WARNING: Spoilers follow for Amazing Spider-Man #57 by Nick Spencer, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Andrew Hennesy, Andy Owens, Rachelle Rosenberg, Edgar Delgado & VC's Joe Caramagna, on sale now.
Kindred has proven throughout the "Last Remains" storyline that he has no boundaries when it comes to putting people Peter Parker loves in danger. He has hurt, possessed, and tried to kill any number of people that Spider-Man has in his life. Carlie Cooper can now add her name to that list.
Wilson Fisk created a machine that could capture and imprison anyone and used it to stop Kindred. While Kingpin plans on using Kindred for his own devious intentions, Norman Osborn has stalled things to try to talk to his son and save him before it is too late. However, the end of the most recent issue shows that, while captured, Kindred is not without power and seemingly attacked Carlie Cooper at the city morgue.
Cary received a call to go and investigate the corpses for a friend, and it seems it was Mary Jane Watson that called her and not her ex-boyfriend Peter Parker. Carlie's co-worker had no idea why she wanted to investigate the corpses, saying they were all buried in different places, were not related, and had no connections. Of course, all of their connection was to Peter Parker or Spider-Man, and that is where Carlie comes in handy, as she is able to figure things out from that end without raising any alarms. However, she was taken by surprise when there was one corpse too many.
Carlie admitted it was hard to find sympathy for Peter Parker, her ex, but she admitted that Kindred hit him below the belt, digging up everyone he was at least partially responsible for the deaths of. However, Carlie froze when she realized the extra corpse in the room. She began to check them one by one and then stood in shock when she found the one corpse that should not have been there. She recognized it immediately, meaning it couldn't have been decomposed like the rest. She immediately tried to call Mary Jane to warn her about her discovery.
Carlie was unable to tell Mary Jane who the extra body was, though. She mentioned on a voice message that she needed to call her as soon as she could because there was an extra body there that was not supposed to be there. Carlie told MJ that she found the one body that was not supposed to be there and that she doesn't know how it is possible, but before she could say the name, her eyes grew wide and her phone fell to the floor. Then, a tentacle similar to the ones Kindred sprouts crawled down over her phone, and the scene shifted to a sleeping Mary Jane. It seemed like Kindred may have just killed Carlie Cooper, adding another death to the list of those close to Peter Parker who died because they knew Spider-Man.
However, what was the purpose of Carlie's death, if she in fact died here? She had to know something Kindred didn't want anyone else to know about and that would be the identity of the extra body in the room. Since she had to know who it was when she looked at it, the body must have been relatively fresh. That brings up an interesting theory: there might be two Harry Osborns running around. One of them is Kindred and the other is Harry Lyman, the Harry that returned to life after "One More Day." While that is a mystery Spider-Man will have to solve in future issues, right now it was important enough to possibly kill another former Peter Parker love interest to keep it a secret.