WICKED is not coming down to Denver because of the crazy infection rates. WICKED weaponry guns down Thomas’s captors, and Janson appears on a screen, asking Thomas to come back to WICKED. Thomas’s captors are bounty hunters, who want to sell him due to his Immune status. They also capture Thomas, who lingered for too long. As they are waiting in a coffee shop after seeing Hans, Flare testers attack a drugged-out infected man. Second, someone has been kidnapping Immunes.Īfter seeing Gally, Thomas and his friends visit Hans, who manages to remove their WICKED control chips. First, Denver has been corrupt for a very long time and is actually heavily infested with the Flare. Before visiting Hans, Thomas and his friends visit Gally. Gally is now working for the Right Arm, an organization opposed to WICKED. The note is from Gally, who is still alive, much to Thomas’s surprise. At the airport, a man delivers a cryptic note to Thomas. When they reach the Denver airport, Newt stays behind because he is not an Immune. Brenda believes that Hans can help them remove the chips planted in Thomas, Minho, and Newt’s brains, so that WICKED can no longer control them. There is also a defected WICKED doctor there, a man named Hans. Denver is supposedly a safe city that guards itself against the Flare infection very well. Jorge navigates the Berg to the city of Denver in Colorado. Thomas is upset to find out that Teresa and the other subjects have also escaped on a Berg: he believes that they left Thomas, Minho, and Newt behind.

Thomas and Brenda are shot with Launchers, but they do manage to escape on the Berg. WICKED has a weapon called a Launcher, which electrocutes its victims. The friends manage to escape, but not without encountering WICKED guards. Jorge is a pilot, and can fly a Berg out to escape the facilities. Brenda takes Thomas, Minho, and Newt to go find Jorge. They are now actually Thomas’s friends, and not just acting the part on behalf of WICKED. Brenda and Jorge have also been working for WICKED the whole time, but they hate the organization. WICKED intends to force the procedure upon them, but Brenda, who is Thomas’s surgery technician, helps them escape. Thomas, Minho, and Newt refuse to undergo the memory procedure and are led to another room for solitary confinement. Included amongst the control variables–i.e. Janson also tells them that the majority of the Trial subjects are Immune to the Flare, but that a few are not. Rat Man, who is really Assistant Director Janson of WICKED, says that they are going to give the subjects their memories back. He takes Thomas to an auditorium, where the remaining subjects of the Trials are gathered. After several weeks, Rat Man comes in and tells Thomas that the Trials are over now, and that WICKED has all the information they need. Thomas has been in solitary confinement after rescue from the Scorch Trials.

The death cure setting