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The Equalizer

Drama, Crime · 1985 · Rated 7.8/10

Last aired: S4 E22, Suicide Squad · 1989-08-24

The Equalizer follows a retired espionage/intelligence officer with a mysterious past, who uses the skills from his former career to exact vigilante justice on behalf of innocent people who are hopelessly trapped in dangerous circumstances.

Cast

Edward Woodward Robert McCall

Keith Szarabajka Mickey Kostmayer

Robert Lansing Control

Steven Williams Lt. Jefferson Burnett

Season 4

Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4

E1 The Last Campaign 1988-10-26 · 60 min A woman who works for an ambitious Assemblyman learns he is planning to get a Senator to step down, thus paving the way for him to take the Senator's place, by threatening to reveal something from the Senator's past. She calls McCall. But when her boss finds out what she is doing, he has her committed. McCall tries to help her.

E2 Sea of Fire 1988-11-02 · 60 min When some students at an inner city school get the blessing of a criminal to do whatever they want there, they start by assaulting one of the female students. When one of the students informs the principal what is happening to the girl, she then calls McCall for help. The student who told her about the assault is stabbed. McCall starts by being a new teacher and he takes the students who assaulted the girl to an autopsy and then has a man whom he knows "died" talk about what happened to him during his near-"death".

E3 Riding the Elephant 1988-11-09 · 60 min A Thai merchant (James Hong) in Chinatown learns his store and son are being used by a drug dealer (Mako).

E4 Eighteen with a Bullet 1988-11-16 · 60 min Greg Rivers uses young girl singers to make money, then gets them hooked on drugs and kills them. A mother asks Robert to help her daughter, Beverly Heat, before she becomes his next victim.

E5 The Day of the Covenant 1988-12-07 · 60 min McCall and Kostmayer try to protect Scott's girlfriend from a man that claims she is a terrorist.

E6 Splinters 1988-12-14 · 60 min Mickey leads a raid and his team is killed and he's taken prisoner. Turns out a KGB unit is in the company and have been using their finances to research brainwashing, now being used on Mickey to kill McCall.

E7 The Making of a Martyr 1989-01-11 · 60 min Sylvia Thorton is a gun control advocate whose husband, Brandon, was shot and paralyzed while working. Someone is now threatening her and Brandon asks McCall for help, which Sylvia doesn't want.

E8 The Sins of the Father 1989-01-18 · 60 min A mother asks McCall to rescue her kidnapped son -- against the wishes of her mobster husband, who prefers to handle things himself. McCall tries to find a way to bring the boy home while bringing the father to justice at the same time.

E9 The Visitation 1989-02-01 · 60 min A gun runner gets killed by arms dealer Ruger, but not before he infects some people with a fatal African disease, including one of the killers. McCall's friend, Dr Demeter, is visiting him and helps determine the virus. Mccall helps her track down the arms dealer before he infects others.

E10 Past Imperfect 1989-02-15 · 60 min When a boy that Jimmy is mentoring is nearly abducted, he contacts McCall for help.

E11 Trial by Ordeal 1989-03-01 · 60 min McCall is brought to testify before a committee. When he demands to know what is going he learns that Control is being charged with all sorts of infractions and if found guilty will be executed. So McCall offers to be his advocate.

E12 Silent Fury 1989-03-08 · 60 min McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community. However, due to the fact that she seeks help from someone who can hear, she faces a great deal of hostility from her deaf boyfriend, as well as some of her peers.

E13 Lullaby of Darkness 1989-03-30 · 60 min A psychopathic stockbroker, Joseph Morrison, is a habitual wife- and child-abuser who ruthlessly beats & humiliates his family. Because of his money & influence, he is able to avoid accountability for his actions. One night a neighbour in his apartment complex hears him attack his family, and she calls in The Equalizer. Morrison, however, hits McCall with a restraint order, and files a malicious lawsuit against his neighbour in retaliation for reporting him. McCall strikes back, however, by obtaining a video of Mr. Morrison's child giving grim details of physical abuse.

E14 17 Zebra 1989-04-06 · 60 min A highly decorated NYC paramedic, Gideon (William Atherton), is on an "angel of death" killing campaign targeting homeless winos. No one suspects a thing as he drugs them and it appears they die from heart attacks. A Skid Row mission worker becomes aware that someone is doing this as his latest victim, though certified dead from a heart attack, was known to him to be in perfect health. He calls in McCall to find out who it is and stop them.

E15 Starfire 1989-04-13 · 60 min A strange reclusive man(Michael Moriarity) calling himself "Seti" and claiming to be an alien from outer space has befriended a young girl, Amber. this episode by telling her he is being followed by other aliens bent on killing him. He shows her a strange futuristic device and has her promise to keep it hidden and safe after his imminent death. Amber contacts McCall whom, touched by her compassionate sincerity, discovers that "Seti" is actually a highly respected top secret aerospace engineer, and that he is being targeted by no less than Company assassins.

E16 Time Present, Time Past 1989-04-20 · 60 min Harold Ross is helping Scott McCall with his music. But they are both kidnapped because Harold defected from Bulgaria and now they want him back. Robert now has to help his son and the man he helped to defect.

E17 Prisoners of Conscience 1989-04-27 · 60 min McCall tries to save a man who has been kidnapped by the man who killed his father.

E18 The Caper 1989-05-04 · 60 min Emmy Rutherford sees a man get killed, but the police don't believe her because she's called wolf before because she'd read too many detective stories. She calls Mccall in for help.

E19 Heart of Justice 1989-05-11 · 60 min In a New York City courtroom, a pair of sociopathic rapists are released after their sleazy lawyer points out a technicality in their arrest & discovery of evidence that pointed exclusively to them. These low-lifes, Tony Santiago & Max Gorman, had savagely raped a pregnant woman and beat her with a steel pipe to prevent her from testifying against them. The attack left her brain-dead and on machines. Not long after their release, the woman's sister discovers her brother-in-law carrying a .38, and calls The Equalizer for help.

E20 Race Traitors 1989-06-11 · 60 min A black family who moves into a white neighborhood is being terrorized by some white supremacists. So they turn to McCall for help who brings in Kostmayer and Stock to help. But things are a little difficult for Kostmayer cause the neighborhood where the family moved into is where he grew up. And he learns that a boy he knows is with the white supremacists.

E21 Endgame 1989-08-10 · 60 min When a woman who was playing paint-ball kills someone because someone tampered with her gun, she is arrested and calls McCall. Her sister, a lawyer, wants to help her but she refuses. McCall looks into her background and discovers some interesting things.

E22 Suicide Squad 1989-08-24 · 60 min When a boy is cut from the football team, a cunning drug dealer attempts to lure him into the business. The boy's sister contacts McCall for help.

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