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A film series about this city features the violent priest “Lethal Weapon” and a gang including “Smartie” and “Chicken.” In the finale of a film set in this city, a man’s son watches him barbarically kill a companion with a rock on a fishing trip. The series Young and Dangerous is set in this city. (15[2])The Mexican standoff that ends a 1987 film whose title refers to this city as “on fire” was copied by Quentin Tarantino (15[1])for Reservoir Dogs. (15[1])In another film, a flashback to a religious blood oath for brotherhood sworn by a gang’s kingpins contrasts with their war (-5[1])for a (*) baton to become their new leader. Scriptural verses (10[1])about “continuous hells” bookend a film set in this city in which a man tells his enemy “I’m not afraid of light” while (-5[1])handcuffing him at gunpoint on a rooftop. (10[1])This city was replaced with (10[1])Boston (10[1])as (10[1])the setting of that film’s remake by Martin Scorsese. For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])Johnnie To’s Election and Andrew Lau’s Infernal Affairs trilogy are about what city’s triads? ■END■ (10[2])

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