In "The Penultimate Peril", she and her siblings pose as concierges until Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf. Justice Strauss states to the crowd that they will have a blindfolded trial to determine who is guilty and who is not. However, the other two judges are discovered by the Baudelaires to be the Man With a Beard But No Hair and the Woman With Hair But No Beard. Violet and her siblings see Strauss being kidnapped, but nobody else does since the entire courtroom is blindfolded. Following Olaf, Violet and her siblings help him unlock the laundry room to get the sugar bowl. Using three clues, they break in, but find that the sugar bowl is not there. Angered, Olaf declares that he is going to the roof to get the Medusoid Mycelium which he will spread through the hotel, kill everyone, and escape by jumping off the roof in a boat. Violet, realizing his plan is foolish, agrees to help. Klaus is surprised that she would do this but Violet knows that they need an escape route, and going with Olaf may be the only way. Then, Sunny abruptly suggests that they burn down the Hotel, and Olaf agrees. On the roof, Klaus reveals that the sugar bowl fell into the pond and not into the laundry room. Here, Violet deduces that Sunny suggested they set the Hotel on fire as a signal so that noble people like Kit, Hector and the Quagmires would cancel the meeting. As Sunny says "the last safe place is safe no more". Violet makes a chute for the boat to safely make it off the building, and they use the giant spatulas used for flipping sunbathers as oars. Justice Strauss attempts to stop the Baudelaires leaving on the boat, but Sunny bites her hand and makes her let go. The boat floats safely down to the ocean, and the Baudelaires are left "in the same boat" as Count Olaf. Flames engulf the Hotel Denouement and Count Olaf gets away yet again.