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- "I just... feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself."
- — Thomas to Newt, The Maze Runner
- "Anyway, listen to me. I've never seen anything like it. He didn't panic. He didn't whine and cry, never seemed scared. Dude, he'd been here for just a few days. Think about what we were all like in the beginning. Huddling in corners, disoriented, crying every hour, not trusting anybody, refusing to do anything. We were all like that, for weeks and months, till we had no choice but to shuck it and live. Just a few days after this guy shows up, he steps out into the Maze to save two shanks he hardly knows. All this klunk about him breaking a rule is just beyond stupid. He didn't get the rules yet. But plenty of people had told him what it's like in the Maze, especially at night. And he still stepped out there, just as the Door was closing, only caring that two people needed help. But that was just the beginning. After that, he saw me give up on Alby, leave him for dead. And I was the veteran - the one with all the experience and knowledge. So when Thomas saw me give up, he shouldn't have questioned it. But he did. Think about the willpower and strength it took him to push Alby up that wall, centimetre-by-centimetre. It's psycho. It's freaking crazy."
- — Minho describing Thomas' actions in the Maze, The Maze Runner
Thomas was the last male Glader to enter Group A's Maze. He was the main protagonist of the The Maze Runner Series and was named after Thomas Edison. Thomas was one of the creators of the Maze, alongside Teresa Agnes, and formerly one of the Creators' mentors. His original name was Stephen[1].
Biography
The Kill Order
In The Kill Order, Thomas undergoes an operation for the Swipe so he can be sent along with the other Gladers into the Maze. Through the entire operation, Teresa is by his side, scared about what will happen to her and Thomas, but calm, believing that WICKED will find a cure for the Flare for the sake of humanity. Thomas is then put into the Box and lifted into the Maze.
In the epilogue, it is revealed that Thomas was named after Thomas Edison because a WICKED agent pointed out a hanging light bulb in his mother's house, saying, "You know who made that, right? We should call this one Thomas."
The Fever Code
In The Fever Code, Thomas is referred to as Stephen early on in the book. Two days have passed since Stephen has been taken from his family by WICKED, the same organization that wants Stephen to accept a new name: Thomas. However, Stephen continues to prove adamant until a man named Randall Spilker takes him to a chair, then injects a pain stimulator into Stephen's neck. Stephen tries to stay with his old name, but, at the touch of a button, Randall activates the Stimulator, causing excruciating pain. Seconds after the first wave of pain, Stephen wakes up, strapped with leather to the chair. Randall is in front of him with the button, Stephen starts to cry, and then Randall presses the button. This happens several times, after four waves of pain, Stephen gets used to the torture's never-ending pain. Stephen tries to fake accepting his new name. Randall then responds saying "I don't believe you." and presses the button, causing more and more pain. Randall then continuously asks Stephen his name. Giving up hope, he responds with 'Thomas' and accepts his new name. Randall administers a final wave of torture to remind Stephen (now Thomas) that he can always inject a new stimulator if he even mentions his old name. After this, Thomas does not see Randall for years, which he is thankful for, as he hated him.
Throughout the course of several years, Thomas spends much of his time attending advanced classes with different teachers. He meets and develops a fondness for Dr. Ava Paige, as she treats him with the most kindness out of all the WICKED staff members. Three years after the incident with Randall, he is allowed to meet a girl named Teresa, whose room was next to his. They form a close bond, and as they grew older, they were promoted to designing and building the Maze. That night, Thomas decides to sneak out of his room and find Teresa so he can talk to her about this new development. But on the same night, a boy named Newt came to introduce him and Teresa to his friends Minho and Alby. They become close friends who secretly meet every night. But the first time their new friends show Thomas and Teresa the way outside the building, they get caught by Randall. They are led to the Crank pits (all except Newt, who isn't immune) and forced to walk along a narrow corridor with Cranks pressing against the fences to their left an right. They also meet the former Chancellor John Michael, who is infected. He holds up a sign which says "WICKED is good". He tells the kids that he had been essential to the organization and that he wanted a more dignified ending than being thrown into the pits. He begs them to save him or at least others. Randall finally shoots him dead. Thomas and Teresa are now working for WICKED. Their job is to program optical illusions for Maze A. Months after the Crank pit evening, Teresa finds a way to enable them to meet their friends again without being caught by guards. They also meet a new boy named Chuck, who is younger than them. To them, he's like a little brother. But Minho still plans to escape, no matter the advantages of staying with WICKED his friends point out. Together with a boy named Gally, he attempts to flee. They get caught, and Randall forces Thomas to watch the cruel punishment. After that, Minho is traumatized. When their friends are about to be inserted into the Maze, they learn that Thomas and Teresa will not join them, and feel betrayed. Thomas spends most of his free time watching his friends in the Maze. One day, Dr. Paige needs the help of the four elites (Thomas, Teresa, Aris and Rachel): The Flare has infected several WICKED staff members. It needs Immunes to go to them and kill them. After this so-called Purge, Thomas feels guilt and avoids his friends. When he goes to the control room for the first time after the Purge, he sees Alby supporting Newt, who can't walk by himself. He finds out that Newt has tried to kill himself in the Maze. Some time later, it's Chuck's turn to be inserted to the Maze. This causes Thomas to develop a plan to finally help his friends. He wants to go into the Maze himself.
The Maze Runner
In The Maze Runner, Thomas wakes up in a lift with no memory except for his name. When the lift opens, he is surrounded by other boys, who also have no memory except their names. This place is called the Glade. The Glade is surrounded by a gigantic Maze with the Walls moving and changing every single night. Every morning, the Doors to the Maze open, and every night, they close. The Gladers do not want to be stuck in the Maze when the walls close, for they could be "stung" by the slug-like monsters called Grievers that lurk in the Maze. As Thomas adjusts to life in the Glade, he befriends a younger boy named Chuck.
When Thomas sees the Runners going into the Maze to try to find a way out, he feels that he should be a Runner. Then, when a girl comes up in the Box, Alby and Newt call Thomas over because they feel that the girl and Thomas have a connection. Thomas denies having any memory of her, but he does feel like he knows her. The girl is in a coma and the Med-jacks take care of her.
