We all saw you! There are too many witnesses. But I signed the document with my left hand. Clever girl , right? We think so. Consider what might have happened if Violet's announcement had happened any sooner or later—it totally wouldn't have worked. She waits until the exact right moment and gets the result she needs. Nice job, Violet. Your siblings are lucky to have you. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources.
Study Guide. By Lemony Snicket. Previous Next. She's also right-handed and loves inventing things—both of these traits wind up coming in handy—and she keeps her hair tied back so as not to distract her from her thoughts: Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Though she often collaborates with Klaus, she feels the weight of being the oldest sibling: She remembered something her parents had said to her when Klaus was born, and again when they brought Sunny home from the hospital.
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Monty arrives, but before Violet can tell Monty who Stephano is, Olaf takes Klaus outside and threatens him with the knife, so Violet remains silent. Stephano acts threatening all night, and over dinner, he rubs the blade of his knife against Violet's knee.
Stephano also spends the night waiting in the hallway, keeping watch so that they don't warn Monty. The next day, Monty takes the children outside and tells them that he believes Stephano to be a spy from the Herpetological Society , and does not listen when they insist he is Count Olaf. He tears up Stephano's ticket to the S. Prospero , which will take them to Peru, and explains his plan to leave Olaf behind.
Stephano fails to drop a heavy lamp onto Monty's head, which puts the blame on Klaus. Klaus, infuriated, accidentally informs Stephano that Monty tore up his ticket. Monty takes the group to see Zombies in the Snow , but the children cannot focus, and hurry up to bed afterward. Klaus and Sunny spend the night in Violet's room, scared of Stephano, and they try to figure out his plan. They huddle together until Stephano arrives in the morning, and tells them to get to the jeep to go to Peru, and that Monty isn't going.
The children run to the Reptile Room, where they find Monty's corpse. Despite them knowing that Stephano murdered him, Olaf claims it was a snakebite and threatens them with his knife to get into the jeep.
Before they can leave the driveway, Poe, with the rest of the Baudelaires' luggage, crashes into them, but he buys Stephano's story and disguises. The Baudelaires keep insisting that he is Count Olaf, so Poe has Stephano show his ankle, which is blank.
The children are confused, and even more so when a "Dr. Lucafont" quickly arrives and diagnoses Monty's death as from the Mamba du Mal. The children argue with the adults on how they are to leave the house, as they know Olaf is trying to get them all into his jeep, where he will take them away. The three leave the adults and go into the Reptile Room, and Violet realizes they must find evidence of Stephano's crime. She assigns Klaus to research the Mamba du Mal in the Reptile Room, while she goes to Stephano's room to look for clues.
She listens to the kitchen door for a while and finds they are still arguing, giving her enough time to go to Stephano's room. Though she's afraid, she enters the room and surveys the disgusting room, but unfortunately finds nothing.
Klaus has found that the Mamba du Mal's method of killing is not via snakebite, but Poe will not listen to them. Violet realizes that she needs to break into Stephano's suitcase, where his murder weapons will likely be and tell Klaus and Sunny to stall the adults as long as they can.
Violet quickly retreats to her bedroom and takes out the prongs of the electrical plug of her lamp, prodding the metal with a thumbtack until one is hooked around the other, before forcing the tack between the two pieces so the sharp end stuck out, making a crude lockpick. Violet hurries to the jeep and picks the lock of Stephano's suitcase, though she has to use a bar of soap to make the lock looser.
She digs through and finds the supplies he used to make the murder weapon, which would inject poison into Monty and look like a snakebite, and goes back inside, presenting her findings to the adults.
Poe uses his handkerchief to wipe away the makeup on Stephano's ankle, revealing him as Olaf. Lucafont is revealed as the Hook-Handed Man, who escapes with Olaf. The Baudelaires, distraught and exhausted, fall asleep at the bottom of the steps. When they awaken, they see men taking the reptiles away.
One of them, Bruce , explains that the collection will be split up now that Monty is dead. The children say goodbye to the Incredibly Deadly Viper and other reptiles, and then reassure each other as they Poe once again drives them away. They are to take a taxi to her house, and Poe gives them peppermints as a gift- unaware that they are allergic. Violet thinks of ways to improve the engine of the Fickle Ferry before they duck into the taxi and get a good view of the lake as they go up a large hill.
