This would create for a very interesting dynamic, as Eddie Brock actively works against Carlton Drake, while Carlton actually needs to keep Eddie alive.
Perhaps, in looking to punish Eddie Brock by exposing him to the parasite, he discovers the one person that the symbiote is compatible with, and actually bonds to without killing.
In the trailers, journalist Eddie Brock is looking to expose Carlton Drake’s horrible and fatal experiments on vulnerable people.
The trailers have teased that Eddie Brock and Riz Ahmed’s Dr. Carlton Drake will have an antagonistic relationship in this film, and this image shows just how far that enmity might go.