The scene starts with Gertrude, Horatio and a Gentlemen who is trying to convince Gertrude to go speak and see to Ophelia. When Gertrude enters the room, Ophelia sings about the Queen and Polonius showing Gertrude that Ophelia is clearly mad. Claudius enters and Ophelia continues to talk nonsense until she leaves, where Claudius sends Horatio to watch over her. Claudius talks how Polonius dying has poisoned Ophelia’s mind and that they hurried his burial, not giving him a state funeral. Claudius talks about how Laertes has arrived back from France, where people have been spreading rumours about Polonius’s death. A noise is heard, Laertes arrives wanting to avenge Polonius through the blood of Claudius but Claudius talks him out of it, passing the blame onto Hamlet.