Thomas asks Vince if he thinks there could ever be a cure. Vince says no and tells Thomas he wouldn’t be standing there either if he thought a cure was possible. Before he will tell Thomas the plan, he asks for something in return. Brenda prompts Thomas to tell Vince that WICKED thinks Thomas is the key to the cure. Vince lets them in on a possible secret weapon to give them the advantage: “a way to make sure no one can use any weapons” (227).

Gally reveals they have one member of the Right Arm named Charlotte Chiswell, who worked as an engineer for an arms manufacturer. Charlotte knows a way to make weapons useless because they run on computer systems. She can remotely jam them, which will take a couple hours once a device is placed inside WICKED. Vince suggests Thomas go ahead of their attack team to plant the device so in order to shorten the time between dropping off the Immunes they have gathered, planting the device, and attacking.