Bobby’s Murder In the second part of the sixth season, Bobby’s life came to an abrupt end. In the episode “Blue Comet”, Bobby is lured by Tony to a model train store in the mall and viciously gunned down by two hitmen. He sustains multiple gunshot wounds and dies on the spot. His death sends shockwaves through the DiMeo family. The Hit Goes Down On the day of his death, Bobby joined. The Blue Comet is the 85th and penultimate episode of the American crime drama The Sopranos, the eighth episode of the second half of the show's sixth season and 20th overall episode of the season. Deaths Burt Gervasi - Garroted by Silvio for joining the Lupertazzi Family. Alec Kastropovich - Shot by Italo because he was confused with Phil Leotardo. Yaryna Kastropovich - Shot along with her father for witnessing his murder. Bobby Baccalieri - Gunned down while shopping for the eponymous toy train, The Blue Comet. Trivia Tony holding his rifle in his room while fearing for his life at the. These two unnamed men were soldiers in the Lupertazzi Crime Family. In the episode, Blue Comet, When the war with the Soprano Family breaks out, these men were given the task of killing family Underboss Bobby Baccalieri. While he was buying a toy train from a store, the men came in and shot Bobby repeatedly, sending his body crashing into a train table, before leaving. Bobby Baccalieri goes into a hobby shop, leaving his cell phone in his car (which is why he misses Silvio’s warning call). He gets smitten with an $8000 Blue Comet train—it evokes for him the days of yore, a bygone American era (reminiscent of what Tony complained of missing out on back in the Pilot episode). Phil finally puts the hits on the Soprano clan and Tony puts a hit on Phil which results in mistaken identity. The Blue Comet (S06E20) aired June 3, 2007, as the second-to-last episode of the entire series. Written by David Chase and Matthew Weiner, directed by Alan Taylor. The episode is named after the Blue Comet, a model O-gauge passenger train that Bobby Baccalieri has been hunting down as. Bobby’s execution was intercut with a model train jumping the tracks, which seemed like a too-obvious Godfather borrowing (a murder intercut with something mundane) until you remembered Phil’s contemptuous statement earlier in the episode implying that the Sopranos weren’t even a real family, but a pygmy clan that needed to be wiped out. They’re not gangsters, they’re scale models of.