<P> Thomas and his friends find Hans who removes Minho's control chip, but WICKED uses the chip to force Thomas to resist the procedure: Brenda, Jorge, and Minho have to hold him down in order for Hans to perform the surgery . </P> <P> They visit a café where a man is caught taking Bliss and arrested by the security guards . One of the guards apprehends Thomas in order to sell him to bounty hunters that will take him to WICKED . WICKED Assistant Director Janson intervenes in holographic form, sending a police vehicle to rescue Thomas . Janson tells Thomas that "to save Newt", he must return to WICKED . </P> <P> Minho, Thomas, Brenda, and Jorge return to the Berg (vehicle) to find a note saying that Newt has been taken to the Cranks . Minho convinces the four of them to go to the Denver Crank Palace to rescue Newt, where they bribe the guards to get in . When they meet Newt, he angrily orders them to leave and the other Cranks chase them out . Thomas then remembers the note Newt gave him and reads it, to find that Newt had begged Thomas to kill him . Thomas despairs over not having read the note earlier, and the four go back to Denver . </P> <P> In Denver, Thomas sees Newt, who has succumbed to the Flare . Newt begs Thomas to end his suffering and kill him . Thomas shoots him in the head as an act of mercy . Then, they discover that Teresa and the other Immunes all had been captured . Thomas and Minho knock out the Immunes' former guards and threaten them to make the guards take them to WICKED also . Thomas and Brenda discover the guards were led by Vince, the leader of the Right Arm . Vince tells them the Right Arm is copying WICKED's operations, and plan to take over their headquarters building . </P>

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