12 Shocking TV Deaths You Never Saw Coming
4. Christopher Moltisanti (The Sopranos)
Chris Moltisanti was always a burden for his hit happy cousin Tony Soprano, but season after season, the mob boss kept him around.
Just three episodes from the show's endgame, big Tone rethought that stance and whacked his kin for causing a car crash while high.
It was the fact Chris's baby daughter would almost certainly have been killed if she'd be in the car at the time which enraged the protagonist so much.
Everyone knew Tone doubted his cousin's ability to step up and succeed him at the head of the family, but he was a father figure to Chris, which is why his decision to suffocate him in that car wreck was so callous.
The audience was as caught off guard by this grim act as they were by that jet black screen which popped up at the end of the final Sopranos episode.