In the morning, Alby and Minho go into the Maze to inspect an apparently dead Griever Minho found. At night, just as the walls begin to close, Thomas sees Minho dragging an unconscious Alby towards the Glade; the Griever had been playing dead and Alby had been stung. Thomas wants to go and help and, ignoring the rules, dashes into the Maze right before the walls close. Minho is angry at Thomas for doing something so pointless, as he believes all three of them will die. At the sound of Grievers in the distance, Minho leaves Thomas and Alby and runs off, believing their chances will be better if they split up. Thomas drags Alby to the wall and starts tying him to the vines, working him higher and higher above the ground. When a Griever finally appears, Thomas lures it away from Alby by running deeper into the Maze. When he finds himself surrounded by several Grievers, he runs away and then, turning around, he leaps over the one chasing him before it can slow its momentum.
Thomas later meets up with Minho and the Grievers chase them. Minho tells Thomas to follow him and they go to the Cliff. The Grievers are still chasing them, but Minho has an idea based on what Thomas did with his run-and-jump maneuver. They both stand at the edge of the Cliff, and when the Grievers charge at them, they jump away and the Grievers fall over the edge. Several feet beyond the Cliff, there is an invisible hole seemingly suspended in mid-air, which is where the Grievers usually return after roaming the Maze.
In the morning, Thomas takes Alby off of the wall vines. Thomas, Alby, and Minho are the first people to survive in the Maze for a whole night. Alby is given an antidote for his Griever sting. When Thomas visits him, Alby tries to tell Thomas what he saw during his Changing. However, Alby grabs his own neck and starts choking himself. Thomas calls for Newt, and together they get Alby to stop hurting himself. Newt says that Alby is crazy, even though Alby says that he was being controlled and he didn't know what he was doing.
When Thomas visits the girl, she speaks in his head. Thomas is frightened and in denial about this at first. He learns that her name is Teresa. Teresa tells him telepathically that she triggered "The Ending." Thomas does not know what this means, but soon, the walls do not close and bad things begin to happen.
When Teresa is fully recovered, she rushes to Thomas. They talk and begin to form a bond, with Thomas definitely having a crush on her. They also realize that they must have known each other before coming to the Maze.
With the Walls no longer closing, The Grievers begin to enter the Glade each night, taking one kid at a time. Thomas and Teresa eventually figure out a code to the Maze. Thomas purposely gets stung by a Griever so he can remember his life before the Maze. He learns that there is only one way of escape: through the Griever Hole. The Gladers make it through the Griever Hole, losing half of their members, including Alby. They are greeted, both by someone who works WICKED, and by Gally, who throws a knife at Thomas, but Chuck takes the knife instead in an act of self-sacrifice by jumping in front of Thomas. Broken by this, Thomas loses control of his rage, violence, and aggressiveness and starts beating up Gally until he is pulled away by his friends. Then a rescue team comes in and seemingly kills the WICKED members, rescuing the Gladers.
The Scorch Trials
In The Scorch Trials, Thomas, along with the other Gladers, are rescued and brought to a safe dormitory, only to find out that it was all a hoax: They were never rescued and WICKED has been behind the whole thing. Teresa is taken and put in Group B, an all-girl experiment that has been run exactly the same as the Gladers (Group A). Phase 2 of the Trials begins as 'The Rat Man' (known as Janson in The Death Cure) from WICKED tells them they have two weeks to travel 100 miles of wasteland, in order to reach a safe haven and be given a cure for the Flare. On the way, the Gladers meet Brenda and Jorge, who say they are infected with the Flare and make a deal to reach the Safe Haven together.
Thomas's relationship with Teresa deteriorates drastically throughout the book, as Teresa is told by WICKED that unless she makes Thomas feel utterly betrayed (presumably to stimulate Killzone patterns in his brain), they'll kill him. Thomas does not believe her explanation, and there is a distinct coldness in his attitude towards her. Added to that is his budding relationship with Brenda, which seemingly makes Teresa somewhat jealous more than once.
The Death Cure
In The Death Cure, Thomas awakes in a white enclosed room and is stuck in there for weeks until it is revealed to him that he and his friends will be able to get their memories back. The group is informed that some of their members, Newt included, are not immune to the Flare and are ultimately dying. Thomas, along with Newt, Minho, and Frypan, refuse to regain their memories and are sent back to their rooms. Later, Frypan changes his mind and leaves the group, deciding to have his memories returned.
Thomas and his friends then formulate a plan to escape with the help of Brenda and Jorge. Newt, realizing that his days are numbered due to the Flare, writes a note and gives it to Thomas, telling him to only read it when the time is right. The group manages to escape, finding along the way that Teresa and the others have all escaped without them. Thomas and his friends escape to Denver, a supposedly safe city that has not been badly affected by the Flare. However, things turn out horribly and Newt, being Flare-infected, is taken by some quarantine workers to the local Crank Palace (the place where infected people live out their remaining days). Thomas, Minho, Brenda, and Jorge try to get him out, but Newt refuses to go with them, aiming a Launcher at them until they finally leave in despair. Thomas reads the note Newt gave him earlier, finding that it reads, "Kill me. If you've ever been my friend, kill me."
Thomas and his friends then meet up with a group called the Right Arm, who are opposed to WICKED. The Right Arm has been kidnapping Immunes (Teresa and her group among them) as part of a ploy to take down WICKED. Thomas joins forces with them. A short time later, as he and a couple of Right Arm members are driving to where the bergs are located, Thomas sees Newt among a group of Cranks on the road. He runs over to his friend, only for Newt to angrily scream at him for not following the note's instructions. Newt then jumps him and pins him to the ground. Frightened by his friend's attack of madness, Thomas slowly reaches for his pistol out of self-defense, only to have Newt notice and grab Thomas' hand, forcing the pistol to his own forehead. Newt yells at Thomas to kill him and make everything right, and Thomas, horrified but seeing no other choice, pulls the trigger.
In an exploding final journey, Thomas leads an evacuation of hundreds of Immunes from the WICKED compound just as a series of bombs are being set off by the Right Arm. A concrete slab falls from the ceiling directly over him, but Teresa throws herself in the way and is crushed instead. Thomas says that he is very sorry, and Teresa says that she is, too. She tries to tell Thomas that she only ever cared about him, but she dies before she can finish her sentence. 200 of the Immunes get out with Thomas, which include about half of Group A and Group B, before they make it to the Flat Trans that leads to a Safe Haven, which is apparently an island. They emerge in 'paradise', and it is implied that they will repopulate the earth with their immune genes. In the end, Brenda kisses Thomas as they watch the sunset together.In The Maze Cutter, Thomas died of unknown causes during the 73 year gap between The Death Cure and The Maze Cutter.
