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Biography
Newt was a Group A Glader and Alby's second-in-command. He is described as having blonde hair, a square jaw, and a heavy limp from his days as a runner and his suicide attempt. Newt is described as being taller than Alby, despite their apparent age difference (Newt is estimated to be around 17-18). Newt was named after Sir Isaac Newton by WICKED.

The Maze Runner
In The Maze Runner, Newt is initially introduced as Alby's second-in-command. He and Thomas quickly form a strong friendship. After Alby goes through the changing Newt undertakes the role of leader of the Gladers. Newt calls a gathering with the aim of deciding how to deal with Thomas' breaking of Rule number 1. At this gathering, Newt hears the opinions of every keeper surrounding the situation, Newt decides that Thomas shall be sentenced to one day in the slammer, at the end of this gathering Newt also announces Thomas as a Runner. Newt also voices his support for Thomas' plan to escape the maze through the Griever hole, Newt manages to rally the support of the other keepers and around 40 Gladers. The group of Gladers leave the Glade and together they fight against WICKED's Grievers, allowing Thomas, Teresa, and chuck to enter the code which allows them to shut down the Grievers and escape the maze. Newt, Minho, and around half of the Gladers survive the fight, after their escape, they find themselves in the WICKED control center. Upon entering the WICKED control center, Dr.Ava Paige appears with one of the other Gladers, Gally, He does not seem to be himself. Dr.Paige explains the Flare virus and the condition of the world to the Gladers. After Paige's explanation, Gally throws a knife at Thomas. Chuck throws himself in the way of this knife, which causes him a fatal blow to the chest. Thomas is deeply pained by chuck's death and he goes berserk, attacking Gally, needing to be pulled away from him by Newt and the other Gladers. Following this event, the building is stormed by people who claim that they have rescued them and are bringing them to safety and away from WICKED.

The Scorch Trials
Newt and his fellow Gladers were staying in a dormitory, they were all awoken by strange sounds of groaning and banging. The group discovered the banging to be coming from a group of humans who had been infected by the Flare virus, these infected humans were referred to as Cranks. These Cranks were attempting to attack the group through the barred windows of the dormitory. Thomas made the decision to search the building in the hopes of finding Teresa, leaving Newt to watch over the group. Upon finding out that Thomas had discovered a boy in the room that Teresa had stayed in Newt began questioning him, finding that this boy who introduces himself as Aris is part of a group of female Gladers who were referred to as Group B, this shocked Newt, and his fellow Gladers. At 5:00 the Gladers waited for the flat trans they had been informed of. After around an hour the flat trans appears and the Gladers entered the flat trans, Thomas being the last to enter. This flat trans takes them to an underground tunnel, The Gladers traveled this underground tunnel, surfacing into the wasteland that had been referred to as the Scorch. The Gladers then make their way toward an abandoned city in the hopes of finding food and water. While making this journey a scream is heard coming from a shack, Newt and Minho advise Thomas to investigate this. Thomas later returns to inform the group that he saw Teresa, when asked why she did not come back with him he states that she asked him to leave her. The group eventually finds shelter from a storm that has begun, Newt begins a discussion of what the group's next actions should be. The group's discussion of this matter is interrupted by Jorge who claims to be the leader of the cranks and demands to know their purpose in the scorch. After finally being able to get some food, Newt and the Gladers hear crashing coming from the lower floors of their tower, and they rush to evacuate. Newt and Jorge along with the other Gladers manage to escape the tower, they, however, become separated from Thomas and Brenda. Jorge goes on to lead Newt and the other Gladers through the abandoned city. The group eventually set up a camp near the outskirts of the city. Newt and the other Gladers begin searching for Thomas and Brenda. During the Glader's search, Frypan informs the others that he saw Thomas and Brenda being taken by a large group of Cranks in an alley within the city. This report from Frypan causes Newt and Minho along with the rest of the group to grow angry and plan to ambush the group of cranks. Newt along with some other members of the group fought against the group of Cranks and Minho freed Thomas and Brenda, Newt and the Gladers fight against the group of Cranks and escape. Newt watches along with his fellow Gladers watched as a Berg collected Thomas in order to remove the bullet wound he has sustained from one of the Cranks shooting him. The Berg then drops Thomas off back to his group, The group then continued to the safe haven they had been told about. Group B had taken Thomas, hostage, They warned Newt and the group that they would open fire if they were followed back to their camp. The Gladers eventually reach the safe haven which is based in a snowy valley, Newt and the other Gladers decide to form an alliance with the girls of Group B so they could confront WICKED together. Upon making these decisions Thomas, Aris, and Teresa return now supposedly free from the control of WICKED. Moments later large canisters begin rising from the ground, and strange-looking monsters covered in bulbs emerge from the canisters. Both groups of Gladers fight together against these monsters, and they eventually manage to destroy the monsters, after this, a Berg arrives and both Groups, along with Jorge and Breda climb aboard and escape.

