. Miles fights various villains with ease! BUT NOT RIGHT NOW: Miles punches Spot but his arm goes through Spot’s face-hole and Miles cracks himself in the nose. MILES Can’t you just act like a regular supervillain so I can catch you? NOTEBOOK: - Miles draws a new SUIT in time-lapse... MILES (V.O.) I designed my new suit, with some fly ambiance down the side. The drawing of Miles approves. - Aunt May chills in front of a SOLD sign, leaving Miles to carry a mountain of boxes into a MOVING VAN. MILES (V.O.) Aunt May moved to Florida. - Miles at the Jeopardy podium. MILES (V.O.) I guest hosted Jeopardy. - Ad for baby powder with Miles in his Spidey-suit. “With Great Powder™ Comes Great Responsibility.” MILES (V.O.) Endorsed baby powder. - A NEWS SEGMENT tells the public that baby powder is bad. MILES (V.O.) Apologized for endorsing baby powder... MILES (ON T.V.) I made a mistake. - A MUSTACHE pokes through Miles’ mask. Bystanders agog. MILES (V.O.) My mustache came in... and out. - Miles is back on the news: 27. 28. MILES (ON T.V.) I made another mistake. - Miles grapples with a GIANT ROBOT. MILES (V.O.) I’m developing a new twist on my venom thing. Miles’ hands ABSORB electricity from the robot... which falls backwards into an ELECTRICAL PLANT... causing a BLACKOUT. MILES Sorry! - Miles and his family watching TV together. J. JONAH JAMESON (ON TV) New Spider-Man, you’re a public menace! I miss the old Spider-Man, always loved that guy and I always said it. MILES (V.O.) How much longer can I keep lying about who I really am? RIO I hear that new Spider-Man is Puerto Rican. MILES (awkward laugh) He seems more Dominican to me! MILES (V.O.) I mean, would they get it if I told them? Jeff and Rio HUG Miles... JEFF / RIO We love you and accept you even though you have been lying to us for a year! ... but that’s just a fantasy, of course: MILES (V.O.) ... maybe in some other universe. - Miles rests atop a CLOCK TOWER, looking out at the city. 28. 29. MILES (V.O.) Sometimes I just wish I wasn’t the only one. But I don’t dwell on it. - Miles sketches Gwen in his notebook. A lot. Multiple pages of Gwen drawings. Too many. MILES (V.O.) I miss my Uncle sometimes... - Next to the Great Expectations mural, Miles spray paints a portrait of his spider friends from the first film. AARON (FLASHBACK) Miles, I see exactly what you’re doing here man. MILES (V.O.) Even though he turned out to be the Prowler... - Flashes of Uncle Aaron / the Prowler from the first film. Including Aaron’s last words to Miles before he dies: MILES (V.O.) I try to do what he told me... “Just keep going.” VVVP! DAD: “Where are you?!?” BACK TO REALITY: Miles and Spot fight on top of a bus. Miles is distracted by his father’s texts. DAD: “We’re waiting!” SPOT You’re looking at your texts? You understand this is the fight of our lives right? DAD: “THIS IS IMPORKAGE.” MILES Sorry sorry, just a second, man. DAD: “*IMPFORFKANT.” 29. 30. SPOT No! Go ahead. Take the call. You turn off your phone in a movie theater, but you don’t turn it off when you’re fighting me? DAD: “*IMPORTANT!” Miles texts back -- COUNSELOR'S OFFICE JEFF "Inaminut." He wrote it all as one word. Cute, right? The youth. Weber is... unmoved. IN THE STREETS Miles THROWS Spot onto the pavement. SPOT Oh my nose! Ah that really hurt! MILES Sorry, I just really gotta be somewhere -- SPOT Sike. Spot opens a hole under Miles, who falls through MID-TEXT... IN THE COUNSELOR'S OFFICE JEFF There's bubbles now, hold on... Miles and Spot tumble past the window behind Jeff. No one notices. JEFF (CONT’D) Still bubbles... (puts phone away) Y'know, I think it’s probably okay. 30. 31. OUTSIDE Spot, Miles, and somehow A GOOSE land on top of a car about to go through an automated carwash. SPOT I think this is going great. We’re finding our rhythm! Another portal dumps them right into FOAM PARTY - A HIPSTER COFFEE SHOP Spot and Miles land hard, sending suds and water everywhere. SPOT I’ve been waiting for this moment for a really long time, so -- They try to fight but just slip and slide pathetically. The goose HONKS like an ace record-scratcher scratching. SPOT (CONT’D) Hey where did this goose come from? Two kids wear different Spider-Man masks. The kid with a Miles mask takes it off. KID WITH SPIDER-MAN MASK I don't think I want this costume anymore. MILES (texting) Almost there, Mami, smiley face... prayer hands. Miles sling-kicks Spot through a hole and onto a EXT. ROOFTOP - DAY Where Spot throws a flurry of hole-punches... SPOT I got you right where I--AOUGH! ... but Miles finally has the hang of this: he redirects Spot’s FIST back through the hole where it connects with Spot’s own temple-- THWAK! 31. 32. MILES (V.O.) At the end of the day... I’m Spider-Man. Miles shows off his skills by turning Spot into a human (?) pretzel. Miles has grown into a fully fledged Spider-Man. MILES (V.O.) And no one can take that away from me. He pats Spot on the head dismissively and swings away. MILES Don't escape! SPOT Unbelievable! Come back to the your nemesis! (then) Your costume’s too tight in the back by the way. INT./EXT. VISION ACADEMY - DAY Miles swings through an open window and races through his DORM ROOM as he quick-changes into his school uniform. MILES Yo, wassup, man? His roommate GANKE plays video games in bed. GANKE I’m writing an essay. MILES There’s a bad guy on the roof of the Peterson building. Can you call the police, tell em to pick him up? GANKE I don’t know... sounds like a slippery slope. MILES Just this one time? 32. 33. GANKE It’s starts with one call, then it’s walkie talkies, synchronized watches, in a month it’ll be a spider signal. I’m not your “guy in the chair.” MILES Are those my Jordans? Um. Maybe? GANKE I can’t help it if we’re the same size! Miles THWIPS his shoes right off Ganke’s feet. IN THE HALL The coast is clear for Miles until The BELL RINGS. Students flood the hallway. Miles leaps to the ceiling and, invisible, crawls OVER them. IN THE COUNSELOR’S OFFICE WEBER Every person is a universe. And my job is to capture your person’s universe on this piece of paper. Weber holds up the sheet. JEFF That’s blank. WEBER Exactly. I have no idea who this kid is. I don’t know if HE knows... ON MILES, wincing just outside the door. He GIRDS himself... WEBER (CONT’D) And he’s gotta decide if he’s going to commit himself to his future... Or whatever he’s doing instead of being here. Can’t have your cake and eat it too -- ... and bursts in, ALL SMILES... 33. 34. MILES Unless you bake two cakes! JEFF / RIO Miles! WEBER (writing) Interest in comedy... MILES How’s this going? College! Wootwoot! JEFF Now son, what do we always say? JEFF (CONT’D) On time means five minutes early -- RIO On time means five minutes early -- MILES -- five minutes early, I know, I know. Look, I gotta get back to being a great student so can we make this quick? Miles plops into a seat. Rio’s LOOK straightens his posture. WEBER Okay, Miles’ grades are pretty good. A in AP Physics. RIO That’s my little man! WEBER And AP Studio Art. JEFF (proud) He takes after his uncle. WEBER A- in English. RIO She’s a tough grader. WEBER And a B in Spanish -- RIO WHAT?! 34. 35. RIO (CONT’D) Miles. Mira. Esto es imposible. ¿Verdad? JEFF Are you trying to kill your mother?! Ok, it’s okay, it’s okay. MILES Calmate Mami, eso no es my fault. RIO ¿Qué es esto que “no es my fault?” ¿Estás tomando una clase en Spanglish? MILES Mom, I just missed a few classes -- JEFF “Just a few classes.” What’s a few? MILES I mean, y’know, like... five? JEFF AND RIO FIVE?! WEBER Actually six. RIO You’re dead. JEFF A truant. (exasperated) Takes after his uncle. MILES I just have a lot going on... WEBER Alright, we can still salvage this. JEFF I’m sorry, ‘salvage’? WEBER Miles has a great story to tell. MILES Having a story at all seems gross. WEBER Your name is Miles Morales. (too much accent) 35. 36. MILES Correct. WEBER You grew up in a struggling immigrant family. RIO I’m from Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is part of America. JEFF We own a floor in Brooklyn. Struggling? I don’t know about struggling. WEBER It doesn’t matter -- you’re all struggling. JEFF -- I make captain next week -- WEBER And now his dream is to attend the top physics program in the nation -- RIO Whatever it takes, we’ll do it. WEBER -- at Princeton University. RIO In New Jersey?! No. That’s too far. MILES New Jersey’s too far from New York? RIO There’s great schools in Brooklyn. MILES Princeton has the best quantum researchers in the country. JEFF (trying to hang) Quantum radiation, mmm hmm. MILES They’re moving electrons across dimensional thresholds. 36. 37. JEFF Electrons, uh-huh. MILES They’re studying dark matter! JEFF Yeah, I don’t know what any of that means. MILES I could help figure out how to travel to other dimensions. JEFF Oh yeah that sounds like a really good fake job. MILES Dad. When you were my age you followed your dream and went out on your own to start a business with Uncle Aaron, right? JEFF That’s different -- we used to-- see, when you were born -- plus your mom used to-- Rio glares at Jeff. Not gonna finish that sentence. JEFF (CONT’D) Look, life is a journey. MILES You all got me into this school because you thought I could do something special and now I think so too. And the special thing I want to do is this. There are people out there who can teach me the things I want to learn... but they aren’t all in Brooklyn. Rio and Jeff trade looks. This is a lot to swallow. Weber SLAMS her hand on the desk. WEBER That’s your story! (then) Now, just stick to the script... 37. 38. This all appears to give Miles a migraine. But we know it’s actually ... HIS SPIDER-SENSE. Miles squints out the window. Spot is free. MILES (V.O.) Are you kidding me? Miles jerks out of his seat... MILES Ooh. I gotta go. RIO !Ay Dios mío! MILES You guys just keep talking. This is all great stuff. RIO Miles, wait -- did you order the cake for tonight? MILES Totally, y’know, call me! Uh, I gotta go, alright? Bye! ... and then he’s GONE. Rio, chafed: RIO This kid. I swear, what are we going to do with him? Before Jeff can respond, his radio crackles to life: DISPATCHER (OVER RADIO) All units. Supervillain event in progress, Brooklyn precinct south of 42 and -- JEFF I gotta go too. RIO What, you’re gonna leave too? Why am I still here? JEFF I know. I’m so sorry. But we’ll figure it out. 38. JEFF (CONT’D) 39. (selling it) Together. And then he’s gone too, the door slamming behind him. RIO Wow. (to Weber) I’m so sorry. WEBER He’s lying to you. RIO Jeff? WEBER Your son. He’s lying. And I think you know it. Off Rio’s look -- INT. MILES’ DORM ROOM - DAY We find Miles changing BACK into his Spider-Man costume -- exactly the way he came in. MILES How’s your essay? Ganke is still on the bed playing video games. GANKE Marinating. This is part of my process. MILES Oh really? Visible out the window: Spot portals around with the ATM. GANKE I think your guy got away. MILES Thanks, I’m on it. GANKE Yea you seem really stressed. MILES I agree! JEFF (CONT’D) 39. 40. GANKE You’re stretched too thin, I’ve been telling you. MILES Yeah, alright. Thanks for the tip. Miles swings out of his dorm room and is immediately T-BONED by Spot. WITH RIO Walking through Visions’ elevated walkway, oblivious that out the window Spider-Man and Spot are tussling in mid-air. RIO (into the phone) That was bad. JEFF (O.S.) I know. WITH JEFF as he RUNS out of the school -- RIO (O.S.) What is going on with this kid? JEFF I don’t know!! The ATM CRASHES through the roof of Jeff’s police car. Miles and Spot APPEAR inside: JEFF (CONT’D) Spider-Man! MILES Officer Morales! I mean -- (deep accented voice) Officer Morales. SPOT This is not what it looks like. He’s assaulting me. Miles and Spot portal away, knocking over a SCULPTURE and generally wrecking Visions. As Jeff gives chase: JEFF Hey! My kid goes here, man! 40. 41. Jeff is nearly run over by a giant bouncing bronze MOLECULE: JEFF (CONT’D) I’m on the PTA! You know how many lemon bars I gotta bake for that? SPOT He left in the middle of a fight! MILES I did not! It was at the end. JEFF Are you serious?! SPOT It was inconsiderate and super rude. And a little cocky. As Miles and Spot engage in a weird slap fight: JEFF You got me agreeing with the bad guy right now. MILES Bad guy? He’s barely a villain of the week! SPOT What did you call me? You realize I’m right here. MILES Everything is -- Miles and Jeff are sucked through a spot hole and INTO A WATER TOWER MILES (underwater) -- under control! Another hole FLUSHES them out into... EXT. COLLIDER SITE - DAY ... the upper edge of a familiar construction site: ALCHEMAX. The site of the COLLIDER from the first film -- aka the source of this inter-dimensional mess. As Spot clocks a SIGN: 41. 42. SPOT (chuckles) Of course we’d end up back here... Miles and Jeff, in the meantime, try to catch their breath from that wild ride -- JEFF (to Miles) Unbelievable. You know what? You are just like my son. MILES I am?! Haha that’s so silly! Wha--? Imagine that. Miles looks up. Spot is running STRAIGHT FOR THEM. SPOT ... back where it all STARTED! Miles shoves Jeff to safety just as Spot tackles Miles into a SPOT HOLE that launches them deep into the construction pit. SPOT (CONT’D) The crucible of our connection! MILES Don’t try to wow me with big words. I do the crossword every day. Jeff, left behind, readies himself to jump into the scary SPOT HOLE... ... then opts for the stairs instead. IN THE PIT: Spot and Miles tumble past the wreckage of the collider... SPOT Is it all coming back to you? MILES What are you talking about? SPOT The creation event! ON JEFF, climbing down a ladder, getting a phone call -- JEFF (INTO PHONE) Yeah? 42. 43. RIO (OVER PHONE) Ok, we got cut off. This is our son we’re talking about. Nothing is more important than family. WHAM! Miles and Spot come portaling right through the ladder, sending Jeff falling to certain death. Miles, acting quickly, THWIPS Jeff to safety on some nearby scaffolding... JEFF (INTO PHONE) I’m kinda in the middle of something. ... while Spot and Miles land at the foot of the collider site. SPOT Destiny brought us here! You see it now, don’t you? MILES I really don’t? SPOT I am your nemesis! Spot throws portals at Miles; Miles dodges with ease... MILES Dude, you are not. SPOT You really don’t remember what you did to me... what I did for you? MILES Uh... no. SPOT I worked at Alchemax. I ran a test on this collider that brought a spider here from another dimension. FLASHBACK into Spot’s memories -- - The collider opens a portal to another dimension. A SPIDER in a terrarium is sucked up into a portal and lands in a chamber in the collider’s BEAM. - DR. JOHNATHON OHNN labels this spider 42 as Liv (Doc Ock) watches over his shoulder: LIV 42. 43. 