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|main character = [[Violet Baudelaire|Violet]], [[Klaus Baudelaire|Klaus]], [[Sunny Baudelaire|Sunny]]
  
|main character = [[Violet Baudelaire|Violet]], [[Klaus Baudelaire|Klaus]], [[Sunny Baudelaire|Sunny]]
 
|guardian = Fiona
  
|guardian = Fiona
 
|enemy = [[Count Olaf]]
  
|enemy = [[Count Olaf]]
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|olaf disguise = [[Dad]]
 
|setting = Under the sea
  
|setting = Under the sea
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|library = Queequeg library
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|writer = Joshua Conkel
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|director = [[Liza Johnson]]
 
|producer = [[Neil Patrick Harris]]
  
|producer = [[Neil Patrick Harris]]
 
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|network = [[Netflix]]
  
|network = [[Netflix]]
 
|release date = January 1, 2019
  
|release date = January 1, 2019
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|format = 45 minutes
 
|series = ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series)|A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''
  
|series = ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series)|A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''
 
|prev = The Slippery Slope: Part Two
  
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|next = The Grim Grotto: Part Two
  
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}}'''"The Grim Grotto: Part One"''' is the twenty-first episode of [[Netflix]]'s ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series)|A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. It covered the first half of ''[[The Grim Grotto]]''.
  
}}'''"The Grim Grotto: Part One"''' is the twenty-first episode of [[Netflix]]'s ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series)|A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. It covered the first half of ''[[The Grim Grotto]]''.
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==Official synopsis==
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A young submarine captain with ties to the [[V.F.D.]] reveals she's looking for [[The Sugar Bowl|the sugar bowl]]. But so is [[Esmé Squalor]], who's on a mission to find it first.
   
 
==Dedication==
  
==Dedication==
 
{{dedication|TV
  
{{dedication|TV
 
|For Beatrice|Dead women tell no tales.|Sad men write them down.}}
  
|For Beatrice|Dead women tell no tales.|Sad men write them down.}}
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==Plot==
  
==Plot==
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The story picks up with [[Violet Baudelaire|Violet]], [[Klaus Baudelaire|Klaus]], and [[Sunny Baudelaire|Sunny]] on top of the submarine (the ''[[Queequeg]]'') where it emerged from the ice in the previous episode. They are asking to get in, but they need a password. Violet says "Volunteer Fire Department" and Klaus says "The world is quiet here", but neither of these elicits a response. Finally, Sunny says "Baudelaire", and the hatch to the submarine opens up to them. The Baudelaires are welcomed on board by [[Fiona]], who has been the captain of the submarine, ever since her stepfather, [[Captain Widdershins]], left to answer a distress call from a manatee. She reveals that she's trying to find the sugar bowl for V.F.D.
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''Note: this plot summary follows the books and Widdershins does not appear in the TV Series- instead, the Queequeg is captained by Fiona. It is unknown when Part One ends.''
  
   
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Meanwhile, [[Count Olaf]], [[Esmé Squalor]], [[Carmelita Spats]], and the [[Hook-Handed Man]] are on [[Briny Beach]], wearing the [[Normal Happy Family]] disguise and trying to rent a submarine. The person behind the counter tells them that the [[Man With a Beard But No Hair]] and the [[Woman With Hair But No Beard]] prepaid for their most terrifying submarine, and told them that Esmé was the captain.
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The episode should begin immediately after the events of ''[http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/The_Slippery_Slope The Slippery Slope]'' with the Baudelaires traveling on a collapsing toboggan down the stream of the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Mortmain_Mountains Mortmain Mountains]. The fire that they helped [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Count_Olaf Count Olaf] begin at [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Caligari_Carnival Caligari Carnival] is spreading through the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hinterlands hinterlands], and the children have trouble avoiding it, even on the stream. Just as hope seems lost, they are caught on a submarine which rises from the waters. Climbing over to the hatch a voice within asks if the orphans are friends or foes. They declare that they are friends. The same voice asks for the password, and [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Violet_Baudelaire Violet] guesses correctly the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/V.F.D. V.F.D.] motto: ''The world is quiet here''. The children descend into the submarine, which they discover is the ''[http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Queequeg Queequeg]'' captained by [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Captain_Widdershins Captain Widdershins], a V.F.D. member and old friend of the Baudelaire parents. Also on board is Widdershins' stepdaughter [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Fiona Fiona] and the ship's cook, [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Phil Phil], the optimist who met the children while working at the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Lucky_Smells_Lumbermill Lucky Smells Lumbermill] in [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Paltryville Paltryville].
  
