Scene summary
In a park beside the palace road, three murderers wait at nightfall, the third sent by Macbeth himself. Banquo arrives on foot with his son Fleance, who carries a torch, and remarks that it will rain. The murderers attack him, and Banquo dies after ordering his son to flee. The light goes out, Fleance escapes, and the murderers leave to report only half of what they did.
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