Hamlet and Laertes fight after Ophelia's funeral, exchanging poisoned swords. Hamlet discovers a plot by the current King of Denmark to kill him during the duel using poison. Hamlet turns the tables on the King by fatally poisoning him with his own poison. Before dying, Laertes confesses the King's role in the poison plot. As the play ends, the Norwegian prince Fortinbras arrives to claim the Danish throne as Hamlet wished, and Hamlet's body is carried away with honors.