Film
The Maze Runner
Thomas wakes up in an underground lift without his memories, being sent to the Glade, a place full of teenage boys. Gally is the first to welcome him and pull him out of the Box. Thomas meets Alby, the leader of the Glade, and Newt, the Second-in-Command. Chuck, the last Greenie before Thomas, sticks to him, clearly looking for a friend.
Thomas finds himself in a large square clearing, surrounded by gigantic walls. In the middle of each wall, there's an opening as high as the walls themselves. When he attempts to explore these doors and the way beyond on his first evening, Gally stops him from walking into the Maze just a moment before the doors close for the night.
The next day, Thomas helps out in the gardens, coming up with all kinds of ideas to escape. Newt tells him that whatever he can think of, they have tried that before. Thomas makes his way into the woods to get fertilizer by Newt's order and discovers George's grave at the deadheads. Suddenly, Ben, a Runner, appears and attacks him. Ben has been stung by a Griever in open daylight, which has apparently never happened before. Thomas tries to defend himself, hitting Ben in the head with a skull, managing to run away and cry for help. Ben catches up to him, but is hit in the head with a shovel by Newt and later banished from the Glade by the Gladers.
The next day, the boys are waiting for the return of Minho and Alby, who have not yet returned from the Maze. Just when the doors are about to close, the missing Runners appear at the far end of the corridor. Minho half carries the Griever-stung Alby along. The Gladers hurry them on, but when it becomes clear that the two won't make it in time, Thomas squeezes through the closing doors to help them survive the night in the Maze. Minho knows that it's clear that they are already dead. But, having no idea of the horrors of the Maze, Thomas still hopes and makes plans such as hiding the unconscious Alby in the ivy thicket up the wall. Minho assists him, but when a Griever comes, he runs away. Thomas can hide under the ivy. Later, the two boys are reunited and chased by a Griever. Thomas manages to get it crushed between two closing walls of the moving Maze.
The next day, the doors open to reveal a very hopeful Chuck and a very skeptical Newt looking for the three boys who spent the night in the Maze. Just when Newt turns away, bereft of all hope, Chuck sees them turning around the corner. Most of the Gladers are impressed and happy that they made it alive, but Gally insists that Thomas needs to be punished for breaking Rule No. 1. In the absence of Alby, who is cared for by the Med-jacks, Newt calls a Gathering to discuss the matter. Before they come to a conclusion, the alarm rings, the Box appears and delivers the first girl, Teresa, with a note in her hand that says "She's the last one, ever." Newt, having jumped down to get the new Greenie out of the Box, first assumes she is dead, but she suddenly wakes up and utters Thomas' name before going back to sleep. Thomas, Minho, Frypan, Winston, and Zart enter the Maze together to find the crashed Griever in the hope to learn something useful. They can retrieve a metal cylinder with a number 7 on it. They return to the Glade and examine the device. During another Gathering, Newt appoints Thomas as a Runner after one night in the Pit as a punishment for breaking rules. Gally, clearly unhappy with this solution, storms out of the Council Hall in anger. Thomas and Minho make their way into the Map Room, where Minho shows Thomas the model of the Maze he and the other Runners built over 3 years. He admits that he's run every part of the Maze, but they've been unsuccessful in finding a pattern. He notes that Section 7 was open last night, which is unusual, as it is not supposed to be open for another week. He and Thomas plan to go out and check out the Section the next morning. Jeff and Clint run into the Map Room, informing them that Teresa is awake. The four boys rush out and approach Chuck, who points up to the tower, prompting them to see the girl sitting on the platform, throwing stones at the Gladers, lest they come closer. Only Thomas is allowed to get up to her and they talk. At night, they are called over to Alby, who goes through the Changing. When he is flailing around wildly, Teresa produces a syringe with a serum of unknown purpose. She manages to inject it into Alby's chest and he calms down immediately.
At nightfall, Gally escorts Thomas to the Pit. Chuck appears and talks to him, confiding in him how he longs for his parents. Chuck, convinced that Thomas will finally make it out of the Maze, gives Thomas a small figurine as a lucky charm, asking him to tell his parents that he loves them, but Thomas refuses and insists that Chuck will tell them himself.
The next day, Thomas goes with Minho into the Maze. They explore a section Minho has never been to before: The Griever Hole. Thomas inserts the device and a door opens. Then the walls start to move and Thomas and Minho run back, taking the device with them.
That night, the doors do not close, and the Grievers attack the Gladers. Alby saves Chuck's life by hacking off a Griever's limb, only to be killed seconds later. Many Gladers are killed in that night. When the attack is over, Gally punches Thomas in the face in rage, violence, and aggressiveness, blaming him for everything that has happened. Thomas stabs himself in the thigh with the hacked off Griever sting, hoping that he will regain some memory to help them finally escape. In his memory dream, he can see himself working beside Teresa for WCKD, experimenting on his friends. Thomas wakes up in the Pit, afflicted by feels of guilt. Newt reassures him that none of the past matters any more. The only thing that matters is who they are now and what they do now.
Gally, having taken command, has Thomas and Teresa tied up to poles right in front of the open doors as an offer to the Grievers. He attempts to offer the two in order to pacify the Grievers/Creators in the hopes that the peace of the Glade will be restored and they will be safe again, but Thomas knocks out his captors, his friends free Teresa, and two parties form. Thomas, Teresa, Newt, Minho, Frypan, and Chuck are determined to go for the Griever Hole and find the exit. A number of Gladers join in, among them are Winston, Jeff, Jack, Mike, Tim, Billy, and Peter, while Gally and his allies choose to stay behind.
Thomas and his group make it to the Griever Hole unharmed, but right there, numerous Grievers attack them. Teresa punches in the code while the Gladers fight off the Grievers, suffering many losses. When the hole finally opens the survivors find themselves in an endless corridor with many doors. One that is labelled exit.
They pass it and stand in a control room. It is devastated, and corpses lie everywhere. On screens and monitors, they can see images of the Glade and their own faces, along with data. Thomas switches on another one, thus starting a video message from Chancellor Ava Paige, who tells them about the Sun Flares that had struck the earth, about a disease called the Flare, and the necessity to find a cure. Finally, she points a gun at her own temple, closes her eyes, and pulls the trigger. Everyone averts their eyes as the gunshot is heard.
