‘Sopranos’ star Robert Patrick responds to theory he killed Tony in…
Robert Patrick is setting the report straight.
The “Tulsa King” star, who portrayed Davey Scatino in “The Sopranos,” has responded to theories that his character killed James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano after the display screen reduce to black in the iconic sequence finale of David Chase’s hit HBO crime drama.
“I think that was interesting. Did that really get a lot of traction?” Patrick, 67, requested TV Insider relating to the on-line theories. “David Chase is the only one who knows. I was never contacted about it. I don’t know.”
Robert Patrick during TVfest in Atlanta, Georgia, on Feb. 4, 2017. Getty Images for SCAD
Robert Patrick and James Gandolfini in “The Sopranos.” HBO
However, the “Terminator 2” star wouldn’t rule the risk out.
“Was there a guy that might have looked like me, or people thought that it was me? It’s interesting,” Patrick continued. “Yeah, I wonder. I don’t know.”
“I feel blessed that people would really still be thinking about my character at the end,” he added. “But boy, what a great experience.”
Robert Patrick during German Comic Con on Dec. 1, 2018. Getty Images
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in the finale episode of “The Sopranos.”
Patrick joined “The Sopranos” during its second season in 2000. His character was Tony’s childhood buddy, and he reconnected with the mob boss by a high-stakes poker game.
A compulsive gambler, Davey ignored Tony’s warnings and racked up huge debt. He was quietly destroyed in a mob “bust-out” and misplaced his sporting items enterprise and household over the course of three episodes before fleeing New Jersey for Nevada.
But some “Sopranos” followers suppose that Patrick’s character might have returned to get his revenge and kill Tony during the present’s ambiguous final episode in 2007.
James Gandolfini in a 1999 publicity still for “The Sopranos.” Getty Images
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos.” Getty Images
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, Edie Falco as Carmela and Robert Iler as A.J. moments before the display screen reduce to black in the sequence finale of “The Sopranos.” ASSOCIATED PRESS
Although the display screen famously cuts to black as Tony sits together with his spouse, Carmela, and son, A.J., at Holsten’s diner, eagle-eyed viewers imagine that a person who appears like Davey Scatino enters the diner to kill Tony.
While Chase has described the final second of “The Sopranos” as Tony’s “death scene,” it was not always how he deliberate to end the six-season story.
“The scene I had in my mind was not that scene. Nor did I think of cutting to black,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “I had a scene in which Tony comes back from a meeting in New York in his car.”
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos.” Getty Images
Steve Schirripa, Richard Botto, James Gandolfini and David Chase behind the scenes of “The Sopranos.” WireImage
“At the beginning of every show, he came from New York into New Jersey, and the last scene could be him coming from New Jersey back into New York for a meeting at which he was going to be killed,” the director revealed.
As for Patrick, who at present stars in “Tulsa King” alongside Sylvester Stallone, he acknowledged that there are many similarities between the Paramount+ crime drama and “The Sopranos.”
“The fans are there,” he told TV Insider. “That’s a throughline there for sure.”
James Gandolfini at a film premiere on Nov. 26, 2012. Nicholas Hunt /PatrickMcMullan.c
Robert Patrick during a bike event at Harley-Davidson in Glendale, California, on Sept. 8, 2025. Getty Images
Patrick also revealed that he paid tribute to Gandolfini, who died from a sudden coronary heart assault at the age of 51 in June 2013, in a scene from Season 3 of “Tulsa King.”
“That’s why I threw out that line, ‘How’s your balls, Manfredi?’” the “Peacemaker” star shared. “That came from Jimmy Gandolfini. That’s what Jimmy came in and said to me right before we shot that scene where he beats me up in my office to collect.”
“Jimmy came up to me and said to me, as Jimmy to Robert Patrick, ‘How’s your balls?’” he continued. “So I threw that out there to Stallone, he loved it: ‘How’s your balls, Manfredi?’”
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