The Sopranos

[Keyser Soze]

the big rumor is:
all three men at that restaurant were there to kill Tony....

The guy at the bar is credited as Nikki Leotardo. The same actor played him in the first part of season 6 during a brief sit down concerning the future of Vito. That wasn't that long ago. Apparently, he is the nephew of Phil. Phil's brother Nikki Senior was killed in 1976 in a car accident.

So the point would have been that life continues and we may never know the end of the Sopranos. But if you pay attention to the history, you will find that all the answers lie in the characters in the restaurant. The trucker was the brother of the guy who was robbed by Christopher in Season 2. Remember the DVD players? The trucker had to identify the body. The boy scouts were in the train store and the black guys at the end were the ones who tried to kill Tony and only clipped him in the ear (was that season 2 or 3?).

There were three people in the restaurant who had reason to kill Tony and then it just ends. This was Chase's way of proving that he will not escape his past.

one of the black guys was killed already.

a very telling piece of foreshadowing is tony eating an orange earlier in the episode.

in the godfather, the orange is a symbol of impending doom. the oranges falling out of the cart before vito corleone is shot. vito dies with an orange in his mouth....theres plenty more :

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also, the man at the counter is wearing a members only jacket, in the episode uncle june shoots tony, the name of the episode is, you guessed it "members only"