   
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Back on the ''Queequeg'', the Baudelaires find [[Phil]], who escaped from [[Lucky Smells Lumbermill]] to take up the job of the cook on the understaffed submarine. [[Quigley Quagmire]] has gone to [[Mr. Poe]]'s office to try to find the Baudelaires, but Mr. Poe refuses to help him, and Quigley meets up with [[Kit Snicket]]. The Baudelaires and Fiona begin to chart a path to find the sugar bowl, over a dinner cooked by Sunny and Phil, while Olaf and his associates are having dinner on their submarine. Fiona reveals that the [[Medusoid Mycelium]] is under the [[Gorgonian Grotto]], but is interrupted by the sonar detector's beep, telling them that [[The Great Unknown]] is headed straight for them. After a brief encounter, the [[The Carmelita|octopus submarine]] shows up on the <i>Queequeg</i>'s sonar detector, and the former captures the latter.
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The Baudelaires are welcomed on board, where they discover that the crew wears uniforms with a picture of [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Herman_Melville?redlink=1&action=edit&flow=create-page-article-redlink Herman Melville] on them - are searching for the mysterious [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sugar_Bowl sugar bowl] that was thrown downstream. They have less than a week before the meeting at the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Hotel_Denouement Hotel Denouement] which contains certain people that could destroy the V.F.D. forever. Widdershins runs on the moral. ''He who hesitates is lost'' and Fiona, an expert [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Mycologist?redlink=1&action=edit&flow=create-page-article-redlink mycologist], begins to fall for [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Klaus_Baudelaire Klaus], who returns the favor. [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Sunny_Baudelaire Sunny], meanwhile, helps Phil cook dinner for everyone. Violet also learns that Fiona and Widdershins have learned of the Baudelaires' plight via their telegram device, which is now broken. Although she tries to fix it, she realizes that someone - likely Olaf - is disrupting V.F.D. communications, explaining why the Baudelaires' telegram to [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Arthur_Poe Mr. Poe] in ''[http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hostile_Hospital The Hostile Hospital]'' went unread. (The story of this is explained in ''[http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Lemony_Snicket:_The_Unauthorized_Autobiography Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography]''.)
  
   
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Olaf and Esmé board the ''Queequeg'' and realizing that the Baudelaires were going to find the sugar bowl, send them into the grotto to retrieve it. The Hook-handed Man discovers Fiona aboard the submarine after Fiona sends a [[Volunteer Factual Dispatch]] asking for help, received by Kit. After an encounter with Quigley and the Medusoid Mycelium in the grotto (he was at [[Anwhistle Aquatics]] located above the grotto), the Baudelaires return to the submarine and realize Sunny is infected with the deadly fungus.
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Klaus, meanwhile, has examined the tidal charts to estimate the location of the sugar bowl given the water cycle. He suspects it to be in the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Gorgonian_Grotto Gorgonian Grotto], located near [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Anwhistle_Aquatics Anwhistle Aquatics]. Widdershins explains that that aquatics center was founded by [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Josephine_Anwhistle Aunt Josephine]'s brother-in-law, [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Gregor_Anwhistle Gregor Anwhistle]. At this time, the group are interrupted by an approaching submarine vessel on the sonar. It is a ship in the shape of a giant octopus with many tentacles, and inside they can see Count Olaf. Luckily, due to quick thinking, all the engines on the ''Queequeg'' are turned off and Olaf does not notice them. Before long, however, a third shape appears on the sonar, a mysterious object shaped like a question mark (possibly the '''[http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Bombinating_Beast Bombinating Beast]''') that the crew do not see, but which clearly scares off Olaf's vessel.
  
