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Jan 1, 2019 · Penultimate Peril: Part 1: Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. With Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Pauli Weissman, Louis Hynes. Various parties converge at the Hotel Denouement, where the mysterious "J.S." has called the V.F.D. together -- and things aren't always what they seem.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Barry Sonnenfeld
- 2019-01-01
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"The Penultimate Peril: Part One" is the twenty-third episode of Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It covered the first half of The Penultimate Peril.
Various parties converge at the Hotel Denouement, where the mysterious "J.S." has called the V.F.D. together -- and things aren't always what they seem.
Kit Snicket drives the Baudelaires to the Hotel Denouement, although she is being pursued by what she speculates to be the Man with a Beard but No Hair and Woman with Hair but No Beard in a black car. She tells the children she knows that her brother Jacques Snicket is dead. She gives them a picnic basket with concierge disguises and asks them to find the identity of J.S. which they accept. Kit loses the duo and they arrive at the hotel.
Meanwhile, on a phone at a beach, Olaf shares V.F.D.'s plans with the Man and Woman, but they already know. Fernald steals The Carmelita while Olaf, Esmé Squalor and Carmelita Spats are at the beach, leaving them to take a boat.
Kit warns the Baudelaires that Frank Denouement and Ernest Denouement manage the hotel, but they are lookalike twins and Frank is a Fire-Fighter while Ernest is a Fire-Starter. After the Baudelaires leave, Kit kisses one of the brothers and says, "Send my regards to Frank," leading the audience to think that was Ernest and that Kit is evil. In her taxi, Kit finds Lemony Snicket who she thought was dead. Lemony asks his sister for a ride.
In the hotel, the Baudelaires notice Olaf's group is also there. One of the Denouement brothers orders the Baudelaires to attend to the guests. Rooms 610 (healthcare industry), 332 (financial economics), and the rooftop sunbathing salon. On the elevator, the Baudelaires go to different rooms:
•Violet goes to the rooftop sunbathing salon and sees Vice Principal Nero, Carmelita and Esmé. As soon as she goes there, Olaf draws on a mustache as part of a disguise and leaves. After Carmelita throws a beach ball (which is oddly heavy, which is important later), Violet is ordered to fetch Carmelita a harpoon gun along with ice cream. Violet overhears Esmé tell Nero that she is watching the skies because bird-watching is in. Esmé asks Nero if he knows who J.S. and he implies it is Jerome Squalor. As Violet leaves, she accidentally calls Carmelita by her name, which she covers it up by saying it's on her boat. Violet meets up with one of the managers who tells Violet that not giving a harpoon gun to a child would be suspicious and implies it is part of a larger plan already looked after. He gives her the gun and the clock rings.
•Klaus goes to the healthcare room and meets Babs who does not recognize him from before. Babs is supposed to meet her boyfriend at the sauna but she doesn't know where it is. He guides her there where Jerome is, but Jerome can't recognize Klaus due to the steam. Jerome claims he met Babs at a support group for people terrorized by Esmé and fell in love, but it is evident they're faking being a couple. Klaus leaves but overhears Jerome saying they're faking being a couple to help the Baudelaires, which is what J.S. said to him. Jerome implies he's gay for Charles while Babs implies she's lesbian for Mrs. Bass. Klaus re-enters, claiming he received a telegram from J.S. but can't get it until Jerome tells J.S.' full name. Jerome says J.S. is a woman, while Babs thinks J.S. is a sea captain. Olaf enters, interrupting the conversations with red liquid on his suit he claims is blood. Klaus leaves and is ordered by a Denouement to hang flypaper for birds outside the window of 598, claiming it's part of a larger plan. Klaus agrees and the clock rings.
Starring
•Count Olaf - Neil Patrick Harris •Lemony Snicket - Patrick Warburton •Violet Baudelaire - Malina Weissman •Klaus Baudelaire - Louis Hynes •Sunny Baudelaire - Presley Smith •Esmé Squalor - Lucy Punch •Arthur Poe - K. Todd Freeman
Guest starring
•Kit Snicket - Allison Williams •Vice Principal Nero - Roger Bart •Jerome Squalor - Tony Hale •Frank / Ernest / Dewey Denouement - Max Greenfield •Larry-Your-Waiter - Patrick Breen •Carmelita Spats - Kitana Turnbull •Babs - Kerri Kenney •Justice Strauss - Joan Cusack
Co-starring
•Bellboy - Eanna O'Dowd •Bellgirl - Latonya Williams •Trolleyman - Darcey Johnson
•Carmelita mentions she wants to go to Littlest Elf Land.
