Langford Harrow

Origin

Dr. Langford Harrow had his lab on a remote Carribean island, where he did his biochemical research. One day, he was visited by captain Stein, who had a drugged and pregnant prostitute called Melodie for him. Harrow injected Melodie with a spider serum, which sped up her pregnancy. After several hours, Melodie was about to give birth. Dr. Langford gave her an overdose of sedative, killing Melodie. Cutting her open, Dr. Harrow retrieved a male spider-human hybrid, more spider than human, and a female hybrid who had no outward spiderlike characteristics. Naming her Emma, Langford raised her as his own daughter.

Major Story Arcs

Youth

Emma is raised by Dr. Langford Harrow on his remote Carribean island. He watches her closely to see signs of her spider DNA. One day, she cuts her hand, but it heals before she could show anyone. Emma becomes curious about this, but Langford doesn’t have answers for these unforseen results of his genetic tinkering. So to keep her from cutting herself again, he tells her she is a hemophiliac and must never cut herself again.

The trouble with Adam

Two years and six months after her birth, Emma has developed into a twenty year old woman. She is plagued by nightmares of death and spiders. Langford discovers Emma displays more and more traits of her spider DNA, such as spinnerets. Unknown to Langford, Emma also has begun hunting for a male to mate with. Paolo, Langford’s personal assistent, becomes her first mate. Her mating is interrupted by another spider-human hybrid who has escaped his prison moments earlier. The other hybrid is more spider than human. Langford explained that the other hybrid is Adam, Emma’s twin brother. Adam is chased away by Langford.

Adam later kills a visiting photographer on the island. Langford decides then and there that Adam must be killed. Seeing how powerful Adam is, he orders Emma to kill her brother. With Emma under complete hypnotic control of Langford, she kills Adam.

Flesh and Blood

A failed drug operation off the coast of Florida causes FBI-agent Drew Triggert and DEA-agent Jack Mondeaux to wash up on the Carribean island of Langford Harrow. Soon Triggert and Mondeaux encounter Emma, who, as Langford explained, is a hemophiliac and Langford is trying to discover a cure for her. This proves to be false however, when several people mysteriously die. Slowly Emma starts infecting people with her sexually transmitted virus, which transforms other people into spider-human hybrids. Jack Mondeaux is infected but kills himself before he can make the transformation. Drew discovers the truth about Emma at the same time she does, when they confront Langford in his lab. Langford tries to influence Emma to kill Drew, but she breaks free from his influence, but not before setting the lab on fire. Now free from his influence, she kills Langford Harrow.