In the underground lab hidden in a body shop, Otto Octavius nervously explains the details of the procedure about to commence to Alex O'Hirn. O'Hirn will be bonded to a thick titanium resin hide that will be unremovable. Hammerhead warns Norman Osborn that Octavius had better not be trying to talk O'Hirn out of it. Osborn warns Octavius that he's owed a success after the fluke that was Sandman. The process is a success, and O'Hirn dubs himself the Rhino after the inspiration of the suit's design.