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Oct. 5th, 2022 02:15 pmS01E10 - PERSONA (November 5-7, 2008)
After Chameleon's attempt at impersonating Dr. Curt Connors to steal "the alien life form" for an unnamed military general fails, Phineas Mason is there playing cards with Quentin Beck when they get news that they aren't going to get paid for this one. Chameleon's gotten the idea to impersonate Spider-Man, however, framing him as a criminal and reaping the benefits, and enlists "all [Phineas's] mechanical ability."
The next day, Phineas is there alongside Beck being "held hostage" as Chameleon robs a bank disguised as Spider-Man. Phineas surreptitiously slips on a pair of high-tech goggles over his glasses that allow him to take pictures of the robbery and anonymously email them to J. Jonah Jameson at the Daily Bugle.
Later that evening, the mayor is throwing a fancy re-election party on her yacht to solicit support for the upcoming election. Phineas and Beck sneak on board as a crewman and a waiter respectively, while Chameleon first gets on board by pretending to be Norman Osborn, then sneaks away to change into the Spider-Man disguise instead. Phineas waits outside, and when things go south and Chameleon and Beck run out with the loot, uses his watch to remote-control a waiting speedboat over to them. When Spider-Man shows up, he throws a frisbee-like drone, of sorts, that homes in on Spider-Man and starts firing a laser weapon, though Spider-Man quickly destroys it.
Black Cat grabs Phineas and Beck before they can jump into the getaway boat; Beck drops a smoke-bomb to attempt escape, but she promptly knocks them both out. All three are arrested and put in the back of a police van, but Chameleon escapes disguised as one of the cops before the van can even leave the harbor, to Phineas's apparent satisfaction.
(Sometime after this, Mason and Beck are just... out of jail. Given dialogue between cops earlier in the series and the circumstances of their arrest, I assume there just wasn't enough evidence to even bring them to trial, honestly.)
S02E01 - BLUEPRINTS (December 4-6, 2008)
Quentin Beck, as Mysterio, commits a lot of crimes! And after all of Mysterio's crimes, after Beck's seemingly arrested and the police have left, Phineas assures the real Beck that they're gone and reveals that they'd arrested an android instead. Phineas chews Beck out a little for "[making] your android look just like you!" and is exasperated at Beck's dramatic reasoning that no one else should be allowed to take credit for the role of Mysterio. He then contacts the Master Planner to let them know that the police had come and gone without finding any of the technology that Mysterio had stolen, and that it's all still in their possession.
S02E03 - REINFORCEMENT (December 23-25, 2008)
Tinkerer is keeping an eye on the cameras outside the Big Sky Billiard Room when Spider-Man finally gets a little info out of Patch and finds out that Mysterio's employer is called the Master Planner. He immediately alerts Master Planner that "Spider-Man's closing in," and is told to proceed in breaking Vulture, Sandman, and Rhino out of Ryker's, breaking Doctor Octopus and Electro out of Ravencroft, and contacting Mysterio and Kraven.
Tinkerer proceeds to somehow get a hologram of Adrian Toomes into the cell that Vulture and Mysterio share, as well as loosening the head from the Beck android so that it falls off when the guard touches it! And actually break the three out of Ryker's, though it's not shown how. He tells Kraven to go and liberate Doctor Octopus and Electro, though Doctor Octopus has seemingly regressed back to the meek and terrified Otto Octavius and refuses to go with them.
He leads Kraven and Electro into the main room of the Master Planner's secret lair, where everyone else is already gathered, and does the introductions just to make things official, even though he knows most of them know one another already. He then kinda low-key-dramatically introduces them to their "host and benefactor," the Master Planner, who shows up only as a dark silhouette on the large computer screen at the front of the room. The Master Planner expresses regret that Doctor Octopus refused to join them, since they now cannot be the Sinister Seven; when Rhino asks if Tinkerer doesn't make seven, Mysterio assures that he's "strictly tech support" and "useless in a fight." They proceed to make a plan, or rather listen to the Master Planner's plan, on how to take out Spider-Man.
When the plan fails, Tinkerer extracts all of the Sinister Six from where they're restrained, as well as sending Doctor Octopus's metal arms to Ravencroft to "forcibly retrieve" Otto Octavius.
S02E04 - SHEAR STRENGTH (December 25-31, 2008)
Tinkerer is there with Vulture and Electro when the Master Planner arrives and is revealed to be Doctor Octopus, and has obviously been in on it for a while now! Ock explains why the subterfuge, then asks if they're ready to begin; Tinkerer affirms with some real Mad Scientist Mischief energy that all they have left to do are "calibrations and testing."
Tinkerer keeps an eye on the wireless server while Doctor Octopus mentally hacks into a remote detonation system in order to try to bring down a building on Norman Osborn. He's dissatisfied with fluctuations that he noticed and asks Electro for more power in reserve, and Ock soothes him; it's revealed that Ock's brain is now wirelessly connected to every computer in New York City, and that Tinkerer and Vulture put together the system from the technology that Mysterio stole.