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Over dinner, Widdershins attempts to match make Klaus and Fiona, to everyone's discomfort. Fiona explains her family situation - her brother [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Fernald Fernald] has been missing for many years. Her real father left when Fiona was small and Widdershins claims her [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Mrs._Widdershins mother] died in a manatee accident, although this may be untrue. Widdershins mentions the Snicket siblings, who fought on the noble side of [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/V.F.D. V.F.D.]: [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Jacques_Snicket Jacques Snicket], whom the children saw murdered in the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Village_of_Fowl_Devotees Village of Fowl Devotees], was a researcher similar to Klaus; [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Kit_Snicket Kit Snicket], who helped build the ''Queequeg''; and briefly mentions the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Lemony_Snicket third sibling] before being cut off by Fiona.
  
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Fiona asks about the message Violet and Klaus found for the mysterious [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/J.S. J.S.] at the former V.F.D. headquarters. Widdershins doubts it would be for Jacques, who is dead, which gets the group wondering about whose initials J.S. stands for. Fiona then looks in her mycological textbooks to discover information about the Gorgonian Grotto. It is a cone-shaped cave which houses a rare species of poisonous mushroom, the [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Medusoid_Mycelium Medusoid Mycelium]. They wax and wane periodically, but when waxing - as a poet says in her text - ''A single spore has such grim power/That you may die within the hour.'' Because the Grotto is so remote, it acts as a quarantine for the Medusoid Mycelium which would otherwise be unstoppable, although Fiona suspects there is an antidote. Widdershins sends the children off to get some sleep, but steadfastly refuses to tell them about the sugar bowl's purpose in the plot.
  
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Later, the children wake to find the submarine has arrived abruptly at the Grotto, and has been damaged on the journey. Widdershins and Phil are too tall to fit into the smaller areas of the grotto so Fiona, Klaus, Violet and Sunny (who cannot fit into a diving suit but instead floats in a diving helmet) are sent in. Inside the grotto, the children find an area without water, an undersea cave that appears to have belonged to someone in V.F.D. It is filled with items, mostly junk and various food items, but is also - as Fiona discovers - the breeding ground of the Medusoid Mycelium, which send the children scurrying into the far corner where they are safe while the mushrooms rise out of the earth. The children start fighting over what to do next, which gets the Baudelaires remembering their parents again.
  
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At last, Klaus finds a poetry book - ''Versed Furtive Disclosure'' - and begins going through it to see if it relates to V.F.D. As the three older children begin researching while they wait for the mushrooms to die down, Sunny cooks a meal–pesto lo mein. Later, over dinner, they discuss their findings. Klaus has found partial information of a code used by V.F.D. but not enough to figure it out. Violet has found a letter to the now deceased Gregor Anwhistle from Kit Snicket. It seems Gregor was going to use the mushroom to poison the enemies of V.F.D. Kit was working on a way to dilute the poison, in a factory in [http://snicket.wikia.com/wiki/Lousy_Lane Lousy Lane], but Gregor insisted on cultivating them as they were in the Grotto. The mushrooms apparently poisoned the entire Aquatics center. The children contemplate for a while how everything links together. But when Fiona asks Violet about the newspaper article, Violet pretends it is too blurred to read. She can read it perfectly, and whatever is on it concerns her.
  
   
 
== Cast ==
  
== Cast ==
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* [[Sunny Baudelaire]] - [[Presley Smith]]
  
* [[Sunny Baudelaire]] - [[Presley Smith]]
 
* [[Esmé Squalor]] - [[Lucy Punch]]
  
* [[Esmé Squalor]] - [[Lucy Punch]]
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* [[Arthur Poe]] - [[K. Todd Freeman]]
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* [[Quigley Quagmire]] - [[Dylan Kingwell]]
   
 
=== Guest starring ===
  
=== Guest starring ===
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* [[Kit Snicket]] - [[Allison Williams]]
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* [[Fernald|Hook-Handed Man]] - [[Usman Ally]]
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* [[Carmelita Spats]] - [[Kitana Turnbull]]
   