Their new guardian greets them and then shows them everything in the house that she is afraid of and that they should not touch. She mentions the phone, which she is afraid will electrocute her. Violet informs her that she has built a telephone from scratch and could take hers apart to show her how it works, but Josephine refuses.
Josephine also informs them of her love of grammar, and shows them their room, where she's given Violet a doll; Violet is not fond of dolls but takes it to be polite. After Josephine leaves, Violet gives her doll to Sunny to chew on, and Klaus gives her the model trains he received so that she can take it apart. Josephine serves them cold soup- as she is afraid to turn on the stove- and talks about her late husband, Ike Anwhistle.
They go to her library , where she shows them the window they can view the lake from, and explains that Ike was killed by the Lachrymose Leeches. Violet suggests that if she's so afraid, she could move somewhere else, but Josephine explains that she's terrified of realtors. In the next few days, the children, though miserable, try to look on the bright side, as they are with Josephine and not Count Olaf. She tries to dismantle the gears and switches from the model train set, hoping to invent something to make hot food, but she ends up just wishing that Josephine would turn on the stove.
After a few days, the children go with Josephine to the market, and Violet goes to get cucumbers and runs into Count Olaf. Josephine finds her and is fooled by his disguise as Captain Sham , and does not listen to the children who insist he is Count Olaf. She is quite taken by him and insists the children be polite. At dinner that night, the children once again fail to convince Josephine that Sham is Olaf.
The phone rings and Violet answers it. Upon realizing it's Sham, she promptly hangs up, but he rings again and an emboldened Josephine answers and tells the children to go to bed while the adults talk.
The children fail to figure out a plan as they sit in their room for several hours until they hear breaking glass. They run to the library to find the window broken, and a suicide note from Josephine, leaving them in the care of Captain Sham. Violet calls Poe to pick them up, but Klaus keeps reading the note, suspicious of how many grammatical errors there are. Violet, distraught by Josephine's suicide, argues with him until Sunny interrupts them, and they decide that Sham must have forged the note.
Poe arrives, and Violet, overcome with grief, bursts into tears and Mr. Poe tries his best to comfort her and her siblings. They eventually manage to tell him their suspicions, but he compares Josephine's grocery list with the note, showing the handwriting is the same. He is to take them to brunch with Sham in order to present the paperwork for guardianship, and Klaus begs Violet to figure out how to stall them so he can figure something out with the note.
Violet comes up with a plan as she puts on her coat. At the restaurant, the children once again fail to show Poe that Sham is Olaf or to make him suspicious at all. Violet then unpacks the peppermints Poe had given them from her bag and gives them to her siblings, and they all eat them. Their allergies give them reactions, and Violet, who has broken out in hives, suggests that they return to the house to lie down. Poe allows them to go, and they quickly return. Violet tries to make her and Sunny a baking soda bath to clear their hives, but cannot find baking soda in the house.
However, Klaus has deciphered a code in the note; the grammatical errors spell out " Curdled Cave. However, at that moment, the house begins to collapse. Violet bangs her knee against a bedpost but manages to grab Sunny, and the children run to the front door as the house destroys itself.
They escape and watch the house tumble into the sea. They find that the Fickle Ferry is closed due to the weather, and find Sham's sailboat rental, which is guarded by the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender.
Sunny sneaks in and steals the keyring, but they awaken. Violet tries to distract them while Klaus unlocks the dock. The Henchperson lifts up the children, and almost takes them away, but slips on the atlas Klaus had brought with them, and the orphans escape and steal a sailboat. Violet, who had studied naval blueprints, and Klaus, who had read books about sailboats, manage to work the boat, and though the frightening storm rages around them, they manage to reach Curdled Cave, under the Lavender Lighthouse, just as the storm dies.
They realize the lake is actually very pretty, as they enter the cave. Josephine is excited to see them, but it turns out she thought they were there to move in with her, too afraid of Olaf to return.
After failing to make her braver, Klaus informs her that Curdled Cave is for sale and soon realtors will arrive, so she joins them on the sailboat to return. On the boat, Josephine realizes that she had recently eaten, and the group is attacked by the Lachrymose Leeches.
Violet rips the sail and ties it and Josephine's hairnet to an oar to try and make a signal out of the fire. They use a spyglass to light a fire on the oar, and she waves the oar and pounds on a bucket to attract attention.
