'Sopranos' creator David Chase sheds some light on the show's cryptic final moment

It’s been about 14 years since people across the country frantically checked their cable connection when the finale of the “Sopranos” abruptly cut to black.

Instead, he noted that it was different from a scene he envisioned to end the series that did indeed result in the death of the title character, revealing that he'd planned for the series to end with Tony's death. 

"The scene I had in my mind was not that scene. Nor did I think of cutting to black. I had a scene in which Tony comes back from a meeting in New York in his car," Chase explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "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."