A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV Series)

The Bad Beginning: Part One (2017)

Joan Cusack: Justice Strauss

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• Justice Strauss : A library is like an island in a vast sea of ignorance. Don't you agree?

  Klaus Baudelaire : I do. Particularly if the library is tall, and the surrounding area has been flooded.

• Justice Strauss : I don't mean to seem like a lonely woman who's over-invested in the lives of someone else's children.

  Count Olaf : You do have that aura.

• Count Olaf : Do you have children, Justice Strauss?

  Justice Strauss : Me? Oh, no. No. No, I always hoped I would, but I'm married to the law, and you can't very well have book babies now, can you?

  Count Olaf : Well, you dodged a bullet. Let me tell you, those children are monsters. I open my home to them, and all they do is complain. "The bathroom is filthy. The rat is noisy. The bed is cramped."

  [lowering his voice] 

  Count Olaf : I think living in a mansion has spoiled them.

  Justice Strauss : Well, they did just lose their... Did you say "bed?"

  Count Olaf : I meant bed as in more than one bed, obviously. The plural of bed is bed.

  Justice Strauss : Well, I wouldn't know. I live alone.