The Baudelaires find their friends — and then lose them — at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Count Olaf conducts an auction in disguise.

Violet, Klaus and Sunny get new guardians in a fashionable building, where stairs are in — and the elevator’s out. Jacques Snicket trains a recruit.

Barry teams up with Wells to figure out a way to close the breaches, but they are distracted by a meta-human nicknamed Tar Pit who can transform into liquid asphalt….

Penny travels to the world of The Neitherlands, and Quentin and Alice work together to save him. Julia joins an eclectic group of magicians.