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Using a filed-down back tooth to scratch his tongue and release his blood-borne symbiote, Cletus Kasady becomes Carnage and escapes the mobile transport unit transferring him from the Vault. Spider-Man, along for the ride, challenges him but lets him go rather than leave two policemen to die. Carnage arrives at a Colorado lumber mill run by his childhood friend Billy Bentine intending to kill him. Bentine reveals that he is a compulsive gambler so in debt he was planning to steal company funds and flee to Mexico. Carnage, unmoved, prepares for the kill when Spidey arrives. As they battle, Bentine first leaves, then returns to confront Carnage, claiming Clete Kasady would never hurt him. To prove he will, Kasady absorbs his symbiote leaving him vulnerable to a Spider-Man punch, as Bentine planned all along. Back in the Vault, Carnage scoffs at his poor predictable friend Billy but Bentine does the unexpected; resigning his position and attending Gamblers Anonymous.