Newt's Disappearing Limp: Newt was one of the original runners and broke his leg after jumping from a wall. In the first movie we see Newt limping ... but in later movies it disappears. Thomas Brodie-Sangster said he had trouble remembering which leg was injured (left) and put a pebble in his shoe to help him remember while filming The Maze Runner. And later, he admitted in an interview that he kept forgetting about the limp while he was filming The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure. This is the