This scene starts with Fortinbras asking his captain to go and ask Claudius for permission to go through Denmark, he also says that he is willing to do a favour for Claudius if he grants him permission. The Captain bumps into Hamlet, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz where Hamlet asks the Captain who’s troops they are and where they are headed. The Captain answers that they are Fortinbras and they are headed to invade Poland, where Hamlet ponders if it is the heartland or some Frontier; The Captain replying with “Truly to speak, and with no addition, We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.” Hamlet, now left alone, talks about his inability to act and how young Fortinbras is willing to put his life at risk to do something about his problems.