[19] A week later, Ball told BuzzFeed that "we've got stages, we've got crews coming in, Dylan [O'Brien] will be back in a few weeks, we're building sets, and the script is being written. In some ways, this is almost like preparation for when Teresa will have to "betray" Thomas and make him feel utterly alone, just for the purpose of collecting data for WICKED. Later, it picks up the survivors of the Scorch Trials. [22][23], Composed by John Paesano, the soundtrack was released on September 11, 2015. The most dramatic test of friendship in the novel is between Thomas and Teresa. [54] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Plus, every leader knows what's best for his people. This catches Thomas by surprise. . Thomas awakes to discover that Teresa is nowhere to be found. We are rapidly approaching our shoot time. The signs and its messages are, in turn, foreshadowing Thomas's role as the true leader of his friends, both before the Trials (Thomas worked for WICKED) and after. But Minho comes just in time to let us know everything's going to be okay. The disease is serious to the point that Thomas is carried from the Burn and treated by Insidious, who choose defy their own guidelines about meddling in the preliminaries to spare Thomas. Blondie pulled a gun from a pocket of his long jacket. Tattoos When the Gladers conscious the night after their departure from the labyrinth and find that they have been deceived once more, they likewise understand that every one of them has been marked with a tattoo. Thomas will need this "fire" in his veins to get him through WICKED's horrible Trials. The Scorch is the land the groups needed to cross to make it to Safe Haven. At a time like Minho getting struck by lightning, he got straight up again and trekked on. This "fire" imagery immediately contains all of the other feelings in it, as well as foreshadows the coming heat of the Scorch. Plus, every leader knows what's best for his people. The Scorch Trials is a Young Adult novel by James Dashner, and is the second installment in the Maze Runner Series. Members of both the Gladers and Group B developed friendships with different people while in the Maze. There, they meet scorch survivors Jorge and Brenda at the crank asylum. In this sense, the tattoos may be one more route for Evil to test the Gladers and to check whether they can change the chances in spite of the assumptions set in their way. A gun is wielded by a Crank in the city and is used to shoot Thomas in the shoulder. Brenda starts to flirt with Thomas. The Scorch Trials - Chapters 15 - 24 Summary & Analysis - www.BookRags.com This is natural: he has been manipulated by these outside forces so much that it is hard to stand up against WICKED individually. I know it sounds menacing, but it stands for World in Catastrophe, Killzone Experiment Department. Thomas views Teresa as his best friend, and perhaps as more than a friend. A portion of the tattoos assign a job, for example, Minhos tattoo, which says Pioneer. This is why we did the demonstration with the hanging bodies and the bricked-up windows.