Will tonight’s season finale answer any of these unsolved questions?

(Don’t hold your breath.)

But next year’s series finale had better….

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WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS?

Lost, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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WHAT WE KNOW:4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

WHAT IS THE FOUR-TOED STATUE?

It appears among many ruins scattered across the Island, suggesting evidence of an ancient civilization.

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An allusion to the Statue of Liberty?

The Colossus of Rhodes?

WHAT’S THE REAL CONNECTION BETWEEN BEN AND WIDMORE?

Lost | WHAT WE KNOW: While sailing back to camp in the finale of season 2, Sayid, Jin, and Sun spotted a giant, column-like statue of a

Ben has been desperately trying to keep him away from it.

He also said, ‘‘Everything you have, you took from me.’’

POLAR BEARS?

Lost, Michael Emerson | WHAT WE KNOW: Charles Widmore — the father of Desmond’s true love, Penelope — has been desperately searching for the Island. Ben has been desperately

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WHAT WE KNOW:The Dharma Initiative had polar bears at its zoology facility, known as the Hydra.

Their cages were wired for intelligence testing.

A polar bear skeleton with a Hydra collar was found in the Sahara desert by Charlotte Lewis.

Lost | WHAT WE KNOW: The Dharma Initiative had polar bears at its zoology facility, known as the Hydra. Their cages were wired for intelligence testing. A

Were the bears guinea pigs in time travel/teleportation experiments?

DOES THE ISLAND REALLY HAVE HEALING POWERS?

WHAT WE KNOW:Locke was paralyzed and now he can walk.

Terry O’Quinn, Lost | WHAT WE KNOW: Locke was paralyzed — and now he can walk. Trumping that, he was dead — and now he’s not. Jin was sterile

Trumping that, he was dead and now he’s not.

Jin was sterile and now he’s got a kid he’s never met.

And yet, Jack got appendicitis and Ben got a tumor on his spine.

Yunjin Kim, Lost, … | WHAT WE KNOW: The Others had a baby-making problem on the Island. Women could conceive and carry a child into the second trimester. Then, something

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Like that fickle bitch of Fate, the Island giveth health and taketh it away.

WHY DO PREGNANT WOMEN ON THE ISLAND DIE BEFORE THEIR THIRD TRIMESTER?

WHAT WE KNOW:The Others had a baby-making problem on the Island.

Lost, Nestor Carbonell | WHAT WE KNOW: Richard Alpert — the apparent No. 2 man among the Others — doesn’t really age. He looks almost the same now as

Women could conceive and carry a child into the second trimester.

Then, something icky happened inside them, killing baby and mother.

The Others recruited fertility doctor Juliet to the Island to solve the problem.

John Terry, Lost | WHAT WE KNOW: In season 1, Jack spotted Christian (pictured) in his coffin attire walking through the jungle. He hasn’t seen him since — but

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WHAT’S UP WITH THE APPARENTLY AGELESS MR. ALPERT?

WHAT WE KNOW:Richard Alpert the apparent No.

2 man among the Others doesn’t really age.

Lost | WHAT WE KNOW: During her pre-crash pregnancy, a psychic explicitly warned Claire that she shouldn’t give up her child up for adoption as she intended.

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WHY DO JACK AND BEN SEE THEIR DEAD PARENTS?

He hasn’t seen him since but Claire and Locke have.

And once in his early Dharma days, Ben was visited by his dead mother.

Lost, Josh Holloway | WHAT WE KNOW: Sometimes, a chorus of whispering voices can be heard in the jungle. They usually start up right when something really, really bad

WHAT’S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AARON, CLAIRE’S BABY?

‘‘Don’t let another raise your baby,’’ she was told.

(Or was that ‘‘an Other’’?)

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WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH ALL THE WHISPERING NOISES PEOPLE HEAR IN THE JUNGLE?

WHAT WE KNOW:Sometimes, a chorus of whispering voices can be heard in the jungle.

They usually start up right when something really, really bad is about to happen.