Esmé asks what she's tasting while eating and the waiter replies 'rutabaga' which may be a reference to the Rutabaga River.

There is also a picture of Ike Anwhistle in that room.In the informal dining room, Gunther mentions that a vase could shatter into a million pieces and hit your eye, a reference to Josephine Anwhistle.While Jerome is giving the Baudelaires a tour, he points to a certain room and says the Duchess of Winnipeg once stayed there, referring to a dear associate of Lemony Snicket and Beatrice Baudelaire and a VFD agent, known as 'R', in the ASOUE companion books.White-Faced Woman #1 - Jacqueline Robbins.Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender - Matty Cardarople.At the bottom of the shaft, they find the Quagmires who have been locked up in a cage. Together, the Baudelaires build a makeshift hot air balloon and jump down into the shaft. Meanwhile, Larry the Waiter has convinced a reluctant Olaf to perform a song for them in order to buy Jacques and Olivia more time. What they find instead of an elevator is just a long dark shaft. They arrive at the penthouse floor and check out the second elevator that Klaus became suspicious of. The Baudelaires manage to escape lunch and head back to the penthouse to join the search. Olaf tries and succeeds in getting them to switch locations and head over to the Herring Houdini, his own makeshift restaurant where he plans on drugging the Squalors in order to kidnap the children. Meanwhile, Jacques and Olivia search 667 Dark Avenue for the Quagmires. Jacquelyn has Jacques Snicket pick up Olivia and recruit her into their secret organization.Įsmé takes the Baudelaires to Café Salmonella to have a long lunch.

Poe, of course, doesn't listen, mainly because he is about to go on a helicopter search for the Quagmires.

She has read the annotated copy of The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations. The Prufrock librarian, Olivia Caliban, visits Poe and tries to tell him about how the orphans are being taken advantage of. Violet Baudelaire searches their new penthouse apartment for Duncan Quagmire and Isadora Quagmire but has no such luck. The Squalors do not believe the Baudelaires when they claim Gunther is Count Olaf.

The Baudelaires find Count Olaf is already inside and he is pretending to be Gunther, a foreigner, while in hiding from a citywide manhunt. The doorman explains to the Baudelaires how the apartment is trying to be fashionable and ' in' instead of ' out', and so the elevator cannot be used because elevators are out.Īfter climbing stairs for a long time, they meet their new guardians and see their ridiculously large penthouse. The Squalors live on the top floor in the penthouse. For Beatrice – When we met, my life began.Īrthur Poe has taken the Baudelaire children to live with a new guardian: Jerome Squalor and Esmé Squalor at 667 Dark Avenue, a tall apartment building.

The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket