"Tears to Shed"/Unfortunate news/Emily learns of Umarak

This is how "Tears to Shed", Unfortunate news, and Emily learns of Umarak goes in The Toa Meet the Corpse Bride.

[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 rolls down Emily's eye. Maggot sighs and leaves with the Black Widow. Back at the Land of the Living, Victoria attempts to convince her mother]

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

Maudeline Everglot: Victor and the Toa were in your room?

Victoria Everglot: I have to help them.

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.

[Maudeline closes the door and locks it as Victoria looks at the window]

[She puts on her jacket, but hangs onto it]

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

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

[Galswells goes to answer it]

Pastor Galswells: What in heaven's name? Who could that be at this hour?

[He opens the door and finds Victoria]

Pastor Galswells: 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. [enters the church] 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?

[Galswells is terrified as lightning strikes]

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 to her mansion]

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 facepalms as Barkis overhears]

Maudeline Everglot: Will the mortification never cease? It will 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. And we will also hear future news of our totem friends.

Maudeline Everglot: The Toa.

Finis Everglot: Whatever.

Makuta: [appears in the fire] With that human making a move on a woman like Victoria, it seems very criminal. However, if Lord Barkis had a wife like her, he could shower you with riches fitting with royalty.

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

Makuta: Alas, he is not married. He was betrothed some years ago, but tragedy snatched his young bride away, and with loss and guilt, poorness counts for naught.

[Finis and Maudeline get an idea. Elsewhere, Victoria tries cracking her door when it opens and she hides the stick]

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 gasps as she 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 and the Toa are gone, child.

Finis Everglot: You shall marry Lord Barkis tomorrow.

[They walk outside their daughter's room]

Finis and Maudeline Everglot: According to plan!

[Finis slams the door as he and Maudeline walk away]

[We see Barkis as he projects a hologram of Makuta]

Barkis Bittern: It is done, almighty Makuta. Neither Victor nor the Toa are aware of what's happening.

Makuta: Excellent. With any luck, Victoria will spend her days until death do you part.

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

Makuta: You have my word, Bittern. However, if you fail, if the money is kept from me, there will be no world, no realm, and no barren moon where I cannot find you. And I will come there myself to kill the boy and the Toa without giving you another chance.

[The hologram disappears as Barkis snarls]

[Outside, the carriage shows a picture of Victor]

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

Town Crier: Victor Van Dort and Toa elope with corpse! Our broken bride to wed wealthy newcomer! Town newcomer has the horns of a stag and control over shadows!

Nell Van Dort: Wealthy newcomer? It cannot be! And stag horns which control shadows?

William Van Dort: Did he say corpse?

Nell Van Dort: Oh, don't be ridiculous. What corpse would marry our Victor? [hears Mayhew coughing] Oh, Mayhew! Silence that blasted coughing!

[Mayhew continues coughing until his body collapses]

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

[Umarak emerges from the shadows]

Umarak: Where is he? [walks off] Alright, town crier, lead me to my bride's killer.

Town Crier: But I don't know who he is, sir.

Umarak: Oh, I think you will. And if it helps my case, then feel free to repeat tonight's headline for me. Hmm?

Town Crier: Hmm. I didn't catch your name.

Umarak: They call me Umarak the Hunter. What is the name of this town?

Town Crier: Victorian England.

Umarak: Thank you. [walks off]

[In the Land of the Dead, Scraps leads Victor and the Toa to Bonejangles' club]

[Victor takes the blue roses as he and the Toa enter inside and find Emily near the piano]

Gali: I think you dropped these.

Victor Van Dort: I'm sorry. I'm sorry we lied to you about wanting to see my parents. It's just this whole day hasn't gone quite, well, according to plan.

Tahu: I've got this. [sits down and plays five notes]

[Emily glares sourly at him]

[Kopaka plays six notes]

[Emily continues glaring as Lewa plays a charming note that causes her to play along until her hand gets loose and lands on Gali]

Emily: [laughs] Pardon my enthusiasm.

Pohatu: We like your enthusiasm.

[Victor puts Emily's hand back as they hear the bell ringing]

Mrs. Plum: New arrival! New arrival!

Lewa: Corpses incoming!

Corpse: Lights up!

Skeleton: Hurry up, boys.

[The corpses arrive as Paul appears]

Gali: The head waiter.

Paul: Bonjour, Toa! [to Gali] Another pint, miss?

Gali: Make that two.

[Paul whistles as bugs rush to work, but Paul is knocked down]

Paul: It is impossible to get good help anymore.

Mrs. Plum: Welcoming committee coming through, coming through! [holds Mayhew's hand] My name's Plum. Ms. Plum.

Victor Van Dort: Mayhew?

Lewa: What?

Pohatu: That can't possibly be him. [turns him around and is shocked to see Mayhew as a zombie] Of course. I'm so sorry.

Mayhew: Oh, yeah. Actually, though, I feel great.

Paul: Hurry up, boys! Can you not see the lady and the gentleman are famished?

[The bugs bring Mayhew and Gali two pints]

Gali: Thank you.

Onua: Mayhew, we need to get back. Everyone must be worried sick. How are they?

Mayhew: Well, they're still wondering where you slipped off to. Oh, and Miss Victoria...

Gali: Go on. How is she? [drinks the first pint]

Mayhew: Well, she's getting married this evening.

Gali: [continues drinking] Go ahead. Married to who?

Mayhew: Some newcomer, Lord Somebody-or-Other.

Gali: [spits] What?! Lord Barkis?! But how's that possible?!

Mayhew: Yeah, with you gone and all... I guess they didn't wanna waste the cake.

Pohatu: I never liked that guy anyway.

Victor Van Dort: But how could she?

Skeleton: Women. You can't live with them. You can't live with-- [hiccups and collapses into little pieces]

Mayhew: Time to pick up the pieces and-- You know, and move on, I suppose.

Skeleton: Oy! Speaking of picking up the pieces...

[Victor walks away without a word]

Emily: Victor? Where are you going?

Mayhew: Oh, and guys, there's something else you should know.

Pohatu: What else?

Mayhew: Before I died, I heard the town crier talking about another newcomer in town who had horns like a stag and controls shadows.

Lewa: Umarak?!

Emily: [gasps] Umarak?

Kopaka: You know the Hunter?

Mayhew: I've been hearing rumors about him saying that he's been driven mad after his bride died.

Tahu: The shadow hunter had a bride?

Emily: And his bride was me.

Onua: You?

Pohatu: Why am I not surprised?

Gali: But he hunted our Elemental Creatures and was evil.

Emily: No. He has a heart, and he listened to what it wanted. When I died, he drove mad. I wasn't sure whether he still cared.

Skeleton: Oy! Where's this guy been all this time?

Pohatu: Who knows? Probably hunting species after being driven mad. And will somebody please put him back together?

Mayhew: Actually, Umarak's been hunting his bride's killer.

Tahu: No kidding.

Lewa: The Hunter probably misses her a lot.

Onua: Obviously.

[Emily starts tearing up]

Emily: I just wish I could've told him that I--

Kopaka: That you what?

Emily: [sighs] That I loved him.

[The Toa huddle around]

Lewa: Well, that proves she misses him a lot.

Kopaka: So, what do you think?

Lewa: Only one thing we can do. We find some way to get them back together. But we need to keep this on the down low.

[They nod]