•Justice Strauss's line "Then this night is different from all other nights." is a reference to the All The Wrong Questions book with a similar title.
Filming locations Production errors
•During the scene in which Justice Strauss arrives, the clock shows 10 o'clock. However, it only rings eight times instead of ten.
Deviations from the novel
•The Baudelaires wear green concierge outfits instead of red ones. Their outfits also don't have sunglasses. •Kit doesn't wear a dress. •Klaus can define "flaneurs" on his own in the show. In the book, Kit defined it for him. •The enemy taxi was following them much earlier, and Kit seems extremely certain that it is one. •The Baudelaires changed to the disguises much earlier than in the book. •Violet and Klaus remember staying at the Hotel Denoument instead of just the Hotel Preludio (which was alluded to but not called out). •Sunny says "Signal V.F.D." instead of "Sugar bowl" in the recap. •Kit seems confident that they can end this, instead of distraught that it will all go wrong. •We find out that Fernald and Fiona double crossed Olaf from a note the former gave to Carmelita, instead of Olaf seeing it for himself. They also saved Phil and the Snow Scouts. •The Baudelaires already trust Kit, unlike in the book where they were sort of debating it. •Frank and Ernest were not outside the hotel in the book when Kit talked about them. •The Baudelaires didn't take anything out of Kit's car. •When Kit was about to leave, Dewey appeared to talk to her. Nothing of the sort happened in the book. •The signage on the Hotel Denouement can't be read correctly in the pond. •Olaf, Esmé, and Carmelita are still in disguise to hide from V.F.D., even though in the book they weren't. He doesn't recognize the Baudelaires at first, mainly because Violet says that villainous guests treat hotel staff like they are invisible. •One of the managers called the Baudelaires out by last name (it was possibly Dewey). •The three adventures change: •Violet's adventure on the roof is different: •Geraldine Julienne is not featured. •Esmé isn't wearing Vision Furthering Devices, she uses a spyglass to watch the skies. Her outfit is (for obvious reasons) not as skimpy as the one in the book (giant leaves of lettuce). •Carmelita's outfit hardly has any blue in it. •Geraldine is not on the roof because she is not in the show. Nero is on the roof, however. Due to this, he leads the Esmé Squalor Fan Club instead of her. Anything Geraldine was meant to say goes to Nero. •Violet pretends to be a part of the fan club, which was not mentioned in the book. •Nero says that Esmé should know who J.S. is, but is interrupted by Carmelita screaming for Violet before he can finish. •Esmé calls Carmelita her daughter (in the book she was quick to dismiss it). Violet did not call the latter out by name. •Klaus's adventure is different too: •He finds Babs behind the door. In the book, she was presumed to be dead, and it was Charles and Sir he was assisting, but in the show, the latter ran off and the former is looking for him. •The sauna was on another floor in the book instead of down the hall. •Jerome is already here. In the book, he arrived in a taxi with Justice Strauss. •He is pretending to date Babs so they can find the Baudelaires. •Jerome is interested in Charles. •Babs in interested in Mrs. Bass. •The Denouement that Klaus encounters has him hang the flypaper outside the window of room 598 instead of the sauna. •Klaus eavesdrops outside the sauna instead of in it. •Jerome thinks J.S. is a woman (maybe Justice Strauss or Jacquelyn) and Babs thinks he is a sea captain (probably Julio Sham (the person Count Olaf posed as, he is only mentioned in certain books) as she said "he") •Olaf comes to interrupt the adventure. •Here's how Sunny's adventure varies: •She finds Mr. Poe behind her door. In the book, he finds them much later after Dewey is shot. In the book, it was Nero, Mrs. Bass, and Mr. Remora she was supposed to encounter, but the first was already on the roof for Violet's adventure, the second was arrested, and the third was not present at all. •He doesn't recognize her. •Larry is in the kitchen instead of Hal. •Olaf also interrupts this adventure, posing as Jacques. He also seems to finally to recognize Sunny. •Poe brings out all he knows on the siblings' case, including something hidden. He has been contacted by two J.S.'s. •Ernest also intercepts this. He drops Larry into a simmering pot of curry. •None of the Baudelaires are asked if they are who they say they are; instead, they