This works, but unfortunately, Olaf is the one who arrives. He takes the children and pushes Josephine to the leeches. The children fail to convince Poe that Sham murdered Josephine, but Sunny manages to bite his peg leg to prove he is Count Olaf. He escapes, and while Poe yells after Olaf, the children thank each other for their part in the reveal of Olaf, realizing they are fortunate to have each other. Poe takes the children on the train through the Finite Forest to their next guardian, whose name he does not try to pronounce.
Violet watches the trees, which look more like metal pipes, and thinks about a mechanism that could allow one to climb any tree, though the view is a bit uninspiring. Poe drops them off at Paltryville , and the children wander through the desolate town until they reach Lucky Smells Lumbermill , with a sign made out of chewing gum. They also spot the Optometry office, which is shaped exactly like the eye tattoo on Count Olaf's ankle. They find a letter from their guardian- Sir - that tells them they will be staying in the dormitories of the lumbermill and working there.
Though confused and upset at this news, the children head to the dorms, and Klaus cheers up Violet by suggesting that she might be able to study the complicated machines. At the dorms, Phil welcomes them inside and the workers, though confused at children working there, warn them about the new foreman, Flacutono , and show them their dinner, a casserole.
The next morning, they are awoken by Foreman Flacutono banging metal pots together, and they get to work debarking the logs. Violet tries to figure out how the inventions work, but Foreman Flacutono orders them to work faster.
The work is hard and boring, and at lunch, Violet is horrified to discover that they are only provided with gum and that they are paid in coupons.
The Foreman then informs the Baudelaires that Sir wants to see them. The children reflect on their unfortunate circumstances before meeting Sir's partner, Charles , who is horrified that they are working at the lumbermill. However, Sir tells the children that the deal he made with Poe was that the children would work in the lumbermill until they came of age, and he would keep Count Olaf away.
The Baudelaires do not think this fair, but Charles's protests don't work, and he quickly stops arguing. Sir leaves and Charles gives them a peach, before telling them that Sir had a terrible childhood. Violet remarks that she is currently having a terrible childhood herself. Charles shows them to the library, which is almost empty, only including a town constitution, The History of Lucky Smells Lumbermill , and Advanced Ocular Science.
The Baudelaires spend the next several days miserably at the lumbermill, wondering how Count Olaf will arrive and try to get their fortune. One day, Charles brings them beef jerky for lunch, but before Violet can ask about the eye building, Flacutono orders them to work some more, and trips Klaus, causing him to break his glasses.
Charles takes him to the Optometrist office. Violet and Sunny are terrified while Klaus is gone, and spend a long time waiting for him outside the dorms. At night, they slip out of the dormitory to find him and run into him in the courtyard. He is quiet and confused, and doesn't remember what happened, and refers to Violet as "sir. The next morning, Klaus forgets his shoes, and Violet runs after him, though Phil warns her not to make trouble.
They fail to get Klaus to respond to them, and he is put in charge of the stamping machine, accidentally breaking Phil's leg. However, Klaus seems to come back to normal, though he has no memory of the entire day. The Foreman trips him again, causing his glasses to break, and this time Violet and Sunny insist on going to Orwell's with him.
On the way over, Klaus hypothesizes that he may have been hypnotized, though he can't remember how to break hypnosis. They meet Georgina Orwell , who acts very sweet and tells the girls to wait in the waiting room. There, they meet her receptionist, Shirley - Count Olaf in disguise. Violet realizes that he's hypnotizing Klaus with Orwell in an attempt to get their fortune, and quickly leaves with Klaus- though, too late, as he is re-hypnotized. They receive a memo from Sir, saying that they will be given to Shirley if they cause another accident.
Violet asks Phil to keep a close eye on Klaus while she and Sunny go to Sir. He does not listen, and Charles is of no help, so they instead go to the library, where Violet pulls out the book on ocular science. She remembers how Klaus goes to the table of contents first, and finds the chapter on Hypnosis and Mind Control, though the book is written very confusingly.
She eventually finds out that there is a word that will snap him out of his hypnosis, though she doesn't know what it is. In the middle of the night, the sisters hear the lumbermill's saw start working again and they race across the courtyard to find that Flacutono is trying to have a hypnotized Klaus push Charles, tied to a log, into a saw, in order to make Sir abandon them.
Violet figures out that the word that makes Klaus obey is "lucky", and fights with Flacutono as she orders Klaus to push the log away from the saw. Orwell arrives with Shirley and tells Klaus not to listen to his sisters, but Violet realizes that the word to break the hypnosis is "inordinate," and she shouts it to alert Klaus.
