 Spider @-@ Man suspects Connors is Lizard and unsuccessfully confronts the creature in the sewers . Lizard learns Spider @-@ Man 's real identity via the name on an abandoned camera and follows Peter to school where they fight . In response , the police start a manhunt for both Spider @-@ Man and Lizard . The police corner Spider @-@ Man and Captain Stacy discovers that he is really Peter . Lizard plans to make all humans lizard @-@ like by releasing a chemical cloud from Oscorp 's tower , to eliminate the weaknesses he believes plague humanity . Spider @-@ Man eventually disperses an antidote cloud instead , restoring Connors and earlier victims to normal , but not before Lizard mortally wounds Captain Stacy . Before his death , Captain Stacy requests Peter to leave Gwen out of it to keep her safe . Peter initially does so , but later at school suggests to Gwen he may see her after all . 
