Violet tells her siblings to cause a distraction the Incredibly Deadly Viper pretends to attack Sunny, while Violet creates a lockpick from the charger of Klaus' reading lamp. Lucafont arrives and performs an autopsy, claiming Monty was killed by the Mamba du Mal. Poe refuses to believe the children when they say Stephano is Count Olaf in disguise, as Stephano lacks a tattoo of an eye on his ankle. They return to the house, where Poe and Stephano discuss what to do with the children. However, as they are leaving the estate, Stephano's car crashes into Mr. Stephano still tries to take the children to Peru. The following morning, the Baudelaires discover Monty's dead body. They manage to talk to Monty alone the day before their trip to Peru, but Monty is instead convinced that Stephano is a spy trying to steal information from his research and fails to understand their claims that Stephano is Olaf.

When Stephano, the successor of the original assistant Gustav arrives, the children realize immediately that he is their recurring nemesis, Count Olaf, who was onto their family fortune.

The three children are each given jobs in the Reptile Room: Violet is given the job of inventing traps for new snakes found in Peru, Klaus is told to read books on snakes to help advise Uncle Monty, and Sunny's job is to bite ropes into usable pieces. They meet the Incredibly Deadly Viper, which Uncle Monty recently discovered, whose name is actually a misnomer to its harmless and friendly nature. The children are fascinated by the many snakes in the 'Reptile Room', a giant hall in which their Uncle Monty's reptile collection is stored.

He lets them each choose their own bedroom and informs them that they are going to accompany him on a trip to Peru to study snakes. 'Uncle Monty', as he prefers to be called, is a short, chubby man with a round, red face. The three Baudelaire orphans have been placed under the care of their distant relative, herpetologist Dr. The book tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans, as they are sent to live with a distant relative named Montgomery Montgomery. The Reptile Room is the second book in the children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket.

The bad beginning by lemony snicket