Gally decides to kick Minho off The Council, causing Minho to attack him. Minho, however, nominates Thomas to replace him as the Keeper of The Runners, although he later reveals that he did this to make the idea of naming Thomas a Runner less ambitious. Some of the Keepers vote to relieve him of punishment, but others, especially Gally, vote to lock him up in the Slammer, the jail block, as a punishment. Thomas, Alby, and Minho are the first people in the Glade to survive a night in the maze.Īfter returning to the Glade the next morning, Newt calls a Gathering of the Keepers to discuss what to do with Thomas. Minho uses this tactic to kill the four Grievers by chasing them over the Cliff. Minho, believing Alby as good as dead, tells Thomas to leave him and look for shelter Thomas, unwilling to abandon Alby, instead climbs the vines on the walls to evade the Grievers, then attract their attention while staying hidden. All three are then stranded in the Maze overnight. Alby is stung by the creature, and while Minho is trying to help him out of the Maze, Thomas runs in to help, just as the doors shut. Minho, the Keeper of the Runners, goes into the Maze with Alby to see what they think is their first dead Griever. Teresa then wakes up and tells Thomas that they knew each other before they were sent into the Glade, revealing their ability to communicate telepathically. When Thomas comes to visit her, he recognizes her but cannot remember her name until he hears her voice in his mind, telling him her name. Ever.' The girl later lapses into a long coma. She had a note saying 'She's the last one.

She was the first ever girl to arrive into the Glade. One day after Thomas's arrival, a girl, Teresa, is delivered through the elevator into the Glade. The Gladers are trying to stay alive as well as 'solve' the Maze by appointing 'runners' to run through it as fast as they can while they track movements of the walls and try to find an exit to escape. The Maze houses strange, lethal creatures known as Grievers. Outside the walls is the Maze, a labyrinth of high concrete walls covered in ivy that changes every day. The walls have openings in them, which slide shut like doors every night. The Glade is surrounded by a square of four-mile-high walls made of concrete. Every month, a new boy with no memory of anything but his first name finds himself in that elevator box. The elevator box surfaces from under the ground once every month and supplies new food, tools, medicine, and sometimes weapons. He gradually discovers that the Glade is run by two boys: Alby, the leader, and Newt, the second-in-charge, who both maintain order by enforcing simple but effective rules.

He has no memory of who he is or how he got there.

Thomas wakes up in a metal elevator that brings him to the Glade.

The death cure setting