Gally, having been stung by a Griever, which restored all his memories, appears with a gun, insisting that they will never be free. He fires a bullet at Thomas, but Chuck takes the bullet instead in an act of self-sacrifice, giving Minho a chance to throw a spear at Gally, causing it to non-fatally impale him in the chest, causing Gally to drop to his knees, drop the gun, and collapse on his right side on the floor. While the Gladers cry in heartbreak and devastation over Chuck's dead body, masked and armed men arrive and usher them to a waiting helicopter, telling them that they are safe now.
The Scorch Trials
In a flashback set before the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, Thomas is being dropped off by his mother and taken in by Ava Paige and WCKD. Thomas snaps out of this flashback-dream when Minho yells at him to wake up, since the helicopter they are in is about to land. When they arrive, Thomas grabs Chuck's Relic, and the Gladers are sent to a facility run by Janson.
While they are medically tested, Teresa gets separated from the group. In the canteen, the Gladers meet other children from other mazes. One boy is sitting all by himself; Aris.
At night, Thomas wakes to Aris coming into their dorm through the ventilation shaft. The boy beckons him to follow because he wants to show him something. The two boys observe nurses wheeling bed with a covered person into a room.
The next day, Thomas incites a fight with the guards in the canteen, saying he wants to see his friend Teresa. He has no chance of getting through, but in the brawl, he manages to retrieve the key card off one of the guards. That night, he and Aris break into the room where the nurses had brought the covered person the previous night. They discover rows after rows of children, alive but unconscious, hung up on stands with lots of medical devices. Still shocked by that sight, they overhear a conversation between Chancellor Ava Paige and Janson.
The Death Cure
In the opening scene of the film adaptation of The Death Cure, Thomas, along with Vince, get on board a train that transports Aris, Sonya, and the Immunes to the WCKD main complex, while Brenda and Jorge distract the berg which came to aid the guards. Thomas manages to decouple the wagon while Brenda and Jorge hijack the berg. With the help of Newt and Frypan, they use the berg to lift the container with the Immunes off the wagon and fly to a place near the sea. They intend to finally leave and go to the Safe Haven, but Minho is not among the rescued. With that, Thomas resolves to leave the rest of them and try to rescue Minho on his own accord, also allowing Newt and Frypan to come with him.
Thomas, along with Newt and Frypan, drive into the sewers, where the Cranks attack them. Frypan shoots at them with a shotgun, but soon runs out of ammo. Brenda and Jorge arrive and save them from the Cranks. Thomas tells Brenda that he didn't want to put anyone in danger and Frypan thanks Brenda and Jorge for saving them.
Thomas, along with Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge, arrive in the Last City. Thomas is scanned at the gate, and the WCKD guards recognize him. WCKD aims turrets at the crowd, forcing Thomas to run along with Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge to run to avoid being attacked by the turrets.
Thomas runs into a safe corner along with Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge where they encounter a crew wearing gas masks, who force Thomas into a van with Brenda and Newt, Frypan, and Jorge into another van. The crew drive Thomas to the hideout along with Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge.
At the hideout, one of the crew members reveals himself to be Gally. Thomas, still consumed by rage, violence, and aggressiveness over Gally killing Chuck during the escape from the Maze, gives him a punch to the face as revenge for the punch to the face that he endured from Gally after the Grievers' attack on the Glade. Thomas gets on top of Gally to try and beat him up. Newt rushes over and stops Thomas. Thomas reminds Newt of when Gally killed Chuck. Newt replies that he remembers that Gally killed Chuck because he was stung by a Griever and half out of his mind. With that, Thomas gets off Gally. Newt asks Gally how he is still alive, as he, Thomas, and Frypan watched him die. Gally replies that he, Thomas, and Frypan left him to die, then explains that they, Brenda, and Jorge would have been killed by the turrets if Gally and his crew hadn't rescued them. Newt explains to Gally that Minho is being held in the WCKD Tower and that he, Thomas, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge are looking for a way in. Gally offers to help them get into the WCKD Tower. Thomas, at first, refuses to follow Gally, but Gally replies that he can get him, Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge through the walls of the Last City.
While following Gally to Lawrence's hideout along with Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge, Thomas is told by Gally that after he, Newt, Frypan, and the other Gladers left him behind in the WCKD lab, he was found still lying on the floor with the spear still in his chest by Lawrence's crew, who, after discovering that he is immune to the Flare, pulled the spear out of his chest and took him to the Last City to meet Lawrence, who healed Gally of the spear wound, cured him of the Griever sting, and convinced him to join his crew. Thomas is told by Gally that Lawrence's crew is working to destroy WCKD. Thomas is warned by Gally not to stare at Lawrence.
Thomas, along with Newt, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge, arrive in Lawrence's hideout. Thomas tells Lawrence that he, Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge need to get into the WCKD Tower, as Gally said that he can get them through the walls of the Last City. Lawrence replies that the way into the WCKD Tower is impossible. Gally replies that the way into the WCKD Tower won't work without Thomas. When Lawrence asks Thomas why he should trust him, Thomas replies that WCKD has something they both want. Lawrence tells Thomas that he can go with Newt and Gally into the Last City while Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge stay behind with him. Thomas agrees and shakes Lawrence's hand. As Gally lowers a ladder into the sewers, Thomas is advised by Jorge to be careful going with Newt and Gally into the Last City, to which Thomas agrees.
Thomas, along with Newt and Gally, walk through the tunnels where Gally uses a generator in the tunnels to turn on the light bulbs so he can lead Thomas and Newt through the tunnels.
At night, Thomas goes on a tour of the Last City along with Newt and Gally. They hear an announcer telling everyone in the Last City to return home. With that, Thomas, along with Newt and Gally, decide to return to Lawrence's hideout. On the way back to Lawrence's hideout, Thomas, along with Newt and Gally, hide from the WCKD soldiers.
After Thomas, along with Newt and Gally, return to Lawrence's hideout, Gally uses a telescope to look at the WCKD Tower and tells Thomas and Newt about its security system. When Thomas asks Gally about the way in that he had mentioned before, Gally urges Thomas to look through the telescope. Thomas complies and sees Teresa working in a lab. Gally reveals to Thomas his plan to use Teresa to get into the WCKD Tower.
