"How are we supposed to figure out the code?" Cabe asked the group. Walter suddenly slammed his palm on the table and shook the weak wood. Paige immediately took a step towards him, but he turned around and folded his hands behind his head, walking a few steps away.
"Well he isn't helping." Toby stated, earning a sharp look from both Happy and Cabe, "What? It's true. He's anxious and frustrated that he can't figure out this problem when he solved so many others."
"Well you're not helping either." Happy retorted. It was then that Walter turned around and faced them again. His eyes were focused determinedly on something that only he could see, as if calculations were flying past his eyes. He finally stepped back to the table and put his hands down on either side of one of the maps they had been studying.
Earlier, after Walter made the deal and Scorpion had a long conversation (meaning half-argument) about it, the maze, the Glade, the boys, and every other possible variable, the boys had taken them to the Map-Room. The boys were highly doubtful of it, but Walter was determined to solve the maze TODAY.
He argued that the boys were just kids and that they wouldn't be smart enough to solve the maze anyways, and that was why they hadn't escaped. Happy argued that whoever created the maze might have purposefully made it impossible to solve. And Toby commented that it was like a test.
"Like...mice in a maze. There's a purpose, and obviously you don't just put random kids in a maze for NO REASON! So, they're looking for something-"
It was then that Happy cut in with, "-or someone. They must be trying to find...the best kid I guess? That doesn't explain why they would do it with only boys though..."
"Unless they're not! These boys are teenagers, hormones would probably make them lose concentration." Sylvester added. He had been listening carefully to the conversation silently until then. Suddenly Walter looked up and said simply,
"You're on the right track." The team was silent for a moment, trying to gauge if he would say anything else. He gestured towards the ceiling where sunlight was peeking through the cracks. He turned back to his team and asked, "Who says they couldn't build a ladder and make their way across the too of the walls? There must be something stopping them. Happy, would you like to test it?" Happy grinned and rubbed her hands together,
"Definitely." She replied. Happy walked out the doors of the Map Room without another word, Toby and Sylvester trailing behind her. Cabe and Paige refocused their attention on Walter. Their leader stood in contemplative silence for a minute before jogging to the other side of the room and pulling the 'Sector 1' chest away from the wall.
"Got any ideas? With a room full of maps there should be an answer somewhere." Cabe said as he followed Walter's example and pulled out the 'Sector 2' chest. Walter reached in the chest and fished around until he found the very first map the boys had made.
"A sequence...or any pattern at all has to be here! They might want to make this hard, and there may not be an answer to the maze, but no equation is unsolvable!" Walter exclaimed angrily, holding up the map to his team mates. He began sifting through the chest again until he came up with the maps for the second through fifteenth days. Paige glanced between the two before doing the same with the 'Sector 3' chest.
Ten minutes later they had organized everything on the table for the first thirty days and were going over them to try and figure out what exactly the pattern was. Paige was holding up one of the maps to face the light of a window when she suddenly had an idea.
"What if the answer is a code? If somehow programming the code is the way out?" Even Walter looked surprised at her idea. He nodded slowly and looked over the maps.
"You might be right...get Sylvester in here, now!" He ordered and Cabe nodded once, swiftly leaving the room. Walter held up a map to the light and turned to Paige. He spoke triumphantly, "I think we just figured out the maze."
