While Count Olaf makes his way to V.F.D. headquarters with Sunny, Klaus and Violet are exactly where we left them: careening toward the edge of a cliff.

Still posing as conjoined carnival freaks, the Baudelaires brace themselves for a beastly fate. Will good fortune intervene … for once?

Come one, come all to the creepiest circus the world has ever seen, a place where puzzling mysteries — and a familiar face — await.