After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

莱尔他们三个人这次遇到了爬虫类，他们必须忍受爬虫类恶臭的味道、随时会攻击人类的大蛇和一位他们三个人永远都不希望再看到的人。