The group then discovers that Teresa and the other Immunes have been captured. Thomas answers Newt's pleas by shooting him in the head as an act of mercy. Thomas despairs over not having read the note earlier.Īfter returning to Denver, Thomas sees that Newt has succumbed to the Flare. Thomas then remembers Newt's note, reads it, and discovers that he had begged Thomas to kill him. When they meet Newt, he angrily orders them to leave, and the other Cranks chase them out. Minho convinces them to go to the Denver Crank Palace to rescue Newt, where they bribe the guards to get in.

Janson intervenes in a holographic, sends a police vehicle to rescue Thomas, and tells him that he must return to WICKED 'to save Newt.' Thomas and his friends find out in a note that Newt has been taken to the Cranks. Afterwards, the group visits a café, where a security guard apprehends Thomas to sell him to bounty hunters, who will take him to WICKED.

Brenda, Jorge, and Minho must hold him down so that Hans to perform the surgery. However, WICKED uses Thomas's chip to force him to resist the procedure. The group finds Hans, who removes Minho's control chip. He also reveals that in the decaying cities, many live who suffer from the Flare but take the illicit drug Bliss, which slows down the brain's functioning and helps to relieve the pain that Cranks feel from the Flare. Gally has joined the rebel group the Right Arm and explains that WICKED is capturing every Immune that it can find to prepare another cycle of the Trials. There, a man in a black suit directs them to an address, where Gally is waiting for them. Newt gives Thomas a note and tells him to open it 'when the time is right.' The five then travel to Denver to find Hans, a former WICKED researcher who can remove their mind-control chips. Soon afterward, the Gladers discover that everyone who had undergone the memory restoration abandoned them. Thomas initially feels betrayed, but Brenda convinces him to forgive her. All three of them escape from WICKED with the help of Brenda and Jorge before their chips are removed.īrenda and Jorge are revealed to be working for WICKED. Only Thomas, Minho, and Newt choose not to undergo the surgery, as they do not trust WICKED, and Thomas does not want to know who he was when he helped to create the maze. The Gladers are offered the chance to remove the mind-control chips in their heads and restore their memories but at the cost of Thomas's ability to communicate telepathically with Teresa and Aris. Janson tells the Gladers (Group A) and Group B that most of their number are immune to the Flare, but some, whose names he reads, are not immune, including Newt.

After being held in solitary confinement, Thomas is eventually released by Janson (nicknamed the 'Rat Man'), who is the assistant director of WICKED (World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department).

The death cure setting