After cowering off from his shifty doings with the King he swiftly hides behind a curtain in the Queen’s chambers and tries to overhear the chatter and conversation between Hamlet and his mother, The Queen. Hamlet argues with his mother with the fact of her marrying her husbands brother in only a short time after his death. Speaking of deaths, Hamlet can quickly tell that there is someone or a figure behind the curtains and he draws for his sword and then plunges into it.

The body of Polonius appears and Hamlet does not seem quite surprised at all. He confides with Gertrude about her guilt.