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Q & A is the third entry in Sidney Lumets loose trilogy about NYPD corruption, and by far the most pessimistic. While Al Pacino and Treat Williams are given an admittedly tough choice in Serpico and Prince of the City, here Timothy Hutton comes to learn that one man cant make a difference after all.
The ending is as frustrating to the viewers as it is to he hero, because we find out that the characters hands were tied all along; instead of going over peoples heads and behind their backs, Al Reilly (Hutton) might as well have played ball from the get-go, which would have at least had the consolation that a low fewer people would have died in the process.
In Serpico and Prince of the City, Lumet addressed corruption as a problem that o...