The Sopranos: 10 Clues In The Show That Prove Tony Died

The Man In The 'Members Only' Jacket

In the final minutes of The Sopranos finale, a stranger walks into the diner wearing a jacket with a 'Members Only' logo on it. Viewers might remember the events in the Season 6 premiere where Vito Spatafore mocks Eugene for wearing a jacket that also had a 'Members Only' logo on it. Eugene doesn't respond and simply gives Vito a death stare. The jacket possibly signifies his affiliation with a special gang. When Tony prevents Eugene from moving to Florida with his family, he commits suicide. The man wearing the same jacket at the diner might be someone close to Eugene, and he could be responsible for Tony's death in The Sopranos.

The man with the members only jacket sits at the bar in The Sopranos

The Case Of The Oranges

The Sopranos has multiple nods to The Godfather trilogy and in The Sopranos finale, there is another Sopranos-Godfather link that holds meaning. Tony holds an orange at Carmela's project house earlier in the episode. During another assassination attempt earlier in the series, he had just bought orange juice too. Oranges are used in The Godfather to symbolize either natural death or 'getting whacked'. The Sopranos also featuring so many oranges is a clear hint that Tony Soprano dies.

Tony walks across the street with orange juice in The Sopranos

Tony And Bobby's Discussion

In The Sopranos Season 6, episode 20, 'The Blue Comet,' there is a flashback to 'Soprano Home Movies' where Bobby and Tony talk about what it's like to get whacked. They both agree that it's a mobster's greatest fear. An important quote from their conversation is, 'In our line of work, it's always out there. You probably don't even hear it when it happens.' The cut to black in the final episode could mean that Tony does die in The Sopranos, but he doesn't even hear it when he finally gets killed, and neither does the audience.

Tony and Bobby in suits in The Sopranos-1

The Stranger Who Walks Into The Bathroom

Another The Godfather reference pops up at the diner. The man wearing the 'Members Only' jacket walks to the bathroom, perhaps to relieve himself, but based on the show's endless references to the classic gangster movie, that might not be the case. In The Godfather, Michael Corleone walks into the bathroom to collect a gun hidden behind a toilet just before he shoots Virgil 'The Turk' Sollozzo and Police Captain Mark McCluskey at a restaurant. The strange man's stare and walk are very similar to that of Michael Corleone. Given that The Sopranos is littered with Godfather references, it's unlikely that the bathroom walk didn't have meaning for Tony Soprano's fate.

The man with the members only jacket walks into the bathroom in The Sopranos