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To me the ending was a cop-out. Chase knew that he would never be able to make everyone happy. If it ended in a hail of gunfire with everyone dead there would be people upset. If it ended with nobody dying there would be people upset. If tony got whacked some people would be pissed. He painted himself into a corner. So instead of taking a stand and just giving people an ending, he decided to give the audience the finger and not produce any real ending.
The way I see it is that you can take it one of two ways. Either he was killed by the guy that went into the bathroom and chase didn't want to leave us with a shot of his brains on the wall, or he didn't. When we met tony in episode one he was about to be indicted and his professional life was in turmoil. His home life was in transition and overall he was paranoid and in chaos. Five years later when we leave tony he is in the same situation.
To me the two parts of the last episode were when we found out a little more about that FBI agent. He cheats on his wife and is in a mobster death pool. Ultimatly he really isn't much better than the people he is chasing. Also, that last shot of Pauly sitting out in front of the meat shop with the sun reflector on his face. If I remember correctly that was the exact same position he was in when we first saw him in season 1.
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