 
=== Co-starring ===
  
=== Co-starring ===
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* [[Fiona]] - [[Kassius Nelson]]
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* [[Submarine Rental Worker]] - [[Flossie McKnight]]
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* [[Phil]] - [[Chris Gauthier]]
   
 
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=== Deviations from the novel ===
  
=== Deviations from the novel ===
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*The Baudelaires did a lot more begging to try and get inside the submarine instead of secret debating.
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*The Baudelaires did a lot more begging to try and get inside the submarine, instead of secret debating.
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*In the book, the password was "The world is quiet here", and Violet figured it out, leading to the people inside knowing who they were. In the series, it's not correct when Klaus says it, so Sunny is the one to get them access when she identifies all three of them by last name.
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*In the book, the password was "The world is quiet here", and Violet figured it out, leading to the people inside knowing who they were. In the series, it's not correct when Klaus says it, so Sunny is the one to get them access when she identifies all three of them by last name.
 
*Fiona is the captain instead of Captain Widdershins himself. She is also the one to say "Shiver me timbers!" before Sunny does.
  
*Fiona is the captain instead of Captain Widdershins himself. She is also the one to say "Shiver me timbers!" before Sunny does.
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*The Widdershins family is sort of rewritten, as is the crew on the ''Queequeg'':
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*Captain Widdershins was the one to go through the manatee accident instead of Mrs. Widdrshins (although she was devoured and he went to go answer a distress call), as opposed to following a mysterious woman by the end, so he doesn't physically appear. Phil does come back and Fiona calls him Cookie because of the aforementioned.
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**Captain Widdershins was the one to go through the manatee incident instead of Mrs. Widdershins (although she was devoured and he went to go answer a distress call), as opposed to following a mysterious woman by the end, so he doesn't physically appear.
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*Fiona seems a bit snippier in the series, probably because she is on her own. Violet doesn't ask to be taken back to shore in the book, nor does she like the way she is ordered around. Klaus must play peacemaker.
  
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**Fiona was also told that her brother died in a manatee accident.
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*Olaf, Esmé, Fernald, and Carmelita have to get in disguise to obtain a submarine. But the Man and Woman paid ahead of time and Esme is in charge instead of Olaf because of the previous events.
  
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**The picture she has doesn't picture her mother, and her brother's part was folded over. In the book, everyone is present, and it was hanging in the main hall.
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**Phil does come back, and Fiona calls him Cookie because of the aforementioned.
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*Fiona seems a bit snippier in the series, probably because she is on her own (proven true when she yells at Violet for not following orders and is immediately regretful). Violet doesn't ask to be taken back to shore in the book, nor does she like the way she is ordered around (therefore Violet's bad feeling about Fiona is introduced earlier). Klaus must play peacemaker.
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*Olaf, Esmé, Fernald, and Carmelita have to get in disguise to obtain a submarine. But the Man and Woman paid ahead of time and Esmé is in charge instead of Olaf because of the previous events.
 
*Phil doesn't limp because he was bitten by a shark, he has a peg leg because the shark ate it.
  
