The ninth book in Lemony Snickett's children's book series makes up the plot of the two second season finale of the Netflix adaptation. After fleeing the fire that consumed the Heimlich hospital in the previous episode in the trunk of Count Olaf's car, the Baudelaire orphans find themselves transported to a dying carnival deep in the Hinterlands where Count Olaf hopes to find answers to the question of a surviving Baudelaire parent raised in the last episode.
The carnival is populated by three "freaks" and a familiar fortune teller. In this episode, the good guys borrow a trick from Olaf by disguising themselves and pretending to be who they are not. This includes the orphans who pretend to be freaks in order to stay at the carnival and learn the secrets the fortune teller shares with Count Olaf. (My personal favorite is Sunny as a feral half-wolf child).
Seemingly one step ahead of Count Olaf this time around, everything appears to be on course for a breakthrough that will end the series of unfortunate events...but alas, that is not to be. When a pack of starving lions are recruited for the show, things take a deadly turn that ends with another V.F.D. volunteer's demise, once again leaving the orphans without a friend to help them. It also ends with another fire setting the carnival ablaze as the motif of starting fires and putting fires out (both literally and figuratively) continues to weave through this epically miserable tale that ends with a cliffhanger...literally and figuratively.
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