Act II begins with Banquo and his son Fleance roaming Macbeth's castle because they can't sleep. Banquo basically tells his son to take his sword because he will not need it because the castle is calm and safe. Then Macbeth walks in with his servant and greets Banquo and his son. Banquo, wondering why Macbeth is up so late, asks him and Macbeth simply replies that he can't sleep as well, however as the reader we know that he is not asleep because he needs to kill Duncan. After Banquo goes off to bed Macbeth begins to walk towards the King's room. As he's walking Macbeth sees a floating dagger before him and the closer he gets to Duncan's room, the more the dagger bleeds. The play does not show Macbeth killing Duncan but it is implied. Next we see Lady Macbeth dumping out the wine that she drugged to stop the guards from catching Macbeth. Macbeth startles her by coming out of the shadows to let her know the deed is done. At first she seems happy but as soon as she sees him still holding the murder weapon she becomes outraged and tells Macbeth to take it back and cover the guards with the blood and put the weapon beside them. When Macbeth tells her he cannot go back she decides she will have to be the "brave" one, and go back and do it herself. They wash the blood from their hands but Macbeth cannot wash it from his conscience. In the morning the king's nobleman, Macduff, arrives at Macbeth's castle and goes to wake the King. When he realizes what has happened he runs out to tell everyone. Macduff tells Macbeth to go in and see for himself what has been done. Macbeth already knowing goes in and decides to kill the guards as well so that they cannot deny that they killed Duncan. Macbeth comes out of the room and tells the others that he killed the guards in a moment of rage against them for killing the beloved king. Lady Macbeth pretends to not be able to bear the scene and flees away with the help of one of the men.
I predict Malcolm will become king, and when Lady Macbeth sees this she will seduce Malcolm in order to kill him so that Macbeth may become king. Also, Banquo will witness one of the murders and Lady Macbeth will be forced to kill him as well.
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