It reflects the showвЂ™s pilot episode opening, as he remarks on his childrensвЂ™ qualities, many of which remind him of himself. As he lifts higher and higher, his letter to his family, which was written in the prior episode (that goes undiscovered), is read aloud. Frank begins levitating through the Alibi roof into the sky. As the bar clears and Liam takes one last look at his fatherвЂ™s stool, which appears empty. Frank is dead.Д«ut his spirit isnвЂ™t, as he continues to imagine sitting in the Alibi. Then we see Frank back in the hospital as his heart monitor goes flat. Taking a big swig of the beer in front of him, it magically refills as he takes in the sounds and sights of his family, who are all there. The dream becomes more surreal: A hospital-gown-clad Frank finds himself at his usual stool in the Alibi. They try to find a contact number as, in his dream-like state, Frank remembers the years prior in the Gallagher house with Fiona, Monica (Chloe Webb), and the rest of the gang. Frank, going in and out of consciousness, tests positive for COVID, and the healthcare team reevaluates their next move when they discover his вЂњdo not resuscitateвЂќ tattoo. His seemingly random pitstops at PatsyвЂ™s and the church make more sense as he wonders aloud, where FionaвЂ™s been all this time. There, Frank mistakes a nurse, played by the actorвЂ™s real-life daughter Sophia Macy, for Fiona ( Emmy Rossum).

The priest has a parishioner call an ambulance to take Frank to the hospital. He stops at the boarded-up PatsyвЂ™s Pies, keeps going and enters a church, where he heads to a back room thinking itвЂ™s mass and heвЂ™s an altar boy. Frank does finally wake and stumbles out of the house, wandering the streets. V determines that heвЂ™s hypoxic, but after noticing the drug paraphernalia around him, they decide thereвЂ™s a possibility heвЂ™ll wake up over time. But first, the episode, which takes place over the course of a single day, opens with the Gallaghers leaning over him to see if heвЂ™s alive, with only Liam truly worried. We all saw it coming and in a series that doesnвЂ™t pull punches, how could things have ended any other way? Yes, weвЂ™re talking itвЂ™s the end of Frank. In the penultimate episode, Lip makes a bad deal, Debbie gets bad advice, and maybe thereвЂ™s some light at the end of the tunnel.

Shameless series finale