The Best Episodes of The Equalizer
#1 - Tip On a Sure Thing 8.17
Season 2 - Episode 9
A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.
Directors: Donald Petrie
#2 - The Cup 8.00
Season 2 - Episode 10
Father Kostmayer hears the confession of a Polish agitator moments before he's gunned down.
Directors: Mario Di Leo, Andrew Sipes, Carleton Eastlake
#3 - Back Home 8.00
Season 1 - Episode 13
A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
Directors: Alan Metzger, Neil Cohen
#4 - Prelude 7.92
Season 2 - Episode 1
Men working for a dictator McCall helped put into power kidnap an American journalist.
Directors: Richard Compton
#5 - Counterfire 7.88
Season 2 - Episode 7
The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.
Directors: Alan Metzger
#6 - Nocturne 7.83
Season 2 - Episode 2
A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.
Directors: Richard Compton
#7 - Breakpoint 7.80
Season 1 - Episode 19
McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
Directors: Russ Mayberry
#8 - The Line 7.80
Season 2 - Episode 8
The mother of a youth killed while being harassed by an overzealous citizen's patrol appeals to McCall for help.
Directors: Russ Mayberry
#9 - Reign of Terror 7.75
Season 1 - Episode 12
The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
Directors: Richard Compton
#10 - A Community of Civilized Men 7.69
Season 2 - Episode 3
McCall comes to the aid of a woman who's being squeezed to pay off her late husband's debts.
Directors: Alan Metzger
#11 - Out of the Past 7.67
Season 1 - Episode 14
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
Directors: Richard Compton
#12 - Pilot: The Equalizer 7.65
Season 1 - Episode 1
A former government agent offers his services to people facing problems too big for them to handle, such as a woman being stalked by a psychopath and a man who learns of a blackmail scheme involving government officials.
Directors: Rod Holcomb
#13 - Pretenders 7.60
Season 1 - Episode 22
An aspiring reporter, desperate for a scoop that will get her notice and a promotion, becomes convinced that something big is happening right in the next apartment.
Directors: Richard Compton
#14 - Torn 7.56
Season 1 - Episode 17
McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
Directors: Russ Mayberry, Joel Surnow, Maurice Hurley
#15 - Shades of Darkness 7.56
Season 2 - Episode 5
McCall helps a National Guardsman who faces a murder charge and threats from the real killer.
Directors: Donald Petrie
#16 - China Rain 7.55
Season 1 - Episode 2
McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.
Directors: Richard Compton
#17 - No Conscience 7.43
Season 1 - Episode 20
A womanizer is abducted and threatened with death if he doesn't give his captors what they want-but he can't figure out what.
Directors: Richard Compton
#18 - Dead Drop 7.42
Season 1 - Episode 15
McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.
Directors: Donald Petrie
#19 - Wash Up 7.40
Season 1 - Episode 16
A window washer witnesses the murder of his pro-union partner by their anti-union boss, who has his own witnesses to back his self-defense claim.
Directors: Richard Compton
#20 - Desperately 7.36
Season 1 - Episode 11
A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.
Directors: Donald Petrie
#21 - The Confirmation Day 7.35
Season 1 - Episode 6
McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
Directors: Richard A. Colla
#22 - Lady Cop 7.35
Season 1 - Episode 5
A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.
Directors: Russ Mayberry
#23 - The Lock Box 7.30
Season 1 - Episode 4
McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.
Directors: Russ Mayberry
#24 - The Distant Fire 7.28
Season 1 - Episode 8
A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.
Directors: Alan Metzger
#25 - Bump and Run 7.26
Season 1 - Episode 10
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
Directors: Richard Compton