The WORST episodes of The Equalizer (2021)
Every episode of The Equalizer (2021) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Equalizer (2021)!
Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall comes across to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is 'The Equalizer'—an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden, who's also dogged in her pursuit of personal redemption.
#1 - Take My Life...Please!
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/24/2024
The team investigates who is trying to put a hit on a stand-up comedian. Also, McCall grapples with her feelings for Dante, who is still in town deciding how to proceed with Big Ben, and Delilah continues her college search.
#2 - Legendary
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/2024
Dee asks McCall to help find her transgender friend when the teen goes missing. Meanwhile, Dante is surprised when Big Ben’s parole officer approaches him to chaperone his father for an out-of-state trip.
#3 - DOA
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/21/2024
When a former Chinese MSS agent is poisoned and comes to McCall for help, McCall tracks down the perpetrators and the antidote. Meanwhile, Aunt Vi encourages Dee to protest against a well-known climate change denier.
#4 - Legacy
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/27/2022
McCall joins forces with Jessie Cook, a brilliant and unpredictable master thief, to recover a valuable painting stolen from a Black family during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
#5 - The Equalizer
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/7/2021
As McCall acclimates to civilian life, she is compelled to use her considerable resources to help Jewel, a teenager accused of murder and on the run from the criminals who framed her for the crime.
#6 - Eye for an Eye
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/21/2023
The team is put into harm’s way when McCall’s former CIA colleague is found alive and sets her sights on revenge by attempting to abduct Dante, Harry and Mel. Also, Aunt Vi and Delilah must act quickly to de-escalate a hostage situation of their own when a robber targets a bodega.
#7 - Haunted Heights
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/2024
McCall investigates a death in an apartment building where residents believe the structure is haunted after a young woman suspects her grandmother was pushed down a flight of stairs via supernatural means.
#8 - Glory
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/14/2021
McCall's online ad leads her to a mother whose son has been kidnapped by a human trafficker and will be executed unless she steals confidential information from her FBI agent employer. Also, McCall enlists Aunt Vi to help uncover a secret Delilah is keeping from them both.
#9 - All Bets Are Off
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/17/2024
After Dante’s old training partner is taken hostage while working undercover in an illegal casino, McCall hires J.J., a former gambling addict, to assist with the mission. Meanwhile, Dee joins a peer counseling group and learns that some students have been bullying her on a social media page.
#10 - The Big Take
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/12/2024
When a conman from Dante’s past attacks a prison transport, McCall and the team race to take him down. Meanwhile, Aunt Vi and Dee’s girls’ trip is suddenly derailed when they find a woman squatting in their home, and Harry risks his relationship with Mel when Fisk pulls him deeper into his secret mission.
#11 - The Grave Digger
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/30/2025
McCall visits “The Grave Digger,” a serial killer she put behind bars a year ago, to uncover who is behind a series of copycat murders. Meanwhile, Dee skips her Peer Ear meeting to go to a party with Cam.
#12 - Condemned
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/5/2024
McCall races to help Dante and Big Ben after they are ambushed by a group of suspicious attackers and a major family secret is revealed. Meanwhile, at a party celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, Aunt Vi tries to maintain her status as the reigning queen of the annual cobbler baking contest and Dee suspects a mutual friend may have stolen prize money
#13 - The Fight for Life
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2024
McCall and Mel go undercover in a prison to find a woman who went missing on the day she was scheduled to be released.
#14 - Stolen Angel
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/23/2025
McCall and the team search for a missing pregnant woman whose baby may be in danger. Meanwhile, Dante meets his brother James for the first time.
#15 - True Believer
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/16/2021
McCall races to help a concerned wife locate her husband before he helps an extremist group carry out an imminent bombing in the city. Also, McCall worries that her anonymity will be compromised when Delilah asks her to participate in a mother/daughter social media video.
#16 - Somewhere Over the Hudson
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/13/2022
McCall helps a mob accountant, Bert Singer, scour the city for a lost ledger of evidence he must provide to the FBI in exchange for entrance into the Federal Witness Protection Program. Also, Mel frets over how to tell her best friend, who comforted her for years about Harry’s death, that Harry never died at all.
#17 - The Lost Ones
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/20/2024
McCall races to rescue two siblings who run into trouble after stealing a grocery truck carrying firearms. Meanwhile, Harry and Delilah help Mel through her trauma in the aftermath of her kidnapping.
#18 - Shattered
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/19/2024
The team races against the clock after Mel is kidnapped by a member of her veteran support group and his older brother. Meanwhile, Dante is offered a position with the NYPD’s Special Investigation Unit in Los Angeles.
#19 - Full Throttle
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/25/2024
After a young girl is struck by a car in an illegal street race, McCall tracks down the person responsible for the hit-and-run; Dee contemplates the idea of following in her mother's footsteps to join the armed forces.
#20 - Gaslight
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2022
When a widowed single mother claims her dead husband is attempting to kill her from beyond the grave, McCall and the team help uncover the truth.
#21 - The Kingdom
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2021
McCall finds herself in the crosshairs of a foreign government's intelligence agency when her friend Mira, a diplomat's daughter, seeks McCall's help to find her missing brother. Also, Dante faces suspicion from a fellow detective newly tasked by the district attorney to find the vigilante knows as the Equalizer.
#22 - The Milk Run
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/28/2021
Doing a favor for CIA Director Suri Nance goes awry for McCall when she tries to locate a missing British mathematician and finds herself embroiled in an international fight for a revolutionary financial technology.
#23 - One Percenters
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/2022
A local motorcycle club seeks McCall and the team’s help in keeping a member out of prison by proving the illegal guns found in his van were planted. Meanwhile, Delilah’s father, Miles, insists on knowing the truth about McCall’s work.
#24 - Bout That Life
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2022
McCall becomes ensnared in a deadly battle between rival rap crews when she is hired by the wife of a famous rapper, Dilemma, to prove the musician is innocent of murdering a fellow artist.
#25 - Love Hurts
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/7/2023
When Fisk tasks McCall with tracking down an ex-MI6 agent In Paris with whom she had a past relationship, she must convince him to help her track down a crucial document that his friend was hiding. Also, Delilah faces discrimination at her new fashion internship.