"Tears to Shed"/Gasket's request/Umarak arrives

This is how "Tears to Shed", Gasket's request, and Umarak arrives goes in Spider-Man and the Corpse Bride.

[Black Widow seems worried as Maggot sings]

**Maggot:**

What does that wispy little brat have that you don't have double?

**Black Widow:**

She can't hold a candle to the beauty of your smile

**Emily:**

How about a pulse?

**Maggot:**

Overrated by a mile

**Black Widow:**

Overvalued

**Maggot:**

Overblown

**Both:**

If he only knew the you that we know.

**Emily:**

(sigh)

**Black Widow:**

And that silly little creature isn't wearing his ring

**Maggot:**

And she doesn't play piano

**Both:**

Or dance

**Maggot:**

Or sing

**Both:**

No, she doesn't compare

**Emily:**

But she still breathes air

**Black Widow:**

Who cares?

**Maggot:**

Unimportant

**Black Widow:**

Overrated

**Maggot:**

Overblown

**Both:**

If only he could see

How special you can be

If he only knew the you that we know

**Emily:**

If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain

If you cut me with a knife it's still the same

And I know her heart is beating

And I know that I am dead

Yet the pain here that I feel

Try and tell me it's not real

For it seems that I still have a tear to shed

**Maggot:**

The sole redeeming feature

From that little creature

Is that she's alive

**Black Widow:**

Overrated

**Maggot:**

Overblown

**Black Widow:**

Everybody knows that's just a temporary state

Which is cured very quickly when we meet our fate

**Maggot:**

Who cares?

**Black Widow:**

Unimportant

**Maggot:**

Overrated

**Black Widow:**

Overblown

**Both:**

If only he could see

How special you can be

If he only knew the you that we know

**Emily:**

If I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain

In the ice or in the sun it's all the same

Yet I feel my heart is aching

Though it doesn't beat, it's breaking

And the pain here that I feel

Try and tell me it's not real

I know that I am dead

Yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed

[A tear comes down Emily's eye]

Maggot: [sighs]

Spider-Man: Can't blame a guy for trying.

[Maggot and Black Widow leave as Spider-Man stays with Emily]

[We return to the Everglots' mansion]

Victoria Everglot: It's true, Mother! Victor is married to a dead woman! I saw her, a corpse, standing right here with Victor!

Maudeline Everglot: Victor was in your room?

Victoria Everglot: I have to help him.

Maudeline Everglot: The scandal!

Hildegarde: Come sit in your chair, dearie. You're shaking like a leaf. Let Hilde fetch you a blanket.

Maudeline Everglot: Fetch her a straightjacket! She's completely mad! [walks off] Come, Hildegarde. [closes the door and locks it]

[Victoria opens her window door and grabs her jacket, but tries to hang on]

Maudeline Everglot: [offscreen] Finis, come to bed at once!

[Finis walks off as Victoria lands and runs to the church as she knocks on the doors]

Pastor Galswells: What in heaven's name? Who could that be at this hour? [opens the door] Miss Everglot. What are you doing here? You should be at home, prostrate with grief.

Victoria Everglot: Pastor Galswells, I have to ask you something.

Pastor Galswells: This is most irregular.

Victoria Everglot: Please, I beg of you. You are the only one in the village who knows what lies beyond the grave.

Pastor Galswells: A grim topic for a bride-to-be.

Victoria Everglot: It is a bride I fear, which is why I must know. Can the living marry the dead?

Pastor Galswells: What on Earth are you speaking about?

Victoria Everglot: Please, it's Victor! He's married to a corpse. He has a Corpse Bride! There must be some way to undo what has been done.

Pastor Galswells: I believe I know the thing to do. Come with me.

[He puts out the candle and returns Victoria home]

Maudeline Everglot: Victoria? Where are your corsets?

Pastor Galswells: She's speaking in tongues. Of unholy alliances. Her mind has come undone, I fear.

Victoria Everglot: It's not true! Let me go! Let me go!

Maudeline Everglot: Thank you, Pastor Galswells. Thank you so very much. [to Emil and Hildegarde] Take her to her room!

[Emil and Hildegarde grab her arms]

Victoria Everglot: No, I'm telling the truth. Victor needs my help. Hildegarde, you believe me, don't you? [to her parents] Mother, Father, please.

