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Esmé Squalor is the secondary antagonist of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events book series and it's Netflix adaptation of the same name. She is the former wife of Jerome Squalor and the ex-girlfriend/former acting student of Count Olaf.

In the TV series, she was portrayed by Lucy Punch, who also portrayed Verity Thwaites in St. Trinians.

Biography[]

First appearing in "The Erstaz Elevator", Esmé is the sixth most important financial advisor in the city and the wife of the dimwitted but good-natured Jerome Squalor. Esmé adopted the orphans as she believes that orphans are "in" and has rather selfish and vain motives for having them in the first place. She allows Count Olaf into her home disguised as a foreign fashion icon known as Gunther and attempts to make the Baudelaires believe his disguise but continuously fails.

Later on she reveals herself as an accomplice of Count Olaf and shoves the orphans down the elevator which had no shaft inside it. She tells the orphans their plans for them and celebrates victory with Count Olaf. The next day the auction that she and Count Olaf had been preparing for begins and towards the end Olaf's disguise is revealed and the two flee from the scene along with Olaf's theatre troupe.

In the following story "The Vile Village" she assists Olaf by disguising herself as a police officer known as Luciana and together they take over the entire village by manipulating them all into believing the Baudelaires are murderers who killed Count Olaf despite the fact that he is actually disguised as a detective and himself had actually killed Jacques Snicket of whom he had disguised as himself in order to fool the residents into believing his disguise.

They are foiled in the end however after Esme's harpoon gun is revealed to be a mechanical device much to the fury of the villagers.

In "The Hostile Hospital", Esmé once again disguises herself as a nurse and chases down the orphans in a library of records where she pushes filing cabinets in attempts to crush and or trap them as opposed to chasing them as her dagger ended heels made this too difficult to achieve. In the book she appears as one of Olaf's few minions to successfully escape the hospital after it is lit on fire however in the TV series all of Olaf's minions successfully escape.

In "The Carnivorous Carnival", Esme accompanies Olaf to the Caligari Carnival and grows a jealousy of Madame Lulu, who constantly behaves in with Olaf in a flirtatious manner. She plots with the freaks to murder Madame Lulu. She suggests that Madame Lulu be the one to push the Baudelaires (who are disguised as freaks) into the lions den. When Madame Lulu helps the Baudelaires to escape and Olaf drops her into the lion pit, Esme watches gleefully.

In "The Slippery Slope", Esme travels with Olaf and his troupe the the Mortmain Mountains where they keep Sunny as their prisoner and slave. She skis down the mountain trying to find the Sugar Bowl, and ends up trapped in a burned down hot tub. Quigley Quagmire and the Baudelaires pull Esme up the mountain and attempt to trade her as a hostage to save Sunny, but Esme cuts herself loose and rejoins Count Olaf. She meets Carmelita Spats, who she takes a liking to and takes as her adopted daughter.

In "The Grim Grotto", Esme continues her pursuit of the sugar bowl. She goes with Olaf, Carmelita, and Fernald in the submarine rented for them by The Man With A Beard But No Hair and The Woman With Hair But No Beard, track down the sugar bowl. She helps Olaf to invade the Queequeg and take the Baudelaires prisoner. Esme enslaves the kidnapped snow scouts and forces them to row the submarine.

In "The Penultimate Peril" Olaf, Esme, and Carmelita go to the Hotel Denouement and attempt to learn the identity of J.S. That night, Olaf breaks up with Esme and she furiously leaves with Carmelita. Esme and Carmelita then go to the hotel roof, where Esme has Carmelita shoot down the carrier crow holding the sugar bowl. Esme has Carmelita help her make the crow into sausages which she feeds to the guests at the trial in the Hotel Denouement, out of spite. When Olaf sets fire to the hotel, he tricks Esme into thinking that the sugar bowl is the laundry room, which is where Olaf had set the fire, leading Esme and Carmelita to head to the laundry room in search of the sugar bowl. Esme and Carmelita presumably perish in the fire.

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V.F.D. Firestarters
Leadership
The Man With a Beard But No Hair | The Woman With Hair But No Beard
Count Olaf's Theater Troupe
Count Olaf (2017) | Esmé Squalor | Hook-Handed Man | Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender | White-Faced Women | Bald Man | Carmelita Spats | Hugo, Colette & Kevin | Wart-Faced Man
Other Agents
Dr. Georgina Orwell | Ernest Denouement

Inhumane Society
Hangfire | Ellington Feint | Dr. Flammarion | Nurse Dander | Stew Mitchum | Sharon Haines

Other
Sir | Vice Principal Nero | Ishmael | Bombinating Beast

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