*Phil doesn't limp because he was bitten by a shark, he has a peg leg because the shark ate it.
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*Violet is not given anything to do because Fiona can handle her own in mechanical experise, even though in the book, she can't do it was well.
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*Violet is not given anything to do because Fiona can handle her own in mechanical expertise, even though in the book, she can't do it as well.
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*"Or she" was not added to the philosophy, and it comes to Violet when the uniforms are on. Everyone also says "Aye-aye!" instead of just "Aye!" all the time.
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*They have separate uniforms from the diving suits.
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*Violet is more worried about the Last Safe Place mission. In the book, they were focused on helping to find the Sugar Bowl.
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*For obvious reasons, Sunny has a full suit instead of curling up in a helmet.
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*Quigley made his way to Mr. Poe's office. If he did this in the book, it's not clear. He also runs into Kit, which he apparently does in the last book.
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*Carmelita's new outfit is introduced earlier, while Olaf is moping around and Esmé is annoyed with him.
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*Olaf actually hurts Fernald for failing him in the previous episode. (In the book, it doesn't happen because Olaf is the one who was about to throw Sunny off the mountain.)
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*Sunny still peels the potatoes, but she didn't clean her teeth on screen.
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*Fiona knows more about the Anwhistle Aquatics story in the series then the Captain was willing to tell in the book. 
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*Phil and Sunny deliver food in the middle of Fiona and Violet's argument instead of when Klaus thinks he knows where the Sugar Bowl is.
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*Sunny calls out Klaus and Fiona on their flirting because Captain Widdershins is not here to do it.
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*The Great Unknown finds the ''Queequeg'' before Olaf's submarine does on the first discovery. It also finds Olaf and the others when the Baudelaires aren't there, unlike in the book.
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*Phil is the one to reveal that there is a surprise behind dessert instead of Sunny.
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*Because Fiona already knew what "G.G." stood for, she didn't have to get the mycological book until later.
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*The whole encounter with Olaf is different:
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**Olaf finds the Baudelaires before they even have time to get to the Grotto in the series, so Sunny is well and Phil is still here. In the book, they had already come back from the travel when Sunny was poisoned and Phil and the Captain were gone.
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***They also didn't exactly try to get away because it had been too late to move.
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**In the book, they already immediately end up in the ''Carmelita'' because they were inside it. In the series, the tentacles have it snared, and Olaf and Esmé board the ''Queequeg''. The latter changes into her octopus suit then (in the book she did not follow him, she was whipping the Snow Scouts), and Phil gives himself and then the hiding children away.
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***Esmé doesn't seem to remember the Baudelaires anymore.
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**Olaf breaks parts of the ''Queequeg'' instead of breaking the glass.
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**Even though Esmé says she was expecting to pry the sugar bowl from their dead fingers and toes as she does in the book, Violet and Klaus didn't play that card to get their sister back in the last episode. 
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**All three of them tried to run and Fiona is hiding out in the sub somewhere, trying to call for help.
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**Due to all the circumstances above, Esmé forces the Baudelaires to go find the sugar bowl in the Grotto and Fiona doesn't accompany them. Violet didn't carry a flashlight in the book either, they traveled blindly in the dark.
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*Kit is trying to send a telegram in Mr. Poe's office and gets Fiona's message.
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*Fernald breaks the telegram machine and finds his sister there instead of in the brig (though the cuts make it seem suspenseful that she was not found).
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*The Grotto is different as well:
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**There were no stairs in the Grotto in the book, since they were worried about having to climb up it physically. Also, there was no sugar bowl indention in the sand to tell the Baudelaires it was there at one point; they guessed it for themselves.
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**Quigley was in the ruins of the Aquatics at the top of the stairs and the Baudelaires see him, and it's revealed he is the one who has the bowl now.
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**The Medusoid Myscelium stops them from getting up there in the series (it also nearly engulfs the Grotto). In the book, Quigley sends a telegram from an unknown place and the Mycelium is on the ground near them (which doesn’t spread very far).
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***The fungus traps them in the Grotto until the next day in the book because of placement. So in the series, they head back right away. It also means that Sunny didn't prepare any food for them and there was no wasabi in the Grotto (or if there was, they didn't take it).
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*Lemony mentions the element of surprise now instead of back in book 6.
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*In the book, neither Violet or Klaus could identify the Mycellium until Fiona whispered it to them. In the series, they already know what it is when it spreads over Sunny’s helmet (and Fiona is not here to see).
   
 
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"The Grim Grotto: Part One"
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Episode21
Adapted from: The Grim Grotto
Main character(s): Violet, Klaus, Sunny
Baudelaire guardian: Fiona
Main enemy: Count Olaf
Olaf's disguise: Dad
Main setting: Under the sea
Library: Queequeg library
Key crew
Writer: Joshua Conkel
Director: Liza Johnson
Producer: Neil Patrick Harris
Release details
Story number: 2a
Season/series: Season 3
Premiere network: Netflix
Release date: January 1, 2019
Format: 45 minutes
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"The Grim Grotto: Part One" is the twenty-first episode of Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It covered the first half of The Grim Grotto.

Official synopsis

A young submarine captain with ties to the V.F.D. reveals she's looking for the sugar bowl. But so is Esmé Squalor, who's on a mission to find it first.

