The OC Returns

Well, it's been a month since the last new episode of The OC, and tonight is finally a new one again. I have a bowling league make-up game, so I will not be able to view it live. Thank God for DVRs. In case you don't remember what the shit is going on, here you go:

1. The OC's Lolita (or should I say, L-OC-ita), Kaitlin Cooper, has left Newport and is back at boarding school, where she is no doubt experimenting with various opiates, stealing cash from fraternities, and learning how to play hide the cobra with any man who walks through the door. By the time we see her again in another 2 seasons, she will almost be 18, strung out, and as loose as Tara Reid.
2. Johnny is dead. God it feels so good to write that.
3. Johnny's cousin, Sadie, has arrived in Newport to help Johnny's mom deal with Johnny's death. (I don't know why she would be sad. After all, she doesn't have to look at his stupid hair anymore, she won't have to hear him whine about Marissa, and she can use what would have been his college money to get a makeover and a sweet dune buggy. Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me.) Anyway, Sadie, as you may recall, is a free-spirited hippie chick who needs an upper-lip waxing (and probably a lower-lip waxing too, if you know what I mean). She has already bonded with Ryan, which can only be trouble for the rest of the world (read: Volchok) because when it comes to protecting the people he cares about, Ryan Atwood won't hesitate to gut you with a wine bottle.
4. Marissa's on-screen hunger strike is up to 66 episodes.
5. Seth is still smokin' those tweeds, which for some reason has not made him funnier.

Here are the biggest remaining questions for the rest of the season:

1. How soon before Teresa shows up with Ryan's baby? My guess is the last 10 seconds of the season finale, or maybe about 2 minutes before Ryan is supposed to leave for college.
2. Will Ryan actually stray from Marissa to make out with a post-op tranny?
3. Will my theory about the gang all going to college at mythical Cal U. come true? If not, will they all conveniently go to college in the LA/OC area? If they don't, what the hell is going to happen to The OC as we know it?
4. Will we ever see the day when Marissa ingests food?
5. How many surfers will Ryan have to kill before they get the point?