44. DR. OHNN (nodding) Its home dimension. - Spider 42 escapes the lab and ends up biting Miles in the subway station. SPOT (V.O.) ... it escaped and bit you. My spider made you Spider-Man. ON MILES taking this in. MILES What? SPOT You ran through the cafeteria. FLASHBACK: - Miles and Peter B Parker run through the Alchemax cafeteria. Remember, from the last movie? SCIENTIST (FLASHBACK) He took a bagel! - Miles nails Ohnn in the head with a bagel. SPOT (V.O.) You hit me with a bagel! BACK TO REALITY: MILES I’ve hit a lot of different villains with a lot of different food. Jeff, finally catching up to the other two, slides down to the bottom of the site and joins Miles... ... just as Spot’s rage BOILS OVER... LITERALLY: DARK MATTER SEEPS OUT OF HIS BODY, A FREAKY DISPLAY: SPOT You make your flippy, little sassy jokes and everyone loves them. But no one knows what it feels like to be on the other side. MILES I’m just trying to lighten the mood. 44. 45. SPOT I created you. You created me. JEFF Spider-Man, why’d you create that guy? MILES I didn’t! He’s talking crazy. SPOT I was in this collider room when you blew it up! FLASHBACK : - Miles BLASTS Kingpin into the collider, EXPLODING it. - Ohnn, carrying a DARK MATTER canister, gets BOMBARDED by the collider’s energy. - Ohnn, now a steaming, quantum mess, watches in horror as the first spots form on his body -- - Ohnn, his horrific transformation into Spot complete, looks up at Miles after the collider blast: SPOT (V.O.) Because of you, I lost my job, my life, my face! My family won’t even look at me! - Parents, scientists, passersby point and laugh at Spot. BACK TO REALITY: SPOT I made you into a hero! You made me into THIS. Look at me. You did this to me! Spot runs at Miles. He’s crackling with energy, a much more imposing figure than he was only moments ago. Will he finally land a blow? SPOT (CONT’D) Look at me! I’ll make you respect mNOPE: Spot literally KICKS HIS OWN ASS into a portal. SPOT (CONT’D) I am your nemes--!! The portal closes up. He’s GONE. 45. 46. JEFF Where’d he go? MILES He... kicked his own butt. JEFF Y’know we’re supposed to CATCH the bad guys, right? MILES I always do... Jeff walks away. EXT. COLLIDER SITE - CONTINUOUS Miles follows Jeff out of the construction pit. MILES ... usually. Overhead, a police car dangles from a sky-bound portal. JEFF (into walkie) Gutierrez, get the crane, man! Jeff walks off, upset. Miles doesn’t know what to say. JEFF (CONT’D) This here is why nobody likes us man... MILES (still in his weird low ‘Brooklyn’ accent:) Us? JEFF I am trying to do right out here. MILES I mean, I’m trying too. JEFF And you need to be a better role model. MILES I’m a great role model. 46. 47. The police car finally drops from the portal and into the ground, sending a port-a-potty flying. JEFF (into walkie, staring at Miles) Gutierrez. Cancel the crane. Jeff punts a traffic cone in frustration. MILES Do you... want to talk about it? JEFF Are you crazy?! MILES Well, men of your generation ignore their mental health too long. JEFF What am I even doing? ‘Cause no matter what I do someone always thinks I’m blowing it. Miles gingerly approaches. They both stare out at the overlook of the construction site as if it were an ocean. MILES I know the feeling. (then) So, your son... how’s he doing? You think he’s gonna figure it all out? JEFF Honestly? MILES Yeah... ? JEFF He’s a good kid. MILES Yeah?! JEFF It’s scary. He says these things that are so smart... MILES Cool. Well, I should probably -- 47. 48. JEFF And then he does things that are so stupid. Damn. JEFF (CONT’D) I just don’t want him to mess it up. MILES (muttering) Maybe get off the kid’s ass -- JEFF I’m sorry what? MILES What? I don’t know? JEFF And I hate that he’s not being honest with me. MILES Maybe he’s scared to talk to you. JEFF WHY WOULD ANYONE BE SCARED TO TALK TO ME?!! MILES Uh -- I dunno. JEFF It’s just -- you think you’re getting good at being a parent, you think you got it licked, and then they go and grow up. They look out across the site, tarps shimmering like waves. JEFF (CONT’D) I just don’t want to lose him. You know? MILES Well, as an objective observer with no skin in the game, I say, you got to let him spread his wings, man. Miles stretches out his arms awkwardly. 48. 49. JEFF Yeah... I dunno. Miles ‘casually’ leans on the railing. Trying to save this. MILES If this isn’t nice, what is? (Jeff stares at him) I should go. JEFF Yeah, and catch that holes guy. MILES Don’t worry, I don’t think that guy is gonna show his face again. SMASH TO: SPOT’S FACE Such as it is. He finds himself floating in LIMINAL SPACE SPOT What? Okay... An infinite BLANK PAGE. HOLES swirling everywhere. SPOT (CONT’D) I think I kicked myself... into myself? These holes are different than the ones we’ve seen. As if an entire galaxy were roiling within each one. SPOT (CONT’D) Well this is new. Hellooooo. Hello! Echo, echoooooo -- no echo. He floats toward a hole. Drawn to it. SPOT (CONT’D) Hypothesis: I’m going to put my head in that hole. He does... 49. 50. EXT. MANHATTAN - EARTH-1161 - DAY A street scene right out of a 1963 Steve Ditko Spider-Man comic. Ben-Day dots. 60’s outfits. A kind of winking naiveté. A POLKA DOTTED WOMAN sees Spot’s head emerge from a hole -- SPOT Hello! -- and whacks him in the dome with her PURSE. SPOT (CONT’D) Ow! Please! Ah! Ow! Stop it! Spot retreats back to LIMINAL SPACE SPOT That was -- cool... (realizing) My holes can take me anywhere... EXT. LEGO MANHATTAN - EARTH 13122 - DAY Spot’s big head emerges from a LEGO Daily Bugle building. A taxicab crashes. Minifigs SCREAM. Spot CHUCKLES. So cute. INT. BODEGA - CHINATOWN, SAN FRANCISCO - EARTH-688 - NIGHT A LIVE-ACTION bodega with a familiar face behind the counter. If you saw VENOM you know her as the unflappable MRS. CHEN... SPOT Excuse me! Hi. Sorry to bug you, I know you’re busy. MRS. CHEN What do you want? SPOT I know it’s weird I just came out of nowhere, but I think I’m becoming a transdimensional superbeing. MRS. CHEN So? 50. 51. SPOT So? I’m literally splitting the fabric of space and time. For you it’s just a Tuesday night. You’re acting like weird stuff like this happens to you all the time. You have no idea, pal. SPOT (CONT’D) Can I have some gum? Before she can answer Spot is suddenly sucked back through the liminal zone and spit out onto the floor of the EXT. COLLIDER SITE - DAY (EARTH-1610) Right where he fought Miles. A construction crew is cleaning up the mess they both made. SPOT The power of the multiverse in the palm of my hand... my holes aren’t a curse, they’re the answer! CONSTRUCTION GUY Can you stop talking about your holes? You’re making everyone uncomfortable over here. SPOT No, you’re gonna love this! Look -- He GRUNTS and he tries to summon a portal. No luck. He realizes the adventure has left him without any more holes... SPOT (CONT’D) I’m out of spots, wouldn’t you know it. As you were, gentlemen... (then) I’m coming for you, Spider-Man! EXT. LEGO MANHATTAN - SAME TIME BRIAN DE PALMA ZOOM IN ON: LEGO PETER PARKER, in the Daily Bugle’s WINDOW, looking down at all the damage Spot’s incursion has let behind: LEGO PETER Oh no. 51. 52. Peter hurries past a hopping mad LEGO J. JONAH JAMESON... J. JONAH Tomorrow morning, Spider-Man, page one, a decent picture this time -- LEGO PETER Uh huh. You’re absolutely right boss -- J JONAH Shut up. Get out of here! Alright, run a picture of rancid chicken -- LEGO PETER (CONT’D) I’m sorry. Uh huh. You got it! I’m on it! ... into a BATHROOM... LEGO PETER (CONT’D) God, I need a raise -- ... where he changes into LEGO SPIDER-MAN! LEGO PETER (CONT’D) Beep boop beep! Which activates a futuristic WATCH? LEGO PETER (CONT’D) Miguel, it’s Peter. We got an anomaly. A hologram of Miguel pops up. MIGUEL (HOLOGRAM) Thank you Peter. You’re one of our best. (off mic) Jess, who’s on this? EXT. BROOKLYN / ROOFTOP PARTY - NIGHT A BBQ party is in full swing. Dozens crowd the roof -- Rio's EXTENDED FAMILY, Jeff’s COP BUDDIES, the whole neighborhood. A banner reads CONGRATS CAPTAIN MORALES. Rio weaves through the crowd, craning her neck. RIO Have you seen Miles? 52. 53. PARTY GUEST No. RIO ¿Has visto a Miles? D.J. BENNY BIÉN Nope. MARIA ¡Hermanita! Rio’s sister MARIA forces a microphone into Rio’s hands. RIO Uh... what are you doing? MARIA El speech para Jeff. ¡Speech! RIO What? No, no, no no. I’m terrible at speeches -- Maria clangs her wine glass with a spoon. MARIA Okay, everybody. ¡Todos! Hola todos! JEFF Oh dear god no. Too late. All eyes on Rio. RIO (into mic) Um. Hi. INT. MEXICAN PASTRY SHOP - SAME TIME Miles, dressed as Spider-Man, dictates to LUPE... MILES “... and I want you to know, no matter what, even though we’ve had our ups and downs, I am so proud of you today, and every day, parentheses, mostly, L.O.L -- P.S.-- LUPE Um, Mr. Spider-Man? It won’t fit on one cake. 53. 54. Indeed: her cake runneth over with tiny frosted words... MILES Can’t you write smaller? LUPE (all Brooklyn) Can’t your write shorter? EXT. ROOFTOP PARTY - SAME TIME Rio stalls. RIO Um, what else can I say about Jeff? That he was almost ten pounds as a baby. I know, you’re embarrassed! I mean he almost killed his mother. Look at those shoulders... JEFF Oh no. Okay that’s it. RIO ... he was a BIG baby... Jeff peels the mic out of her hands. JEFF Ha ha. That’s enough. That’s it with the mic. No more mics for you. (back to the crowd) Thank you, Rio, for that... RIO (sotto) Where is that kid? EXT. MEXICAN PASTRY SHOP - SAME TIME Miles backs out of the shop balancing TWO CAKES. JEFF (V.O.) ... you know, I didn’t always know what I wanted to do in life. I was pulled in a lot of different directions when I was young. He tries to thwip home but his hands are full. Gotta take the 54. 55. INT. SUBWAY CAR - LATER Miles (as Spider-Man) rides the subway with both cakes. :/ JEFF (V.O.) Me and my brother came up in this neighborhood, just couple knuckleheads running the streets. OH COME ON -- there’s a supervillain blocking the damn track. ARMADILLO It is I, The Armadill-- Miles ZAPS The Armadillo and kicks him back to Queens. BACK ON THE ROOF Jeff charms. Self-effacing, warm, at home. JEFF You used to chase us out of your stores, and now if you can believe it it’s my job to look out for you. ON MILES Now getting into a TAXI. SPIDER-SENSE - FFS - as a thief runs out of a nearby shop with a pile of sneaker boxes. JEFF (V.O.) And then I had a kid... and everything changed for the better. I don’t even know about getting a toast ‘cause I should be toasting you all. Miles leaves the cakes on the cab, webs up the robber, and is in the middle of writing the note when -- MILES “Courtesy of your --” Oh no. Wait! -- the cab drives off with the dang cakes. NO NO NO NO NO! 55. 56. EXT. BROOKLYN / ROOFTOP PARTY - SAME TIME JEFF So to my brother, who we miss every single day, he -- is definitely up there laughing at me right now. He raises a toast to a large MURAL of his brother Aaron. JEFF (CONT’D) They’re making me captain, bro! (then) To my wife -- mi amor. I can’t even start because I’ll never stop. You’ll have to take the mic from me. (laughs, then) And to my son... He looks for Miles. He’s... not here. JEFF (CONT’D) The reason that I do any of this in the first place... I love you, Miles. And I will always, always be here for you. (then, covering) Benny man c’mon drop the beat! As Benny drops a needle to save the vibes... RIO I’m gonna kill that kid. ON MILES Spider-manning up a STAIRWELL, changing clothes, juggling cakes, barely getting his mask off before he bursts out into THE PARTY Where he slithers through the packed rooftop, evading Rio and Jeff and all the cousins whose names he can’t remember... DISTANT FAMILY MEMBERS Hey Miles! / ¡Miles-cito ya luces cómo un hombre! / Hey you keeping your head up at that school? MILES Heyyy / Hola...primo. / You know... 56. 57. SOME COUSIN Your parents are looking for you. MILES I don’t know why, I’ve just been here the whole time. RIO Oye! Rio and Jeff are right behind him... how’d they get there? MILES Ah!! Hi. RIO You were supposed to be here at five. MILES I know but -- RIO You disrespected your dad! Missed his beautiful toast! MILES Did you even see the cakes? There’s some heartfelt messages on them. He opens the boxes to reveal two mushed up cakes. The only intelligible words remaining say “I’m not” and “proud.” MILES (CONT’D) That’s... not what I meant. RIO Your dad studied for eight months -- JEFF Nine. It was like giving birth! RIO No it wasn’t. JEFF -- of course not -- RIO You made us sit in that office and talk to that lady without you. MILES There was an emergency. 57. 58. JEFF What, a graffiti emergency? A partying with some friends I’ve never met emergency? RIO Explain yourself. MILES Sounds like you’re explaining it pretty well. RIO That’s funny. Jeff, we got a funny son. JEFF I’m not laughing. Maria comes up, wraps the whole family in a group hug. MARIA ¡Hola! ¡Mira que familia tan hermosa! RIO (fake smiling) Hey, chica, ¿Cómo tú estás? MARIA Oh, pero mira que grande está! Maria pinches Miles’ cheeks like a baby. MILES (mouth squeezed) I don’t feel grown up... Maria sees a bit of spider-suit peeking out from his sleeve -- MARIA Wow! This is a cool shirt! ¿Qué es eso, un wetsuit? Miles peels away from Maria, makes his getaway -- MILES Hey’ve you checked out the spread? -- right back into his mom and dad. Did they teleport? RIO Who are you running around with anyway? 58. 59. JEFF Is it Ganke? I never liked him. MILES Yes you did! JEFF He calls me by my first name. RIO We hate that. MILES I have more friends than just Ganke. JEFF Like who? MILES Um... well, there’s Peter. But he left town. There’s... Gw--anda, y’know, she... also left town. RIO Miles, por-- dame un break. MILES Is that Spanglish? Well that certainly wasn’t worth it. MILES (CONT’D) Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I’m just doing benign private unremarkable things when I’m not with you guys? JEFF Nope. RIO Never. MILES I am 15 years old! I am basically an adult! RIO Oh right, right! JEFF You don’t even have a driver’s license! MILES Neither does mom! 59. 60. JEFF ‘Cause we live in New York and never plan to leave. MILES It’s my life! RIO It’s not your life. It’s mine, and your father’s, and your abuelos’ y abuelas’ who put you in this spot that I’d give anything to be in. MILES Alright. Whatever. Too far. Way too far. RIO What... EVER?! JEFF Wowwwwww. RIO WHATEVER?! JEFF Do I get to say it? Please tell me that I can say it. RIO Say it. JEFF You’re grounded! MILES What?! For how long?! JEFF A month. MILES Dad. Mom. Are you--? Seriously?! JEFF Dead serious. MILES You don’t understand! 60. 