Violet ran to the edge of the submarine in despair then pulled the latch to the periscope open. Emma who had seen her stupid actions ran and stopped Violet from rescuing Quigley. "Get off of me!" Violet shrieked at Emma who had been steering the submarine and who had hit Quigley because instead of seeing where they were going she had been talking to the 3 siblings. Emma kept a firm grip to Violet and slid the periscope latch so it shut. "Look!" She pointed to the little hole in which she had seen Quigley through. She looked and saw that a large boat had actually been what hit the Submarine, causing it to crush Quigley Quagmire. They saw a very familiar man step out of the boat and down a ladder. The man grabbed Quigley and pulled him back up and laid him down on the boat, then went back inside the deck of the boat. The man was called Count Olaf.
Violet started to cry hysterically "He has our friend!" She shouted at Steph who had steered underwater and kept on riding towards shore further away from Olaf. "Why can't we rescue him?" Emma stopped "You know what Count Olaf is capable of" She said very strictly. "He will take you as well if you try to rescue him. We'll have to wait at the hotel." Emma told Violet. Violet stared at her "You could help" she tailed off rather weakly. Steph butted in this time. "As Emma said, you know what that man is capable of." Violet sat back down and began to cry. Klaus did not use the antagonising phrase "there, there" Because Mr. Poe had said it when the Baudelaire Parents had perished in the terrible fire. And that would make all three siblings even sadder. They knew Quigley wasn't dead, yet.
"Here we are" Steph told the children. Klaus and Sunny got off and stared straight back into the Submarine. "We can't walk on here" He said very sadly as though there was a fire on the beach. Emma stepped outside. "It's a beach, what is wrong with it?" Emma asked Klaus. Violet upon hearing the word 'beach' felt even sadder. She knew were they were, on the shore of Briny Beach. Steph helped Violet up and walked her out of the Submarine. Then Emma walked Klaus to the road, with Sunny in her arms. And Violet walked slowly with Steph. Once they were on the main road Steph called a taxi-cab to the Hotel. Violet sat in the back with Sunny on her knee and Klaus was at the other end of the car. Emma squeezed between them and Steph sat in the front.
"I know this is hard for you" Emma told the children. "But I trust you found the passageway under 667 Dark Avenue?" She turned to Klaus when she asked this. "Yes" Klaus murmured "What about it?" Emma looked at her feet for a long time then looked up "It leads to the passageway built underneath your house." She told Klaus although he already knew because he had walked down it to escape. "The day your house burnt down" She stopped for a second as though she was trying to keep all three Baudelaire's in suspense. "Somebody walked down that passageway. Someone who had access." She told them all, still facing Klaus. "This happened to us to. We know because Count Olaf told us. He told us it was an evil man named Jacques Snicket." Klaus stared at her "Jacques died! Olaf killed him." Emma nodded "We know, we know Olaf burned our home down." Violet felt sad for her new adult friends. She now knew that other people went through such a miserable life as the Baudelaires had.
Klaus turned to face Emma "Who burned down our house? Who had access to 667 Dark Avenue's secret passageway?" He asked her. "Many people have had access to that passageway, Esme' Squalor, our sister Beatrice and even Jerome Squalor." She told Klaus. Klaus would have jumped out of his seat and banged his head on the taxi roof. But this one lucky time he was fortunate, as he was wearing a seatbelt, "Jerome!" He shouted in amazement, and took a sheet of paper out of Quigley's notepad which had 2 initials written the page these were the initials "J.S."