Olaf prepares a new act for the carnival: two carnivorous lions. Now all he has to do is feed one of the freaks to the lions... and the Baudelaires are disguised as conjoined twins.

The Baudelaires pose as Siamese twins and a feral baby to infiltrate a carnival where Olaf has come looking for answers from a mysterious fortuneteller, Madame Lulu.

Klaus and Sunny disguise themselves as a doctor to search the hospital for Violet... who Olaf is preparing for the world's firs cranioectoimy.

Fleeing a murder charge, the Baudelaires end up at Heimlich Hospital and look for the files that will explaining everything that has happened. Olaf and his troupe infiltrate the hospital, and Esme continues her search for the sugar bowl.

Olaf and Esme arrest Baudelaire for killing Jacques, who everyone thinks is Olaf. The orphans must escape before Hector leaves the Vile Village.

The village of VFD offers to become the Baudelaires' guardians, and the Baudelaires accept since they figure the town is tied to the VFD organization. Things look better when Jacques captures Olaf... but soon become grim again.

After the Baudelaires find and lose the Quagmires, and narrowly escape death, they go to the auction house where Olaf and Esma are auctioning off an item containing the captive Quagmires.

The Squalor take the Baudelaires in because orphans are "in", and the Baudelaires suspect that the Quagmires are hidden somewhere in the Squalors' building. Meanwhile, Jacques recruits Olivia into VFD, and Olaf performs a musical number at Herring Houdini.

While the Quagmires keep up the search, the Baudelaires struggle to balance their studies with a punishing workout schedule courtesy of Count Olaf.

The Baudelaires discover that their new boarding school is unfortunate, and meet a pair of orphans whose life-story is strangely similar to their own. Meanwhile, Olaf prepares to return to his alma mater and bypass the computer scanning system.