The Death Cure
In the Death Cure, 'Rat Man' announces to the groups which of them were immune to the flare virus, Newt was not immune. Newt not being immune meant he had the Flare Virus. This news came as a shock to the Gladers, especially Thomas and Minho, Newt took the news of his condition calmly. Newt is a far more quiet and reserved character throughout The Death Cure, in an attempt to hide how saddened he was by the news. Newt became progressively angry and irritable throughout the book, Newt's irritability and short temper brought on by the Flare even caused him to fight with Minho despite their strong friendship. Newt was fully aware that he was slowly losing his sanity to the virus. Newt continues to make his best effort to keep it together. Newt gives a note to Thomas which reads "When the time is right". Thomas, Minho, Brenda and Jorge, and Newt manage to take a Berg from the WICKED facility to the last standing city of Denver, where those who are immune live in safety. Cranks or those who were not immune were not allowed to enter the city of Denver. When they arrived at the city Newt had to stay behind on the berg due to the fact that he would be unable to enter the city. Thomas, Minho, Brenda, and Jorge venture into the city to investigate. . While left alone in the Berg Newt decided he didn't want his friends to have to watch him suffer through the progression of the virus, he makes the decision to leave the berg, leaving a note behind for his friends "They got inside somehow. They're taking me to live with the other Cranks. It's for the best. Thanks for being my friends. Goodbye." Thomas and Minho didn't want to leave Newt alone in the Crank palace. Thomas wanted to talk to Newt in the hopes that he could take him back to the city to try and find a cure for the virus. When the group found Newt he had deteriorated further and had become increasingly angry, in a fleeting moment of clearness he appreciated that the group had come for him, but he didn't want his friends to have to see him suffer so begged them to leave him. Newt became frustrated when his friends refused to leave him and he aimed a launcher at them and told them to leave immediately. When Thomas was driving out of the city with The Right Arm, they come into contact with a group of Cranks that try to attack them. Thomas notices a familiar face within this crowd, Newt. Thomas leaves the van and immediately runs to Newt, Newt begins to beg Thomas to shoot him, and this is something Newt left a note to Thomas that read "Kill me. If you've ever been my friend, kill me". Thomas was extremely reluctant to do this but Newt was begging him helplessly. Newt didn't want to completely lose his sanity to the Flare and end up like all the Cranks their group had come across. Newt ends up telling Thomas how he sustained his limp, jumping from one of the walls within the maze. Newt tells Thomas that his suicide attempt was all his fault and blames him for everything that has happened, He asks Thomas to kill him to make up for all the pain he has caused. Newt continues to beg Thomas to kill him, He goes berserk and attacks Thomas and in his last moments of sanity, he begs Thomas "Please, Tommy. Please". Although reluctant, Thomas knew that this was Newt's last wish and so pulled the trigger of his gun and shot Newt in the head.

The Fever Code
In the Prologue to the Fever code more about Newt's backstory is revealed. A young Newt is shown to be living at home with his younger sister Lizzy and his mother and father in a basement. WICKED bursts into the family's basement and demands that they need to take Lizzy, Newt's younger sister, away for them to perform tests as they know that she is immune to the Flare virus and require her for their research. Newt's father tries to defend his family by grabbing a gun and firing shots at the WICKED enforcers, he misses these shots and the agents shoot Newt's mother and father dead. the agents feel some pity towards Newt and take him as a non-immune control subject for their experiments. Newt is separated from his sister when they reach the WICKED facility, she is placed with Group B members and Newt is placed with the members of Group A. Newt is completely aware of the fact that he is not immune. After a short time, Newt and the other children are given brain implants by WICKED to allow them to monitor the children's brain activity. During his time at the WICKED facility, he befriends Minho and Alby, and the three of them begin sneaking out of their rooms during the night. The three boys even manage to find a way out of the facility, they do not take the chance to escape as they know there are no feasible means of survival for them. Newt is also able to occasionally catch brief sightings of his sister but is unable to see her. Newt and his friends eventually meet Thomas and Teresa, although they are often separated for years at a time. With the help of Thomas, Newt is eventually able to visit his sister for a short time before the Maze Trials begin. Lizzy comforts Newt through his heavy emotions, Newt, however, feels awful about his little sister having to comfort him. At the commencement of the Maze Trials Newt, Minho and Alby discover that Thomas and Teresa are not entering the maze with them, this shocks them and they feel an extreme sense of betrayal. Before the Maze Trials, Newt and the other trial subjects have their minds wiped by WICKED. Newt loses all memory of his sister and the groups are sent into their mazes. A Glader names Nick takes charge of the Gladers, Newt and Alby have a very rocky relationship with him and have regular arguments. After around a year of the trial, Newt is finding it hard to cope with all the losses of Gladers he was unable to prevent, feeling an intense amount of despair and feeling that there is seemingly no way out of the surrounding maze. Newt attempts suicide by jumping from one of the maze walls. He survives this jump, but injures his leg, giving him the characteristic limp we see throughout the books.

The Crank Palace
The Crank Palace follows Newt through the events of The Death Cure. Leaving only a note for his friends, Newt leaves the Berg before Thomas, Minho, Brenda, and Jorge can return from their mission in the city of Denver. Newt goes on to experience the nightmare of life on the streets surrounding the walls of the city. Newt spends his time running from those who are infected and those who are hunting the infected, He eventually ends up in the Crank Palace, the dumping ground for non-immunes who have lost all hope. Newt thought running away from his friends would help to protect them but on his travels, he meets a woman named Keisha and her young son Dante, who end up helping save Newt in a way he didn't know he could be saved. Throughout the book, we see the story from inside Newt's mind as he goes in search of his own meaning in this life gone so wrong. He tries to find a fulfill a newfound destiny before his life comes to its inevitable end, the book ends with newts last meeting with Thomas.