<Li> Lawrence: Vince's assistant who captures Thomas, Minho, Brenda, and Jorge and delivers them to a safe house . After their demands to see "the boss" Lawrence took them to Vince . He later drops off Thomas near the WICKED headquarters for his plan to plant the explosive device . </Li> <Li> Hans: A former WICKED scientist whom Thomas, Minho, Brenda, and Jorge, meet at Denver to help remove the mind - controlling chips from Thomas and Minho . </Li> <Li> Ava Paige: The Chancellor of WICKED and the person responsible for managing and organizing the search for a cure of the Flare, including sending teenagers into the Maze to study the minds of Immunes . However, she disagreed with the consequence that the teenagers were being killed . Her character serves as the omniscient voice in the books' Epilogues . She was never seen in the series, but every Epilogue of the three books in the main series, plus The Fever Code, includes an e-mail that she writes to her associates . She states that a cure for the Flare virus will never be found, that the Immunes are humanity's last hope to restore the dying world, and that WICKED's actions of sending them for Trials are threatening that hope . She is serves as an ex-machina in the narrative, saving Thomas from a fatal brain experiment at the last minute, after he was sedated; She instigates and secretly orchestrates his rescue of hundreds of Immunes from the attack on the Maze . She also promises and delivers a paradisaical safe haven for the Immunes . </Li> <P> Critical reception for The Death Cure was mixed . Commonsensemedia gave the book three out of five stars, commenting that the book's oppressiveness kept it from being more memorable than they wanted it to be . The Deseret News also commented on the book's bleak nature, but praised it as being "both conclusive and satisfying". The Horn Book Guide and Kirkus Reviews both gave positive reviews, with the Horn Book Guide opining that the book's conclusion was "thought - provoking". </P>

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