Dedication

For Beatrice –
     Dead women tell no tales.
     Sad men write them down.

Plot

The story picks up with Violet, Klaus, and Sunny on top of the submarine (the Queequeg) where it emerged from the ice in the previous episode. They are asking to get in, but they need a password. Violet says "Volunteer Fire Department" and Klaus says "The world is quiet here", but neither of these elicits a response. Finally, Sunny says "Baudelaire", and the hatch to the submarine opens up to them. The Baudelaires are welcomed on board by Fiona, who has been the captain of the submarine, ever since her stepfather, Captain Widdershins, left to answer a distress call from a manatee. She reveals that she's trying to find the sugar bowl for V.F.D.

Meanwhile, Count Olaf, Esmé Squalor, Carmelita Spats, and the Hook-Handed Man are on Briny Beach, wearing the Normal Happy Family disguise and trying to rent a submarine. The person behind the counter tells them that the Man With a Beard But No Hair and the Woman With Hair But No Beard prepaid for their most terrifying submarine, and told them that Esmé was the captain.

Back on the Queequeg, the Baudelaires find Phil, who escaped from Lucky Smells Lumbermill to take up the job of the cook on the understaffed submarine. Quigley Quagmire has gone to Mr. Poe's office to try to find the Baudelaires, but Mr. Poe refuses to help him, and Quigley meets up with Kit Snicket. The Baudelaires and Fiona begin to chart a path to find the sugar bowl, over a dinner cooked by Sunny and Phil, while Olaf and his associates are having dinner on their submarine. Fiona reveals that the Medusoid Mycelium is under the Gorgonian Grotto, but is interrupted by the sonar detector's beep, telling them that The Great Unknown is headed straight for them. After a brief encounter, the octopus submarine shows up on the Queequeg's sonar detector, and the former captures the latter.

Olaf and Esmé board the Queequeg and realizing that the Baudelaires were going to find the sugar bowl, send them into the grotto to retrieve it. The Hook-handed Man discovers Fiona aboard the submarine after Fiona sends a Volunteer Factual Dispatch asking for help, received by Kit. After an encounter with Quigley and the Medusoid Mycelium in the grotto (he was at Anwhistle Aquatics located above the grotto), the Baudelaires return to the submarine and realize Sunny is infected with the deadly fungus.

