The Miserable Mill

The Baudelaires arrive in Paltryville to live with the owner of Lucky Smells Lumbermill, known only as Sir, and are put to work. Foreman Flacutono trips Klaus and breaks his glasses. At the optometrist, Dr. Georgina Orwell, Klaus gets hypnotized. Olaf is disguised as the receptionist, Shirley. Under hypnosis, Klaus causes an accident that injures the worker Phil, then nearly pushes Charles, Sir's partner, into the saw. Violet finds the word that breaks the trance, and Klaus saves Charles. Sunny fights Orwell, who backs into the saw in fright and dies. Shirley is Olaf, who escapes with Flacutono, the troupe's bald man. Sir sends the orphans to boarding school.

1. ChangeA furnace instead of the saw

   In the book, Dr. Orwell dies when she steps back into the mill's buzz saw. In the show, she falls into a furnace.

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2. ChangeNo sword fight

   The duel between Sunny, using her teeth, and Orwell, with a sword, was cut from the show.

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3. ChangeA different foreman

   In the book, Foreman Flacutono is the bald man with the long nose in disguise. In the show, he's the hook-handed man.

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4. ChangeThe owner was in on it

   The show reveals the mill's owner had a deal with Orwell: free labor in exchange for a share of the profits. The book leaves his role unclear.

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