Timeline
-Gladers wake to find "cranks" at their windows.
-Thomas notices Teresa's gone missing and he can't contact her mentally. -The group meets Aris, a boy that was in a completely identical trial as the Gladers. -Rat Man tells them their mission. |
-The Gladers hear a screaming for several hours and spot a girl standing next to a small hut off in the distance. -Thomas checks it out to find Teresa, in a state as if she's being controlled. She's very mean to him. She snaps out of the state for a second to kiss him and tell him to stay as far away from her as he can. |
--Thomas gets shot in the shoulder by a Crank, but WICKED comes down in a flying machine, cleans him up, and returns him to the group. They said that they had to because a gun was not a part of the trials and therefore unfair.
-The Gladers and the girls from Aris' old group meet up. They are with Teresa, but Teresa is not happy. They take Thomas and plan to kill him. Once, Teresa whisper to Thomas that he has to trust that everything's going to be alright, but she's the most aggressive one and he questions. |
-Thomas influences the group not to kill him, but Teresa still seems angry.
-Teresa seems nicer for a second and calls him over behind a couple trees. -Teresa is still acting strange though. Aris has now appeared, holding a knife to Thomas's back the entire time. She tells Thomas that their entire friendship was fake. It was an attempt to get her memories back. She says the entire time at the Glade, she was talking to Aris. Aris is all she cares about. They even kiss right in front of him. |
-Despite fighting, Teresa and Aris push Thomas into a pitch black room secretly hidden behind a couple trees. It appears to Thomas as if this room is where he will be killed in some evil way planned out by WICKED.
-Strangely, nothing major happens in the room. He is passed out by a gas, but wakes up in the same spot. -Teresa and Aris explain that they were forced to do this to him by WICKED. This was their mission. They were promised that if they completed it, Thomas would not be killed, but if they failed, they would kill him. Was the entire thing just to make Tom lose his trust with Teresa? He surely can't look at her the same again. She didn't seem to be showing any remorse during the mission. |
- The girl group, the guy group, and Tom, Teresa, and Aris all reunite again. They continue to walk until they find the "safe zone". To their disbelief, the "safe zone" seems to just be a flag. Where are any buildings? Where is anyone from WICKED? There is an hour left before the time they were supposed to be there. |