The actor also shared a surprising connection between “The Sopranos” and “Tulsa King.”

Sopranos star Robert Patrick responds to theory that he killed Tony in finale

The actor also shared a surprising connection between "The Sopranos" and "Tulsa King."

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Davey Scatino, played by Robert Patrick, was a gambling addict on *The Sopranos*. But was he capable of murder?

The *Terminator 2 *star doesn't think so, but he's flattered people believed he could be.

When it comes to the series finale of *The Sopranos*, fan theories abound. Many people have speculated on what happened after the screen cut to black, leaving viewers in the dark about crime boss Tony Soprano's (James Gandolfini) fate. Some have posited that a man at the diner where the Soprano family met for a bite looked suspiciously like Davey, whose life was ruined by his childhood friend Tony.

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano on the series finale of 'The Sopranos'.

Patrick wasn't aware of this theory around his character, telling *TV Insider* that only showrunner David Chase knows. If it was supposed to be him that possibly killed Tony, he was never contacted about it.

"I feel blessed that people would really still be thinking about my character at the end," Patrick said. "But boy, what a great experience."

The *X-Files* actor played Davey for three episodes in season 2 of *The Sopranos*. Even in that short time, Tony did some serious damage to Davey's life after folding him into a high-stakes poker game. Davey quickly became indebted to Tony, who later defrauded his sporting goods store as repayment. Audiences last see Davey driving away from New Jersey to start a new life in Nevada after his business goes bankrupt and his family leaves him.

Robert Patrick and James Gandolfini on 'The Sopranos'.

Patrick previously recalled what Gandolfini said to him ahead of the beatdown Tony was going to give the indebted Davey. After telling the late actor to bring his "A-game," Gandolfini asked him, "How's your balls?" before he "scared the living s---" out of Patrick during the take.

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That experience stuck with Patrick, who used the off-color quote to pay tribute to Gandolfini on *Tulsa King*. As rival crime boss Jeremiah Dunmire to Sylvester Stallone's Dwight "The General" Manfredi, Patrick threw the line back at Stallone in season 3 of the modern mafia show.

"The crossover from *Sopranos* to *Tulsa King*, the fans are there," he told *TV Insider*. "That’s a throughline there for sure. Yeah, that’s why I threw out that line, 'How’s your balls, Manfredi?'"

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