61. JEFF You’re right! I have no idea what’s going on with you! So why don’t you tell me?! Benny turns up the music to cover the raised voices, which in turn have to yell even louder over the music: MILES JUST LISTEN TO ME! JEFF Okay, champ. You got it. Say whatever you wanna to say. WHAT DO YOU GOT TO TELL ME SO BAD?! ... just as the song ends. The rooftop is dead silent. Miles considers coming clean, telling his parents the truth... but they don’t seem in any mood to hear it. So finally, defeated... MILES You know what... never mind. ... he walks off. Jeff, in response: JEFF Alright, walk away, because now you got TWO months!!! (to Rio) That was good... right? Off her look we throw to INT. MILES’ CHILDHOOD BEDROOM - MOMENTS LATER Miles slams the door and SINKS to his ankles. MILES Two months. Pff. I’m Spider-Man. I’m not grounded. He flops onto his bed. His NOTEBOOK falls open on the floor. A drawing of GWEN. Miles picks it up, almost smiles... ... but she’s not even here. He’s alone. And so he throws on his HEADPHONES, tries to get lost in a SONG. He CLOSES HIS EYES... ... which is why he does not see the contents of his room beginning to float and spin around him. 61. 62. Is this a music video? Or is it the INTERDIMENSIONAL PORTAL materializing right in front of him? Miles...you gotta minute? An echo, more of a dream than a voice. Still, Miles opens his eyes -- GWEN. Right there in the middle of his ceiling. Miles can barely process this before she DROPS onto his bed -- MILES (CONT’D) How did you get -- -- and shrink-wraps him in a HUG. MILES (CONT’D) How... have you been? GWEN Uh, I’ve been... Good! Yeah, uh, just great -- Look at you! You grew, huh?! Had a little growth spurt? MILES Yeah. Your hair has gotten... pinker. GWEN Is this the room you grew up in? Miles desperately hides toys, stuffed animals, pencil toppersMILES It is, but my dorm room is very adult. Gwen finds a BOXED ANIME ACTION FIGURE on his shelf. GWEN Cool, yeah, I used to play with these when I was younger too -- MILES That’s a collectable... GWEN Oh, I used to have this one! MILES Actually an extremely rare, highly sought after-- 62. 63. GWEN Wait, why is it still in the package?! Gwen RIIIPPPPS! open the packaging. Miles MUFFLES a SCREAM. MILES That’s fine. No it’s not, but no time to mope because OH NO: GWEN Are these your drawings?! MILES What? No -- YUP. She’s got the SKETCHBOOK. GWEN Wow, they’re good! They’re... all sketches of GWEN. GWEN (CONT’D) Wow... there’s... so... many. She tosses the journal at him with a smile. GWEN (CONT’D) Missed you too. MILES So what are you doing here? I mean, I thought I’d never see you again -- GWEN Wanna get out of here? Oh how he would. But -- MILES I’m... grounded. GWEN Bummer. She backflips out his open window. Miles rushes over to find her effortlessly standing horizontally on the building. 63. 64. GWEN (CONT’D) Is Spider-Man grounded? She’s got his number. He can’t help but smile. MOMENTS LATER A RAP on MILES’ DOOR. RIO (O.S.) Miles? Your dad’s ready to listen now... Rio and Jeff open the door to find the room EMPTY. Just an open window and... A GIRL’S SWEATER?! JEFF THAT’S THREE MONTHS! EXT. BROOKLYN - GOLDEN HOUR Miles barely keeps up with Gwen, SWINGING freely. MILES Wait, hold on. There’s an elite society with all the best spiderpeople in it?? GWEN Okay, so there’s this lady, Jess Drew, she rides a motorcycle -- MILES Motorcycle? GWEN Oh my gosh I’m learning so much from her. MILES Yeah I’ve learned a lot of stuff too. Leveled up my whole thing. GWEN Oh yeah? Let’s see it then. (a challenge) Thread the needle! Gwen dives between two trucks. Miles follows, narrowly avoiding a THIRD TRUCK -- GAHHH!!! 64. 65. MILES Easy! GWEN And Miguel, the whole thing was his idea. MILES Right. And... who’s Miguel? GWEN He’s like a ninja/vampire SpiderMan, but a good guy? MILES A vampire good guy? I’d pay good money to see that. Gwen DINGS a water tower. Miles DONGS it. They’re playing a super-powered game of H.O.R.S.E. MILES (CONT’D) So how long ago did they invite you? GWEN Uh only, like, a few months ago. MILES Months is kind of a long time... GWEN Okay, this one counts for two. She swings between two buildings and flips around an antenna. This time Miles mimics the combo flawlessly. GWEN (CONT’D) Look at you. MILES Look at me. They grab hotdogs from a street vendor, webbing cash to him as they swing by. MILES (CONT’D) Keep the change! (back to Gwen) So this club -- GWEN Look at that dumb-dumb -- 65. 66. -- a purse thief down below: GWEN (CONT’D) Guy in the stripes, ten points. As they easily foil the crime... MILES -- what kinda stuff do you do? GWEN We’re trying to keep the multiverse from collapsing. MILES I thought we did that already. ... and web the thief to a lamppost... GWEN Last week we had this mission to some Shakespeare dimension -- and Hobie and I just like -- MILES Wait, who’s Hobie? GWEN Oh my gosh you’d love him! He lets me crash in his dimension sometimes. WHAT?! MILES What does that mean? You stay overnight? Or... But she flies off. So light and happy it seems evasive... like she’s using her new friends to avoid her old life? GWEN Anyway, listen, they’re pretty strict about where I go or I really would have come to see you sooner. MILES Right. So, uh, why’d you come now? They’re standing casually on the side of a moving subway. A kid inside the train won’t stop licking the window. 66. 67. MILES (CONT’D) (to kid) Don’t -- don’t do that. (turns back to Gwen) Hey, Uh... Gwen? But she’s already gone. MILES (CONT’D) Where’d you go? WE FIND GWEN a block or two away, beneath the tracks, deploying a futuristic BUG with her WATCH. It crawls up and sticks itself to a pillar, ready for work. Gwen leaves it, catches up with Miles: MILES (CONT’D) Hey, there you are. Whatcha doing? GWEN (playful) Waiting for you. But as she leads him away, we linger on that BUG -- it’s a SPIDER-CAM focusing its gaze on a MAN below; he’s dragging a TON of supplies into a crummy apartment... We know this man. IT’S SPOT. EXT. CLOCK TOWER - EARLY EVENING Gwen and Miles walk along the top of a clock tower -- the tallest building in Brooklyn -- as if they were on the beach. GWEN This is a cool thinking spot. MILES Right? I mean who needs a treadmill when you have the Williamsburg Bank Building? GWEN That’s so interesting -- in my universe it’s called the Williamsburg Bank Center. (then) Interesting was the wrong word. MILES So, uh, you and your dad -- you still haven’t talked? 67. 68. GWEN What exactly would we talk about? “Hey Dad, how have the last few months been? You still think I murdered my best friend?” Gwen checks her watch- she’s monitoring the SPY CAM FOOTAGE of Spot fussing around in his apartment... MILES I mean, I don’t know... my parents, maybe if I told them -- GWEN Don’t. Trust me on that. We follow as she strolls around and perches on the underside of a ledge. We’re as UPSIDE DOWN as she feels. Miles approaches... MILES Well... maybe some things are supposed to be just for us. GWEN Mm. That’s a nice way to think about it. MILES I’m just a really emotionally intelligent guy. Beyond my years. Gwen laughs softly. He’s got her number, too. GWEN It really is always so great to talk to you. MILES Yeah? He moves closer. GWEN Yeah. I mean, how many people can you talk to about this stuff? MILES You don’t even know. They both feel it. Something between attraction and kinship. Gwen wants to say something but isn’t sure she should. 68. 69. MILES (CONT’D) What? GWEN You’re the only friend I’ve ever really made after Peter died. MILES (playfully) Other than Hobie, right? GWEN That’s different. MILES Yeah? How’s that? GWEN I don’t know... you and me, it’s... MILES We’re the same. He nailed it. It’s more than attraction. MILES (CONT’D) In the important ways, y’know? There’s an inevitability to them. They can feel it. GWEN In every other universe, Gwen Stacy falls for Spider-Man. Miles’ hand inches closer. She sees it. She sees all of it. GWEN (CONT’D) And in every other universe, it doesn’t end well... His hand stops. MILES Well... there’s a first time for everything, right? She brightens. Around him, it all seems possible. She leans against his shoulder. 69. 70. So much warmth between them. They linger here. New York winking at them from above. Who would ever want this to end? EXT. WATER TOWER - MILES’ ROOF - NIGHT Miles and Gwen hang out under a water tower away from the party. In civilian clothes now, they snuck up here to eat their feelings. GWEN Mmmm. Wow. Feelings make me hungry. MILES Oh yeah. These plátanos are just deep-fried feelings. DOWN AT THE PARTY Jeff and Rio watch their son talk to this strange girl with an alternative haircut: RIO She looks old enough to vote. I bet she doesn’t even speak Spanish. JEFF (mediocre pronunciation) ¡Que barbaridad! Rio winces. He’s trying, at least. BACK ON GWEN AND MILES Miles examines Gwen’s watch with envy. MILES This thing keeps you from glitching in other dimensions? GWEN Yeah, it’s pretty cool. MILES What’s it gonna take for Miguel O’Hara to notice Miles Morales? GWEN I’ll put in a good word. 70. 71. MILES I’m just saying, if I had a watch I could come with you. I did save the multi-verse! GWEN Miles, look, it’s a really small elite strike force. MILES I can turn invisible... GWEN There’s just-- MILES I have like, electric powers-- GWEN There aren’t a lot of slots. You know that sucky feeling when you’re not invited to that really cool thing? MILES Ah, right. GWEN Look, if it was up to me-- MILES I know, I know. Miles idly pushes a button on the watch; it starts to HUM -- GWEN No! Don’t do that! Miles! She webs the watch right out of his hands. Harsh. GWEN (CONT’D) It’s just, uh, really delicate. MILES Alright, jeez. GWEN Sorry, I didn’t mean to snap. MILES Okay. I’m sorry. It’s -- CLONK CLONK CLONK CLONK CLONK up the water tower comes 71. 72. RIO Hello! Hi. Oh god. MILES Oh boy. RIO I’m Miles’ mom. GWEN Rio! I’ve heard so much about you! RIO You’re using my first name, okay. She hands Gwen back The Sweater. RIO (CONT’D) This is nice. We found it in Miles’s room. So, I guess you must have been there. Jeff struggles up over the little ladder. GWEN And you must be Jeff. JEFF She called me Jeff. You must mean Lieutenant Morales. Soon to be Captain Morales. GWEN Ay, Captain... She mocks a salute. Doesn’t go over well. MILES Gwanda and I are friends from school. GWEN Yeah we were just catching up. Gwen throws her hand on Miles’ back. RIO Aw... don’t take him from me! MILES Mom! 72. 73. Gwen takes her hand off Miles’ back. RIO I’m just kidding. He’s grounded so you can’t. Don’t break his heart. BEEP BEEP BEEP! -- Gwen covers the LOUD ALARM on her watch. GWEN Shoot! I have to go. MILES Really? GWEN (re: watch) I, uh, forgot to get my steps in. Really wish I could stay longer. I’m sorry. Goodbye! Gwen holds out her hand for a brutally formal handshake. MILES Yeah, bye. She disappears down a fire escape, leaving Miles behind. Again. Rio shoots Jeff a look -- give me a minute with him. Jeff takes the hint, excuses himself as Miles, forlorn, gazes out at the city... MILES (CONT’D) I can hear you being quiet, Mom. Busted. She’s lingered here to console her son. RIO I hope I didn’t “ice your game,” man... Jesus. MILES No one my age says those words in that order, mom. RIO It’s just hard to see my little man not be my little boy all the time. (then) 73. RIO (CONT’D) 74. Papa, you know you can tell me anything. No hay mentiras entre nosotros. MILES Well... He tugs at the cuff of his spider-suit. Should he tell her? MILES (CONT’D) I’m... (never mind) I’m sorry I was late. Rio knows there’s so much he isn’t saying. She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, then -- RIO Go. Huh? RIO (CONT’D) (swallowing hard) She seems like a... nice girl. MILES Is this a trick? RIO It’s not a trick, jeez. Rio grabs his jacket. MILES What are you --? RIO Let me fix you, just -- She straightens out his clothes. RIO (CONT’D) For years I’ve been taking care of this little boy, right? Making sure he’s loved, that he feels like he belongs wherever he wants to be. He wants to go out into the world and do great big things, and what I worry about most is... they won’t look out for you like us. They won’t root for you like us. He looks at her. Her strong eyes filled with worry. RIO (CONT’D) 74. 75. RIO (CONT’D) So, here’s the deal: Wherever you go from here, you have to promise to take care of that little boy for me. Make sure he never forgets where he came from. And he never doubts that he is loved. And he never lets anyone at those big fancy places he’s gonna be in tell him that he doesn’t belong there. And when he comes home... and he better come home... you’re gonna be early and you’re gonna be holding a normal nice cake. MILES (laughs) Yeah, okay. RIO (she’s serious) You gotta promise, Miles. MILES I promise. RIO Just... don’t get lost. ¿Me oyes? MILES Alright. RIO Cool. MILES Bendición, mami. He kisses her cheek. This casual goodbye -- literally ‘may I have your blessing?’ -- has a little more meaning tonight. RIO Que Dios te bendiga. (then) Now go, get out here. As he starts to go -- RIO (CONT’D) And when you come back, you’re still grounded. He LAUGHS. 75. 76. RIO (CONT’D) Ha ha, yeah I’m smiling like it’s a joke, but it’s true. MILES Yeah, I figured. See ya later. With a cake. Rio watches her only child disappear into the city. Knowing he’s not really a child anymore. EXT. FIRE ESCAPE - CONTINUOUS Miles hurries down the fire escape, changing as he goes. EXT. BROOKLYN APARTMENT BUILDING - NIGHT Gwen swings to the side of the elevated track where she left her Spider-Cam. Across the street, Spot’s apartment building is now full of massive Swiss cheese holes. Police swarm. GWEN Shoot. Gwen shoots a web at the gear shift of empty squad car below. Cops chase after it as it ROLLS BACKWARDS. Miles arrives seconds later, just in time to watch Gwen use the distraction to swing into SPOT’S APARTMENT Where Miles follows, invisible, as Gwen assesses the damage: GWEN (CONT’D) Shoot. Tiny DRONES launch from her watch to scan the area. Bad news. GWEN (CONT’D) Shoot shoot shoot shooooooot... Miles lingers on a hive of TERRARIUMS (terraria?) containing SPIDERS. One is empty; it’s labeled “Earth-42” “Deceased :(”... The spider that bit Miles. GWEN (CONT’D) (into watch) Show me what happened. 76. 77. WATCH VOICE Replay commencing... The drones project a HOLOGRAM OF SPOT entering, arms full of hardware. This is what Gwen’s camera recorded while she was on the clocktower with Miles. SPOT (HOLOGRAM) I need more spots! It was right under where my nose would’ve been. MILES (V.O.) Shoot. SPOT I just need a little bit more dimensional juice -- never did come up with a good name for that -- branding was never my strong suit. Gwen hits FAST FORWARD: Hologram Spot connects pipes, hooks up wires, types code... SPOT (CONT’D) ... if I connect the city power line to my micro-collider prototype... it could generate a little more concentrated dark energy.... GWEN Shoot! SPOT I just need enough to get me somewhere with a full-sized collider... He fires up a MICRO-COLLIDER. A miniature version of the big collider that started it all. SPOT (HOLOGRAM) (CONT’D) Spider-Man, I’ll make you pay for everything you took away from me. A roiling beam of -- what’s the opposite of light? -- ERUPTS: SPOT (HOLOGRAM) (CONT’D) This is gonna work! Or vaporize me and everything in this building, which... would not be good. GWEN / MILES Shoot. 