He breaks from his trance, and while Violet is held back by Shirley and Flacutono, he manages to invent something to pull the log out of the saw's path. Sir barges into the room, and in shock, Orwell falls into the saw. Traumatized by the sight of Orwell being cut up by the saw, the children are silent as Sir and Poe argue, and Sir reveals that he's relinquishing guardianship.
Shirley and Flacutono pretend to have been hypnotized, but Poe soon realizes Shirley has an eye tattoo. Olaf and Flacutono the Bald Man escape out the window. As Poe and Sir call the police, Phil reminds the Baudelaires that they are lucky to still be alive, to which they reluctantly agree.
Nervous about entering a new school, Violet imagines an invention to prevent moss from growing on sidewalks; Klaus puts a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. Poe informs the children that an advanced computer will keep Count Olaf away from Prufrock Preparatory School , though he does not tell them how. He drops them off at the administrative building before returning to the bank, and the children meet Vice Principal Nero , who is horribly practicing the violin.
He explains the ridiculous school rules, also does not explain the computer and tells Violet that she'll be studying with Mr. Remora in Room One. Violet is aghast that he expects Sunny, too young for a classroom, to work as an administrative assistant, but Nero doesn't listen to her. When she asks where they will live, he tells them about the dorms and then informs them that they will be living in the Orphans Shack instead, until more orphans come to take the space.
The Orphans Shack is tiny, with bales of hay instead of beds, an infestation of small crabs, fungus dripping from the ceiling, and unsightly wallpaper.
Though distressed, Violet hopes she'll be able to invent something to keep the crabs away, and is excited to meet children their own age.
As it is lunchtime, they head to the cafeteria, where they see a giant lasagna being served. Carmelita Spats bullies them until she is interrupted by Duncan Quagmire , who invites the Baudelaires to sit with him and his sister, Isadora. They quickly befriend each other over shared academic interests and a similar past- Duncan and Isadora's parents and brother also had perished in a terrible fire. Duncan informs her that the shack crabs are afraid of loud noises, and Violet comes up with an idea to invent noisy shoes to scare them.
The group then heads to the library to research the fungus and find metal for their shoes. For several days, the children go to class, and Violet hates her class so much that she would almost rather stay in the Orphans Shack all day; all Remora does is eat bananas and quiz them on meaningless stories from his life.
She does, however, sit beside Duncan, and they can pass each other notes on particularly boring days, though an issue is that Carmelita sits behind her and sometimes pokes her to irritate her. While the Quagmires and Baudelaires are hanging out, they discuss how to help Sunny make staples and the idea of combining their fortunes to make their own printing business.
Vice Principal Nero interrupts to introduce the children to their new teacher- Coach Genghis , who is Count Olaf in disguise. Violet, though worried, decides to play along and pretends to fall for it, in hopes of figuring out Olaf's plan.
The Quagmires resolve to help, and though the Baudelaires are nervous about that, they resolve to see Nero in the morning. At that night's violin recital, Duncan distracts her by telling her about other terrible concerts he'd attended.
The next morning, the Baudelaires reminisce about their previous lives, before entering Nero's office. They claim they are worried that Olaf could have snuck in, and when Genghis enters, they sneakily try to remove his turban and gym shoes- his disguise- but fail.
Nero dismisses them, and they go to the cafeteria for breakfast with the Quagmires. Carmelita then arrives with a message from Coach Genghis, telling the Baudelaires to report to the front lawn after dinner. After a nervous day, the Quagmires inform the Baudelaires that they will sneak away from Nero's recital to spy on them and make sure nothing happens.
At the lawn, Genghis makes them paint a huge circle on the run, and then run laps around it all night. The next several nights, he continues to make them run laps all night, which makes the Baudelaires incredibly tired and frustrated, causing them to flunk their tests in class. Nero informs them that they will be given comprehensive exams, and if they flunk, they will be sent to Genghis for homeschooling. Though Violet snaps and they finally admit they know Genghis is Olaf, Nero doesn't listen to them and sends them away.
Duncan and Isadora, to help the Baudelaires, plan to disguise themselves with Violet's ribbon and Klaus's glasses, so that they can study and Sunny can make staples. The Baudelaires are scared that Olaf may do something to their friends, but they see no other way, and the Quagmires are insistent, so they stay up all night studying for their tests. The next morning, Nero, Remora, and Klaus's teacher, Mrs. Bass , arrive, and the children manage to swiftly pass their exams, while Sunny staples Nero's papers.