The next day, in Lawrence's hideout, Thomas, along with Newt, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge, go over plans to use Teresa to get into the WCKD Tower. Thomas is reluctant to use Teresa as their way into the WCKD Tower. Brenda reminds Thomas of when Teresa betrayed them, prompting Gally to remark to Thomas that he likes Brenda. Newt becomes consumed by rage, violence, and aggressiveness over Thomas' reluctance, screaming at him for still having feelings for Teresa. Remorseful over lashing out at Thomas, Newt apologizes before leaving.
Upon finding Newt sitting on a rooftop, Thomas discovers that he has been infected by the Flare, as revealed by the black veins on his right arm. Newt explains that the reason WCKD put him in the Maze was because they wanted to tell the difference between Immunes like Thomas and people like himself. Thomas tells Newt that he can cure him. Newt replies that they need to get Minho out of the WCKD Tower, to which Thomas agrees.
The next night, after telling Gally about Newt's infection, Thomas goes with him into the Last City to capture Teresa, while Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge go to an abandoned church. As Teresa leaves the WCKD Tower, Thomas goes to lure Teresa into an alley while Gally waits in the alley. Teresa sees Thomas on the other side of the street and follows him into the alley where they talk. After they finish talking, Thomas signals for Gally to put a sack on Teresa. Thomas, along with Gally, take Teresa to the church where Newt, Frypan, Brenda, and Jorge are. Teresa is shocked to see that Gally is alive, and Gally asks her where Minho is. Teresa replies that Minho is in Sub-Level 3 with the Immune children. Gally takes a scalpel, preparing to use it to cut off Teresa's finger, but Thomas stops him by taking the scalpel from him. Thomas convinces Teresa to remove their trackers.
While removing Thomas' tracker, Teresa discovers that Brenda is looking good and healthy and asks Thomas when her last treatment was. Thomas replies that Brenda's last treatment was back in the mountain camp of the Right Arm. Teresa removes Thomas' tracker. Gally approaches Thomas and Teresa, asking them if everything is okay, which Thomas confirms.
Disguised with WCKD soldier overall uniforms and face-masking helmets along with Newt and Gally, Thomas goes with them and Teresa to the WCKD Tower, while Frypan climbs up a crane, Brenda goes to a parking lot to steal a bus, and Jorge returns to the Right Arm's hideout.
Thomas, along with Teresa and Newt, enter the WCKD Tower through the main entrance while Gally enters the WCKD Tower through the parking garage.
Thomas, along with Teresa, Newt, and Gally, arrive in a stairwell. While Newt starts coughing due to his infection while leaning over the stairwell railing and Gally plugs a jamming device into the electrical box, Thomas talks to Frypan and Brenda via a walkie-talkie.
Thomas, along with Teresa, Newt, and Gally, arrive in Sub-Level 3 where Thomas, along with Newt and Gally, shoot the WCKD guards. After working with Newt to let the Immune children out of their cells, Thomas discovers that Minho is not in the cell and asks Teresa where he is. Teresa shows Thomas Minho's profile and tells him that Minho has been moved up to the medical wing. Thomas goes with Teresa and Newt to find Minho, while Gally takes the vials of serum out of the vault and takes them and the Immune children to Brenda.
Thomas, along with Teresa and Newt, take the elevator to find Minho. Janson joins them in the elevator and talks to Teresa, but then realizes that Thomas is in the elevator along with Newt, but Thomas manages to escape along with Teresa and Newt. When Thomas asks when the Flare will stop, Teresa replies that it stops when WCKD finds a cure. Thomas just replies that there is no cure. Janson holds them at gunpoint, but Teresa manages to let Thomas and Newt go to find Minho while she goes to do a blood test on Thomas' blood.
After reuniting with Minho, Thomas runs with him and Newt to escape from Janson and the WCKD soldiers. Thomas manages to lock himself in a room along with Newt and Minho. Thomas and Minho manage to shatter the window and they and Newt jump out of the window and into the pool. When they climb out of the pool, four masked soldiers appear, ordering them to surrender, but one of them shoots the other three, then takes off his helmet and reveals himself to be Gally. Minho is shocked to see that Gally is alive, and Gally tells him, Thomas, and Newt that they are nuts.
While hiding from the WCKD soldiers along with Newt, Minho, and Gally, Thomas asks Gally how far the tunnels are. Gally replies that the tunnels are twelve blocks away from the WCKD Tower. While Minho and Gally talk to each other, Thomas carries Newt off into the Last City.
While heading with Newt, Minho, and Gally to meet up with Frypan, Brenda, and the Immune children outside the walls, Thomas sees the walls exploding as a result of Lawrence sacrificing himself to destroy them and allow the Crank army to storm the Last City and battle the WCKD soldiers. Gally is disappointed that the Crank army is destroying the whole of the Last City when they are supposed to destroy only WCKD. Thomas reassures Gally that he doesn't have to worry about that, then urges him to come with him, Newt, and Minho.
While hiding behind garden beds along with Newt, Minho, and Gally, Thomas sees the battle between the WCKD soldiers and the Crank army. Unwilling to watch the battle, Thomas is forced to escape along with Newt, Minho, and Gally.
Newt is unable to get to the berg due to his infection, prompting Minho and Gally to run to the berg to get the serum from Brenda. Newt gives Thomas his necklace before passing out. While carrying Newt into a train station, Thomas hears Teresa telling him that his blood can cure Newt like it did Brenda. Newt becomes a Crank and attacks Thomas. Thomas fights Newt and stabs him in the chest with a knife. Minho, Gally, Frypan, and Brenda arrive and see Newt's dead body. While Minho and Frypan kneel at Newt's dead body, with Gally and Brenda watching on, Thomas walks off to the WCKD Tower.
