The Death Cure: Analysis

The book I chose to read was called “The Death Cure”. This book is the third sequel in “The Maze Runner” series and it continues Thomas’s and the Rest of the Gladers journey against the Flare. In the beginning of the book, Thomas has been placed in an empty room with only small meals coming from a slot in the door every day. “Complete isolation. For over three weeks now… Alone in an unbearable silence, with unlimited time to think about the disease rooted inside of him: the Flare, that silent, creeping virus that slowly took away everything that made a person human.” (Dashner 1). In “The Scorch Trials”, the second book in the series, Thomas and his friends had been told that they had all contracted the Flare, and in order to be cured they had to venture through the Scorch and make it to the "safe haven" where they will be treated with the cure for the Flare. But Thomas had believed that they had been lied to, and that none of the Gladers and himself actually had the Flare. 
So when the Rat Man (a reappearing character from the previous books in the series) tells Thomas that he does have the Flare but is immune to it, Thomas actually felt shocked because he hadn’t expected that answer. “The Flare virus lives in every part of your body, yet it has no effect on you, nor will it ever. You’re a member of an extremely rare group of people. You’re immune to the Flare.” (Dashner 10). The man then goes on to explain how WICKED had been formed and also why they had placed the Gladers and the subjects from Group B into the Maze, forced them to pass through the Scorch Trials and caused them to go through so much pain and loss. "Everything done to them--every cruel trick played, every deceit, every monster placed in their paths--it all had been part of an elaborate experiment. And somehow it was leading WICKED to a cure." (Dashner 11). 
WICKED had been formed for the purpose of finding a cure to the Flare. So to do so they had set up experiments with the Munies, which is what the people who were immune to the Flare called. They picked out the best and brightest out of them then erased their memory and placed them into the Maze where they would analyze the "subjects". WICKED performed this scenario with two groups; one with the Gladers put into the Maze, and another one was with Group B, who were put into an identical Maze but this time the population was all female. They wanted to analyze the Munies brain patterns and see what made them different from everyone else, or more specifically made them immune to the Flare. So they put the subjects through many tests, first the Maze, then the Scorch Trails and now they had just completed phase three which was a different test for everyone, and for Thomas it was complete isolation. But what Thomas doesn't understand is why suddenly WICKED it willing to tell them everything after just lying to them repeatedly. How is he supposed to know if what hes being told is the truth, or just another lie? 
I infer that throughout the book WICKED will gather more information and data to complete the cure for the Flare. " Everything we've done up till now has been calculated for one purpose and one purpose only: to analyze your brain patterns and build a blueprint from them. The goal is to use this blueprint to develop a cure for the Flare. The lives lost, the pain and suffering--you knew the stakes when this began. We all did. It was all done to ensure the survival of the human race. And we're very close. Very, very close." (Dashner 8). They' so close, all they need to do is finish phase four of the trials so that they can gather the last of their data to create the cure and save the human race.