Ock can't hack into the isolated system that holds the global portal codes at Homeland Security, though, and sends Electro and Vulture out to kidnap Gwen Stacy, giving the Master Planner leverage against her father, Captain George Stacy. Tinkerer is sent out with them as the getaway driver.
While the kidnapping itself goes off without a hitch, the getaway unfortunately goes very wrong. As soon as Ock alerts them that they're being followed by Spider-Man, Electro starts blasting at him out the window, making it impossible to ditch him as Tinkerer had been planning. Electro loses track of him after some explosions obscure visibility, and Spider-Man promptly kicks his way in through the windshield, giving Tinkerer pretty visibly bad whiplash and causing the entire van to skid out, do a nearly complete roll, and crash into a building.
Electro escapes; unfortunately, Tinkerer does not. Spider-Man yanks him up to the roof of the building and proceeds to threaten him into telling him where Gwen is being taken. When that doesn't initially work, Tinkerer calling his bluff that he'd "do anything rash," Spider-Man throws him off the building and lets him fall a pretty long way before catching him by one leg, smacking his head into the side of the building. Tinkerer says he "knew [he] wouldn't really let [him] fall," and Spider-Man drops him again, catching him by both legs that time and all but saying that if he gets a third strike he's dead. Tinkerer, who's lost his glasses to the street below by that point, is terrified enough that he tells Spider-Man where the base is and exactly how to get inside.
(Mason doesn't seem to have been arrested after this; let's assume he got rescued and took a short break to recover.)
S02E09 - PROBABLE CAUSE (January 10, 2009)
Tinkerer is revealed to have made skill enhancement suits for Fancy Dan and Ox, the two Enforcers who didn't have supervillain costumes and powers already. Fancy Dan, as Ricochet, now has a suit that lets him use kinetic energy to absolutely pinball around, complimenting his already acrobatic and martial arts heavy fighting style; Ox, who is uninterested in using any other name when Tinkerer asks, has a suit that boosts his already immense strength and ability to take hits (as well as possibly upping his speed a bit!). It turns out that this project was a commission from the Big Man of New York City, L. Thompson Lincoln AKA Tombstone, who fully approves of the upgrades.
(NOTE: While the above is the final episode Mason appears in, sometime between January 10th and February 14th, Tinkerer also makes mob boss Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi an armored suit that basically gives him sonic scream powers. The Spectacular Spider-Man canon end in mid-late March of 2009, so let's say Mason comes into the game at the very beginning of April.)
After Chameleon's attempt at impersonating Dr. Curt Connors to steal "the alien life form" for an unnamed military general fails, Phineas Mason is there playing cards with Quentin Beck when they get news that they aren't going to get paid for this one. Chameleon's gotten the idea to impersonate Spider-Man, however, framing him as a criminal and reaping the benefits, and enlists "all [Phineas's] mechanical ability."
The next day, Phineas is there alongside Beck being "held hostage" as Chameleon robs a bank disguised as Spider-Man. Phineas surreptitiously slips on a pair of high-tech goggles over his glasses that allow him to take pictures of the robbery and anonymously email them to J. Jonah Jameson at the Daily Bugle.
Later that evening, the mayor is throwing a fancy re-election party on her yacht to solicit support for the upcoming election. Phineas and Beck sneak on board as a crewman and a waiter respectively, while Chameleon first gets on board by pretending to be Norman Osborn, then sneaks away to change into the Spider-Man disguise instead. Phineas waits outside, and when things go south and Chameleon and Beck run out with the loot, uses his watch to remote-control a waiting speedboat over to them. When Spider-Man shows up, he throws a frisbee-like drone, of sorts, that homes in on Spider-Man and starts firing a laser weapon, though Spider-Man quickly destroys it.
Black Cat grabs Phineas and Beck before they can jump into the getaway boat; Beck drops a smoke-bomb to attempt escape, but she promptly knocks them both out. All three are arrested and put in the back of a police van, but Chameleon escapes disguised as one of the cops before the van can even leave the harbor, to Phineas's apparent satisfaction.
(Sometime after this, Mason and Beck are just... out of jail. Given dialogue between cops earlier in the series and the circumstances of their arrest, I assume there just wasn't enough evidence to even bring them to trial, honestly.)
S02E01 - BLUEPRINTS (December 4-6, 2008)
Quentin Beck, as Mysterio, commits a lot of crimes! And after all of Mysterio's crimes, after Beck's seemingly arrested and the police have left, Phineas assures the real Beck that they're gone and reveals that they'd arrested an android instead. Phineas chews Beck out a little for "[making] your android look just like you!" and is exasperated at Beck's dramatic reasoning that no one else should be allowed to take credit for the role of Mysterio. He then contacts the Master Planner to let them know that the police had come and gone without finding any of the technology that Mysterio had stolen, and that it's all still in their possession.