Thomas enters the WCKD Tower and approaches Ava Paige, who tells Thomas that he save them, but is shot in the back by Janson, who knocks out and takes Thomas to a lab where Teresa is extracting his blood. Janson reveals to Thomas that he has been infected by the Flare and plans to inject the serum with Thomas' blood into his arm, causing Teresa to hit Janson in the head with a glass flask, knocking him unconscious. Teresa tries to free Thomas, but Janson regains consciousness and knocks Teresa down. Thomas frees himself and engages Janson in a fight, but Janson overpowers him and prepares to shoot him, when Lawrence's crew fires a missile at the WCKD Tower, knocking Thomas, Teresa, and Janson down. Teresa carries Thomas to the medical wing, but not before Janson shoots Thomas in the stomach. Teresa offers to give Janson the serum containing Thomas' blood, but Janson refuses and wants Thomas himself. Thomas throws a very heavy object at a glass front, allowing the Cranks that are locked inside it to break out and attack Janson. Thomas is carried to the roof by Teresa, who gives him the serum containing his blood before kissing him. Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, Jorge, Vince, and the Immune children arrive in a berg. Thomas is unable to get on the berg due to his wound, but Teresa throws him onto the berg, allowing Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, and Vince to pull him aboard. Teresa falls to her death when the WCKD Tower collapses. As Jorge flies Thomas, Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, Vince, and the Immune children away from the tower, Thomas loses consciousness, while his wound is bandaged by Gally.
Sometime later, Thomas, along with Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, Jorge, Vince, Aris, Sonya, Harriet, the Right Arm, and the Immune children, arrive at the Safe Haven. Thomas wakes up in a hut and discovers the bandage on his stomach, then leaves the hut and approaches Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, Jorge, Aris, Sonya, Harriet, the Right Arm, and the Immune children. Thomas shares a hug with Minho. At night, at the campfire, Thomas, along with Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, Jorge, Aris, Sonya, Harriet, the Right Arm, and the Immune children, listen to Vince give a speech.
Minho gives Thomas Newt's necklace, which Thomas discovers contains a note from Newt. Thomas reads the note, in which Newt tells him to look after everyone, before thanking Thomas for being his friend. Thomas approaches Minho, Gally, Frypan, Brenda, Jorge, Vince, Aris, Sonya, Harriet, the Right Arm, and the Immune children at the campfire, hugs Gally and Brenda, and sits down with them, Minho, Frypan, Jorge, Vince, Aris, Sonya, Harriet, the Right Arm, and the Immune children at the campfire. The next day, Thomas goes to the Memorial Rock and engraves Teresa's name on it. Thomas walks along the beach, stops walking, looks at the ocean and the ship, pulls out the serum, looks at it, and looks out into the distance.
Physicality & Personality
In The Maze Runner, Chuck tells Thomas that he was around five foot nine and also describes him jokingly as being as "ugly as fried liver on a stick". He tells Thomas that he looks sixteen years old. Thomas is shocked because he feels older than that. He is, however, younger than Newt, who is repeatedly referred to as "the older boy". In The Kill Order, Thomas is described as having sandy brown hair. In the film adaptations, Thomas is portrayed by actor Dylan O'Brien, who is known for his role as Stiles Stilinski in the TV series Teen Wolf.
Thomas has always been an inquisitive person, before and after being sent to the Maze. He has a habit of becoming frustrated when answers are kept from him, something he experiences regularly. In The Maze Runner, Thomas starts off as timid and somewhat aloof but steadily grows bolder and more sociable throughout the series. He does not easily give up on anyone and would rather rush back and help them than leave his friends behind.
Powers & Abilities
Powers
- Enhanced Antibiotic System: Thomas was shown to be immune to the effects of the deadly Flare virus. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, he stabbed himself in the thigh with a Griever's tail that stored an enhanced version of the Flare and was injected with the last syringe of serum used to help Alby, then afterwards, he was shown to have not lost control over his humanity. And in the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, Dr. Mary Cooper ordered Vince to spare Brenda, for she knew that harvesting some of his blood would stop her infection from spreading further. Then in the film adaptation of The Death Cure, When Ava Paige informed the people in the Last City that the virus was airborne, they would need to wear mouth masks, but when Thomas was staring at Teresa, waiting for her to follow him, he was shown to not been affected by breathing naturally around it. After leading Teresa into a trap where Gally captured her, Thomas convinced her to remove the swipe from his neck, then she brought it to WCKD with her for a sample of his DNA to examine it at the lab to discover how Brenda was no longer sick since when they last met, and realized that Thomas' blood was, unlike most, capable of containing special antibiotics in his cells that cures and destroys the effects of the Flare virus, that when she announced to Thomas that his blood had held the key to a cure for the infected to be saved from the Flare completely as it did for Brenda.
Abilities
- Gifted Intelligence: Thomas is curious and a quick-thinker, able to solve puzzles and problems, and improvise his way out of sticky situations where possible, anyway. He is the one who figured out how to find the code for the Maze, for example, and he was able to talk his way out of several dangerous moments as well as found out where WCKD was transferring the cargo train with Minho and the other 28 immunes to the Last City based on the railway Aris tells him and maps it out as few 100 miles from his current location.
- Compassion/Empathy: Thomas shows both traits many times throughout all the books, from his relationship with Chuck, to his guilt over having worked with WCKD and helping them design the Maze, to the way he could still empathize with Ben, even though the other boy had tried to kill him while stung by a Griever, even back to his going out into the Maze to help Minho and Alby. He wants to do the right thing and he cares very much about all of the friends he makes, sometimes more than he realizes (e.g. he grew tired and full of WCKD's methods in testing immunes and normal folks in efforts to find a cure, by sacrificing as many of them one by one that Thomas cared to let them be free and safe. As when he meant Mary Cooper who was another lead scientist, he discusses his disapproval of the organization that he gives her the coordinates of all their trials, compounds, and labs for her to give to the rebellion group known as the Right Arm to fight for the immunes to be lead to the safe haven away from the Flare and WCKD).
- Charisma: Thomas is shown to be a natural leader, particularly in the last book and especially in the Maze Runner trilogy, and people have a tendency to listen and follow him and do as he says, despite how young he is.
- Determination: This can also be read as a weakness, as stubbornness can often get people into trouble and Thomas is definitely not exempt from this, but his determination gets him through a lot. He's willing to do things he is reluctant to, even things that downright terrify him, for the sake of his friends, and if he feels that it's the right thing to do. For example, he runs out into the Maze just as the doors are about to close, even though he knows how dangerous it is, and he does it because he recognizes that Minho and Alby need his help. From the Maze to the Scorch to WCKD and Denver and beyond, his determination to survive and help his friends do the same keeps him alive and sane through some pretty horrible and life-threatening situations. Thomas was able to remember everything about his life of childhood, his parents, being taken in by WCKD, and working for them through dreams which were fragments of his memories regrowing back slowly due to the device known as the Swipe that WCKD had implanted in his mind. His determination also aids his physical strength to be at peak human potential, allowing him to throw/exert immense force capable of breaking through hardened objects with minimum effort and without the need for any assistance. In the film adaptation of The Death Cure, when Teresa is being held at gunpoint by Janson, Thomas, even with his injury of being shot, is able to use all of his willpower to throw a microscope toward the containment chamber hard enough to shatter apart and allow the two Cranks held inside of it to break out and kill Janson which saved Thomas and Teresa.
