Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events - Level 3 "Wide Window" - Stage 2: The note
15Mr. Poe arranges a taxi to drive the Baudelaire's to the top of a very high hill where their new home awaits. As the taxi pulls up to the hilltop, the orphans find themselves at a house at the edge of a cliff supported by wooden beams.
Inside, they find their new guardian waiting for them, Aunt Josephine Anwhistle. Although she is a kind woman, she is very peculiar in that she has practically every fear there could be. She is afraid of almost every possession in her own home. Within Aunt Josephine's house is a library filled only with grammar books and a large window (The Wide Window) at the far end of the room, which offers a spectacular view of Lake Lachrymose.
The following day, the children tell Aunt Josephine of Hurricane Herman's approach. While gathering supplies for the storm, they encounter Count Olaf at the grocery store, disguised as a sailor named Captain Sham. The three children attempt to warn their new guardian about Captain Sham's true identity, but Aunt Josephine does not believe them due to Sham's charm.
Later that evening, Aunt Josephine receives a phone call from Captain Sham, and she then sends the children away. After what seems like hours, the children are awakened by a loud crash. Upon searching the house for any trace of Aunt Josephine, the Baudelaires come to the library where they find a suicide note from their aunt and discover that the window had been smashed. Although filled with grammar mistakes the children know Aunt Josephine would never have made, the note says that Captain Sham is to be their new guardian. The children then conclude that Count Olaf is behind it and decide to call Mr. Poe.
The effects of Hurricane Herman could already be felt, as rain had started to fall and the wind began picking up, Klaus returns to the library to see if he could make out anything about Aunt Josephine's note. As his sisters return to his side, Klaus reveals that Aunt Josephine had purposefully written the note to hide a message reading "Curdled Cave". They conclude that Aunt Josephine is in fact not dead, merely hiding.
Upon this discovery, however, the hurricane had reached its peak. The children hurry to find a map to locate Curdled Cave and resolve to look under Aunt Josephine's bed; as she had told them she had hidden anything to do with Lake Lachrymose away after Ike died. After finding an atlas of Lake Lachrymose, a bolt of lightning strikes one of the many wooden supports holding Aunt Josephine's house up on the cliffside. After a narrow escape, the Baudelaires watch as the house is ripped from the side of the cliff and falls into the lake below.
Needing to get across Lake Lachrymose to Curdled Cave, the children decide to take a sailboat from Captain Sham. They sail out through Hurricane Herman to Curdled Cave where they find Aunt Josephine. She tells the children that Count Olaf made her write the note, but instead of killing herself, left the message and threw a footstool through the window to give the appearance that she'd committed suicide. The Baudelaires try to convince her to sail with them back to town to tell Mr. Poe what had happened, but she refuses. Klaus points out to her that the cave is for sale, and realtors would surely come to see it. This is enough for Josephine to agree, her fear of realtors overpowering her fear of Count Olaf.
When they arrive back at the docks, Mr. Poe is just fixing to hand the children over to Captain Sham when Sunny bites into his fake wooden leg breaking it in half, revealing his tattoo and real leg beneath. Olaf then locks the gates to Damocles Dock and once again escapes with his assistant and leaves the Baudelaire children searching for someone else to care for them.
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