Thomas joins Minho and the other boys in a cafeteria. He says this place will provide the Gladers with shelter, food, clothes, and protection from 'The Flare'. They take the Gladers into a facility run by Janson (Aidan Gillen). Once they descend, a horde of infected people ('Cranks') start running towards them, but the mercenary soldiers ('mercs') escorting them fight them off.

In the present, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and the rest of the Gladers Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), Minho (Ki Hong Lee), Frypan (Dexter Darden), and Winston (Alexander Flores) are brought to the desolated city following their escape from the Maze. She tells him she loves him and they never see each other again.

A young Thomas is brought by his mother to be taken away for protection on board a train. The opening scene shows hundreds of people crowded around a quarantined area. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Now Thomas and his friends want revenge against the WCKD and Thomas vows to kill Ava Paige. Along their journey, they find a destroyed, post-apocalyptic world they meet Cranks, zombies infected by the Flare virus they sustain the loss of a friend they face a lethal lightening storm in the desert and a dangerous group of survivors and they are betrayed by a friend. Thomas and Aris succeed in escaping with the other Gladers from the facility and they decide to search for the resistance group called The Right Arm which is hidden in the mountains. Further, his group will be the next to be guinea pigs. Soon they find that the place is a WCKD facility and Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson) is alive and the leader of experiments with the teenagers that are intubated neither alive nor dead. However Thomas decides to investigate what happens with the teenagers and he meets Aris Jones (Jacob Lofland). They meet other survivors from other mazes and they learn that everyday, a group of teenagers is summoned to be lodged in farms and communities in safe areas. After escaping from the Maze, Thomas, Newt, Minho, Teresa Agnes, Frypan and Winston are welcomed by Mr.

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