- Peak of Human Physical Condition: Due to years of going through tests by WCKD such as harsh environments as well as being on a healthy diet, Thomas' physique has shown to possess peak human strength, speed, durability, and metabolism. Each of these traits have proven to assist him to survive many catastrophic events.
- Peak Human Strength: Thomas is shown to be an athletically strong, muscular boy both physically and mentally. His muscles are able to lift opponents who approximately weigh more pounds above his own height and size. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, when going in a match against Gally, he pushes him to the ground while being dragged by him. During the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, he kicked a Crank several feet from his position down an escalator and caused another to fall off a platform, saving Newt, then after outrunning a group of Cranks in a broken building with Brenda, Thomas attempted to rescue her from a Crank trying to kill her by pulling out a rebar and using it to break the glass window with ease causing the Crank to fall several stories to the surface, and Thomas held Brenda in his arms saving her from falling. In the film adaptation of The Death Cure, consumed by rage, violence, and aggressiveness over Gally having survived being impaled in the chest with a spear by Minho, Thomas gave him a punch to the face as revenge for the punch to the face that he endured from Gally after the Grievers' attack on the Glade. Newt, almost becoming a Crank, used his knife to try to stab Thomas, but he managed to keep it off with his grip strength before it could cut deeper into his chest, then when Teresa was knocked down by Janson, Thomas, in far more rage, violence, and aggressiveness than before, ran towards him, to pick him up off his feet through glass to the floor, and threw punches strong enough to have blown him up against the wall causing him a brief concussion.
- Peak Human Speed: Thomas was shown to be able to run at above-average speed faster throughout the Maze Runner trilogy. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, when Minho was carrying Alby, who was stung by a Griever, Thomas sprinted his way into the Maze as the doors began closing in on him and made it through. On the night inside of the Maze, Thomas, who was being chased by the Griever, jumps towards the edge of the wall onto the vines, then leads the Griever to a trap where the wall nearly closes on him, but he made it back alive into the Glade the next morning along with Minho and Alby, and the other Gladers watched and came over to support and comfort them. The next day, Thomas goes back into the Maze with Minho to find the way out but as the section changes, they run back to the Glade through deadly obstacle courses without being crushed or trapped just in time. In the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, when Thomas and the others escape from the WCKD compound, Janson contacts the security to shut the main vault door, but just as it starts to close, Thomas slides under it before it, then outside of the Scorch, he was able to outrun a group of Cranks. When following Brenda to head for the exit of the warehouse, the WCKD soldiers chased after Thomas and her, but Thomas walked on the edge of a reel quickly with great balance and made it through. Then in the film adaptation of The Death Cure, when Thomas and his group arrive near the gate of the WCKD base headquarters known as the Last City, Janson orders the guards to activate the remote gun turrets and fire them at everyone in sight, but Thomas runs with his group to move towards a safe corner surviving from the shootout where Gally and his Crank crew rescue and take them to a hideout. Then in a deleted scene, Thomas outran a speeding train in the tunnels with Newt and Gally just in time to make it to the secret entrance of the city.
- Peak Human Reflexes: At the age of 16, Thomas' reaction speed is at the peak potential granting him greater reflexes over many incoming attacks around him. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, when a Griever got caught in vines, it pulled out its stinger which almost impaled Thomas, but he moved his head away, then in the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, after Thomas and Brenda jumped down to the basement after the warehouse exploded, he saw scaffolding about to fall on them, but he and Brenda got out of the area just in time. In the film adaptation of The Death Cure, when Newt was changing into a Crank, he brought out his combat knife to use against Thomas, however, he was able to manoeuvre his body from all strikes which didn't cut him, and upon getting into a duel with Janson, he had dared Thomas to take another strike on him, and Thomas' body's quickness was incredible that he performed fast enough paste to get back up and hit Janson across the face.
- Peak Human Durability: Thomas's mind and determination had been shown to possess a remarkable resilience for his pain tolerance to allow his muscles and bones to withstand worst hits and great impacts without giving out any signs of weakening towards his agendas. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, when Gally, consumed by rage, violence, and aggressiveness, stormed up to Thomas, he punched him in the left side of the face, but he got back up stable with a bruise. In the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, Thomas attacks Barkley with a headbutt in the face without flinching, hits a WCKD soldier who was wearing a helmet in the face with his elbow, and has even taken punches in the stomach and right side of the face from Janson, but he still showed no complaint to neither one. In the film adaptation of The Death Cure, when escaping from the WCKD building with both his friends Newt and Minho, Thomas and them attempted to jump out of the window of the 20th floor from Janson and his armed men, they immediately leaped off the floor and landed safely in a pool feeling no limps or cripples. When defending himself against infected Newt, he was slightly punctured in the shoulder but was still able to move his arm, then after getting in a fight against Janson, Thomas gets punched in the face and kneed in the stomach, but gets back up and punches him back, and is then shot through the right side of his lower back. However, he was durable enough to carry his own weight before the need of having support from Teresa to carry him up the rooftop.
- Peak Human Regeneration: Thomas' immunity system has shown to be able to allow his physical health and metabolism to regenerate from mild injures at the highest limits of human potential. Upon waking up in the Safe Haven, Thomas' wound from being gunshot in the lower right side of his back by Janson was fully healed in a mere few days and he was shown to endure the sensitivity of pain without complaint or aided assistance.
- Peak Human Thievery: During the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, Thomas was very professional at stealing valuable items without getting caught, he drew attention to himself after Janson's announcement for the selected subjects who were called up to the restricted door. Once Thomas approached it, the security guards ordered him to return to his seat, but he ended up attempting to forcibly sprint pass them, but was pushed and held back by his friends, then Janson ordered to have them taken to their room. Upon their escort, the others question Thomas if he thought they were going to let him through, but Thomas reveals he snatched one of the security guard's keycard ID to grant him access to the door with Aris Jones.
