In this canon, the Sugar Bowl was stolen from Esmé Squalor at La Forza del Destino, unintentionally causing the death of Count Olaf's father; Beatrice and Lemony stole the Sugar Bowl, which contained an immunization to the Medusoid Mycelium, in an attempt to keep it out of the wrong hands.
She is considered to be one of the two main villains of the series in its latter half next to Count Olaf due to her constant menacing role towards the Baudelaire children coupled with her greedy and consistent lust for the Sugar Bowl. Prior to the events of the series, she was a stage actress and member of V.F.D.
As Kit Snicket explains in the Netflix version of “The End,” the Sugar Bowl contains … sugar. But that sugar is laced with medicine which can permanently innoculate anyone against the deadly Medusoid Mycelium fungus.
We can assume that Beatrice at one time believed that Snicket was dead. When Lemony was revealed to be alive, she had already married Bertrand and she could not marry him.
In The Penultimate Peril, Olaf and Esmé break up after fighting during the dramatic "harpoon gun" incident.
Esmé Squalor, it seems, is only interested in the sugar bowl because it completes her tea set and was stolen from her by Beatrice Baudelaire and Lemony Snicket. However, in "The End" Kit reveals to the Baudelaires that the sugar bowl does actually contain something of value: sugar.
As Olaf is dying, Count Olaf kisses her gently on the mouth, saying that he told her he'd do that one last time, a possible implication that the two were romantically involved before Olaf became a villain. Right before Olaf dies, the two recite a bit of poetry together.
At some point between the night at the opera and her appearance in the second season, Kit and Dewey became romantically involved, and she became pregnant with his child. The two planned to leave VFD together and raise their child somewhere far away.
Beatrice is none other than Beatrice Baudelaire — the dead mother of the Baudelaire children. She died in a fire along with her husband, Bertrand. But before she married Bertrand (and had Violet, Klaus, and Sunny), Beatrice and Lemony Snicket were in love and almost got married themselves.
However, it is implied that Olaf eventually found out Beatrice was his father's killer. Olaf tried to exact revenge on Beatrice.
It is known that the Baudelaire children are allergic to peppermints.
The most popular theory behind the fire is that Count Olaf is the culprit. He has had a history of starting similar fires and admits to being guilty of "arson".
In the film, they are used as a means of hinting at the secret unnamed organization (i.e. V.F.D.), and of Uncle Monty's membership, and the Baudelaires receive a spyglass from their parents as a "rite of passage" according to Lemony Snicket.
On December 9, it is revealed that her biological mother is Heather Webber and revealed that Esme has two maternal half-brothers, Steve Webber and the late Franco Baldwin.
The Snow Scouts are captured, and after she suggests that they should smash Klaus's glasses and watch him bump into things, Esmé finds her adorable and quickly adopts her, to Olaf's dismay. Carmelita is thrilled to have "two sets of parents more than" the Baudelaires.
The V.F.D., or Volunteer Fire Department, is a secret and mysterious organization in A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, which Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire become increasingly more aware of and involved with after their first encounter with the villainous member Count Olaf.
(Lemony Snicket to Beatrice Baudelaire #3) In the fifth letter, written on Scriabin's Anniversary, it is revealed that the Duchess of Winnipeg is dead, and that the V.F.D. member R. is her daughter.
In the play, Olaf's character is a "very handsome man" who marries Violet Baudelaire's character, a beautiful bride, at the end. Justice Strauss played the "walk-on role" of judge adjudicating the marriage.
His commonplace book is violet. It is notable that his notebook is the same color as the first name of Violet Baudelaire, who is implicitly his love interest. Quigley's first name means "one with messy hair" or simply "unruly hair", which is fitting for his character.
It is mentioned in later books that 'a girl named Fiona had broken Klaus' heart', indicating that he had a crush on her. The Baudelaires go to Briny Beach and meet Kit Snicket, Lemony Snicket's younger sister, in a taxi, due to finding a coded poem sent from Quigley.
With all the evil elements of his plan complete, Count Olaf stops the performance of The Marvelous Marriage and announces that Violet is now his wife—for real. The audience is in shock, but Count Olaf explains it all: Violet has said "I do" in front of a judge and signed a marriage document. Done and done.
Fiona feigns interest in joining Olaf's troupe to explain why no one was in the brig and uses it as a ruse to buy the Baudelaires time to escape. Fiona is later approached by Count Olaf, who offers to help her find her stepfather if she kept her word to join him.
“Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.”
Klaus later tells Violet Count Olaf's full plan: He means to marry her for real so that he can control the enormous Baudelaire fortune. In order to get Violet to agree to the marriage, Count Olaf kidnaps Sunny and hangs her in a birdcage from the top of the tower.
He is the love interest for Josephine Anwhistle, Georgina Orwell, Esmé Squalor, Babs, Olivia Caliban (books only), and Kit Snicket.