77. 78. Spot lowers his finger into the beam... ITS ENERGY TEARS VIOLENTLY THROUGH HIS BODY. Spots swirl as the black beam overtakes him and sucks him into a tiny dot -- GWEN / MILES (CONT’D) Shoot -- KABOOM! The resulting implosion is concussive, devastating. If that wasn’t a hologram, they’d have been eviscerated. WATCH VOICE Replay complete. GWEN Nooo! Why why why why? A HOLOGRAM of JESS appears. JESS Gwen! Hi... Fuck. JESS (CONT’D) Whatcha doin’? GWEN Nothing! I’m good. All good. Yeah, everything’s good. Bye! Gwen turns off the Jess hologram. BOOP. Jess OVERRIDES her. BOOP. JESS Where’s the bad guy you were supposed to monitor? GWEN He just stepped out for a moment. JESS DUDE! GWEN He’s just some villain of the week-- JESS LYLA! LYLA appears and pulls up a holographic MULTIVERSE MAP. 78. 79. LYLA Tracking... oh hey look I got him! Never mind, hold on -- slippery guy. Miles processes all this from the shadows: who are all these people? What is Gwen even doing here? JESS Did you go see your little friend? GWEN What? No. I mean... JESS Are you kidding me right now?! GWEN ... only briefly, from afar... JESS How far? GWEN Like... y’know about this... far... Gwen holds up her hands three feet apart... then slowly adjusts to more like three inches -- LYLA Oh that’s way too close. JESS Girl! GWEN I just... had to know how he was. JESS I honestly can’t with you -- GWEN Look I know I messed up okay?! JESS He can’t be part of this. GWEN I know. I’ll never see him again. ON MILES -- Never?! 79. 80. LYLA (back to SPOT) Guys, he’s making his own portals. He can jump wherever he wants. Could be a total canon killer -- JESS (to Gwen) You said he was a villain of the week! Do you know how bad this is for you?? LYLA Hmm. Every dimension he stops at has an Alchemax. JESS What’s he up to, Gwen? GWEN I don’t know. MILES (V.O.) He’s trying to make himself more powerful so he can beat me. JESS You don’t know. Amazing. My star pupil, everyone! GWEN I’ll get him. Okay? I can get backup. JESS (smdh) If Miguel finds out I let you come-- GWEN Don’t tell Miguel. What if he sends me home? That’s the last thing Gwen wants. LYLA I got him! Lyla highlights one point on the map -- LYLA (CONT’D) Earth-50101. What do you wanna do? Not get fired. For starters... 80. 81. GWEN You never made a mistake? Never got too close to someone? JESS I did. But I got over it. That came out a bit harsher than she wanted. She feels bad. Goddammit. JESS (CONT’D) Alert the local spider, tell him Gwen will meet him there. LYLA I’m on it. GWEN Thank you so much. I promise I will not let you -- JESS Okay, you’re welcome, shut up (but for real:) You’ve got an hour to fix this. Or I can’t help you. Jess blips out as a portal opens for Gwen. Miles moves toward her, invisible, upside down in every way. Gwen turns back for one last look... right through him... out at the distant rooftop where she thinks he is. GWEN Goodbye Miles. They are inches -- and yet worlds -- apart... Should I say something? I should probably say something... He makes himself visible and -- She’s gone. Forever. Miles looks out at Brooklyn. The only home he’s ever known. He feels the portal closing behind him. If only he could go with her. 81. 82. Maybe he should... Miles turns. 3... 2... Fuck it. He LEAPS into the EXT. SPIDERVERSE - TIME IS IRRELEVANT We TUMBLE with Miles through the webbing of the multiverse. Something’s different when Miles does this -- it’s more... disruptive... EXT. EARTH-50101 - DAY Miles GLITCHES as he PING PONGS through a maelstrom of colorful buildings, snapping dozens of BOOTLEG POWER LINES. He’s just trying to get his bearings when -- He barrels through an Indian WEDDING? MILES Uh... congratulations! Welcome to MUMBATTAN Multi-level freeways. Giant billboards. This city, built into a giant CREVASSE, isn’t tall... it’s deep. So, so deep... ... and yet Miles still manages to collect himself as he falls, eventually spotting Gwen in the distance. She’s swinging after: SPOT This is incredible. You never know what you’re capable of until you just go for it, you know? Spot is now using his holes for propulsion -- almost flying. He’s leveled up significantly since we last saw him. GWEN (into watch) I’ve got eyes on the target. JESS (OVER COMM) Try getting hands on him. 82. 83. GWEN You’re literally hovering. Spots pops in front of a FAMILY OF FOUR on a scooter -- SPOT Pardon me, locals! Wow, four on there. That’s very dangerous. -- then behind two diners at a RESTAURANT: SPOT (CONT’D) That looks good. (tries a bite) Which way to Alchemax? And NOW he’s in between another couple on a BALCONY... SPOT (CONT’D) It’s a place with a big collide-OOF!- Gwen just webbed Spot to the wall. GWEN Hey Cow Guy! MOOO-ve over. SPOT That’s the best you could do? Gwen is about to punch Spot out cold when -- MILES Gwen! I’m here to help! Gwen turns to see -- GWEN Miles?! WHAM! -- giving Spot the opening he needs to portal-kick her-- SPOT You weren’t expecting that were you? -- INTO A BALCONY. She hits the back of her head, DROPS into the gaping city... MILES Oh no. SPOT Neither was I! I’m in the zone! 83. 84. Miles DIVES after Gwen... MILES I got you! ... and nabs her inches before she’s pavement pizza. But she’s not as happy as he would have hoped: GWEN Did you follow me? MILES Uh. No, I just saw where you went and went there without you knowing. GWEN You’re not supposed to be here! MILES What are you talking about, I’m helpi -- ASKJFASDJFALKD -- Miles GLITCHES and they both drop to certain doom -- -- until SOMEONE ELSE thwips past and swoops them up. Meet PAVITR PRABHAKAR, a.k.a. SPIDER-MAN INDIA. GWEN (to Miles) I shouldn’t have ever come see to you. MILES Dang. Pavitr uses his unique yo-yo BRACELET to CLOCK Spot in the face before landing with a flourish on top of a spire. PAVITR Hey, who’s the new guy? GWEN Hey, Pav. He’s Miles and he wasn’t invited. PAVITR You weren’t invited and you came anyway? Ooh, New Guy you must be in love with you -- MILES Uh, no... I’m not-- GWEN Wow, Pav, that’s... totally wrong. 84. 85. PAVITR Oh I’m very good at reading people. MILES Who are you? PAVITR I’m glad you asked, New Guy! MILES I’m not a new gu-- A SPIDER-MAN INDIA COMIC lands on the growing pile. PAVITR (V.O.) My name is Pavitr Prabhakar and for the past six months -- MILES (V.O.) Six? And even he got a watch? We’re in PAV’S BEDROOM. He pops out of bed, shirtless and cuuute. PAVITR (V.O.) Being Spider-Man is so easy. I wake up, skip the work out because I am naturally buff and I don’t want to get too big, y’know? Do nothing with my amazing hair... He WHIPS his glorious hair. Miles POPS into frame -- MILES You don’t use any product at all? PAVITR Just coconut oil and prayer. Pav breezes through HIS DAY... PAVITR (V.O.) Then I swing by school, don’t really have to try but I do anyway, fight a few bad guys, feed a few street dogs, quick break for a cup of chai with my Maya Auntie -- ... but time stands still as he sips tea with his AUNTIE MAYA. Miles POPS IN again -- MILES I love chai tea! 85. 86. Pav record-scratch HALTS the story: PAVITR What did you just say? Chai tea? Chai means tea, bro! You’re saying “tea tea.” Would I ask you for a “coffee coffee with room for cream cream?” MILES Oh, um, no. I’m sorry. Now that that’s cleared up... PAVITR (V.O.) Then I hang out with my girlfriend, Gayatri. She’s an extremely classy teenager... Pav has his arm around a CUTE GIRL on the RAILING OVERLOOKING THE CANYON (a lot like Marine Drive in Bombay). PAVITR Hey girl, tonight I was thinking-- Pav’s SPIDER-SENSE wails as INSPECTOR SINGH approaches. Pav’s arm drops off Gayatri and now they’re both holding TEXTBOOKS. PAVITR (CONT’D) (code-switching) Hello Police Inspector Singh this is your daughter, I do not know her. PAVITR SWINGS ALONG and grabs a papadam from a street vendor. PAVITR (V.O.) And to top it off, I live in the best possible Spider-Man City, Mumbattan! Quick tour! (popping around town) This is where the traffic is, this is where the traffic is, this is also where the traffic is, there’s traffic here too, this is where the British stole all our stuff--WHOA!! A spot portal nearly beheads Pav, bringing us BACK TO THE FIGHT -- the three Spider-folk try to web Spot, but he shoos away their webs with ease. He is smug, much more in control of himself, spinning a portal on his finger. 86. 87. SPOT Ah. Hello, Spider-Man. GWEN Hi. PAVITR Hey. SPOT Not you. MILES I think he means me. Miles attempts a kick but his foot lands in a hole in Spot’s torso. SPOT Wow, hi, how are you? Spot throttles Miles backwards into a wall. SPOT (CONT’D) Can you tell I leveled up my game? I’m on a journey of selfimprovement! PAVITR And you came to India. That’s a Western culture cliché. Don’t Eat Pray Love me, bro. SPOT No, I didn’t mean it like that -- PAVITR Now let me guess you’re gonna ask me about saffron and cardamom and naan bread which is the same as saying “bread bread” which is the same as saying “chai tea?!” SPOT Oh! I love chai tea! PAVITR No!!!! Pav rushes Spot, but misses and flies into Gwen. Miles gives chase, following Spot as he skip-portals through a BUSY MARKETPLACE... MILES C’mon man! I think maybe we got off on the wrong foot. Let’s just talk about this! 87. 88. SPOT Fine. You made me feel empty, like I had a hole inside of me. But now I found out what to fill that hole up with... more holes! MILES That doesn’t make any sense! Whoops! Miles falls into a hole that blasts him through a billboard. As he collects himself: SPOT It will! MILES I’m okay. Don’t worry! GWEN We won’t. Miles catches up as Gwen and Pav swing after Spot. PAVITR This romantic tension is so palpable. Will they? Won’t they? MILES If Spot gets more holes, he’ll be unstoppable. We can’t let him get toGWEN Alchemax? CRAP: Spot has already opened a hole and entered the ALCHEMAX BUILDING, which hangs out cantilevered over a cliff. PAVITR See? How can you guys even concentrate?! INT. ALCHEMAX BUILDING - MOMENTS LATER As they follow Spot through the building -- PAVITR (to Gwen, re: Miles) Hey, does he know about Hobie? MILES What should I know about Hobie? 88. 89. PAVITR Oh, looks like he did not know. Spot makes makes a hole and disappears beyond the glass into the hub of a busy CONTROL ROOM. Once inside, he activates an ELECTRIFIED FORCE SHIELD blocking anyone else from entering. PAVITR (CONT’D) (to a nearby scientist) Excuse me, sir, would you please deactivate this wonderfully strong barrier? SCIENTIST It can’t be turned off until the collider sequence is complete! MILES Collider sequence? Oh no. And now Miles realizes why Spot has been searching for an Alchemax: It’s got a COLLIDER ROOM just like the one in Miles’ dimension, the one whose explosion made Dr. Ohnn into Spot... Miles SMASHES against the shield. He has to get through. MILES (CONT’D) You don’t know what you’re doing! Spot makes his way to the main CONTROL PANEL. SPOT I’m about to be so much more than a villain of the week... MILES I’m sorry I called you that, okay? You’re a great villain. SPOT Not yet I’m not. Spot pushes buttons and turns dials. The collider begins to WHIRR... the hadronic coils spinning faster and faster... JESS (HOLOGRAM) How’s it going now? GWEN Great! Gwen turns JESS off. 89. 90. GWEN (CONT’D) Anyone got any ideas? PAVITR Oh I have so many, but none for this. Miles holds a finger up to the force shield. It crackles. An idea. MILES Stand back. I’ve been working on something new. Miles presses all his FINGERS to the shield, slowly pulling its energy into his body. Slowwwwly... so... ssslowwwwwwly... GWEN Do you want us to do something? Or do we just stand here? PAVITR Are you like, charging it? MILES No! I’m absorbing it so I can shoot it back! GWEN It looks like you’re charging it. PAVITR Does this power have a name? Or... MILES Please hold your questions until I’m done breaking this thing! Almooooossssst ttthhhheeeeerrrrrrreeeeee-- GWEN I don’t get it. MILES Just let me do this!! VRUMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!-- What’s that sound? HOBIE (O.S.) Oi-Oi!! A RAGING POWER CHORD SHATTERS THE SHIELD... 90. 91. ... and simultaneously announces the awesome arrival of The Madman from Camden... The SPIDER-PUNK with a penchant for Funk... Put your hands together for HOBIE BROWN! GWEN Hobie! PAVITR Hobie, my guy! MILES Hobie?! Strong, long, and skinny-hot, covered in torn plaids and denims, a spiked mohawk coming out of his spider-mask, a throbbing electric guitar slung across his back. Yeah, this guy rules. (And, thus, as far as Miles is concerned, This guy sucks) SPOT Look at that, another one! I love how many different variations of you guys there are. HOBIE Man-like Pav! Big-stepper! Yeah mate! They do a cool handshake. MILES What’s this dude saying? PAVITR It’s English for “we get along great and we’re close friends.” HOBIE Is this the younger from 1610? MILES You understand this guy? Spot attacks. The spiders spring into action -- 91. 92. PAVITR Hey Hobie, thanks for breaking the shield! MILES I loosened it -- HOBIE (to Miles) Bit of advice: use the palm, not just your fingers. (then) What’s up with your suit. Is he bleeding from his armpits? GWEN Miles, Hobie. Hobie, Miles. MILES Hi. I’ve never heard of because Gwen barely ever mentions you. A HOBIE COMIC/ZINE slams on screen! HOBIE (V.O.) A’ight, my name’s Hobie, Hobie Brown! I was bitten by a -- wouldn’t you like to know? And for the last three years I’ve been the one and only... Hobie pulls off his mask, his face SCRATCHED OUT. HOBIE Wait wait wait wait you really think I’m gonna show you my secret identity? C’mon out of it. Hobie rages across his photocopied-collage-punk posterEleanor Rigby looking-East London-cum-Downtown NEW YORK: HOBIE (V.O.) That is when I’m not playing shows, antagonizing fascists, staging unpermitted political actions-slashperformance art pieces or having a laugh at the pub with the mandem. I’m not a role model, I was briefly a runway model, I hate the AM, I hate the PM, I hate labels. I’m not a hero because calling yourself a hero makes you a self-apologizing narcissistic autocrat!!! 92. 93. MILES I thought you hated labels. BACK TO THE FIGHT Everyone against Spot, four against one. A more or less even fight, thanks to Spot’s increased power-set... HOBIE Gwendy, you left your jumper ‘round my place. MILES What’s a jumper? PAVITR It’s a sweater. MILES How many sweaters do you have? GWEN Oh that’s not mine, I’m sure. HOBIE And your toothbrush. MILES Wait what? HOBIE Are those my chucks? Hobie slingshots Gwen from his guitar and she flies at Spot... but gets holed straight into Pavitr. SPOT Y’all make a heck of a team. HOBIE I don’t believe in teams. MILES Aren’t you in a band? HOBIE I don’t believe in consistency. MILES Oh this guy’s killing me. Spot wills Miles into his grasp as he sends Hobie, Pavitr and Gwen flying out of the room. 93. 