No one in the car spoke a word... in fact the silence in Kit's taxi was only broken by the radio. Klaus blinked, and then pushed his glasses up his nose. Violet looked at him, then to Kit. She wanted to say something, anything, but wasn't one who liked to be the first to speak. Sunny sat in her sister's lap looking curiously at her two siblings. She opened her mouth showing her four sharp teeth, as though to say something, but changed her mind and closed it again.
As though feeling the tension in the car Kit smiled. "I'm glad to see you figured out the dispatch." She said. "Not that I ever doubted you would... Quigley said you three were smart." Violet looked up at the woman, "Quigley? He made it out okay then?" Kit smiled, "how else could he have sent you the dispatch?" Violet nodded then looked back to her siblings.
The silence was broken so Klaus began asking the many questions he had. "What do we do when we get to the final safe place? Do we know any of the people there? What do you think Mr. Poe will say now that we ran off on him like that?" Kit smiled, "You mean other than cough?" Klaus smiled. Unfortunately, that moment of enjoying Kit's joke would be the last one, for a long, long time.
Sunny squealed, looking out the back window. Violet looked up at her. "Sunny? What's wrong Sunny?" The youngest Baudelaire looked to her siblings and pointed out the back of the taxi. Violet glanced out and gasped. "Step on it Kit, we have company!" She yelled seeing the black car following them.
Klaus clung to the seat so tight his knuckles began to turn white. Kit's once happy expression turned to a look of fear, concentration, and anger. She drove the car down a narrow street, then down another. Kit looked at the orphans, then back to the road. "Tell me if we ditch them!" She called out driving into an alley way, leading out to another street. Violet grabbed the ribbon from her pocket and struggled to tie up her hair. She looked at the clothes-lines hanging above their heads. "I have an idea!" She said, "Kit, pull over!" Klaus looked to his sister. "Violet!?!" he yelled, but Kit was already following orders. Violet jumped onto the top of the car and ran to the edge, mustering up every bit of strength, and jumping to the fire escape.
Kit watched the eldest Baudelaire jump from place to place. "Does your sister have any idea what she's doing or is she making it up as she goes?" She asked Violets siblings. Sunny looked up at her, "Beega!" She cried which probably meant, "Sometimes I wonder..."