Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-410526-20160102160723/@comment-26339753-20160103034952

SpiritedDreaming wrote: The bandages are actually just above the joint between the prosthetics and the real legs. I'm actually inclined to say he did have the prosthetics and they might have even been new, and whatever happened just before Cinder and Emerald found him reopened some of the healing wounds he had because of his need for prosthetic legs.

And about there being no one around the scene other than Merury's dead dad, Mercury, Emerald and Cinder and that's why it was a fight between Merc and his dad; the attackers could still be in the burning house. They could have fled into the forest in the opposite direction. They could be collapsed on the other side of the house. Mercury could have dragged his dad's body out of the burning house. We didn't even see a smidgeon of the fight; we only know about it because Cinder mentioned a fight. There's probably been enough time for anyone who gets out of the burning house to flee into the darkness and live to fight another day.

As for why Cinder and Emerald wouldn't interfere in a fight between Mer and his Dad vs random attackers; they had to make sure the person they were looking to recruit was strong enough. Merc's dad obviously wasn't, since he died, but Merc survived so he'll do. Now I interpreted that totally differently. I thought Mercury killed his dad. Cinder wanted Marcus, but obviously Mercury was better.