Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20160207164218/@comment-14138255-20160209182346

Phantomlink959 wrote: Keep one thing in mind;

Mercury dragged Marcus away from the house after it caught fire.

If he was abusive to the point that his son would kill him it is infinitely unlikely he would bother to drag him away before torching the place.

We also don't know why or when Mercury got the prosthetics. Or they were fighting and the house caught fire in the fight. Marcus was probably already dead, but Mercury dragged him out in the hope he was still alive. It isn't unheard of for a victim of abuse of that kind to still have residual feelings, enough to drag them out in order to save their life, keep that in mind.