Chapter Three Summary

The scene returns to Count Olaf and his troupe in Chapter 3, still driving toward the peak of the mountain. Sunny is sitting in the lap of Count Olaf's girlfriend, Esme Squalor, crying. She occasionally makes a short remark in her own special language, but none of the others in the car can understand the young girl, thinking she is just jabbering like a baby.

Sunny listens as the man with hooks for hands explains to Hugo, a hunchback, and Kevin, both new employees of Count Olaf, about the VFD and the Snicket File. The VFD, he tells, them, is an organization that Count Olaf once belonged to but had left in order to pursue a life of crime. Evidence of his crimes have been written down by the VFD in a group of documents called the Snicket File, which is kept...