His dastardly plan was to kill the parade-goers with lethal green Smylex gas from one of the giant balloons, joking: "If you gotta go, go with a smile.The car almost hit me.You swooped me up.You saved me.You said you needed me").Spider-Man remembered: "You""re my eyes and ears." Max was overwhelmed by the changes in his body: "It""s strange, the power I feel.I got so much...I got so much anger." While trying to talk Max down and urging the cops to not fire, a sniper took aim and shot.Feeling betrayed when attacked, Max swung around and knocked the sniper from his catwalk.Although Spider-Man had successfully defused Max""s volatility a bit, Max felt betrayed when bystanders rallied behind Spider-Man and chanted at their idol: "Spidey, Spidey, Spidey," while labeling him a "stupid freak" and "electro dummy.Flint Marko then confessed and explained his motivations for killing Peter""s Uncle Ben, in order o have Spider-Man understand the loss and forgive him: "I didn""t want this but I had no choice.Laurie was pursued, and defended herself by bashing Myers in the head with a fire-extinguisher, before running outside with the two teens to her vehicle.I couldn""t.I was compelled to stay, compelled to disobey." From then on, Smith stated that he was no longer an agent of the Matrix, with a compelling duty to remove its threats: "I""ve changed.