94. The collider’s turbines spin faster and faster... SPOT This is gonna be good for us, Spider-Man. You and me, we’re finally gonna live up to our potential. You’ll finally have a villain worth fighting, and I won’t be just a joke to you! BLINDING LIGHT as the collider’s beam explodes into the room. DARK MATTER dots swirl in the middle, history repeating... ... and Spot floating towards it, beatific, until -- YOINK! Miles has thwipped a web, holding Spot back. Hobie, Pav, and Gwen all help Miles pull Spot in a tug-of-war... MILES You’re not a joke! Right, gang? GWEN Absolutely. PAVITR Completely unamusing. HOBIE I don’t believe in comedy. (off their looks) Just kidding! MILES No one here thinks you’re a joke! SPOT They won’t after this. SNIP! -- Spot uses a hole to sever the webbing, then VANISHES INTO THE BEAM. A long, quiet beat. PAVITR Well that was another easy adventure for Spider-Ma-- KRAKOOOMMMM!!!!!!! THE ROOM IS LEVELED IN A BRILLIANT EXPLOSION OF DARK ENERGY. Everyone hits the floor as BLACK KIRBY DOTS flow from Spot’s blazing silhouette... ... and throw MILES into an intense 94. 95. SPIDER-SENSE VISION: A massive battlefield. Falling rubble. Spot, more powerful than ever, cackles with delight as he devastates Brooklyn. Miles’ dad JEFF runs to save a child in a RED SHIRT. JEFF I’m coming! Miles watches it all in abject horror... unable to move... BACK TO REALITY The blast is over. MILES What was that? Spot seeps in roiling dark energy like a human black hole. SPOT Our future. MILES No... SPOT I’m gonna take everything from you like you took everything from me. Miles is deeply shaken by the frightening display, and Spot knows it, taunts him: SPOT (CONT’D) See you back home, Spider-Man. Spot then opens his arms and DISAPPEARS INTO HIMSELF. Gone. The building trembles. But Miles’ attention is a world away-- GWEN Miles! You okay? We gotta go. HOBIE Oi! Liven up mate! No time to get dizzy! PAVITR Chalo chalo! Miles is still REELING. Unable to focus as -- 95. 96. Gwen pulls him the hell out of there. EXT. ALCHEMAX BUILDING - CONTINUOUS As the group ESCAPES through a blizzard of concrete and steel they hear a chilling metallic GROAN. A CLEAVING... Miles turns as -- HALF THE CANTILEVERED BUILDING PITCHES FORWARD. It’s headed right down the cliffside, half the city in its path... And just like that Miles has clarity. He stop following. He’s going to LEAD. MILES (to Hobie) We’ll clear the path, you slow down that building. HOBIE I’ll do it, but not because you told me to. Hobie throws Gwen a line of his webbing. They do their best to slow the huge, teetering half of the Alchemax building... ... while Miles and Pavitr swoop down in a relentless, heartstopping display of life-saving teamwork, rescuing as many citizens as possible from the sedan-sized chunks of concrete. But Gwen and Hobie’s webs can’t hold the building forever -- SNAP! -- it plummets toward the busy BRIDGE below, a kajillion-pound cannonball of certain death. All four SpiderPeople instinctively dive down together, a desperate attempt to save as many people as they can... A BOULDER takes a big bite out of the bridge, pulling a BUS halfway over the edge. And inside the bus Pav sees... PAVITR Gayatri! No! His girlfriend is terrified as the bus TIPS over and FALLS. PAV thwips a webline onto the heavy vehicle, holding it in mid-air, all of his strength keeping the line tight... Gwen, in the meantime, gets an ALERT on her watch. Hologram Lyla appears: 96. 97. LYLA Gwen, heads up. Markers are predicting an incoming canon event. So tread carefully. GWEN I’m on it. NEARBY, Hobie and POLICE INSPECTOR SINGH direct people to safety... HOBIE Hurry everyone! This way! Quickly! CHILD (O.S.) Somebody help! Help! Half a block away -- a little girl in a RED SHIRT. INSPECTOR SINGH (in Hindi, subtitled) Don’t be afraid, I’m coming! Pavitr, still straining to keep the bus from dropping, sees Singh running into the falling rubble. PAVITR Inspector Singh! Pavitr, stuck, can only watch as Singh risks certain death and grabs the child. INSPECTOR SINGH Hold on tight! Miles clocks Singh, about to get crushed by the impending building. Just like the vision of JEFF he had... MILES I got him! GWEN Miles! She GRABS Miles before he can jump down. MILES Don’t worry! Thread the needle, ring the bell, right? GWEN It’s too dangerous -- 97. 98. MILES I’ll be okay, I promise. GWEN Miles! Miles swoops down, mere feet ahead of the falling building, and HURLS INSPECTOR SINGH AND THE KID TO SAFETY... ... but not before he himself is BURIED IN A PILE OF SMOLDERING RUBBLE. Gwen desperately scrambles into the pile... GWEN (CONT’D) Miles!!! No! No no no no no... She peels back chunk after chunk of merciless concrete. Trying to will away the unthinkable... Until Miles crawls out from beneath the destruction. GWEN (CONT’D) You’re alright?! MILES I promised. Inspector Singh and the kid are safe, Miles is safe... ... and Gayatri is safe as, together, Hobie and Pavitr pull the bus to safety. Gayatri steps out; Pav rushes up to her with a tight hug -- PAVITR (excited/relieved) You okay?! I was so worried. (catching himself) -- I mean, you seem like a nice young woman that I do not know. But she’s already looking for -- GAYATRI Baba?! INSPECTOR SINGH Gayatri! She sees her father, swallows him in a hug. MILES (to Gwen) Not bad right? 98. 99. Gwen looks down at her watch, still flashing red: “Canon Event Disrupted.” Whatever that means, it isn’t good. GWEN Right. Singh offers Pav a firm HANDSHAKE. GAYATRI I’ve never seen him so emotional. INSPECTOR SINGH (stiff as a board) Excellent job. Pav nods to Miles. Thank you. Hobie throws his arms around Miles like an old chum. HOBIE Man. Like. Miles. My. Guy! The people of Mumbattan surround them with CHEERS. This feeling. This is why they do the job. MILES So... what do you think? GWEN What I always think, you’re amazing. MILES We make a good team. GWEN (heavily) Yeah. What’s wrong? Miles follows her eyes to discover DARK MATTER creeping up the sides of the canyon like ivy. What remains of Alchemax GLITCHES and slips into a growing black hole in the ground. PAVITR Guys... what’s that? HOBIE It’s a metaphor for capitalism. GWEN It’s a lot worse than that. 99. 100. ABOVE THEM An INTER-DIMENSIONAL PORTAL announces the arrival of JESS DREW and a whole-ass Spider-S.W.A.T. team. JESS (to the troops) Ok guys, secure the area, clear all civilians, and let’s contain this quantum hole. Miles knows you miss all the shots you don’t take so: MILES Hey I’m Miles. We actually met before, when I was invisible -- Jess continues past Miles. This is serious. JESS I know who you are. For the first time in his young career as Spider-Man, Pavitr seems shaken and truly worried: PAVITR Is everything going to be okay? No one wants to answer that honestly. Instead, Jess’ team gets to work mitigating the damage, setting up a LASER PERIMETER around the gaping hole. Gwen approaches gingerly... GWEN Let me explain -- JESS Miguel wants you back at HQ. GWEN Miles was just about to head out -- JESS All of you. HOBIE I don’t follow orders. (arm around Miles) Neither does he -- MILES I’m invited to HQ????!!!! Miles bounds ahead as Hobie SIGHS and a SMASH TO 100. 101. EXT. TOTAL DARKNESS - DAY MILES, GWEN, JESS and HOBIE drop from a portal into a void. Or -- an elevator? OK yes, an elevator. Moving down. Maybe up? Hobie peels off his mask. He’s - natch, mate - insanely hot. MILES How are you even cooler under your mask? HOBIE (shrugs) I was this cool the whole time. WHOOUMM! We are UPSIDE-DOWN in a glass elevator, shooting up a futuristic skyline straight out of Syd Mead’s sketchbook. MILES Dang... This is NUEVA YORK of EARTH-928. The bilingual hometown of Miguel O’Hara. INT. SPIDEY HQ - CONTINUOUS Doors open to a brutalist foyer packed with SPIDER-PEOPLE. All study screens with footage of Spot’s recent incursions. MILES Yo, this place is wild! JESS Any sign of Spot? MALALA WINDSOR, SPIDER-U.K. of Earth-835, runs this floor: SPIDER-U.K. Let me ask. Hey anybody spot Spot? JESS (no time for this) So funny. Anybody else got jokes? SPIDER-U.K. Eh now that you mention it-- Every Spider in the hallway chimes in with their own quip. 101. 102. MILES (in awe) This is unbelievable! GWEN This is the lobby. MILES Oh. GWEN Welcome to Spider-Society... PULL BACK TO REVEAL SO MANY SPIDER-PEOPLE IT WILL MAKE YOUR FUCKING HEAD SPIN... a full-on INTER-DIMENSIONAL SPIDER-BASE. HOBIE Bit much, init? MILES What happened to that small elite strike team? GWEN (feels bad) A lot of these are part-time... Hobie pulls her aside. HOBIE Gwendy, how much have you told him? About his place in all this. GWEN A little. Miles GLITCHES behind them. HOBIE Maybe not enough. Jess tosses Miles a FANCY BRACELET. JESS Here -- MILES Oh! My own watch?! JESS It’s a day pass. This just keeps you from -- 102. 103. Miles GLITCHES again. The wristband activates and the glitching STOPS. JESS (CONT’D) -- doing that. A BEEFY SQUAD of Spider-People run past. BEEFCAKE SPIDER Hey Gwen! GWEN Hey Peter. MILES Hey, I’m Miles. I’m a new recruit! GWEN Hey Peters! A BUNCHA PETERS Hey Gwen! Does Gwen know everybody? PETER PARKEDCAR of Earth-539e1 rolls up. He’s a... buggy. JESS Peter. Take a team to the transport deck. Start dealing with this Spot mess. Peter HONKS in agreement. TARANTULA, SPIDERCIDE, LAST STAND, and LEGO Peter jump in the car and drive off. MILES I wouldn’t call it a mess, more like a success in progress. JESS Ben, I need -- BEN REILLY (aka Scarlet Spider) leans against a pillar. Deep emo vibe here: BEN Sorry, I can’t talk right now. I’m thinking about my past. JESS ... actually we need you here for some reason. 103. 104. BEN GAAHHHRRRUHHH! (then) That was a particularly harrowing memory. MILES Is he okay? A HORSE in a spidey mask clomps up. This is WIDOW, and her rider is PAT O’HARA, WEB-SLINGER of EARTH-31913. MILES (CONT’D) Why does the horse need a mask? PAT To conceal her face. (then) Giddy... up! They web up out of frame. As our crew moves on past several dozen CONTAINMENT FIELDS, each restraining a WEIRD VARIATIONS OF A CLASSIC VILLAIN: MILES Who is in these...laser cages? LYLA Anomalies. Folks who wound up in the wrong dimension. JESS We kick their butts and send them home. Miles wants to stop and gawk but Gwen seems suspiciously eager to move on: GWEN They’re not very interesting -- LYLA What?! We got a buncha Doc Ocks... MILES (pointedly to Gwen) Oh that’s interesting. LYLA A Mooseterio... Ms. Sterio... Video game guy... MILES I love video games! 104. 105. LYLA ... another video game guy... INSOMNIAC SPIDER-MAN Are you... talking to me? LYLA Typeface. TYPEFACE Go to Hel-vetica, Spider-Man! MILES BOLD. LYLA An interesting Kraven... A boring Rhino... a Prowler... MILES (whipping around) Prowler?! GWEN Not your Prowler. Miles stares agog at a LIVE-ACTION DONALD GLOVER PROWLER. MILES Hey. DONALD Hey. (then) It’s rude to stare. HOBIE Caught that one myself. DONALD I slipped. GWEN You?! I did all the work. You -- MILES Uh... how many missions have you been on together? GWEN Oh, not that many. HOBIE Couple dozen? MILES That’s cool >:( 105. 106. Miles bumps into MARGO KESS, SPIDER-BYTE of Earth-22191. She’s a virtual Spider-Woman around Miles’ age. MILES (CONT’D) Sorry. They SPIDER-RESONATE with one another. There’s a vibe... MILES (CONT’D) I’m Spider-Man. MARGO No way! (then) All of us are. GWEN Can we just keep moving? But Miles has already FOLLOWED Margo over to -- THE GO HOME MACHINE ROOM Where Margo quickly blips to a far corner of the room. MILES Whoa, what are you? MARGO I’m an avatar. My body is back in my parents’ dimension chilling in a gaming chair and eating Fritos. She shows him her HOME DIMENSION -- where we hear her parents arguing through a wall. MARGO (CONT’D) Here is better. MILES I hear that. Margo operates a console as A SCARY ALABASTER SEMI-MECHANICAL SPIDER names ANYR descends from the ceiling. MILES (CONT’D) What does that do? HOBIE Apart from having a great name? GWEN “The Go Home Machine.” 106. 107. HOBIE What’d I say? GWEN I voted against it. Anyr weaves a light-web around an anomaly, RHINO of Earth-67. MARGO It detects whatever dimension your DNA is from, and sends you there. HOBIE It’s super humane and not creepy. MARGO (to Rhino) See ya, dog! Don’t come back! Rhino writhes in pain as he DISAPPEARS. GWEN We should go. Don’t want to keep the boss waiting. MILES (to Margo) Uh, see you around? MARGO Good luck out there, man! Gwen thwips Miles away from her. Jealous? MILES Okay bye! Margo watches him go. Something about this kid... TRANSITION TO: A LIVE SECURITY FEED of Miles and crew-- Someone’s watching them. LYLA Miguel sounds hangry. JESS He likes those empanadas from the cafeteria, don’t ask me why... We’re in 107. 108. MIGUEL’S LAB And MIGUEL is watching them on HOLOGRAPHIC SCREENS. He’s a man alone, his expression hidden in shadow. MIGUEL (V.O.) My name is Miguel O’Hara. I’m this dimension’s one and only SpiderMan... at least I was... but I’m not like the others. Miguel gives himself a pneumatic INJECTION. MIGUEL (V.O.) I don’t always like what I have to do. But I know I have to be the one to do it. And I’ve given up too much to stop now... Miles, Gwen, and Hobie follow Jess down a BACK HALLWAY full of impressive engineering works in progress. Hobie pulls a blinking panel from the wall. HOBIE Bet this doesn’t even do anything. MILES Maybe it did before you ripped it out of a wall? HOBIE It’s propaganda, bruv. To distract you from the truth. MILES And what’s that? HOBIE I ain’t got a Scooby Doo* mate... because that’s what they want. [*cockney rhyming slang for “clue” --Ed.] Hobie slyly pockets the panel. HOBIE (CONT’D) Why do you wanna be part of this lot? MILES To get a watch. 108. 109. HOBIE Make your own watch. Hobie palms a transistor. Quite the klepto (and hypocrite). HOBIE (CONT’D) Bet you got a nice set up, eh? Nice parents? MILES They’re fine. I mean, we got in a fight, but they just want what’s best for me. HOBIE That’s a bloody shame. MILES Why...? HOBIE ‘Cause you’re not ready for everybody else. ON MIGUEL watching an alternate version of himself on a monitor. Happily playing with his DAUGHTER in some other dimension. Miguel shuts the screen off. HOBIE pulls Miles aside before they cross the threshold of the lab. HOBIE Listen to me, bruv, whole point of being Spider-Man is your independence. Being your own boss. You don’t need all this! MILES Then why are you here? Good question. HOBIE Lookin’ out for my drummer is all. He steals another piece of tech. Some kind of method here. 109. 110. MILES I want to be in a band. I wanna see my friends and I need a watch to do that. GWEN Guys, come on... HOBIE Alright. It’s squashed. (sotto, to Miles) Just don’t enlist til you know what war you’re fighting. Gwen, Hobie, and Miles continue into the center of the lab. Miguel’s at an elevated workstation. It lowers. VERY SLOWLY. GWEN (off Miles’ look) I know it’s slow, but -- it’s his thing. IT’S STILL LOWERING. Hobie throws up his hands and walks off. GWEN (CONT’D) Miguel O’Hara, meet Miles Morales. MILES Hey! ¿Qué tal tio? I speak Spanish. Te trajé una empanada. Miguel laser-webs the empanada out of Miles’ hands... MIGUEL Que maravilla. ... and drops it in the trash. MILES Listen, I--I’m really excited to get going and-- I have some fresh new ideas on how to catch The Spot. He just wants to be taken seriously, y’know? Like as we all do-- MIGUEL (CONT’D) Oh great. Oh wow. Uh huh uh huh. Miguel LAUNCHES the clattering trashcan at Miles; Hobie casually YOINKS the empanada. 