spoiler with the music of a dinky 50 rock and roll 45 record sea of love playing on the turntable the police find the body of james mackey and brian paul and lay face down and naked and on his bed with a bullet in the back of his head . check out the clue in mackey manhattan apartment det . frank keller and al pacino and find a number of cigarette butt in the ashtray with lipstick on them deduce that the murderer may well have be the woman that mackey be with that night . a few day later det . keller be contact by a det . sherman and john goodman and from the 112th police precinct in richmond hill queen of a murder in that area that be very similar to the one he investigate while a man shot dead with a bullet in the back of his head a he lay naked in bed and even the same song sea of love be still play on his record player . it become obvious to the police that there a serial murderer on the lose in new york city and he or she be target male swinger . det . keller find a clue when he notice that both of the murder victim have place ad in a local paper personal section look for romance and action with the opposite sex . keller also notice that of the almost 100 personal ad only three be with rhyme or poem on them and two of those men who put poem on their ad be the two men who be find murder . det . keller and sherman check out the third person raymond brown and michael oneill and who place a poem in the paper look for both love and companionship and their tell by raymond that he never follow up on the response that he get from the woman who get in touch with him . which be a bit strange to both det . keller and sherman since he spend $ 300 . 00 place the ad and a beautiful poem that he take a lot of time and effort to write and in the paper and even have a secret apartment in the city that he be pay $ 500 . 00 a month for . raymond who be happily marry with child tell the two detective that he swear on his child eye that he never have an affair with any of the woman who contact him over the ad that he put in the paper . late raymond be find dead and naked with a bullet in the back of his head and in his secret manhattan apartment and just like the other two murder victim . so much for raymond honesty . well paced and stylish murder mystery drama with al pacino give one of his best performance a det . keller and a deeply depressed and fatalistic man and who only reason for living be his job a a policeman . lose his wife to his partner det . gruber and richard jenkins and whom she marry and and feel alone and spiritless over it he feel that if he retire from the police department the emptiness that would envelope him will also drive him over the edge . you constantly see pacino try to keep himself together despite the pressure brew inside of him that threaten to tear him apart . very good support cast with ellen barkin and helen and and john goodman and det . sherman and among others with the movie very fine unsuspected and surprise end which be very effective because the clue be always there for u to see but be so well hidden that we do not notice them until the very end . good inter act with al pacino and john goodman a his new partner from queen in crack the case and especially with ellen barkin who be the link to the person murder in the movie without know it as well a her fill the void in det . keller life that be drive him to a mental and emotional breakdown after his wife leave him .