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The company make their way to Lancre, and perform the play for the King as asked.

However, Hwel, the playwright, maintains that there is something wrong with the plot of the play, something that just doesn't feel right.

The witches cast a spell in the middle of the play that causes the actors to portray the killing of the king truthfully, and the audience sees that the Duke and Duchess are guilty of killing Verence I. Felmet finally succumbs to insanity and stabs several people with a retracting stage dagger, before tripping and falling to his death in the Lancre Gorge.

The Duchess is imprisoned but manages to escape, only to be killed by a collection of various forest animals who want revenge for the poor treatment of the land.