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''Q & A'' is a 1990 crime film co-written and directed by Sidney Lumet, based on a novel by New York judge Edwin Torres. It stars Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton and Armand Assante. ==Plot== Mike Brennan, a tough, crude, decorated NYPD detective, has a hidden dark side as well as a partnership with certain figures of organized crime. Brennan shoots and kills a small-time Puerto Rican criminal and then threatens witnesses to testify that he acted in self-defense. The Commissioner of Police Kevin Quinn assigns the case to Deputy Attorney Aloysius "Al" Francis Reilly, a young lawyer with a past as a police officer and son of a well-known cop who died in service. Reilly collects Brennan's deposition, who claims to have been acting on a tip from an informant and was forced to shoot in self-defense. Reilly's case leads him to a Puerto Rican crime boss called "Bobby Tex," whose wife Nancy Bosch was once the love of Reilly's life. She ended their relationship years ago after interpreting Al's reaction of surprise as racist when she introduced him to her father, a black man. Al tries to rekindle their past romance, but she rejects him because with Bobby, she feels loved, protected and accepted for what she is. Al, along with detectives Sam "Chappie" Chapman and Luis Valentin, has doubts about the dynamics of the event. Knowing the environment of the Puerto Rican underworld. Investigations reveal a link between Quinn and Brennan, while the latter goes on the trail of Montalvo, the only witness who can disprove his testimony of self-defense. Brennan tries threatening Valentin and bribing Chappie for help in finding Montalvo and shutting him up. Meanwhile, Bobby Tex is "invited" by the Mafia to step aside, as Brennan's support is still useful to them. Bobby, in turn, begins looking for Montalvo to use as leverage against Brennan. At the same time he begins to shut down his business in order to retire to private life with Nancy. Bobby finds Montalvo before Brennan, and together they leave for Puerto Rico, where the smuggler owns a mansion and a yacht. Here he is joined by Al, called secretly to give him an important information about the case. Al, after informing Bloomenfeld, goes to the island, where it is revealed that Quinn was once part of Bobby's gang, and took part in a murder. Brennan appears to be hunting down all of the gang's old members on Quinn's orders, with the intention of erasing his past so as to fulfill his political ambitions. Brennan is forced to go along with it because Quinn is holding an abuse of authority charge over him. Even the Mafia intends to close accounts with both Bobby and Brennan, whose position is becoming increasingly untenable. They fail in an attempt to kill Bobby, who has announced his retirement. Meanwhile, Brennan is able to find Montalvo's lover, the transgender José Malpica, and kills him on his boat after listening to a message from Montalvo on his answering machine that reveals his location. Brennan then slices the boat's fuel line and waits for Bobby to arrive. A phone call made by Al saves Nancy at the last moment, but Bobby is killed in the subsequent explosion. Al procures an arrest warrant for Brennan but fails to catch him at the airport. He returns to the DA's office to find Brennan waiting for him. Brennan reveals the truth about Al's father to Al; that his father was a bagman and a bigot, who was sort of a "line" to keep minorities down, and shoots Chappie when he tries to intervene. Brennan is then shot dead by another officer. Al is summoned by Quinn, who informs him that he is aware of his activities, but the Department of Justice is going to hush up the incident to avoid embarrassment. When Al threatens to go to the papers, Bloomenfeld tells him that he has ways of preventing that as well, and in turn threatens to leak evidence of misconduct on the part of his late father, which would deny his mother a service pension. Feeling betrayed and disillusioned, Al trashes his desk and resigns from the DA's office. He searches for Nancy, hoping she will return to him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Q&A (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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