The Penultimate Peril: Part Two

"The Penultimate Peril: Part Two"
Adapted from:	The Penultimate Peril
Main character(s):	Violet, Klaus, Sunny
Baudelaire guardian:	Justice Strauss
Main enemy:	Count Olaf
Olaf's disguise:	None
Main setting:	Hotel Denouement
Key crew
Writer:	Joe Tracz
Director:	Barry Sonnenfeld
Producer:	Neil Patrick Harris
Release details
Story number:	3b
Season/series:	Season 3
Premiere network:	Netflix
Release date:	January 1, 2019
Format:	52 minutes
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"The Penultimate Peril: Part Two" is the twenty-fourth episode of Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events. It covered the second half of The Penultimate Peril.

Official synopsis

Big secrets are revealed when Count Olaf goes on trial in the hotel lobby. The Baudelaires are the first to take the stand, but will justice be served?

Plot

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Cast

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 - Max Greenfield
• Man with a Beard but No Hair - Richard E. Grant
• Woman with Hair but No Beard - Beth Grant
• Beatrice Baudelaire - Morena Baccarin
• Carmelita Spats - Kitana Turnbull
• Babs - Kerri Kenney
• Elder Jemma - Carol Mansell
• Justice Strauss - Joan Cusack

Co-starring

• Fire Chief - Eric Keenleyside
• Perky Volunteer - Lauren McGibbon
• Trolleyman - Darcey Johnson
• Taxi Driver - Rob Labelle
• Jimmy - Timothy Webber

Crew

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References

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Story notes

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Filming locations

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Production errors

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Deviations from the novel

• The fateful night at the opera is revealed:
  • This is also where Kit mentions that tea should be bitter and sharp (in the book, she did it at the picnic). She did not slip any poison darts to anyone.
  • Beatrice is performing. (In the book, she was watching.)
  • Bertrand is not present. 
  • Olaf's father was a part of the official fire department. His mother was already dead.
• What happens in the lobby:
  • Justice Strauss leads them back in instead of Mr. Poe. He also doesn't believe in The Daily Punctilio anymore.
  • Instead of coming in on his own, Olaf is led back in by Frank.
  • The Baudelaires are locked in room 342 instead of 121.
• Esmé and Carmelita are making crow meat sausages spiked with a poison.
• The trial:
  • Mr. Poe is escorting them and giving them the blindfolds instead of a manager.
  • The lobby has folding chairs instead of benches.
  • Jimmy, Elder Jemma, and the Perky Volunteer are present at the trial.
  • Justice Strauss says to move to their right and not her left.
  • She also tells them to take their blindfolds off until the verdict, unlike in the book where they can't take them off at all.
  • Her colleagues are floors above everyone instead of right beside her.
  • Olaf doesn't enter immediately wearing a blindfold.
  • Justice Strauss says, "This is a courtroom, not a theater!"
  • When the judge says, "We are discussing social justice, not social engagements," none of the mamagers speak up after Olaf and Esme argue about it.
  • She submits the large Baudelaire file and the harpoon gun. In the book, everyone in the crowd shouts out evidence at once (and Jerome submitted the book).
  • The Baudelaires go before Olaf does. The Baudelaires also change the occupations they give:
    • Violet: Volunteer > Inventor.
    • Klaus: Concierge > Researcher
    • Sunny: Child > Chef.
    • Olaf objects in the same way, but Justice Strauss now calls him out for speaking out of turn.
  • In the book, the children don't finish the story because they recognize the Man and Woman in front of them and that Justice Strauss was tied up. In the show, they do finish it, and they see Olaf looking calm which alarms them.
  • They call Olaf up to the stand instead of Justice Strauss doing it. In his testimony, before saying he is innocent (which he sings out anyway), he calls out all of the Baudelaires' guardians that are present or other adults that did not help them, then proceeds to paint the the children in the negative light.
  • Olaf calls up Esmé for the Baudelaires to question, while Carmelita passes out the sausages to the people. In the book, no one else was called up and the poisoning was not going on.
  • In the flashback, we learn why Lemony is on the run: he chooses to say that he threw the dart instead of Beatrice.
• Klaus stops the elevator holding Olaf and the kidnapped judge from getting away instead of Sunny. The Man and Woman point out that they have escaped to the elevator instead of the guilty parties threatening to tell everyone where they are.
• Olaf has the questions from boiling Larry instead of Dewey telling him.
• Violet's reasoning for helping Count Olaf escape is to get him away from everyone instead of trying to help him not be spotted by authorities.
• Babs, Esmé, Carmelita, and Jerome are not running around blindfolded (besides the Man and Woman who ever had any at all) when the Baudelaires are warning everyone about the fire.
• Justice Strauss uses a hook to stop them from jumping off in addition to her hand. The Baudelaires do not use giant spatulas to row.
• Violet and Klaus realize that the Last Safe Place is not safe themselves instead of Sunny having to explain it to them.
• Fernald and Fiona are not on the Queequeg with Kit when the Great Unknown rams into it, though the reason it comes down in the book is because of the mobile home.

Continuity

• The song "That's Not How the Story Goes" is playing at the end of the episode, just as it did at the end of the first season. However the part that Lemony sang about Beatrice is omitted, and the few lines after it are talked over by Lemony.
• All of the pictures from the end sequence of this episode happened in all the previous episodes.

Behind the scenes

• This episode reveals that, at least in the Netflix adaptation, Lemony Snicket started to research and chronicle the lives of the Baulderlaires directly after the Hotel Denouement Fire.

Home video releases

DVD releases

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Blu-ray releases

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Gallery

Lemony Snicket by a taxi.

Chef Carmelita.

Jerome Squalor preparing for the blind trial.

Count Olaf with a piano during the trial.

Count Olaf.

Olaf, Justice Strauss and Esmé during the trial.

Count Olaf, Violet and Klaus in Court.

Justice Strauss held hostage by Olaf.

Olaf smirking, starting the hotel fire in the laundry room.

Man with a Beard but no Hair and Woman with Hair but no Beard being warned of the fire.

Esmé warned of the fire.

Esmé and Carmelita being warned of the fire.

Justice Strauss trying to stop the Baudelaires from leaving her.

The Baudelaires and Count Olaf on a boat out of Hotel Denouement.

Justice Strauss giving Lemony her photo of the Baudelaires.

External links

• Watch The Penultimate Peril: Part Two on Netflix