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Jerome Squalor and Esmé Squalor adopt the Baudelaires at the start of The Ersatz Elevator, mainly because Esmé considers orphans to be " in " and Esmé is one of the " innest " people in town.

Olaf comes disguised as an auctioneer named Gunther, and this time he brings something else: the Quagmire triplets, hidden in a secret location.

This location turns out to be a secretly empty elevator shaft in the Squalors ' apartment building.

Violet invents a makeshift rope to assist the orphans in descending the shaft.

At the bottom of this shaft, they find Duncan and Isadora, trapped in a cage.

Since they do not have the tools needed to free the triplets, Violet and her siblings must ascend the shaft alone.

Esmé sends the Baudelaires to the Café Salmonella, while she plots evil plans with " Gunther ".

Back in the Squalors ' apartment, Violet invents welding torches so as to free the Quagmires, and when the Baudelaires return to the cage, only to find it empty.

Later, Esmé throws the Baudelaires down the elevator shaft and reveals that she is in cahoots with Olaf.

Sunny manages them all by using her teeth, and the three discover a secret passageway leading to the charred remains of the Baudelaire mansion.

Eventually, the Baudelaires make their way to Veblen Hall, where Klaus had learned the Quagmires are to be auctioned off by " Gunther.

" The orphans bid a thousand dollars on the wrong lot, and the Quagmires are carried away again.

Instead of staying with Jerome, who abandoned them, the Baudelaires decided to hunt down Duncan and Isadora.