Hal, Mario, and the Moms’s sadness — "She laughs at C.T. way more…"

The Claudius half of the frame, delivered as artless detail. Mario, cataloguing how the Moms seems better since the death — eyes less sunk, seeming "even taller," laughing more — lands on the one observation that completes the Hamlet architecture: she laughs harder and "from lower down inside" with C.T., the half-brother, than she ever did with her husband. The mother is more at ease with the uncle-successor than she was with the dead king, and it is her disabled son who notices and says it aloud. Nothing is alleged — no affair named here, no plot — only that the widow is visibly lighter beside her brother-in-law than she was beside the man now in the ground. The frame does its own work; the child merely reports the weather of the house.