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

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