In "The Penultimate Peril", Olaf and Esmé break up after fighting during the dramatic "harpoon gun" incident in "The Vile Village". She wears a "lettuce bikini" with silver sandals and silver lipstick, and has her name carved into her fingernails at the time when she and Carmelita Spats were staying at the Hotel Denouement and sighted at its rooftop sunbathing salon. The different guests talked about a cocktail party held by her boyfriend with the initials "J.S." on Thursday. Jerome tried to get back together with Esmé during the confrontation, an idea which Esmé spurned instantly as she is not on his side. After Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed, Esmé claims that the Baudelaires are guilty as sin as she has her fingers on Carmelita. During the trial of the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf, Esmé submitted a blank testimony to Justice Strauss and the two judges who were actually the Man with a Beard But No Hair and the Woman with Hair But No Beard. At the end, it is not known whether Esmé escaped the fire at Hotel Denouement with Carmelita Spats, but the narrative suggests that if she did, she never again met the Baudelaire children. She was on the 2nd floor when the Baudelaires last saw her.