Left alone, Orestes wonders what is to become of him: He has made himself a murderer for love of Hermione but, ungrateful, she now hates him.
Pylades comes in with some Greek soldiers and urges Orestes to flee to the ships. Obeying their new queen, Andromache, the people of Epirus are attacking the Greeks. Orestes says he cannot leave, he must follow Hermione; Pylades asks if he means to die with her. "Is she dead?" asks Orestes, and Pylades says that she has stabbed herself over Pyrrhus' dead body. Upon hearing the news, Orestes sees darkness surround him and feels rivers of blood about him. He thinks he sees Pyrrhus risen from the dead, kissing Hermione, who looks at Orestes with hatred. Pyaldes says he has gone mad, and he and the Greek soldiers take him away.
