Talk:Many Happy Returns/@comment-26269248-20150625161723/@comment-26247132-20150625170532

1) Did we really see arrows? The last time I watched this episode, I looked closely, but all I could see is crash landing wreckage. As to Mel surviving, my guess is she either landed too close to the edge and slipped over or landed on a ledge that gave way as she struggled to climb up. Either way, it's plausible. You might be interested in the story of Juliane Koepcke who was the only survivor of a plane crash after falling 2 miles to the ground.

2) This scene makes me laugh every time. Seriously, they all just stood around and watched him climb down without doing jack about it. Well, Bellamy and Finn were too busy arguing to pay attention, but Monroe and Murphy should have done more than just stand there, like check his knots or something (the rope didn't snap; it came untied).

3) We see Maya remove Bellamy's tracking device with a scalpel in Coup de Grace, showing it's under the skin and not embedded in muscle or bone (yikes!). Anya basically took off a chunk of skin but she wouldn't have torn into an artery or bone or anything. Even if it did end up getting infected, Anya died before she would have felt the effects.

4) It was Lincoln's horn (as Murphy points out when he asks about him). Either Lincoln left his pack behind with Octavia when he went back to his village or Nyko (and maybe Indra?) gave it to her after she helped them fight the Reapers. She does show up with new braids in her hair so I like the idea that she went back briefly to Lincoln's village and had her hair braided and was given Lincoln's belongings. They never tell us why she didn't stick around with Nyko but it was either because 1) she wanted to find out if her brother or any of the other Delinquents were alive and/or continue searching for Lincoln, or 2) Nyko said they'd let her live but that didn't necessarily mean they wanted her to follow them home.

5) First, we don't know where in the desert Jaha landed. All we know is that it was over by the Manhattan Bridge in NYC and NYC to Washington D.C. is over 200 miles away. In between, however, there could be any number of other Grounder clans and villages, not to mention bounty hunting Grounders wandering around looking for Sky People. We also have been told there's a Desert Clan (where Caris is from) so maybe they live in the Dead Zone, too.

6) The order was to shoot them, not to necessarily kill them. They had already taken the Grounder, Rivo, prisoner so it would make sense they would also take any other living Grounder captive if they could. Anya was just unlucky enough to be shot dead whereas Clarke was just grazed.