Though they passed, Genghis arrives with their ribbon and glasses and announces that they skipped gym, causing Nero to expel them as Poe arrives. However, the Baudelaires do not care and are convinced Olaf did something horrible to them.
They manage to reveal him as Olaf, and as they run after him, they see that Duncan and Isadora are being dragged into a car by the White-Faced Women. The triplets only manage to shout "VFD! The Baudelaires then collapse sobbing onto the ground. He informs them that he has now been promoted to Vice President in Charge of Orphan Affairs and that he will be leaving for a few weeks to search for the Quagmires in the mountains. The Doorman helps them find the door on the dark street and explains that dark is in, and elevators are out, so they will have to climb several flights of stairs to the penthouse apartment.
Violet and Klaus take turns carrying Sunny after she tires of crawling. Over the next week, the Baudelaires have a mixed bag with their time with the Squalors. Violet has a room with a workbench, but no tools because tools are out. While Jerome takes them out in the mornings to their favorite places in town- for Violet, the Verne Invention Museum- in the afternoons they have to return to the large, confusing penthouse and find their way around themselves, usually getting lost.
And overall, they are anxious about the kidnapped Quagmires. She gives the children pinstripe suits as gifts, though Jerome had wanted to give them a tool kit, an almanac, and a bronze square, and the children leave to get changed. The suits fit horribly, and as they exit again, they run into Gunther- once again, Count Olaf. Jerome still does not listen over dinner, suspecting that the children are being xenophobic towards Gunther, and upon returning, the Doorman informs them that he'd had orders not to let them up until Gunther left the penthouse.
Jerome points out that he may be heading down the stairs, and they are allowed up. The next morning, Violet ties her hair up and sits at her workbench in hopes of thinking of a plan.
She and her siblings are eventually left alone in the penthouse, which they search for Gunther to see if he is hiding there. After failing to find him, they listen to the doors of other apartments, but still to no avail. When they reach the lobby, the Doorman again refuses to let them up, as he never saw Gunther leave, but something he says seems to interest Klaus. After being allowed to go to bed, Violet asks Klaus about what he's thinking of, and he asks her about elevators.
She recalls how they work, and he informs her that there are two elevator doors outside their penthouse, but only one outside all other apartments- meaning that one of the elevators is likely ersatz. They believe Gunther may be hiding there, and so they sneak out and investigate, indeed finding only an empty shaft.
Feeling that they don't have time to argue with the Squalors, Violet instead instructs her siblings to help her build a rope. After doing so, they climb down the shaft and find the Quagmires, traumatized and locked in a cage.
They explain that Gunther is going to smuggle them out in an item at the In Auction, and Violet and her siblings climb up to get something to melt the bars with. However, when they return with her fire tongs, the Quagmires are gone.
Violet is distraught that they left their friends alone for so long. They go to the Squalor Library and find that one of the auction items is labeled VFD and decide that must be where the Quagmires will be hidden.
However, she then turns on them and throws them down the elevator shaft, where they land in a net. She announces that she's in on Olaf's plan and that she wants to steal from them the way Beatrice stole from her, before leaving. Sunny climbs up the shaft and manages to return with a rope that Violet uses to help them climb to the bottom of the shaft without falling. They find a tunnel entrance and travel down, where there is a locked trapdoor.
Violet uses her tongs to pry open the door, and they exit into the ruins of their own home, getting covered in ash. They reach the auction house and are seated with Jerome and Poe, who they doubt will listen to them. Jerome asks the children to come home with him and let the police handle Olaf, but they refuse, stating that they will never forget about him while he has their friends.
Not brave enough to go with them, Jerome relinquishes custody and leaves them. Poe enters and then informs them that he has run out of guardians willing for them, so they will be placed under the "it takes a village" program, where an entire village will be their guardian.
After going through several options, they find a town called VFD , and, believing this to be connected to the word shouted by Duncan and Isadora, they agree to that town.
The children travel by bus, discussing what VFD could mean. The bus stops soon and the driver informs them that he cannot go any closer to the town without infuriating the Council of Elders , so the children will have to walk the rest of the way. Violet places Sunny atop a suitcase with wheels and the children begin walking.