110. 111. MIGUEL (CONT’D) He’s worried about Spot. I’ll worry about Spot! MILES What did I do? GWEN Miguel! It’s not his fault. MILES Fault? Hold up -- MIGUEL YOU BLEW ANOTHER HOLE IN THE MULTIVERSE!! GWEN He doesn’t know any better. MILES I do know what not know what? MIGUEL But you did, Gwen. And you -- HOBIE offers Miguel a flowery bow. MIGUEL (CONT’D) I’m just gonna try to ignore you -- I just can’t even -- HOBIE I ain't even here. MILES What’s happening? HOBIE (popping into frame) Or here. VOICE (O.S.) Miguel! Go easy on the kid... It’s our ol’ pal PETER B. PARKER. Eating a burger, of course. PETER ... he had a terrible teacher. He had no chance. MILES PETER! 111. 112. GWEN Peter?! HOBIE Oh boy! Humbling-Reality Spider-Man has arrived! Miles rushes over and hugs Peter. So happy to see him. PETER Miles! MILES Dude! PETER Don’t be afraid of my friend Miguel. He just looks scary, he’s got no bite. MIGUEL Ughhhh. Peter... PETER You’re growin’ up on me! You look great! MILES You look... solid, y’know? PETER Define solid... What happened? You bleeding from the armpits? Don’t worry about the suit, we’ll get you a new suit. MILES Peter you gotta tell them-- wait. What is that? Peter is wearing a BABY BJORN. SQUEE! MAYDAY PARKER (eight months going on 4 years) swings past and up into the rafters. PETER Mayday! MILES You have a baby! PETER I have a baby! 112. 113. MILES This is crazy! Peter chases after his daughter with a familiar bracelet -- PETER Don’t forget to keep your little day-pass on honey. (to Miles) Oh you have one too, I didn’t know they made those for adults. Peter tries to get a hold of her. She’s not making it easy. HOBIE (nodding in approval) Kid’s an anarchist. PETER I’m comin’ up to getcha! Here I come, don’t move! MIGUEL -- no puedo más, no puedo más -- Peter catches up to Mayday on the ceiling... PETER Aha, gotcha. I knew I was gonna regret making her that web shooter. I shouldn’t have done it. That’s an actual mistake. Mayday wiggles out of his grasp and drops out of frame. Peter catches her. She LAUGHS, loving this new game. PETER (CONT’D) Hey you wanna see pictures? GWEN I mean, she’s right there, so -- Peter shoves pictures of Mayday in Gwen’s face. PETER Look at this pic! She’s a special kid. GWEN Oh you got them, they are wow, she-- PETER She’s incredible! This is her funny face. 113. PETER (CONT’D) 114. That’s her mad face, this one is the studious one, watch out the next one you’re gonna crack up! Oh Miguel’s gonna die. Look at this. Mayday crawls onto Miguel, who is SUPER annoyed. MIGUEL I’m trying to hold a serious adult conversation here. PETER Y’know you’re the only Spider-Man who isn’t funny? We’re supposed to be funny. MIGUEL The fate of the multiverse is -- PETER You always lose me with that. I hear you say “the fate of the multiverse” and my brain dies. (sniffs) Do you guys smell that? Mayday took a crap. Peter grabs Mayday and weaves a diaper out of webs... PETER (CONT’D) Yep, she’s a Parker! That’s what happens when a Parker eats an avocado. MIGUEL Miles. You disrupted a canon event. MILES Canon event? PETER The kid wasn’t thinking. That’s not how he works. MILES That’s insulting. HOBIE (to Mayday) Taking a crap on the establishment, I salute you. PETER (CONT’D) 114. 115. MILES Wait what are you upset about? I saved those people -- MIGUEL -- and that’s the problem. (then) Lyla? Do the thing. LYLA blips into frame. LYLA What thing? MIGUEL The information explain-y thing. LYLA Okay. LIGHTS OUT. LYLA projects a giant branching arterial MULTIVERSAL MAP. MILES What’s this? MIGUEL This is everything. MILES (...) Can you be more specific? MIGUEL Can you not talk for a second? A WEB PATTERN emerges. MIGUEL (CONT’D) And this is all of us. Every confirmed spider. All of our lives woven together, in a beautiful Web of Life and Destiny. MILES The Spider-Verse. MIGUEL Spider-Verse. Huh, that’s... stupid. It’s called the Arachnohumanoid Polymultiverse. (off Miles’ look) Which sounds... stupid too I guess. 115. 116. Miles’s SPIDER-SENSE triggers at the sight of several rather important looking POINTS: MILES And these nodes, where the lines converge? MIGUEL They are The Canon. Chapters that are a part of every spider’s story, every time. The nodes expand to project big moments in their shared lives: A spider bites Peter Parker... Peter B. Parker... Gwen... Miles... MIGUEL (CONT’D) Some good, some bad, some very bad. Uncle Ben dies in Peter’s arms. Peter dies in Gwen’s arms. Scores of Spiders losing loved ones, including Miles losing -- MILES Uncle Aaron... A node opens to show a classic comics moment where CAPTAIN GEORGE STACY saves a RED-SHIRTED CHILD from FALLING RUBBLE, only to be crushed himself... MIGUEL This one -- Event ASM90 -- a police captain close to Spider-Man dies saving a kid from falling rubble during a battle with an archnemesis... AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Andrew Garfield) kneels as Captain Stacy dies. We see this moment echoed across many other spiderstories including Peter B.’s... MILES (to Peter) That happened to you? Peter’s eyes say it all. JESS And me. HOBIE (him too) Eh, what of it? 116. 117. MIGUEL That’s how the story is supposed to go. Canon events are the connections that bind our lives together. But those connections can be broken. That’s why anomalies are so dangerous... The web shows Mumbattan: Inspector Singh runs to save a kid from falling rubble... and survives. Because Miles saved him. MIGUEL (CONT’D) Inspector Singh’s death was a Canon event. You weren’t supposed to be there and you weren’t supposed to save him -- We watch Gwen grab Miles before he rescued Singh... MIGUEL (CONT’D) That’s why Gwen tried to stop you. MILES I thought you were trying to save me. GWEN I was... I was doing both. MIGUEL And now, Miles, because you changed the story, Pavitr’s dimension is unraveling. Spider-S.W.A.T. try to contain the quantum breach. MIGUEL (CONT’D) If we’re lucky we can stop it. We haven’t always been lucky. MILES That wasn’t me, that was the Spot! MIGUEL It’s what happens when you break the canon. MILES How do you know? MIGUEL Because I broke it once myself. 117. 118. We watch an ALTERNATE VERSION OF MIGUEL play with his daughter, GABRI. He is killed saving a woman from a thief. MIGUEL (V.O.) I found another world where I had a family. Where I was happy. At least a version of me was. And that version of myself was killed. So I replaced him. Miguel fills in the empty space left by his counterpart’s death -- bonding with his daughter, building memories... MIGUEL I thought it was harmless... but I was wrong. Miles is surrounded by an IMMERSIVE HOLOVIDEO of a dimension collapsing. No one escapes -- including Gabri, who glitches and disappears right out of Miguel’s arms. PETER B. was there. He watched this world disintegrate. MIGUEL (CONT’D) Isn’t that right, Peter? PETER Yeah. MIGUEL You break enough canon, save enough captains, we could lose everything. Lines of the web snap. Nodes explode in white light. Miles shields his eyes as the whole web SHATTERS into emptiness. Miles is left alone with only his breath in the darkness... ... and then we’re BACK in MIGUEL’S LAB. MILES My dad is about to be captain... Spider-sense OVERWHELMS Miles. SPOT CAUSING DESTRUCTION... RUBBLE RAINING DOWN... A CHILD IN A RED SHIRT RUNNING, AND JEFF RUSHING TO SAVE HIM... SPOT (V.O.) I’m gonna take everything from you like you took everything from me. Miles wakes from HIS RECURRING VISION with a start. 118. 119. MILES Spot does it. He kills him. (then) When does it happen? No one wants to say it. MILES (CONT’D) When does it happen?! MIGUEL In two days. When he’s sworn in. LYLA That’s what the model says. MIGUEL I’m sorry, Miles -- MILES Send me home. MIGUEL I can’t do that. Not now. MILES What am I supposed to do? Just let him die? Miguel stands, unwavering. MILES (CONT’D) (turning to Gwen) What about your dad? He’s a captain, right? GWEN Yeah... MILES And that’s it. You’re just aren’t gonna do anything about it. Gwen can’t find any words. MILES (CONT’D) (to Peter B) Ok, what about Uncle Ben? That have been okay if you knew and just let it play out? PETER If not for Uncle Ben, most of us wouldn’t be here, Miles. 119. PETER (CONT’D) 120. And all the good we did, it wouldn’t have been done. MILES So we’re just supposed to let people die because some algorithm -- LYLA (offended) Whoa, whoa. MILES -- says that that’s supposed to happen? You realize how messed up that sounds right? More Spider-People step into the room... MIGUEL You have a choice between saving one person and saving an entire world. Every world. MILES I can do both. Spider-Man always -- PETER Not always. MIGUEL Miles, we all want to live the life we wish we had. Believe me, I have tried. And the harder I tried the more damage I did. You can’t have it all, kid. A phalanx of Spiders surround Miles. More than we realized. MIGUEL (CONT’D) Being Spider-Man is a sacrifice. That’s the job. That’s what you signed up for... Miles’ old friend PENI approaches... PENI Miles... MILES Peni? (then) What is this? Is this an intervention or something? PETER (CONT’D) 120. 121. Looks that way. SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN steps up: SPECTACULAR We know it’s hard. But it’s the truth, Miles. MILES (to Peter) Is that why you’re here? To let me down easy? Worked last time, why not run it back, huh? PETER Miles -- GWEN You were right, Gwen. You should have never come to see me. PETER Hold on, look, kid -- MILES Stop calling me that. HOBIE Here we go... JESS Hobie, you’re not helping. HOBIE Good. MILES You can’t ask me not to save my father! MIGUEL I’m not asking. Miguel drops a CONTAINMENT FIELD around Miles. The same kind we’ve seen caging other anomalies... PETER Miguel just give him a second, please! MIGUEL I told you he wouldn’t listen. 121. 122. GWEN Stop it! Miles fruitlessly wails against the cell’s ENERGY FIELD. MIGUEL If we let him leave he’ll only do more damage. We both know that. GWEN Miguel, that’s enough. HOBIE (whispered to Miles) Oi... little man... Peter Pan. Hobie wiggles his fingers at Miles and mouths “Palms.” MIGUEL Just need to hold you a few days. (cold as hell) Sorry it had to end like this, kid. MILES I said not to CALL ME THAT! As the walls close in around Miles, his RAGE boils over... He pushes his PALMS against the containment field and VENOM BLASTS it across the room! The shockwave throws Miguel, Peter, everyone on their ass. Hobie gives a little CHUCKLE. Miles stares at his palms. Stunned by his own power. And then HE RUNS. MIGUEL Miles! The chase is on. PETER Alright, I’m sorry for doing this. This is bad parenting. Peter tugs down Mayday’s hat, gives her a little kiss, and joins the rest of them in the pursuit. Everyone but HOBIE -- 122. 123. HOBIE Just for the record, I quit. He tosses his watch and fucks off through a portal. PEACE. INT. SPIDEY HQ - SAME TIME ALARMS BLARE. Miguel’s HOLOGRAM comes over the PA system. MIGUEL (HOLOGRAM) All stations: drop what you’re doing and stop Spider-Man! So many Spiders point at one another. You? Him? Him? MIGUEL (HOLOGRAM) (CONT’D) Ay coño. Miles! Miles Morales! He’s entering Sector 4. The OBLIVIOUS SPIDER-MAN 2211 stands under the Sector 4 sign. SPIDER-MAN 2211 Do I have web on my face? What’s the deal? MIGUEL (running behind him) Miles! He’s right there -- TURN AROUND! 2211 turns, revealing MILES hiding on his back. A hundred spiders look at Miles. He gives a sheepish smile and -- DIVES away. Dogpiled by Spiders from every direction. SPIDERCAT launches a web-hairball at his face -- MILES Can this day get any damn weirder? Well, funny you should ask: PTER PTARKER -- a dinosaur, of course -- thwips at him with tiny T-Rex arms. MILES (CONT’D) I guess it can! IN THE CAFETERIA-- Miles runs on top of the tables, a crowd still chasing him. He steps on someone’s Spider-Burger, stumbling forward. 123. 124. AT A SPIDER THERAPIST’S OFFICE -- We’re in the middle of a therapy session. SPIDER-MAN PATIENT ...And then I looked at my uncle... SPIDER-MAN THERAPIST And... let me guess? He died? Miles and scores of pursuers crash into the room and out to a SERVICE TUNNEL Where Miles sees the GO HOME MACHINE ROOM -- his ticket out of here! He makes for it when PAT rides up atop WIDOW, firing a WEB-SIX-SHOOTER! PTWONG! Miles leaps onto Widow, facing Pat. A point-blank showdown -- WEBSLINGER On the count of three: draw. One -- Miles webs Pat right out of the saddle. WEBSLINGER (CONT’D) You didn’t wait for threeee! Peter, mid-chase, races to get Miguel’s attention... PETER Miguel! Miguel! (then) Would you take a photo of this? It’s her first chase. Miguel swings away, pissed. Peter takes a selfie with Mayday. BACK ON MILES, riding Widow past the CAGED ANOMALIES. They CHEER Miles and BOO Miguel. SUN-SPIDER, aka CHARLOTTE WEBBER, rolls up in her wheelchair. CHARLOTTE Miles? MILES Hi. CHARLOTTE I’m a huge fan of your work. MILES Thanks! 124. 125. CHARLOTTE Do you think spider-people too often use comedy as a crutch? MILES Uh... CHARLOTTE Get it? Crutch? She nails him with a crutch, knocking him off the horse-- straight into old SPIDER-MAN ‘67 and his famous FANFARE. ‘67 I can do anything he can -- oh dang I pulled something! As ‘67 falls away Miles dashes into THE TRAINING ROOM and begins dodging pop-up cutouts of iconic Spider-Man villains like DOC OCK Hello Peter... Miles is nearing the exit when Miguel DROPS FROM THE RAFTERS, cutting him off. Miles is trapped. Spiders closing in on all sides. Including: METRO SPIDER-MAN Nowhere to run. Miles turns, runs STRAIGHT OUT A HUNDRED-STORY WINDOW -- METRO My bad everybody, there was somewhere to run. OUTSIDE Miles FREEFALLS over the aspirational FUTURESCAPE OF NUEVA YORK. Miguel, hot on his heels, unfurls cybernetic WEB WINGS and leads dozens of Spiders in a pursuit. MIGUEL Stop running! MILES Then stop chasing me! 125. 126. MIGUEL You’re so frustrating! Jess rides her bike on a building’s edge, meeting Gwen. JESS I know he’s your friend, but it’s the only way. GWEN But my gut says -- JESS Then use your head. Peter overhears this and swings off with a plan. Jess, in the meantime, catches up to Miles, SLAMS him with her bike. He FALLS -- -- but Gwen thwips him. Saving him? Catching him? No difference to Miles: he throws Gwen a defiant look before SEVERING THE LINE -- -- only to be immediately collared by Ben Reilly. BEN I got you trapped in my welldefined musculature, so don’t even bother -- OW! Miles RIPS himself free as they CRASH through a GRATE into AN INDUSTRIAL TANGLE OF HUGE PISTONS -- the literal DARK UNDERBELLY that undergirds Miguel’s bullshit Utopia. Miles doesn’t know where to go... but he doesn’t need to: SOMEONE YANKS him up into the safety of an alcove. PETER. PETER Miles. MILES No no no no, let me go. PETER It is crazy to run. MILES Running is the least crazy thing going on! Miles looks for a way out -- 126. 