As the LF-01 deep space probe approaches Earth, its pilot - John Jameson - radios in to the Life Foundation's mission control to announce his arrival and that he has secured specimens of extraterrestrial life. 
As John is cleared for landing and initiates the re-entry sequence, there is a disturbance onboard the shuttle, causing it to crash in the Hutan Simpanan Borneo forest twenty miles west of Sibu, Sarawak, East Malaysia.
Malaysian paramedics and Life Foundation personnel arrive to secure the specimens and retrieve bodies from the wreckage. In San Francisco, Life Foundation CEO Carlton Drakeenters into the mission control room bickering with Dr. Dora Skirth, one of his top researchers.
One of the technicians informs him that there was a breach on the shuttle as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere; and that one of the samples is missing. On a screen being live-streamed from the crash-site, the coroner - Corinne Wan - notices that Jameson is still alive.
An ambulance rushes him to the Sibu hospital, but en-route Jameson suddenly opens his eyes - which are covered by a silvery ooze - and sits up.
As Corinne preps an injection, Jameson's left arm extends into a silvery tendril and latches onto her, as another tendril coils around and snaps the neck of the driver. The ambulance crashes and flips onto its side, the coroner easily ripping open the roof.
Corinne's injuries regenerate as she walks down the empty road, under the control of the silvery alien.
Growing impatient, Drake orders the mission control to scrub diagnostics and initiate the launch immediately. One of the workers, concerned by Drake's erratic behavior, attempts to initiate the launch abort protocol; but Drake spots him and Riot emerges.
impaling the man with an arm-blade. Transforming both arms into massive blades, Riot lashes out at the fleeing mission control staff and then leaps from the window, passing by Venom as he arrives.
Eddie asks Venom if it can take him, but Venom says that Riot greatly outclasses him and their chances of winning are next to zero; Eddie remarking that they nevertheless need to try in order to save the planet.
Some time later, Eddie arrives at San Quentin prison, telling the symbiote to stay dormant. A guard escorts Eddie into the bowls of the prison, remarking that he's a fool for agreeing to this interview.
Eddie says the FBI green-lit it hoping to identify new bodies, but the guard retorts that they will be identifying his body if he's not careful.
Opening a maximum-security cell to reveal a much smaller cell, the guard addresses a straitjacket-clad man with curly red hair - notorious serial killer Cletus Kasady.
Cletus - who is writing "WELCOME EDDIE" in his blood - mockingly greets Eddie and asks for him to come closer; stating that when he gets out - and he will - there's going to be carnage.
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