After several hours of walking through harsh winds and heat, the children reach the town and realize it is covered in crows. They enter the town hall, where they are quickly introduced to the absurd town customs, such as not being allowed to speak on the platform and the Council of Elders who create insane rules; they also see the new Chief of Police, Officer Luciana. The Council decides that the children will do chores for the entire town and live with Hector , their repairman.
They leave town hall, and Hector explains that he is too nervous to speak in front of or argue with the Council of Elders, and instead shows the children the crows taking flight and heading for the Nevermore Tree , beside his home. While they walk there, he explains that the Council has banned several items that he has secretly hidden in the barn next to his house, such as mechanical devices and inventing materials that will interest Violet.
She is interested in the fact his barn has become an inventing studio, and that he is building a Self-Sustaining Hot Air Mobile Home , which she agrees to help with. As they reach Hector's house , he mentions that he has room for the Quagmires when they arrive. Upon hearing that Isadora is a poet, he provides the children with a couplet he found on the ground that they recognize as Isadora's, though they cannot figure out the message.
The children quietly wonder if Hector is working for Count Olaf before they decide he wouldn't have shown the poem if he was. Hector informs them that the paper was tangled in the branches of the Nevermore Tree, so the children conclude that the Quagmires may be there.
They cannot climb or search it while the crows roost there for the night, so instead, they take turns keeping watch of the tree. In the morning, the children find another poem but no Quagmires and conclude that the triplets must be sending messages with the crows.
They then are tasked with doing chores for the whole town, and as they are cleaning the Fowl Fountain , the Council arrives and informs them that Count Olaf has been captured. The children, ecstatic, go to the town hall to see Officer Luciana present him. Their hopes are crushed, though, as they see that it is not Count Olaf but a man named Jacques. He attempts to talk to them, but Luciana stops him and drags him away. They eventually decide to use mob mentality to get the citizens of VFD to demand Jacques's release, but as they arrive into town, they find that Jacques was murdered in his cell.
Count Olaf arrives just then disguised as Detective Dupin , producing a hair ribbon to claim Violet was in the cell and is an accomplice to Sunny murdering Count Olaf. Violet and Klaus try to call for Hector to provide an alibi, but he is too nervous to help.
The children are arrested, to be burnt at the stake the next day. While in jail, Dupin informs the children that he will smuggle one of them out of the fire to keep as a hostage, and they can decide which one of them it will be, something that infuriates Violet. Her and Klaus snap at each other before apologizing, the stress catching up to them. As Luciana brings them bread and water, Klaus remembers that it is his birthday. Violet then is able to grant his birthday wish for a deus ex machina by using the bread, water, and bench to erode the wall.
As they work, Hector arrives and provides the final two couplets, which Klaus uses to determine the Quagmires are in Fowl Fountain. The children escape jail and free the Quagmires from the fountain; however, they have little time to escape, as the mob, angry that they can't find the children to burn at the stake, begins pursuit.
Officer Luciana begins shooting the balloons, causing it to start to fall, and Violet realizes that they cannot all escape, so the Baudelaires allow the home to leave without them. Olaf is revealed to the mob as Luciana shoots a crow, infuriating the townsfolk.
Alone, the children realize they will have to be on their own from now on and find answers by themselves- they must be self-sustaining. Sunny takes her first steps as the children walk off into the desert. The children arrive at the Last Chance General Store , where they desperately send a telegram to Poe to tell their side of the story.
However, they never receive a response, and they are chased from the store by employees who read that they are murderers in The Daily Punctilio. The children join the group, as they do not read the newspaper and do not know they've been framed for murder, and go with them to Heimlich Hospital. At the hospital, Babs asks for Volunteers to head to the Library of Records. The children go and meet Hal , who shows them how to organize the confusing library, which they are not allowed to read.
He mentions that the Baudelaires are mentioned in the Snicket File , which piques the children's interest. They sleep outside that night in the unfinished wing of the hospital, and after failing to find information in the ripped notes of the Quagmire triplets, they decide that they need to look in the Snicket File, hoping it will have answers.
The next day, they fail to think of a plan to read the file, and they hear on the loudspeaker the voice of Count Olaf, disguised as Mattathias , who has taken over the hospital and is searching it for the Baudelaires. Desperate, Violet uses her hair ribbon to make a fake keyring as they steal the real one. They break into the library and search for it for a long time before they find the file under "Baudelaire. They find a chute that will take them outside, but only Sunny and Klaus will fit.