127. PETER Look, I feel bad. MILES Good! PETER But this is just how stuff works. You’re not gonna win here! Miles scrambles past, ignoring him -- PETER (CONT’D) Do you want to hold my baby? MILES What? PETER Would you just give the baby one squeeze and then we’ll talk? Because I think it’s gonna change our vibe. MILES No! PETER It’s very rejuvenating! MILES I’m plenty juvenated! PETER You’ll get more so when you go chest to chest with this magical child! MILES You don’t get to have a heartfelt conversation with me right now! PETER Just hold the baby and we’ll see what happens!! Peter pushes Mayday on Miles. Miles hands her back. PETER (CONT’D) You’re the reason I had her, okay?! Miles stops. It’s a dead end. 127. 128. PETER (CONT’D) I thought that if I did a decent job raising her, there was a chance she was gonna turn out like you. And that got me excited, because you are a wonderful person and I like being around you! MILES Then why didn’t you come see me? PETER Because -- I couldn’t. MILES I wanted to be with you guys so badly. But this thing isn’t what I thought it was. PETER Look, bad things are gonna happen. It makes us who we are. But good things happen too, y’know? (a hand on his shoulder) Like you happened. And she happened. Mayday climbs into Miles’ arms. He’s never held a kid before. MILES Hey -- I don’t -- listen... PETER And you are so bad at holding a baby. Over Peter’s COMM: LYLA (OVER COMM) We got your location Peter. Sit tight, we’re on the way. PETER Wait wait, no no no! You don’t have my location, over! Miles realizes... ON MIGUEL, en route, calling the other Spiders: MIGUEL (INTO COMMS) Send everyone. Jess looks Gwen in the eye and they take off towards 128. 129. PETER who can’t take the disappointment in Miles’ gaze -- PETER Miles I didn’t know, I promise you. Please, let’s talk about this. MILES We did. Miles webs Peter to the ceiling. Mayday coos, oblivious. Miles then unleashes his ire on a HUGE GRATE blocking his escape -- PETER Good talk. -- and VERTS through a spinning gauntlet of massive FLYWHEELS that would -- and shortly does -- send lesser spiders to the E.R... EXT. VIEJO NUEVA YORK - CONTINUOUS Miles rockets into the permanent night of the underground streets of the old city. Gwen and Peter follow as closely as they can -- GWEN Where does he think he’s going? PETER I don’t think he planned this out. Jess RIDES past -- JESS (to Peter) If I hadn’t said it before, by the way, you’re a terrible mentor! She’s about to catch Miles with an impossible bike stunt -- BUT MILES IS READY. He thwips Jess’ motorcycle out from under her and GRINDS it long enough to web her to a truck. PETER He did just beat you so I’m not a terrible mentor. Miguel passes them... 129. 130. MIGUEL You’re both equally terrible. Does that settle it? ... en route to pursuing Miles UP A VERTICAL HIGHWAY that breaches the surface and accelerates into the clouds. The hell? Oh -- not just a highway, it’s a track for a SPACE-BOUND EL TRAIN -- MIGUEL (CONT’D) Stop pretending you know where you’re going! MILES Oh I have a plan. I just haven’t told you yet! Miles webs the train as it passes overhead. Miguel leaps at him, but only manages to tear off his “day pass”... ... which means Miles immediately resumes GLITCHING. Barely able to stay ahead of Miguel... TRAIN INTERCOM Departing for the moon. MILES That’s not good. SNAP!! The speed breaks Miles’ webline. He sticks to the train for dear life as Miguel CLAWS his way after him -- MILES (CONT’D) What are those, claws?! Dude, are you sure you’re even Spider-Man? Miles thwips a web into the wind -- they’re moving too fast. MIGUEL Are you? Who do you think you are? Really? Miles gathers, closes his eyes and lets go... MILES My name is Miles Morales... ... using gravity to drop him into a CRANE KICK that catches Miguel square in the jaw. 130. 131. MILES (CONT’D) ... I was bitten by a radioactive spider... Miguel LASER WEBS Miles around his waist. But as he draws Miles in, Miles fires a WEB FASTBALL between the eyes! MILES (CONT’D) I’m pretty sure you know the rest, jerk! Miles hooks a web to one of the cars speeding below on the vertical highway. Miguel barrels after him... MIGUEL You don’t get it! You’re an anomaly! MILES Not if you let me go home! Miguel LUNGES. Miles elbows him in the mouth and scurries back out into the LIGHT atop the train. MIGUEL Everywhere you go you’re an anomaly! You’re the original anomaly!!! What? Miles GLITCHES, underscoring the impact of this news. Miguel claws closer and closer to Miles, barely hanging on. MIGUEL (CONT’D) The spider that gave you your powers wasn’t from your dimension! It was never supposed to bite you! Gwen and Peter emerge a couple cars below -- GWEN Miguel don’t! PETER Miguel, go easy on him! But Miguel can only see his prey: MIGUEL There’s a world out there with no Spider-Man to protect them because it bit you instead. 131. 132. MILES No -- MIGUEL You’re not supposed to be SpiderMan! MILES No! You’re lying! I’m Spider-Man! MIGUEL You’re a mistake! Miguel CRATERS Miles into the train’s housing. MIGUEL (CONT’D) If you hadn’t been bit, your Peter Parker would have lived. Instead he died saving you. He would have stopped the collider before it ever went off. Spot wouldn’t exist and none of this would’ve happened! And all this time I have been the only one holding it all together. MILES Get off of me -- MIGUEL (whispering in his ear) You don’t belong here. You never did. MILES Let me go -- GWEN Miguel, that’s enough! PETER This isn’t what we talked about! What? MILES You talked about this? You knew? You all knew? GWEN I didn’t know... how to tell you. MILES That’s why you never came to see me. 132. 133. GWEN Miles, it’s for your own good! MILES Who decides that? I’m not a kid, Gwen! THWOMP -- Miguel shoves Miles into the crumpling metal -- MIGUEL That’s exactly what you are. You’re just a kid who has no idea what he’s doing! Miles smiles. MILES Yeah, well I did lure hundreds of Spider-People away from your little clubhouse. MIGUEL What? Miguel looks back and sees his whole army climbing the train. Just now realizing that he’s left Spider Society HQ entirely undefended -- PETER I guess he did plan this out! MILES And -- I’m about to do this: Miles’ FINGERS dig into Miguel’s shoulder, ABSORBING energy from Miguel’s suit. Miguel’s power isn’t suppressing Miles... it’s CHARGING him. MILES (CONT’D) Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah. Im’ma do my own thing. PALMS. He RELEASES all Miguel’s energy -- including his fear -- RIGHT BACK INTO MIGUEL. Miguel tumbles ass over teakettle into the crowd of Spiders below... Miles stands. Torn and damaged and strong. MILES (CONT’D) Goodbye, Gwen. 133. 134. She looks back at him. Proud. Ashamed. He LETS GO -- GWEN Miles! -- and makes himself INVISIBLE as he DIVES towards the city. PETER I taught him how to do that... so I gotta be a pretty good mentor to pull that off. Miguel, seething, leaps after Miles. BACK IN THE GO HOME MACHINE ROOM Margo tries out a few virtual hairstyles: MARGO Nope. No. Uh uh. That’s kinda cute - A NOISE. Playlist off, visor down -- MARGO’S POV: she toggles views - infrared, thermal... nada... ... as, unseen behind her, SOMETHING INVISIBLE disturbs some wiring... then activates a CONSOLE. GO HOME MACHINE Initializing Go Home Machine. MARGO What?! The machine runs a RETINA SCAN of a familiar eye. A screen blinks: “DIMENSIONAL I.D. - Earth-42” The Go Home Machine LIGHTS UP. MARGO (CONT’D) Come on. No, no, no, no, no! Margo DIVIDES herself so she can type at multiple monitors as ANYR descends from the rafters and sees MILES - visible only to their array of eyes. LYLA boops in over Margo’s shoulder. 134. 135. LYLA What’s happening? MARGO The machine activated on its own. LYLA How is that possible? MARGO (O.S.) It isn’t. ON MILES as ANYR spins a cocoon of light around him. Hurry... LYLA How about this? K, how about now? MARGO (CONT’D) No no no no no! You’re getting in the way! Eventually the machine’s bright light illuminates MILES. Desperate to get home. Margo clocks him... But she’s not his problem: Miles’ SPIDER-SENSE SCREAMS as Miguel CRASHES into the room. MIGUEL Stop him! Now! MARGO Man, what does it look like I’m trying to do? Miguel SLASHES at the walls of light that surround Miles. Clawing the energy field apart, an animal in the throes of bloodlust -- Peter and Gwen try to snap him out of it: PETER Miguel! GWEN Miguel stop! But Miguel has lost control. Miles drops his invisibility. He almost wants Miguel to see him. No longer afraid. Margo’s hand hovers over the console. “System Reboot: Yes/No” Margo and Miles look at one another. See each other. Margo lowers her hand from the console. They share a nod. A recognition. 135. 136. And Miles pulls down his mask. MIGUEL No!! There’s nothing Miguel can do. Miles is GONE. Miguel boils... ... then HURLS the console across the room. PETER Okay, it’s not the console’s fault. MIGUEL All he had to do was listen. Why didn’t he listen? GWEN Maybe you weren’t hard enough on him! Pretty mouthy for a rook. JESS Gwen don’t do it. MIGUEL You let him go. GWEN Me?! MIGUEL You didn’t catch him, Gwen. He’s in Gwen’s face now. There’s a crowd of Spider-People filing in, all feeling pretty conflicted... PETER Okay, let’s all just take a breath-- GWEN Peter, you want to back me up? PETER Well, Miguel, as a father of a daughter and the son of a mother -- JESS Yea actually, stop talking. 136. 137. PETER Duly noted. GWEN Let me just talk to him. MIGUEL We tried that. GWEN He’s my friend -- MIGUEL Yeah. And that’s the problem. GWEN Do you know for certain what happens if he breaks the Canon? MIGUEL Do you want to find out? (to Jess) I told you she was a liability. Miguel backs Gwen to the end of the platform. One false step and she’ll fall into the spooky gak below. GWEN You’re wrong. Jess, tell him he’s wrong -- JESS He’s not. GWEN Are you serious right now? JESS I told you, you let him get away, I can’t help you. GWEN I’m not coming. MIGUEL You’re right. ... and suddenly ANYR’s spidery arms GRAB Gwen. GWEN What the hell!? ANYR pulls her away into the machine’s unyielding grasp. 137. 138. MIGUEL Go home, Gwen. GWEN We are supposed to be the good guys. FLASH! She’s gone. MIGUEL We are. He says it the first time as if to convince himself... and then the second time to convince everyone else: MIGUEL (CONT’D) We are. He activates a portal... MIGUEL (CONT’D) Jess. Ben. Come with me. BEN Hell yeah! MIGUEL And somebody catch the Spot. PETER (re Mayday) Yeah sorry, I got to get her down for her nap. MIGUEL Not you. I’ve had the right amount of you. The portal closes behind Miguel, Jess and Ben. Mayday shares her views: PBPBPBBPBBTT! BROOKLYN MILES crashes out of portal onto a rainy rooftop -- no time to catch his breath -- and starts flying, tumbling home... CHELSEA - EARTH-65 (GWEN’S WORLD) A portal cannonballs Gwen into a shipping container. Her watch is useless now -- Access Denied. She’s stuck back in the place she’s been avoiding this whole time. 138. 139. Boiling over, she throws the huge container down an alley like I once threw a takeout container one horrible night in Southampton. This is about as satisfying. Which is to say, not very. MANHATTAN - EARTH-1610 (MILES’ WORLD) Miguel portals in confidently, flanked by Jess and Ben. Scanning for Miles across the rain-soaked skyline. QUEENS - EARTH-616 (PETER’S WORLD) An inter-dimensional flash in the window of INT. PETER AND MJ’S HOME - NIGHT MJ steadies her tea as she crosses the hall to find Peter putting Mayday down. A lot on his mind. MARY JANE Hey hon, how was work? PETER (evasive) Uh... I don’t know. She buying that? MARY JANE Peter, did you bring our baby to another fight? PETER Did I bring our ba-- no. ‘Cause you asked me not to. So I wouldn’t. MARY JANE Mm-hmm. She lets him off the hook. He drops the act: PETER Do you think I’ll be any good at this? MARY JANE You’re asking that now? (then, for real) There’s no playbook for raising someone like her. 139. MARY JANE (CONT’D) 140. Or being, someone like you. You just gotta make the right adjustments at halftime. INT. STACY RESIDENCE - NIGHT Gwen sneaks into her room via the fire escape. She’s not a kid anymore... but this place reminds us that she used to be. She opens her DRUM -- that picture of her and Miles is gone. BACK TO PETER’S DIMENSION MARY JANE That’s a sports metaphor by the way. PETER I understand. MARY JANE Oh sorry, you were just such a nerd in high school, I figured -- PETER But I have watched sports. Unbelievable. INT. STACY RESIDENCE - NIGHT Gwen peeks out her door and finds George asleep on the couch. There’s a lot she’d rather not have to say, that she’d rather not have to hear. So she grabs that picture of her and Miles - - it’s on the coffee table in front of him -- and leaves -- She’s halfway out the window when she senses George behind her, holding something-- She WHIPS around and webs his weapon to the wall. Only -- it’s not a weapon, is it? It’s... a stuffed penguin. The one she keeps her police scanner in. GEORGE Wanna go easy on the penguin? She’s not laughing. Turns to leave... GEORGE (CONT’D) Are you gonna even look at me? She stares at him. Petulant. Silly almost. MARY JANE (CONT’D) 140. 141. GEORGE (CONT’D) What? What is that? GWEN I’m looking at you like you asked. George sighs. She takes off her mask. GWEN (CONT’D) You look skinny. GEORGE Where have you been? GWEN Just been out murdering all my friends. GEORGE Oh, that’s funny. Yeah, okay. Now he turns and leaves. Gwen follows; now she’s the trying to keep him from walking out the door. Who’s the kid here? GWEN Where’re you going? GEORGE I don’t know! Maybe they both are. Fer crackin’ ice somebody say something. GWEN You’re a good cop, Dad. You put that badge on because you know if you don’t, someone who shouldn’t will. But you have to understand: this mask is my badge. And I’m trying to be good too. I was trying so hard to wear this thing the way you would want and... I didn’t. He’s stopped in the doorway. Wheels turning. She drops her mask. GWEN (CONT’D) I can do all these things but I can’t help the people I love the most. And they can only know half of who I am. So I’m completely on my own. 141. GWEN (CONT’D) 142. I don’t even know what the right thing is anymore. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. But I know I can’t lose one more friend. GEORGE Gwen, I always taught you to do it by the book -- GWEN Yeah and how did that work out? GEORGE I took an oath. GWEN Then arrest me, Dad. Get it over with. GEORGE I can’t. GWEN Why not? GEORGE Because I quit. GWEN When? GEORGE About halfway through your big speech. She looks up... GWEN Wait a minute you’re -- not gonna be captain? That means... GEORGE My job, being captain, this whole thing doesn’t matter anymore. It’s so simple, really. GEORGE (CONT’D) You’re the best thing I’ve ever done. What else do you need? GWEN (CONT’D) 142. 143. Gwen thwips him towards her for a BIG HUG. He embraces all of her as she digs her face into this big lovable galoot... GWEN (joking through tears) It was a good speech, huh? GEORGE No wonder you got an A in English. GWEN I got a B+. Missed a few classes... George walks over to the bookshelf. GEORGE I don’t know what it is what you got to do, but I think this thing is supposed to help. He holds up a package that is CLEARLY from Hobie. GEORGE (CONT’D) The guy who left it was a real piece of work. INSIDE is a PUNKY HOME-MADE WATCH and a note: “In case it don’t work out - Hobie” Gwen fiddles with the watch... WOMP. A WILD PORTAL overtakes the room. Poor George. GWEN I’ll be right back. Promise. She pulls down her mask and with a big WOMP she disappears into the portal. After she’s gone: GEORGE Parenting... is a big ass mystery. MILES - SCRAMBLING OVER ROOFTOPS trying to stay hidden in these unusually dark shadows. So much just happened -- he’s devastated by everything Miguel just told him, his psyche as SHREDDED as his COSTUME. As he swings, he can barely stay ahead of the monumental voices in his head... 143. 144. MIGUEL (V.O.) You’re a mistake! If you hadn’t been bit, your Peter Parker would have lived and none of this would’ve happened. HAM (V.O.) Miles, the hardest thing about this job is you can’t always save everybody. SPOT (V.O.) I’ll make you pay for everything you took away from me. MIGUEL (V.O.) ... saving one person and saving an entire world. Every world. MILES (V.O.) I can do both! Spider-Man always -- PETER (V.O.) Not always. RIO (V.O.) Whatever you’re gonna do out there, don’t get lost. PETER (V.O.) Bad things are gonna happen. GWEN (V.O.) I didn’t know... how to tell you. MIGUEL (V.O.) You’re not supposed to be SpiderMan! His fears flow out behind him as he runs like hell from his demons. Closing in. So. Many. Demons. TWHIP-- Miles BURSTS out into the open. Putting aside these pernicious thoughts and focusing on the one voice that matters right now: AARON (V.O.) Just keep going. Miles swings through the rain, defiant, confident, just as -- HHHOOOOONKKKKKK!-- Miles is HIT by a truck. 144. 145. EXT. BROOKLYN ROOFTOP (EARTH-1610) - NIGHT Miguel’s SPIDER-SENSE goes off! He races to the edge of the building and peers into an empty alley -- MIGUEL (into watch) Did you check your locations? SPLIT-SCREEN with Ben and Jess: BEN Yes, dad. JESS No sign of him. MIGUEL LYLA, send everyone out. Anywhere. Anywhere he might be! EXT. POLICE STATION (EARTH-1610) - SAME Jeff walks out of the police station. GUTIERREZ Congrats, Captain! JEFF “Captain?” You can’t call me that until I’m sworn in, you know that. GUTIERREZ We’re all proud of you! Jeff gets in the car and drives off. Around the corner, Jess revs up her bike and follows. EXT. MORALES APARTMENT (EARTH-1610) - SAME Ben patrols the roof opposite Miles’ bedroom, crouching in his iconic rooftop pose. BEN Perfect pose... -- a strange flash of light in the corner -- BEN (CONT’D) HUH?!? Possible disturbance in the alley. Better go check it out. 145. 146. He swings over to an OPEN PORTAL. There’s no one in sight... ... but that doesn’t stop him from Bensplaining everything: BEN (CONT’D) Now I’m here in the alley. There’s something unusual happening. Looking at the walls, those are normal. But there’s something in front of me AAAUGHNOOO-- Webs HOG-TIE him, rip off his watch, and sling him into the portal. Now all that’s left in the alleyway is... GWEN. She grabs Ben’s watch out of the air and crushes it with her bare hand. MILES breathless, slipping, he makes a final desperate swing through the rain, through a window, and into, finally HIS BEDROOM Where he pulls off his mask and EXHALES. A little SMILE: MILES I made it... I’m home. RIO Miles? Miles TWHIPS A JACKET over and zips it over his suit right as RIO walks in. She looks... harried. More brusque than usual. RIO (CONT’D) Is now a bad time? MILES Am I too late?! RIO What did you do to your hair? MILES Are you guys okay? Tell me you’re okay! RIO I’m okay. He hugs her so hard. 146. 147. MILES You were right. You were right about everything. RIO Of course I’m right, I’m always right. What am I right about? MILES I saw all these amazing places, and met all these amazing people. But -- RIO ¿Qué te pasa, mijo? MILES But they didn’t want me. But I kept thinking about what you said. I let em have it, mom. I beat ‘em all. I know how strong I am now. I’m strong because of you. And dad. RIO Ay, ‘dito... MILES Mom, there’s something coming for us. Something terrible. RIO Miles, you’re talking crazy. What’s going on? MILES His name is Spot. He’s my nemesis. And I’m gonna stop him. The hell is this kid talking about? MILES (CONT’D) I know you know I’ve been lying to you. It’s because I thought if you knew, you wouldn’t love me the same. Then I went out there... and now, I’m not afraid of anything. RIO (neither is she) What do you want to tell me? MILES You gotta promise nothing’s gonna change. 147. 148. RIO Papa I will always love you. I don’t care what you say. ¿Me entiendes? Big breath. MILES Mom... I’m Spider-Man. He unzips the jacket to reveal his spider-suit underneath. He’s waited so long to say it it’s almost... anticlimactic? RIO Who’s Spider-Man? Uh. MILES The superhero? He got bit by a spider? It gave him spider-powers? He’s me? RIO Is this like where you dress up like your favorite character? For like what’s it called? Comics-con? MILES I don’t know what that is -- RIO You really had me going there. Spider-Man! Imagínate. GWEN looks down below to see Jeff pulling up to the street below. He gets out of the police car... MILES RIO (CONT’D) Why don’t you have eight arms? Do you push silk out of your culito? MILES I had a nightmare about that once but no -- RIO Are you sure you woke up? GWEN 148. 149. opens the window to Miles’ room and climbs onto the ceiling. The room is EMPTY. The rain has stopped. MILES Wherever he is -- it’s still raining. He follows Rio into the hallway. There’s a gnawing feeling at the back of his head -- something’s off... MILES Mom! Stop playing around. This is serious! Dad worked with SpiderMan. He didn’t realize Spider-Man was me at the time but -- ugh, I wish dad was here to explain this. RIO Miles, please. I got you to take care of, I got me to take care of... so help me out. MILES Mom hold on. I need to talk to you-- BBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTT!!!!! Miles GLITCHES. MILES (V.O.) Oh no. GWEN Gwen’s spider-sense goes OFF. If it isn’t clear by now... Miles isn’t here because... GWEN (V.O.) He’s in the wrong universe. MILES Eyes WIDE with understanding. A series of FLASHBACKS blaze through his mind: MIGUEL (FLASHBACK) The spider that gave you your powers wasn’t from your dimension. - Ohnn writing 42 on a spider’s back. DOC OCK (FLASHBACK) 42. - Memories of Spider 42 biting Miles. 149. 150. DR. OHNN Its home dimension. - The Go Home Machine locks onto his dimensional I.D. - 42. GO HOME MACHINE Dimensional signature identified. - Miles in the chamber of the Go Home Machine. MILES (V.O.) That machine... ...didn’t send me home. A doorknob rustling. The door opens. And in walks UNCLE AARON -- one version of him, anyway -- alive as hell. AARON Hey. Yeah. Welcome to EARTH-42. Aaron holds out a handshake... but Miles pulls him in tight. AARON (CONT’D) Whoah! Okay. Alright then. MILES I missed you so much. AARON Whoa, you took your braids out? On purpose? MILES Uh... I’m still getting used to it? Aaron hands Rio an ENVELOPE OF CASH. RIO They gave me more hours at the hospital so next month I swear I’ll pay you back. AARON Stop, stop. C’mon, we’re family... ON EARTH-1610 GWEN overhears Jeff walk through the front door. RIO Hey hun, how you doing? 150. 151. JEFF Hey, how’d it go with Miles? RIO Well, y’know how you grounded him? (Jeff nods) I ungrounded him. JEFF You what? RIO A little. I mean, how much trouble can he get into? JEFF A lot of trouble! ON EARTH-42 Rio puts a grocery list on MILES’ forehead. RIO Oh, Miles! I have to work an overnight tonight. Here’s the grocery list. Aaron takes the Post-It off Miles and leads him out. AARON (chuckling) I’ll make sure he gets these done. (to Miles, all business) Alright, we gotta roll. Miles trails Aaron out the front door and up the STAIRWELL. AARON (CONT’D) Security switches out at six, that’s the window, right? MILES Right. Yeah, I’m following you and what... you are... saying. Miles GLITCHES. Aaron looks back as Miles recovers. AARON You alright? MILES I... have a cold. 151. 152. Aaron pushes through the emergency exit and onto the ROOFTOP The same one the party was on, but it doesn’t look like anyone’s had a party up here... ever. AARON Hey you sure you got the plan? MILES Uh... yeah. But maybe we should go over it one more time just to make sure there’s no... problems. Miles peers out at the skyline. It’s TOTALLY UNFAMILIAR. Full of shanties and shuttered buildings. Sirens. Fires. POLICE helicopters with their roving spotlights. MILES (CONT’D) (realizing) There’s no Spider-Man here... Miles stops, taken aback by a MURAL. In his world, it was a memorial he painted of Aaron. But here... it’s a memorial to Captain Jeff Morales. Husband, Hero, Father. Rest in Power. Aaron clocks Miles’ shock, but a TEXT MESSAGE distracts him. He reads it, eyes narrowing, then turns his gaze to Miles... Miles’ spider-sense goes HAYWIRE as a MASKED FIGURE flies at him and COLD-COCKS HIM against the gritty tar-paper roof. EARTH-1610 Gwen’s SPIDER-SENSE is on fire. Reacting somehow to Miles’. RIO AND JEFF just outside the door. JEFF (O.S.) I’m sorry baby, but you did unilaterally unground him. RIO (O.S.) Jeff. Tranquilo. JEFF (O.S.) I just worry about him getting mixed up with the wrong people. OUT IN THE LIVING ROOM 152. 153. JEFF (CONT’D) This is probably that girl. What is he even thinking being with her? RIO I have some ideas. JEFF Baby, you’re really not helping. RIO You saw the way he lit up around her! I just hope she doesn’t get him hurt. GWEN winces. JEFF (O.S.) I mean, am I responsible for this? Maybe it’s all my fault. RIO C’mon Papa, you’re a great dad! This is hard. JEFF This is hard, we got a whole new kid who just wants to grow up so fast. And maybe... we gotta grow up too. RIO A little bit. JEFF Maybe we just... gotta let him spread his wings, man. Jeff stretches his arms out - he looks as silly as Miles did. RIO ... man? GWEN (O.S.) It’s not your fault -- Gwen faces them. Miles’ empty room behind her. GWEN (CONT’D) It’s mine. JEFF Aw, come on, what the heck are you doing here? 153. 154. GWEN Oh, his window was open so I came in, because that’s normal to do. JEFF I want to talk to your parents! GWEN Right, my dad’s kinda hard to get on the horn... JEFF Oh really? What does he do? DEAL DRUGS? GWEN He’s a cop. JEFF Statement withdrawn. (saving face?) I’m gonna call the station. GWEN I don’t think he’s there... or anywhere around here. JEFF Well that’s his jacket, emo. Where’s Miles? GWEN I don’t know. RIO YOU DON’T KNOW?! What do you mean you don’t know?! GWEN Yeah um, I’ll leave. RIO Where do you think you’re going, young lady? GWEN I’m going to find him. ON JESS watching Gwen ON HER WATCH from the street below... 154. 155. GWEN (CONT’D) I don’t know where exactly, but I know where to start. BACK UPSTAIRS Rio and Jeff hang on Gwen’s words: GWEN (CONT’D) One thing I learned from Miles... it’s all possible. She loves the right things about him, at least. GWEN (CONT’D) He loves you more than you could ever imagine. I’ve seen it. She has. They know it. RIO If you do find him... tell him five months. (softening) And tell him we love him. GWEN You got it. ON THE ROOF - MOMENTS LATER Gwen boots up Hobie’s makeshift watch -- Destination: E-616B. Jess watches from below as Gwen PORTALS AWAY. INT. AARON’S APARTMENT (EARTH-42) - NIGHT Eyes open. glimpses - Lucky cat. A MOTORCYCLE. Prowler TECH. Miles is TIED to a HEAVY BAG -- like Peter once was. MILES (groggy) Uncle Aaron... Miles GLITCHES. Nearby, Aaron activates a WINCH, lifting Miles off of the ground. He tries a venom strike, but his hands are covered in RUBBER KITCHEN GLOVES. Miles is helpless as Aaron CLOSES on him -- 155. 156. MILES (CONT’D) You don’t understand. I’m not from here. The machine sent me here by mistake wait wait wait Uncle Aaron! Aaron walks PAST the bag and puts on a RECORD. MILES (CONT’D) Uncle Aaron, just hear me out-- Nope. He pushes up the faders. LOUDER. MILES (CONT’D) I was bit by a spider that gave me powers. It was’t supposed to bite me, it was supposed to bite someone else. Someone from here. I don’t belong here. I need to go home. Or my dad - your brother- is going to die. I have an Uncle Aaron too -- I had one. He was a bad guy called the Prowler, he looked out for me. He did a lot of bad things but -- I knew he wanted to be good. He just didn’t know he had a choice, but you do. You can be a good guy. AARON (a small gallows chuckle) A “good guy?” MILES Please, trust me. I know you don’t want to be the Prowler-- Aaron LEVELS the punching bag with PROWLER’S GAUNTLET. Miles swings back into frame. Shaken, but unhurt. AARON I’m not... Aaron turns Miles to face a FIGURE in the rafters. A digital MASK flickers to life... and THE PROWLER drops to the floor. Aaron tosses the gauntlet. The Prowler catches it, puts it on in stride. PROWLER Your dad is still alive? MILES What? 156. 157. PROWLER Your father. You said he’s still alive. MILES Yeah. PROWLER Oh. MILES Who are you? He unmasks... Meet the hardened, braided MILES G. MORALES of EARTH-42. PROWLER I’m Miles Morales. But you? You can call me the Prowler. MILES If I don’t get home, our dad is going to die. PROWLER Your dad. MILES Please. You have to let me go. PROWLER Why would I do that? As he rests his glove against Miles’ face... RIO AND JEFF worry at a window. A DARK CLOUD forming... SPOT returns to Earth-1610. Rising from the collider wreckage, pulsing with untold power... PETER dozes under a book every parent should read: “How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk.” He snorts awake to find Mayday bouncing and pointing outside at GWEN vibrating in front of a punk portal. Peter smiles. PETER Don’t tell Mom. Mayday pulls down her little spider mask. 157. Blue Rev. (mm/dd/yy) 158. GWEN (V.O.) I never found the right band to join. So I started my own. A TEAM folds in. Pavitr, Hobie, Margo... Peni, Ham, Noir. GWEN (V.O.) ... with a few old friends. They leap into an open punk-portal, off to find MILES who tears a hole in the finger of that rubber glove. A spark. GWEN looks right at us... GWEN (V.O.) You want in? ... and takes the leap. Blue Rev. (mm/dd/yy) 158.