In its second season, The Leftovers transformed itself from a very good, very uneven series into one of the best shows on television. Without losing an ounce of the existential misery and grief that defined the first season, showrunner Damon Lindelof and his collaborators gently mixed humor, mystery, and even a little whimsy into their boiling pot of raw, human emotion. The result: A series that wallows in desperation and sadness that also, somehow, manages to be a ton of fun.

While the show's new theme song is happy to declare, "I think I'll just let the mystery be," we're not so content to sit idly by. With the season finale arriving this weekend, we have a few questions about what lies ahead. If we're lucky, the show will answer at least half, but hey, The Leftovers does what The Leftovers wants. It giveth and taketh away. For each question it answers, it will surely ask a new one.

1. Why did Evie and her friends fake their disappearance?

Last week's episode ended with a huge reveal: Evie Murphy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and her friends, whose disappearance in the season premiere has drive so much of the action over the past nine episodes, were alive and well and still living on our Earthly plane. Oh, and they are now members of the white-wearing, chain-smoking cult known as the Guilty Remnant. What drove these seemingly responsible young women to do something so drastic and damaging? And what are they planning to do next?

2. What did Isaac whisper to Meg?

In a flashback, we witnessed the distraught Meg Abbott (Liv Tyler) visit the town of Jarden two years before the Garveys arrived with one mission: to learn from the psychic Isaac Rayney (Darius McCrary) what her mother was going to tell her moments before she died. However, Isaac was hesitant to share this information and for seemingly good reason. Whatever he told her only (offscreen, of course) damaged her further, sending her down the path that would lead her to the Guilty Remnant and her current status as the Big Bad of The Leftovers.

3. What is Meg's big plan for Jarden?

We know that Meg has big plans for the fourth anniversary of the Grand Departure. We know that her superiors back at Guilty Remnant HQ think she's taking things too far. We also know that her chapter of the cult is dangerously loyal to her and the slightly skewed doctrine she employs. We also know that she has apparently acquired some explosives and was eyeing the bridge into Jarden something fierce in last week's episode. Whatever she's going to do, it's not going to be pretty.

4. Is Matt Team Kevin or Team Meg?

In one of season two's most soul-chafing episodes, Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston) banished himself from Jarden, tearing off his wristband and choosing to live among the squalid religious obsessives who are camped outside the entrance to the town. As the resident prophet of pain and suffering on The Leftovers, Matt is desperately seeking a cause to support and something to believe in. So what are we to make of his meeting with Meg last week, where she insinuated that she can give him exactly what he wants? Will the fact that his sister's boyfriend literally rose from the grave keep him from making a disastrous conversion?

5. Did Mary Jamison actually wake up for one night only?

Matt believes that Jarden is a place of miracles. He knows this because his vegetative wife, Mary, woke up for one night and one night only, leading to an intimate encounter, which lead to an unexpected pregnancy. At least that's what Matt claims. Because if Jarden isn't a place where miracles happen, then there's something much darker at play here. In theory, the forces that drained a lake and later brought Kevin (Justin Theroux) back from the dead could have also arranged for Matt to spend one more evening with his wife. Stranger things have happened on this series, but we're still waiting for Mary herself to speak up.

6. Will Nora Durst leave the Garvey clan behind for good?

The last time we saw Nora Durst (Carrie Coon), she was getting the hell out of Kevin Garvey's sphere of influence. It turns out that this infinitely forgiving and understanding woman draws the line at her boyfriend having extended conversations with a dead woman that only he can see. Since she's sat out the past few episodes, the finale will surely bring Nora back into the fold and touch on her plans for the future. Does she give Kevin another chance or does she try to rebuild her life from scratch for the third time in twenty episodes?

7. Have we seen the last of Patti Levin?

If the extraordinary "International Assassin" is the last we see of Patti Levin (Ann Dowd), it would be one hell of an exit for the best character on The Leftovers. Here's a character so watchable, so ruthless, and so fascinating that not even her suicide in season one could stop her from returning to the show. Ghost/demon Patti was even better than her living counterpart, literally haunting the show like a snide Greek chorus. Can The Leftovers get by without her? Probably. Surely. But we would love to see her pop up for one more round of Kevin-Garvey-ball-busting.

8. How much did Virgil know when he "killed" Kevin?

In one of the season's most shocking moments, Virgil (Steven Williams) poisoned Kevin Garvey so he could die and do battle with Patti in the afterlife. The old man promised to resuscitate him before he was too far gone, but as soon as Kevin's heart stopped, Virgil put a gun in his own mouth and pulled the trigger. His appearance as a helper and a guide in Kevin's purgatory suggested that this was all part of a plan–he died to make sure Kevin completed his mission. If this was the case though, why would he have left instructions for Michael Murphy (Jovan Adepo) to bury Kevin's body? Why would he deliberately drain the syringe of life-giving adrenaline before ending his own life? What was he trying to accomplish when he killed Kevin…and did he actually know for certain that some kind of mysterious force would bring him back from the dead? Since Virgil is dead, only Michael can answer those questions now, and who knows what Virgil actually told him.

9. Will Jill Garvey actually get to do anything?

Maybe, just maybe, the season finale will find something for Jill (Margaret Qualley) to do besides stand around and look concerned. Fingers crossed!

10. What's up with Kevin Garvey? And while we're at it, what's up with Grandpa Garvey? And that guy in the tower? And the earthquakes? And that cavewoman from the season premiere?

Is the newly resurrected Kevin some kind of perverse Christ figure, here to lead humanity in this time of religious crisis and fervor? Did Kevin's father (Scott Glenn) really communicate with his temporarily dead son through a purgatory television using hallucinogenic drugs while hanging out in Australia? What's the deal with the guy who lives in the tower in the middle of Jarden? Did he really see Patti chatting with Kevin or is he just another wacko? And was that cavewoman from the opening scene of the season premiere just an extended metaphor for dealing with the grief that accompanies a profound loss or was there something more going on there? You've got some explaining to do, The Leftovers.

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