Project Adam
The year that the older Adam Reed crash-lands in and first encounters his younger self.
What is 2022?
This Alabama town is where Walter McMillian lived and where the crime took place.
What is Monroeville?
The open area in the center of the maze where the boys first live and farm.
What is the Glade?
The name of the newly integrated high school football team.
What are the T.C. Williams Titans?
The common tragedy that all six participants share, which is revealed to be the reason they were chosen for the game.
What is being the sole survivor of an accident/disaster?
This is the science fiction phenomenon that prevents the older Adam from sharing certain future knowledge with his younger self.
What is the Fixed Time?
The main advocate, Bryan Stevenson, establishes this non-profit organization to provide legal defense for the indigent.
What is the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)?
The creatures that patrol the maze at night, described as monstrous, mechanical-biological hybrids.
What are Grievers?
The year in which the integration of the football team and high school takes place.
What is 1971?
This is the monetary prize offered to the winner of the escape room game.
What is $10,000?
The two Adams ultimately travel to this year to meet their father before he invents time travel.
What is 2018?
Walter McMillian was falsely convicted for the murder of this young white woman.
Who is Ronda Morrison?
The organization responsible for putting the teenagers in the maze as part of an experiment.
What is W.C.K.D. (or WICKED)?
This Black coach, hired as the head coach, is initially met with resistance from the community.
Who is Herman Boone?
The first room the players enter is a heating device, which they must escape before the temperature reaches a fatal level.
What is a giant oven/furnace?
This brilliant quantum physicist is Adam's father and the original inventor of the technology that makes time travel possible.
Who is Louis Reed?
The primary false witness whose testimony led to Walter's conviction.
Who is Ralph Myers?
This disease/plague has devastated the Earth's population, making the Gladers' immunity valuable to W.C.K.D.
What is the Flare?
Gary Bertier, the defensive captain, is paralyzed after this kind of incident following a celebratory victory.
What is a car accident?
This former military specialist is the most physically capable member of the group, but his hubris ultimately leads to his demise.
Who is Jason Walker (or Ben)?
The female antagonist who steals and monopolizes the time travel technology after Louis Reed's death.
Who is Maya Sorian?
This is the Supreme Court case that dictates that states must provide legal counsel to indigent defendants in felony cases. (Though the movie does not explicitly mention it, it's a key legal concept related to the EJI's work).
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This is the nickname given to the runners who have been stung by a Griever and regain some of their memory.
What is a Victim (or a Stung)?
The training camp location where the team is initially forced to stay and bond away from their segregated hometown.
What is Gettysburg?
The mysterious organization behind the deadly game, which operates for the amusement of wealthy clients who bet on the outcomes.
What is the Minos Escape Room Corporation?