10 Infuriating TV Cliffhangers You Didn't Realise Had Answers
5. John Doe Was Injured In A Boating Accident - John Doe
A short-lived but fondly remembered sci-fi mystery series, John Doe revolves around a man (Dominic Purcell) waking up on an island off the coast of Seattle with a strange mark on his chest and no memory of who he is or how he wound up there.
Oh, and he possesses a supernatural knowledge of basically everything.
The show was cancelled after a single season, leaving not only the mystery of John Doe's true identity forever unsolved, but also ending on a more overt cliffhanger by revealing that John's buddy Digger (William Forsythe) was the leader of the shady Phoenix Organisation which has been following him since the start of the series.
A year after the show ended, creators Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson revealed to EW what would've happened next. For starters, the Digger twist was actually a fake-out - a member of Phoenix simply had facial reconstructive surgery to resemble Digger.
As for the bigger mystery of Doe? He was just a regular dude who was injured in a boating accident, and the mark on his chest was a debris scar from the accident.
But what about his insane repository of knowledge? Here's where things get a little wackier - it was a result of having a near-death experience during the accident and venturing to a "spiritual plane" where he received all the answers to the universe's questions. Wild.