S02E03 - REINFORCEMENT (December 23-25, 2008)
Tinkerer is keeping an eye on the cameras outside the Big Sky Billiard Room when Spider-Man finally gets a little info out of Patch and finds out that Mysterio's employer is called the Master Planner. He immediately alerts Master Planner that "Spider-Man's closing in," and is told to proceed in breaking Vulture, Sandman, and Rhino out of Ryker's, breaking Doctor Octopus and Electro out of Ravencroft, and contacting Mysterio and Kraven.
Tinkerer proceeds to somehow get a hologram of Adrian Toomes into the cell that Vulture and Mysterio share, as well as loosening the head from the Beck android so that it falls off when the guard touches it! And actually break the three out of Ryker's, though it's not shown how. He tells Kraven to go and liberate Doctor Octopus and Electro, though Doctor Octopus has seemingly regressed back to the meek and terrified Otto Octavius and refuses to go with them.
He leads Kraven and Electro into the main room of the Master Planner's secret lair, where everyone else is already gathered, and does the introductions just to make things official, even though he knows most of them know one another already. He then kinda low-key-dramatically introduces them to their "host and benefactor," the Master Planner, who shows up only as a dark silhouette on the large computer screen at the front of the room. The Master Planner expresses regret that Doctor Octopus refused to join them, since they now cannot be the Sinister Seven; when Rhino asks if Tinkerer doesn't make seven, Mysterio assures that he's "strictly tech support" and "useless in a fight." They proceed to make a plan, or rather listen to the Master Planner's plan, on how to take out Spider-Man.
When the plan fails, Tinkerer extracts all of the Sinister Six from where they're restrained, as well as sending Doctor Octopus's metal arms to Ravencroft to "forcibly retrieve" Otto Octavius.
S02E04 - SHEAR STRENGTH (December 25-31, 2008)
Tinkerer is there with Vulture and Electro when the Master Planner arrives and is revealed to be Doctor Octopus, and has obviously been in on it for a while now! Ock explains why the subterfuge, then asks if they're ready to begin; Tinkerer affirms with some real Mad Scientist Mischief energy that all they have left to do are "calibrations and testing."
Tinkerer keeps an eye on the wireless server while Doctor Octopus mentally hacks into a remote detonation system in order to try to bring down a building on Norman Osborn. He's dissatisfied with fluctuations that he noticed and asks Electro for more power in reserve, and Ock soothes him; it's revealed that Ock's brain is now wirelessly connected to every computer in New York City, and that Tinkerer and Vulture put together the system from the technology that Mysterio stole.
Ock can't hack into the isolated system that holds the global portal codes at Homeland Security, though, and sends Electro and Vulture out to kidnap Gwen Stacy, giving the Master Planner leverage against her father, Captain George Stacy. Tinkerer is sent out with them as the getaway driver.
While the kidnapping itself goes off without a hitch, the getaway unfortunately goes very wrong. As soon as Ock alerts them that they're being followed by Spider-Man, Electro starts blasting at him out the window, making it impossible to ditch him as Tinkerer had been planning. Electro loses track of him after some explosions obscure visibility, and Spider-Man promptly kicks his way in through the windshield, giving Tinkerer pretty visibly bad whiplash and causing the entire van to skid out, do a nearly complete roll, and crash into a building.
Electro escapes; unfortunately, Tinkerer does not. Spider-Man yanks him up to the roof of the building and proceeds to threaten him into telling him where Gwen is being taken. When that doesn't initially work, Tinkerer calling his bluff that he'd "do anything rash," Spider-Man throws him off the building and lets him fall a pretty long way before catching him by one leg, smacking his head into the side of the building. Tinkerer says he "knew [he] wouldn't really let [him] fall," and Spider-Man drops him again, catching him by both legs that time and all but saying that if he gets a third strike he's dead. Tinkerer, who's lost his glasses to the street below by that point, is terrified enough that he tells Spider-Man where the base is and exactly how to get inside.
(Mason doesn't seem to have been arrested after this; let's assume he got rescued and took a short break to recover.)
S02E09 - PROBABLE CAUSE (January 10, 2009)
Tinkerer is revealed to have made skill enhancement suits for Fancy Dan and Ox, the two Enforcers who didn't have supervillain costumes and powers already. Fancy Dan, as Ricochet, now has a suit that lets him use kinetic energy to absolutely pinball around, complimenting his already acrobatic and martial arts heavy fighting style; Ox, who is uninterested in using any other name when Tinkerer asks, has a suit that boosts his already immense strength and ability to take hits (as well as possibly upping his speed a bit!). It turns out that this project was a commission from the Big Man of New York City, L. Thompson Lincoln AKA Tombstone, who fully approves of the upgrades.
(NOTE: While the above is the final episode Mason appears in, sometime between January 10th and February 14th, Tinkerer also makes mob boss Silvio "Silvermane" Manfredi an armored suit that basically gives him sonic scream powers. The Spectacular Spider-Man canon end in mid-late March of 2009, so let's say Mason comes into the game at the very beginning of April.)