Violet tells her siblings to leave without her, assuring them that she can invent a solution and insisting they run. Olaf changes her into a hospital gown and threatens to cut her head off in an operation to draw her siblings out, but this backfires as Klaus and Sunny rescue her.
When Violet awakes, her siblings have hidden them in a storage cabinet as the hospital burns. Though she is barely conscious and unable to think of much, with the help of a makeshift ribbon from Sunny, Violet makes a loudspeaker to send their pursuers to the unfinished wing of the hospital, away from them, and then she invents a bungee cord to jump down. She asks her siblings to go ahead, but Klaus refuses, insisting that they never split up again. Violet eventually agrees, and the siblings leap down together as their last remaining pursuer- the Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender- is killed in the flames.
They see Olaf escaping into a car, and Violet informs her siblings that their only option is to get into Olaf's trunk, to make sure he does not get the rest of the Snicket File, and to find out if one of their parents really survived the fire.
They climb into the trunk and huddle together as Olaf drives away. Violet holds her siblings very tight in the trunk to try and comfort them, terrified they will be caught. They listen to Olaf and his troupe talk, and they park at Caligari Carnival , where they leave to meet a Madame Lulu. The children wait a while before daring to speak, and Violet manages to use Olaf's monocle from his Gunther disguise to break open the latch of the trunk.
They escape and Violet attempts to call Poe from a phone booth; however, they have no money, and the operator refuses to help and hangs up on the children. They eavesdrop on Olaf and his troupe in Madame Lulu's tent , who are asking Madame Lulu to foresee where the Baudelaires will be and if one of their parents survived, as well as where the Snicket File is.
The children step away and discuss their options- they don't think they'll be able to find help, and though Violet doesn't know if Madame Lulu is truly a fortune teller, she seemingly was able to help Olaf find them every time he asked, so they decide to stay and find out if one of their parents is alive.
Violet comes up with the idea to disguise themselves with outfits from Olaf's trunk, hoping to obtain answers if they can stay at the carnival. She applies makeup to her and Klaus, and they disguise their voices before approaching Lulu. Olaf conducts the job interview, taking pleasure in the suffering of the "freaks", and Lulu hires them.
She shows them to their caravan, explaining that they will not be paid and that Count Olaf wants to be told he's brilliant. She instructs Hugo to tell them how the carnival works before leaving. The Baudelaires meet their other coworkers, Colette and Kevin , and though they do not see them as freakish, the other people have a very low opinion of themselves.
The next morning, the Hook-Handed Man awakens them and lets slip that Lulu told Olaf that one of the Baudelaire parents is alive. Though the Baudelaires are excited, they still don't know if Lulu is truly a fortune teller and decide to sneak into her tent. Firstly, they have to perform, and they approach the House of Freaks. The Hook-Handed Man has a Tagliatelle Grande to whip them with if they don't obey and introduces the freakshow.
The Baudelaires have a horrible experience, and afterward, in their caravan, they try to convince their coworkers that they could have a better life, but they don't listen.
Violet is impressed when Hugo informs her that Sunny has helped him with the hot chocolate recipe, and is happy her sister is taking an interest in cooking. They begin to go outside when they hear Olaf's car approach; they then see him and Lulu bringing back a cage of starving lions.
He announces that for their new attraction, one of the freaks will be fed to the lions. He and his associates leave to dig a pit, and the Baudelaires decide to enter Lulu's tent; Violet is suspicious of Olaf's claim that there was lighting inside a tent, as she had studied electricity.
However, she stops when she sees that Klaus is crying over the possibility that one of their parents is alive, and she leans over to comfort him. Klaus asks why they wouldn't be trying to find them, and Violet assures him that maybe they are, and have just had horrible luck.
They go to Lulu's tent and realize that the Eye printed outside- the same as Olaf's tattoo- is actually an acronym- the letters VFD. They enter her tent, and Violet goes to the wall switches, as Olaf said they began by turning off the lights. She then finds her ribbon in their costumed pair of pants, realizing Olaf must have stolen it, and ties her hair up, trying to figure out what the switches do.
She notices some sort of invention in the tent, and quickly figures it out; there is a hole that faces the direction of the sunrise, meaning that light would shine in during the early morning, reflecting onto mirrors controlled by the other switch, causing the illusion of lightning. She concludes that Lulu is a fake, but they still need to figure out how she receives her information.
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