Worth ambushes and apparently kills Quentin before leaving him behind. With his help, Leaven guides the group to the bridge room that will lead them out of the maze. Leaven also deduces that traps are not tagged by prime numbers, but by powers of prime numbers, and Kazan reveals himself to be an autistic savant who can quickly do prime factorizations mentally. Worth then realizes that the rooms move places throughout the Cube, which is the cause of all the tremors. There, the group finds Rennes' corpse: they've wandered in circles. Quentin beats him savagely and drops him into another room through a floor hatch. Quentin has become more and more unhinged he attempts to persuade Leaven to join him in abandoning the others and makes a sexual advance on her. Quentin grabs hold of Holloway, but then she falls to her death when Quentin decides to let go of her. Holloway tries to swing towards the outer wall, but another tremor causes the group to lose grip of the rope. Holloway volunteers to scout the gap using a rope made out of the group's clothes. When the group reaches the edge, they find a bottomless abyss separating the maze from the outer shell. After Kazan makes a sound and nearly causes Quentin's death, Quentin threatens Kazan and clashes with Holloway, who defends Kazan and insinuates that Quentin may have been an abusive husband who likes young girls. Rather than backtrack, they travel silently through a room with a sound-activated trap. The group moves toward the nearest edge as determined by her theory, but each of the rooms near the outer wall is trapped. She realizes that the numbers indicate the Cartesian coordinates of each room. Worth's knowledge of the outer shell's dimensions allows Leaven to determine that each side of the Cube is 26 rooms across, making 17,576 rooms in total. He guesses that its original purpose has been forgotten they have been imprisoned within the maze simply to put it to use. After being provoked by Quentin, Worth admits that he designed the maze's outer shell (also shaped like a cube) for a shadowy and uncaring bureaucracy. Tensions rise over personal conflicts and the mystery over the maze's purpose. Quentin injures his leg in a trapped room deemed safe by Leaven's calculations. Leaven hypothesizes that any room marked with a prime number is a trap, and they find an intellectually disabled man named Kazan, whom Holloway insists they bring along. Worth cagily describes himself as an office worker. He is a divorced police officer, Leaven is a young mathematics student, and Holloway is a free clinic doctor. Quentin believes each person was chosen to be there. This indicates that each trap is triggered by different sensors. Rennes enters a room that he thinks to be safe and is killed when he is sprayed in the face with acid. Leaven notices numbers inscribed into the narrow passageways between rooms. He tests each room by throwing one of his boots first. Rennes, a convict who has escaped seven prisons, assumes the traps are triggered by motion detectors. Quentin, who had been exploring, warns everyone that some rooms contain traps. None of them knows how or why they have arrived. In a pre-credits sequence, a man (Alderson) dies in a gory manner in a cube-shaped room.įive desperate people – Quentin, Worth, Holloway, Leaven, and Rennes – meet in another identical room.
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