- Stealth Mastery: Thomas was proficient in using stealth tactics to infiltrate high secured facilities without giving notices of his appearance or attacks and successfully had the advantage of blending in. As shown in the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, he and Aris were able to sneak into the harvest room and quietly hide from Janson chatting with Ava Paige without giving notice and, and in the film adaptation of The Death Cure, when going into the Last City's headquarters, Thomas was disguised in a WCKD uniform armed with the same equipment and was able to walk through the front entrance and passed many WCKD guards to meet up with Teresa, Newt, and Gally with ease. Then when sabotaging the WCKD security system, he makes his way to the room the Immune children were being held in, and once the door opened, Thomas, Newt, and Gally start shooting every single one of the guards before freeing the children from their prison cells. Including being able to stay hidden inside the Medical Wing to avoid Janson armed until he manages to sneakingly shatter the contaminate chamber holding two Cranks to breakout and attack the latter to death.
- Peak Human Accuracy & Weapon Proficiency: Thomas was shown to know his way in being proficient at using spears, explosives, and projectile weaponry with great feats and benefits in far to close ranged combat. In the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, he grabbed a Kel-Tec KSG (Launcher) and shot an incoming guard down to the floor stunned, and then aimed off scope to fire the last few rounds of the ammo left directly at Janson but misses. In the film adaptation of The Death Cure, Thomas honed his aiming skills with excellent accuracy as shown when using the P226 pistol at far range distances while being on the train fending off against the WCKD soldiers in the Scorch. He managed to shoot one soldier through the left side to his heart killing him and shot two others in the right side of one's shoulder and another on the left while standing on the platform of the cargo container leaving him wounded while being carried by the Berg. Then while infiltrating the WCKD lab in disguise, Thomas shoots many enemies with a Launcher tasing them to their knees, and before taking cover with Newt, he used some of the ammo he had left in his pistol to fire at a couple more of the guards in the heart and the next in the neck killing both personnels. When wounded from Janson's firearm, Thomas used all his full strength to aim a microscope at the containment cell holding the two Cranks, causing them to break free and attack Janson saving both himself and Teresa.
- Explosive Proficiency: In the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, Thomas was shown to be incredibly skilled in using a lethal explosive (Bomb/grenade) as well as preventing it from going off while carrying it. When being ambushed by snipers, Jorge had informed him how his grenade can be used, then later when WCKD attempted to capture the immunes, he hides the device in his pocket, pulls it out, and threatened to use it on them or he and the Gladers would commit suicide. However, carrying it brought enough time for when Jorge drove a truck into a helicopter which gave everyone the advantage to fight back and for Thomas to throw the bomb towards 4 WCKD soldiers, moved to a safe distance before detonating it on them.
- Spear Proficiency: In his time in the Maze, Thomas looked to be skilled with using a spear as a melee weapon in far to close distance combat. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, as Gally ordered two boys to tie him up, he faked being unconscious to then surprisingly hit and snatched the staff from the boy and hit the other in the face with it. As Thomas leads the others out of the Maze, he threw his spear as a javelin at a Griever just in time for it to be crushed by the closed wall.
- Expert Martial Artist: Thomas seemed to possess defensive skills in brawling. In the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, he was able to shove Gally to the ground and push a Griever down off the edge with some assistance from his friends along with another swarm approaching them, In the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, when a Crank comes in front of Thomas, he kicked it off the escalator to the ground on its back, then kicks another one off his friend Newt and causes it to fall below the platform, then when being held at gunpoint by Barkley, Thomas held the gun away from him and headbutted his face which caused him to back away with a brief concussion while bleeding through the nose. Then when WCKD ambushed the Right Arm headquarters and started loading up all the immunes, he hit the WCKD soldier behind him with his elbow. In the Death Cure graphic novel, Thomas has been alongside of the Right Arm who are heavily trained in CQC which assumes that he learned some proficient skills of Defendu from them, it was first shown in the novel when silently intruding a WCKD warehouse, he used his knee to kick a fully armed WCKD soldier in his stomach with support from Newt tripping him over. Then six months later in the film adaptation of The Death Cure, Thomas demonstrated Jujutsu, when Newt was infected by the Flare and tried to attack Thomas with his combat knife, however, Thomas was able to use dodge and counter techniques deflecting from every strike swung from him. Then when an enraged Janson attempted to take the serum from Teresa, Thomas, with effort, charged towards him and started a duel against him. After he was punched by Janson, he used techniques of boxing on him by punching him back twice with right hooks, Janson puts Thomas in a chokehold, but Thomas managed to lean Janson to the back of the wall, escaping the choke, then gets back up, quickly delivering strikes to the right and left side of his face and gut using heavy blows of brute strength with hooks and one right uppercut punch.
- Danger Detection: Before and after the Maze, Thomas' curiosity possessed a sharp sixth sense of perception over many things in life and he has been able to perceive the feeling of danger when something was wrong or wasn't in place the way he claimed it to be. During the film adaptation of The Maze Runner, he knew that a Griever was approaching his position and hid himself to cover before it could spot him, In the film adaptation of The Scorch Trials, after his arrival to the base compound, Thomas felt that the people who said they were sent to rescue them and were enemies against WCKD were keeping important information from him and discovered the truth that his group never escaped as the people were WCKD themselves. Then when traveling in the Scorch, he was able to hear the incoming WCKD aircrafts and hid under a bunker before they could spot him and his friends. In the film adaptation of The Death Cure, after going through a shootout against WCKD security guards, Thomas and Newt ran around the floor searching for Minho while being chased and Thomas had known to wait for the soldiers to approach near their position where they had stopped to fire back at them. Then when walking with Teresa to the exit, he quickly turned around and saw Janson about to fire his pistol at her, but he moved out of the way to head into the medical room just before he could shoot at them for safety.
Quotes
- "If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh, then go eat some of Frypan's dinner.” The Maze Runner (Book)
- "This place... it's not what we thought it was. It's not a prison, it's a test. It all started when we were kids. They'd give us these challenges. They were experimenting on us. And then people started disappearing... every month, one after the other, like clockwork." The Maze Runner
- "Maybe... but I know what I'm supposed to do now. It's not just about Minho, it's about all of us. It's about everyone WCKD's ever taken, everyone they will take. They'll never stop. They'll never stop, so I'm gonna stop them. I'm gonna kill Ava Paige." Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
- "Look, even if we find Minho, there's no guarantee we'll make it back from this." Maze Runner: The Death Cure