Josephine pleads with Sham to spare her life, offering to give him the Baudelaires and disguising herself far away, but Sham throws Aunt Josephine into the water, where she is supposedly devoured by the leeches, and takes the children with him back to Damocles Dock.
Josephine pleads with Sham to spare her life, offering to give him the Baudelaires and promising to go far away and never tell anyone. Instead, Sham leaves her behind, where it is implied that she is devoured by the leeches, and takes the children with him back to Damocles Dock.