The Sopranos creator David Chase confirms Tony's diner sequence in final episode was a 'death scene'

Fans of The Sopranos, from the premium cable to the streaming eras, have been wondering about the controversial blackout which abruptly ended the HBO mob drama. But soon, everyone were left wondering about Tony’s fate — whether he ended up getting “whacked” or whether his sordid life went on as usual. The Sopranos creator David Chase, in a new book titled The Sopranos Sessions by TV critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz, confirmed it was a ‘death scene.’ A report on TIME revealed a conversation with Chase and the writers from the book. Sepinwall: When you said there was an end point, you don’t mean Tony at Holsten’s, you just meant, ‘I think I have two more years’ worth of stories left in me.’ Chase: Yes, I think I had that death scene around two years before the end. In the final moments of the show’s finale, Tony, the conflicted mob boss who has just survived a round of gangland warfare, sits in a diner with his family munching on onion rings as the 1980s song by rock band Journey, “Don’t Stop Believing,” blares from a juke box.