The BEST Episodes of The Equalizer
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jan 4, 2020
Network: CBS
Robert McCall is a former agent of a shadowy, unnamed government agency, who is trying to make up for the unspoken sins of his past. His atonement comes in the form of an advertisement in a New York newspaper that features the quote: "Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer." McCall uses his finely honed skills and occasionally the agents and resources from his old agency to combat the injustices perpetrated against those who can't seek protection from the law.
#1 - First Light
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired May 13, 1987
While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.
8.36 
#2 - High Performance
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired Jan 7, 1987
A construction worker becomes both witness and target when she sees a murder and is spotted by the killer.
8.10 
#3 - A Place To Stay
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired Feb 25, 1987
A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.
8.08 
#4 - Mission: McCall (1)
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 28, 1987
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
8.07 
#5 - Memories of Manon (1)
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired Feb 4, 1987
Control's goddaughter is threatened with the death of her father, a Canadian agent, unless she can reveal his informant. Then with little time left, McCall tells Kostmayer of his personal reasons for wanting to save Yvette and her father.
7.91 
#6 - The Confirmation Day
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 23, 1985
McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
7.84 
#7 - In the Money
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 7, 1987
The trading on Wall Street gets a little rough; McCall and Mickey pull a half-drowned woman from the river after she gets in the way of some ruthless manipulators.
7.82 
#8 - Christmas Presence
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired Dec 16, 1987
McCall asks Harley to help him handle a request for help from a six-year-old AIDS victim who is living with his grandmother and facing increasingly violent harassment from the frightened and angry neighbors.
7.78 
#9 - Solo
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired Feb 18, 1987
McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.
7.73 
#10 - The Children's Song
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 30, 1985
Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
7.72 
#11 - Mama's Boy
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired Nov 13, 1985
A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
7.69 
#12 - Beyond Control
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired Jan 14, 1987
Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.
7.67 
#13 - The Rehearsal
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired Dec 2, 1987
McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
7.64 
#14 - Hand and Glove
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired May 20, 1987
Nightmares become a reality for an invalid woman when a threatening figures from her dreams appears in her room.
7.63 
#15 - Pilot: The Equalizer
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 18, 1985
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.
7.62 
#16 - Inner View
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired Nov 18, 1987
A psychic can't convince the police that she has `seen' the next attack of a serial killer, so she turns to McCall for help in preventing it.
7.60 
#17 - Something Green
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired Feb 10, 1988
The ex-wife of a European diplomat asks McCall to help her retrieve her son from his father before he can leave the country with the boy and $10 million in mob money.
7.60 
#18 - Carnal Persuasion
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 21, 1987
A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.
7.58 
#19 - Coal Black Soul
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired May 6, 1987
McCall is torn between a lovely psychiatrist and a man who calls and says he can't stop himself from murdering women.
7.58 
#20 - Sea of Fire
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Nov 2, 1988
A desperate high school principal calls on McCall for help in combating the gang responsible for the rape of a girl in the school gymnasium.
7.56 
#21 - Mission: McCall (2)
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired Nov 4, 1987
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
7.53 
#22 - No Place Like Home
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired Mar 16, 1988
McCall comes to the aid of a recently dispossessed man and his family who has been moved in a welfare hotel and is facing pressure from the landlord to take part in his welfare scams.
7.50 
#23 - The Last Campaign
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Oct 26, 1988
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
7.50 
#24 - Bump and Run
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired Nov 20, 1985
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
7.48 
#25 - Last Call
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired Mar 23, 1988
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
7.46