call out the names of the people who they are assisting by mistake, having to cover it up by saying they saw it on something they owned. They are also asked if they can be trusted by their respective managers (Violet > Frank, Klaus > Ernest, Sunny > Dewey). •Klaus figures out that the sugar bowl may fall in the laundry room instead of Sunny. •Lemony actually meets up with Kit. In the book, he doesn't get the chance. •Dewey finds the Baudelaires after they get to the sub-basement instead of before. In the book, Dewey descends from a rope in the lobby. •The siblings realized for themselves that the Denouements were triplets and not twins instead of Dewey having to tell them. •In the TV series, the Baudelaires trust Dewey incredibly easily. In the book, they are far more suspicious and only follow him after he claims he knows the Baudelaire father. •Dewey takes them through a passageway in the V.F.D. tunnel first instead of straight outside (By now, this is when Jerome and Justice Strauss appear, but they were introduced earlier). While walking through the VFD tunnel with the Baudelaires, he comments that his library collects information gathered by every V.F.D. agent, scholar, researcher, inventor, scientist, explorer, cartographer, poet, journalist, naturalist, herpetologist, optometrist, receptionist, chef, waiter, taxi driver, sea captain, film director, ballerina, children's book author, and mountaineer. •Dewey wishes for them to stay at the Hotel, but in the book, he does not say he wants them to take over his library. •When Olaf, Esmé and Carmelita show up, this encounter is different: •Most of the villains are not here, according to Dewey saying they would arrive late (in the book they were already here). Carmelita now mentions wanting to learn how spit instead of at the roof when Violet was tending to her. •In the book, Justice Strauss asked why Frank did not stop Violet from taking the gun, to which she replied that he might have tried. In the show, he didn't try, he told her to do her job. •Esmé notes that they have not yet shot the crow, even though by this point in the book two of them were already shot down. Carmelita also uses a slingshot to shoot it down, not the harpoon gun. •Since Hugo, Collette, and Kevin were (most likely) killed by the Man and Woman, they are not here to report what was going on after Carmelita would have shot the crows. •Dewey says that the container (Sugar Bowl) belongs to Esmé and not what it contains, instead of simply saying "Not anymore." •Olaf doesn't knock Carmelita to the floor when he takes away the harpoon gun. He also breaks up with Esmé instead of just firing her (then she quits and mutual agreement) much earlier than when it happens in the book. •Violet and Klaus mention that it's Esmé's fault that Olaf is not rich and that they are not dead. •The two siblings drop the gun because Mr. Poe calls out and not because it was heavy. The latter also says "Good God, that man's been shot!" instead of simply "Baudelaires!" and only the siblings, Olaf, and Poe are outside since Esmé and Carmelita left and none of the others that were present in the book are alive or around. •The children do not grab Dewey in time or call out to him before he falls in. •If Lemony is the man in the taxi in the book, it's not clear.
•The stone Lemony threw into the pond at the start of the episode is the one Violet used to test her invention in the very first episode. It reappears when Count Olaf threatens Carmelita with it in exchange for the note from Fernald.
Deleted Scene (Original Sauna Scene)
Due to Rhys Darby being stuck in Fiji due to a typhoon and unable to make production, the original sauna scene had to be replaced. The original version was released by Joe Tracz, and can be seen below.
This transcript is currently incomplete. Any additions in regards to dialogue and character actions would be greatly appreciated. Disclaimer: Please note that the names of Ernest and Frank Denouement is not confirmed, unless they can be confirmed with a source. They are only used as placeholders to separate the Denouements. In some scenes throughout the episode, Frank and Ernest Denouement are ...
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Ernest is the one who asks Klaus to hang the fly paper. He does know Carmelita is there to help them and that it is a crucial part of the plan to make sure the Sugar Bowl lands in the laundry room. And obviously it is Dewey that has Sunny help him with the lock.
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