It then becomes crueler when it's revealed the next escape room was the last one. A distraught Zoey is briefly Forced to Watch this from the safety of the taxi before being transported away by Minos. It's especially heartbreaking to watch Brianna, who realizes she's about to die, completely crumble and sob, 'I don't want to die!' An empathetic Rachel soothingly says, 'I know' and the two huddle together as they both accept their deaths and get burned alive. The only thing they can do as another round of acid rain begins to fall is to Face Death with Dignity. However, just before they can enter, Minos denies them an escape as There Can Only Be One winner.

Zoey manages to get into the exit in the Acid Rain room and beckons Rachel and Brianna to follow her.

Realizing there was nothing left to do, the group is forced to leave him behind.

However, the group cries that it's pointless as the room itself was beginning to completely collapse and they had to find a way out. Rachel is especially rattled by this, saying that he just saved her life, screaming there had to be a way to help him. and then the rope suddenly snaps, sending him straight into the pit and vanishing underneath. He still manages to push a gasping Rachel to safety against all odds, and there's a Hope Spot that he'll survive as well as he pulls on the rope to the others. Nate, the priest who nearly got the group killed in the previous room, immediately claims that he knows what his purpose is now and jumps into the pit with a life preserver to save her, despite the rest of the group crying out how hopeless it is. In the Hourglass Bay room, Rachel backs up into one of the quicksand pits as they ramp up in intensity.He'll never get back to his family again all due to the sheer villainy of Minos. What's worse, is that he had since raised a family that he loved, with his wife waiting for him to come home for her birthday, not knowing that he never will. The first casualty among these survivors is Theo, who is never called by name at all in the film and has endured severe trauma by Minos, having lost his hearing after surviving Minos escape room that was designed as a submarine and the air pressure having burst with him inside.Case in point: Aboard the subway train that becomes the first escape room, you can already hear Brianna crying out 'no' several times as she begins to break down in tears and Theo has a Big 'NO!' moment as he frantically tries to break open the subway doors in vain, begging to be let out. One can only imagine how it would feel for past survivors of Minos escape rooms who went through hell and back to get out alive to suddenly have their deep-rooted traumas be All for Nothing with no guarantee they'll even survive again.After all the trauma and tragedy she's endured, losing her best friend (and potential boyfriend), the one good thing in her life, almost breaks her as she takes a moment to process her loss.

Afterward, she blames herself for his apparent death as she had convinced him to go with her saying that he was her best friend and now she's lost him. She gives a small cry of grief as she gets into the escape tunnel and gives a Long Last Look behind as the room completely sinks. When Zoey watches Ben seemingly fall to his death and get pulled under the quicksand, she's instantly grief-stricken memories of her time with him rush through her mind as she gives a blank stare forward and barely registers Rachel's pleas for her to snap out of it.There's also no guarantee that he'll stop having such nightmares even when all of this is over and Minos is dealt with. Even as Zoey and Ben made it out of their first round of Minos escape rooms, Ben just can't escape the fear of being locked in another one at any given moment - if a nightmare at an overnight stay at a hotel en route to New York and his detailed panic attack at his job when the door was briefly stuck is any indication.

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