 Eurydice has discovered what she thinks is a plot by Orphée to kill Aristée – letting snakes loose in the fields – but is in fact a conspiracy between Orphée and Pluton to kill her, so that Pluton may have her and Orphée be rid of her.Pluton tricks her into walking into the trap by showing immunity to it, and she is bitten.As she dies, Pluton transforms into his true form (Transformation Scene).