Chapter 8 Summary

The guards escort Minho, Thomas, and Newt to a room. Minho is the only one who struggles with the armed guards. The guards lock the three into the room with food to eat. They talk about how they should have made a run for it before the guards showed up.

Thomas tells them what Brenda said about only trusting her and someone named Chancellor Paige. They decide that somehow, some way, they will escape the following day.

Chapter 8 Analysis

Ironically, even at gunpoint, Thomas feels unusually calm. The boys find it suspicious that Brenda, who works for WICKED, is someone whom they should trust. Thomas believes that something happened to him when they wiped his memories. He believes that if they give him his memories back, he'll start to trust WICKED again. The boys intend to escape the following day when they are...