<P> The Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny are travelling with pregnant V.F.D member Kit Snicket to Hotel Denouement, the last safe place for volunteers to gather . She tells them that, prior to V.F.D's gathering in two days, they will be disguised as concierges to observe the mysterious' J.S', in order to identify him or her as a volunteer or a villain of V.F.D. The hotel's managers are identical twins Frank and Ernest - Frank is a volunteer, while Ernest is on the opposing side as a villain . </P> <P> During their first day of disguised employment, the Baudelaires split up to assist the hotel's guests - Violet assists Esmé Squalor and Carmelita Spats by bringing them a harpoon gun, Klaus assists Charles and Sir (the owners of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill) by escorting them to the sauna while also hanging flypaper outside a window for one of the managers, and Sunny assists Hal (an employee at Heimlich Hospital), Vice-Principal Nero, Ms. Bass and Mr. Remora (teachers at Prufrock Preparatory School) while locking a V.F.D device onto a door of the laundry room, converting it into a Vernacularly Fastened Door - all the guests discuss the mysterious J.S. </P> <P> Klaus concludes that Carmelita Spats requested the harpoon gun to shoot down a bird carrying the sugar bowl, as Sunny mentioned that Hal and a manager were discussing the sugar bowl (an object both volunteers and villains are seeking for unknown reasons) and the Medusoid Mycelium (a deadly fungus parasite they encounter in the previous book) - the flypaper would retrieve the bird's body, and the sugar bowl would fall into the laundry room, in which the room's door was converted into a Vernacularly Fastened Door . </P> <P> Shortly after his proposal, a man encounters them and reveals himself as Dewey Denouement, the third of the secretly three brothers . He also tells them that a pool reflection of the hotel is the actual safe place, as the hotel's words and structure were designed backwards to reflect the actual words onto the pool - beneath the pool is an underwater catalog containing crucial information concerning V.F.D. They are then encountered by Jerome Squalor and Justice Strauss, who have joined V.F.D after believing messages being sent to J.S was being addressed to them . </P>

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