Cast

Starring

Guest starring

Co-starring

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Crew

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References

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Story notes

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Production errors

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Deviations from the novel

  • The Baudelaires did a lot more begging to try and get inside the submarine, instead of secret debating.
  • In the book, the password was "The world is quiet here", and Violet figured it out, leading to the people inside knowing who they were. In the series, it's not correct when Klaus says it, so Sunny is the one to get them access when she identifies all three of them by last name.
  • Fiona is the captain instead of Captain Widdershins himself. She is also the one to say "Shiver me timbers!" before Sunny does.
  • The Widdershins family is sort of rewritten, as is the crew on the Queequeg:
    • Captain Widdershins was the one to go through the manatee incident instead of Mrs. Widdershins (although she was devoured and he went to go answer a distress call), as opposed to following a mysterious woman by the end, so he doesn't physically appear.
    • Fiona was also told that her brother died in a manatee accident.
    • The picture she has doesn't picture her mother, and her brother's part was folded over. In the book, everyone is present, and it was hanging in the main hall.
    • Phil does come back, and Fiona calls him Cookie because of the aforementioned.
  • Fiona seems a bit snippier in the series, probably because she is on her own (proven true when she yells at Violet for not following orders and is immediately regretful). Violet doesn't ask to be taken back to shore in the book, nor does she like the way she is ordered around (therefore Violet's bad feeling about Fiona is introduced earlier). Klaus must play peacemaker.
  • Olaf, Esmé, Fernald, and Carmelita have to get in disguise to obtain a submarine. But the Man and Woman paid ahead of time and Esmé is in charge instead of Olaf because of the previous events.
  • Phil doesn't limp because he was bitten by a shark, he has a peg leg because the shark ate it.
  • Violet is not given anything to do because Fiona can handle her own in mechanical expertise, even though in the book, she can't do it as well.
  • "Or she" was not added to the philosophy, and it comes to Violet when the uniforms are on. Everyone also says "Aye-aye!" instead of just "Aye!" all the time.
  • They have separate uniforms from the diving suits.
  • Violet is more worried about the Last Safe Place mission. In the book, they were focused on helping to find the Sugar Bowl.
  • For obvious reasons, Sunny has a full suit instead of curling up in a helmet.
  • Quigley made his way to Mr. Poe's office. If he did this in the book, it's not clear. He also runs into Kit, which he apparently does in the last book.
  • Carmelita's new outfit is introduced earlier, while Olaf is moping around and Esmé is annoyed with him.
  • Olaf actually hurts Fernald for failing him in the previous episode. (In the book, it doesn't happen because Olaf is the one who was about to throw Sunny off the mountain.)
  • Sunny still peels the potatoes, but she didn't clean her teeth on screen.
  • Fiona knows more about the Anwhistle Aquatics story in the series then the Captain was willing to tell in the book. 
  • Phil and Sunny deliver food in the middle of Fiona and Violet's argument instead of when Klaus thinks he knows where the Sugar Bowl is.
  • Sunny calls out Klaus and Fiona on their flirting because Captain Widdershins is not here to do it.
  • The Great Unknown finds the Queequeg before Olaf's submarine does on the first discovery. It also finds Olaf and the others when the Baudelaires aren't there, unlike in the book.
  • Phil is the one to reveal that there is a surprise behind dessert instead of Sunny.
  • Because Fiona already knew what "G.G." stood for, she didn't have to get the mycological book until later.
  • The whole encounter with Olaf is different:
    • Olaf finds the Baudelaires before they even have time to get to the Grotto in the series, so Sunny is well and Phil is still here. In the book, they had already come back from the travel when Sunny was poisoned and Phil and the Captain were gone.
      • They also didn't exactly try to get away because it had been too late to move.
    • In the book, they already immediately end up in the Carmelita because they were inside it. In the series, the tentacles have it snared, and Olaf and Esmé board the Queequeg. The latter changes into her octopus suit then (in the book she did not follow him, she was whipping the Snow Scouts), and Phil gives himself and then the hiding children away.
      • Esmé doesn't seem to remember the Baudelaires anymore.
    • Olaf breaks parts of the Queequeg instead of breaking the glass.
    • Even though Esmé says she was expecting to pry the sugar bowl from their dead fingers and toes as she does in the book, Violet and Klaus didn't play that card to get their sister back in the last episode. 
    • All three of them tried to run and Fiona is hiding out in the sub somewhere, trying to call for help.
    • Due to all the circumstances above, Esmé forces the Baudelaires to go find the sugar bowl in the Grotto and Fiona doesn't accompany them. Violet didn't carry a flashlight in the book either, they traveled blindly in the dark.
  • Kit is trying to send a telegram in Mr. Poe's office and gets Fiona's message.
  • Fernald breaks the telegram machine and finds his sister there instead of in the brig (though the cuts make it seem suspenseful that she was not found).
  • The Grotto is different as well:
    • There were no stairs in the Grotto in the book, since they were worried about having to climb up it physically. Also, there was no sugar bowl indention in the sand to tell the Baudelaires it was there at one point; they guessed it for themselves.
    • Quigley was in the ruins of the Aquatics at the top of the stairs and the Baudelaires see him, and it's revealed he is the one who has the bowl now.
    • The Medusoid Myscelium stops them from getting up there in the series (it also nearly engulfs the Grotto). In the book, Quigley sends a telegram from an unknown place and the Mycelium is on the ground near them (which doesn’t spread very far).
      • The fungus traps them in the Grotto until the next day in the book because of placement. So in the series, they head back right away. It also means that Sunny didn't prepare any food for them and there was no wasabi in the Grotto (or if there was, they didn't take it).
  • Lemony mentions the element of surprise now instead of back in book 6.
  • In the book, neither Violet or Klaus could identify the Mycellium until Fiona whispered it to them. In the series, they already know what it is when it spreads over Sunny’s helmet (and Fiona is not here to see).

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