Unanswered Questions from Lost 4.2

Before they had an end date in sight, the old Lost would've stretched the events of tonight's episode out over three weeks. But in a short 48 minutes we got the backstories of four new interesting characters, a Colonel Kurtz joke, pet polar bear bones, a cowbell, a shooting, a fresh round of Whose Turn Is It To Kick Ben's Ass?, and proof that Mr. Abbadon wasn't a figment of Hurley's imagination.

That's not to say questions weren't left hanging in the air like the bitter stench of sadness wafting off a soundly whipped Mormon presidential candidate.

• Was Jeff Fahey added to the cast to refuel the old theories that events on the island are happening in a virtual reality?
• How were the rover operators so sure of the flight number of the sunken plane? Is Oceanic like Qantas and rarely has accidents?
  
• How much longer will it be until Jennifer Love Hewitt is featured as Miles Straume's lover in a Very Special Crossover Episode with The Ghost Whisperer?
• When we finally see Fisher Stevens as George Minkowski, will the producers furnish him with a thick prosthetic for his pencil-neck so he doesn't look like the male equivalent of Giada De Laurentiis? Because a huge head on a thin body is just so distracting...and I miss enough Easter eggs on this show already.