If you liked the first one, you'll love its sequel. By: Sue Lukenbaugh The Gladers return for another harrowing experience. The first Maze Runner opened up with an amnesiac Thomas waking in an elevator, which is shortly relived in the sequel, and being thrust into an enclosed glade completely disrupting the other Gladers lives. Outside their safe walls is a mysterious and deadly maze as their sole means of escape. They thought that it was all over when they escaped the maze, but they couldn't have been more wrong, heck they should have stayed in the maze. What awaits them on the outside is far worse than the Grievers in the maze picking off the unlucky few. Out of the frying pan, and into the scorch, Thomas and crew head for the next chapter in the Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials . The film picks up where the second one ended. Thomas ( Dylan O’Brien ), and his companions Newt ( Thomas Brodie-Sangster ), Minho ( Ki Hong Lee ), Frypan ( Dexter Darden ), Winston