New York, 1933. Ben is packing for a new life in Santorini with Cat, unaware she has already given up his identity, when Ogden arrives, drugs him, and drags him to Dr. Faber's hidden laboratory beneath the hospital. There, Ben learns the full scope of Faber's work: she has been trying to save Ogden, secretly her own son, who is aging rapidly as a result of the wartime experiments, and Ben is the only test subject to have survived his transformation without adverse effects. Faber cuts into him to study what makes him different, harvesting tissue that finally yields a working antidote. Ben frees himself as Ogden is cured, but when Faber orders his death, Ogden turns on his mother to save the man who once saved him. Robbie's published exposé brings Silvermane and his powered crew down on the lab, a chaotic confrontation leaves both Faber and Ogden d ...