the next room is a child's bedroom containing a diary from sonya, revealing the rooms are based on a fun day out she had with her mother. zoey discovers sonya's mother is amanda harper, who survived her fall in her original escape room and was forced into designing escape rooms for minos after they abducted her daughter. amanda appears and begs zoey to become the next puzzle-maker for minos, warning that she has no choice. ben is revealed to be trapped in a cage. when zoey refuses minos' demand, ben's cage starts filling with water, but zoey and amanda work together to free him. they manage to break out, fleeing the facility. they report their findings to the police, who retrieve the bodies of rachel, brianna, nathan, and theo; the news about minos goes public. an fbi agent assures zoey that minos will be tracked down.