Maudeline Everglot: Seal the doors and bar the windows. See to it that she doesn't escape again.

Victoria Everglot: He needs our help! Let me go, let me go!

Maudeline Everglot: Will the mortifications never cease? It'll be years before we can show ourselves in public again! What shall we do?

Finis Everglot: We shall continue as planned, with or without Vincent.

Maudeline Everglot: Victor.

Finis Everglot: Whatever.

Prince Gasket: Forgive me for interrupting, but the good news is that there's going to be a wedding after all.

Maudeline Everglot: What would you know?

Princess Archerina: Make haste, my dear, your relatives will soon be arriving. Your daughter must be presentable for Lord Barkis.

Finis Everglot: Lord Barkis Bittern?

Prince Gasket: He shall make a fine husband for Victoria.

Princess Archerina: Yes, a fortuitous turn of events, indeed.

Prince Gasket: A far better prospect this time.

Maudeline Everglot: His lady wife is quite a most fortunate woman.

Prince Gasket: Alas, he's not married.

Princess Archerina: He was betrothed years ago, until tragedy killed his young bride. When death arrives, loss count for naught.

[Finis and Maudeline smirk. In Victoria's room, she gets a stick, but hides it behind her back]

Finis Everglot: Marvelous news, Victoria, there'll be a wedding after all.

Victoria Everglot: You found him?

Maudeline Everglot: Make haste, my dear, our relatives will be arriving here shortly, we will have to make you presentable for Lord Barkis.

[Victoria drops the stick]

Victoria Everglot: Lord Barkis?

Maudeline Everglot: He will make a fine husband.

Finis Everglot: Aye. A fortuitous turn of events indeed.

Maudeline Everglot: A far better prospect this time.

Victoria Everglot: But I do not love him. You cannot make me do this.

Finis Everglot: We must.

Victoria Everglot: Please, I beg of you. There must be another way.

Finis Everglot: Without your marriage to Lord Barkis, we will be put out on the streets. We are desolate.

Victoria Everglot: But Victor--

Maudeline Everglot: Victor Van Dort is gone, child.

Finis Everglot: You shall marry Lord Barkis tomorrow.

[They walk outside the door]

Finis and Maudeline Everglot: According to plan!

[Finis slams the door as we cut with Barkis, Gasket and Archerina]

Princess Archerina: It's done. You can finally earn your reward, Lord Barkis, for if you succeed today, you will become a worthy general of the Machine Empire.

Prince Gasket: But you mustn't worry. We still have time to inform my father until death do you part.

Barkis Bittern: And that will come sooner than you think.

[We then see Nell and William's carriage]

Nell Van Dort: [offscreen] Oh, it's almost dawn! Where could he be?!

Town crier: Victor Van Dort and Team Dynamo elope with corpse! Our broken bride to wed wealthy newcomer!

Nell Van Dort: Wealthy newcomer? It cannot be!

William Van Dort: Did he say corpse?

Nell Van Dort: Oh, don't be ridiculous. What corpse would marry our Victor?

[She hears Mayhew coughing]

Nell Van Dort: Oh, Mayhew! Silence that blasted coughing.

[Mayhew continues coughing as his body collapses]

Nell Van Dort: Mayhew, are you trying to kill us? I think he's trying to kill us.

[In the woods, Umarak rises from the shadows]

Umarak: Emily. [confused] What?

[In the Land of the Dead, Spider-Man's spidey sense goes off]

Spider-Man: Whoa. Spidey sense is going crazy.

Emily: Spidey sense?

Spider-Man: It's this thing inside my head that warns me of danger. But why's it so crazy? There's no danger down here. [sighs] My uncle was a good man. But before you ask, his death's kind of a long story.

Emily: What has it been, a year now?

Spider-Man: He was like my father figure. Mac's more of a grandfather figure. With great power comes great responsibility.

General Bonesapart: Seems like good advice.

[He nods]

[We return to Umarak in the Land of the Living]

Umarak: This makes no sense. Where could she be? Shadow Spawns, find her!

Shadow Spawn: Yes, boss.

[They leave to find Emily]

Umarak: [looks at the roses on Emily's grave] I'll find you, my love.

[Elsewhere, two Shadow Spawns spy on Barkis, Gasket and Archerina]