Tony makes a request to Johnny Sack on behalf of his cousin, and Adriana makes a request to the FBI, followed by one to Chris.
Plot
A few weeks ago (May 15, to be exact), Michael Imperioli was on David Letterman. During his segment Dave was pressuring him to reveal how the finale would end, because speculation was rampant. Finally he said he would reveal how it ends. As he was doing so a screen appears that says "Please Stand By", as if the signal had been lost.
They then show two thugs in the control booth taking a tape out of a machine and smashing it with a bat. When we cut back to him revealing the ending he's just finishing his story, but we've missed the important part. He last words are:
"There's blood everywhere. The police come, they arrest everybody. Blackout."
Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRMkUcP8_g
So this begs several questions. Coincidence, or not?
I tend to think that what really happened was that Chase got the idea for the edit he used, to cut to black (making viewers think their signal had been lost), from this Letterman "skit" (and not the other way round).
I think that there was pressure on Chase to leave it open whether Tony dies or not, rather than make it seem certain. He has said "We did what we had to do". I take that literally, that he HAD to do it that way, that he was forced to leave it ambiguous.
So he may have been angry about that, and the way it was finally edited, with a sudden cut to black (with no audio) was actually him whacking the show, and the viewers (and Tony), knowing full well that people would think they'd lost the signal and freak out.
Up until now I'd not given much creedence to the idea that it was either the viewer or the show that was getting whacked at the end. But after remembering this Letterman segment, and realizing that they would have anticipated the viewers reaction, I've changed my mind. I think Chase cut off the show, whacked it, just before Tony got shot.
I don't think he wanted to leave Tony's fate so totally amibiguous.
Analysis
Fan-written episode notes for Long Term Parking from the Episode Guides forum (circa 2002).