There was a few of changes to the side that crashed against Hamilton. McIlduff, Whelan & McCann stepped out to allow Sinclair, Ferry & Weatherston to come in.
The game failed to pick up until Falkirk opened the scoring on the half hour. A Falkirk forward beat Molloy to the ball and his cross was turned in by Agostini.
A minute later Queen's could have, and should have, been level. David Weatherston was one-on-one with the keeper but his tame shot was parried away. Soon after Falkirk made it two. Ian McSween tapped home a cross at the back post.
At half time Queen's replaced Steven Reilly with Jonny Whelan and minutes later both Dave Weatherston & John Weir came off for a Trialist and Tony Quinn.
On 68 minutes Queen's pulled one back. Paul Harvey played a short free-kick to Kettlewell who was up-ended in the box, Richard Bowers scored the resulting penalty.
Two minutes later Falkirk restored their two goal lead. McSween guiding an almost identical low cross to the last two goals past DC.
Queen's came close through Jonny Whelan on 75 minutes. His first shot was saved well by the Bairns keeper, but, he sliced his second over the bar.
With only three minutes remaining Falkirk made it four. A through ball let McSween slot past Crawford for his hat-trick.
No need to get too downbeat because Clark, Felvus & McGinty were all missing and Quinn will probably start nearer the big kick off in ten days time.
QUEEN'S PARK: Crawford 5, Sinclair 6, Molloy 6, Reilly 5 (Whelan 5), Agostini 5, Harvey 6, Kettlewell 7, Weir 5 (Quinn 4), Bowers 6 (Livingston 3), Weatherston 5 (Trialist 3)Ferry 6
GOALSCORER: Richard Bowers (pen)
MAN OF THE MATCH: Stuart Kettlewell, Showed energy on the right of a midfield four and was the best of a bad bunch.