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Description
Peter finds some kids loitering outside the school. When he tells them they are late for class, they reply that they aren't students anymore: all but Melissa, a young girl on crutches, whom Peter helps to class. Taking an interest in her, Peter checks her transcript and learns she was forced to drop Honors Biology against her wishes. He arranges to get her transferred into his Honors Bio class and even walks her home. There, he "clumsily" stops robbers making off with some of her family's possessions. Peter meets Melissa's mother Laura and hears about her brother Jack whom Spidey sent to jail for carjacking. Later, Spidey returns to the apartment building where he finds the thieves, who are working for Hugh Muller, the landlord, in a racket of stealing tenants' property. He subdues the thieves and warns Muller to leave his tenants alone. Encountering Ezekiel, he discusses the Doctrine of Unintended Consequences, in which good deeds have some bad ramifications. Concerned with what happens to families like Melissa's when others, like Jack, aren't around to look after them, Spidey promises to try to make Melissa's dreams come true.