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.

Last Updated: 12/10/2024Network: CBSStatus: Continuing
Legendary
star
7.35
248 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Tamika Miller
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Take My Life...Please!
star
7.40
132 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Richard Lyons
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Legacy
star
7.43
455 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: Yangzom Brauen
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DOA
star
7.44
250 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Paul Holahan
Writer: Kim Rome
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All Bets Are Off
star
7.46
274 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Solvan Naim
Writer: Rob Hanning
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The Big Take
star
7.47
244 votes

#6 - 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.

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Eye for an Eye
star
7.48
329 votes

#7 - 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.

Directors: Eric Laneuville
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The Lost Ones
star
7.49
199 votes

#8 - 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.

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Full Throttle
star
7.51
293 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Solvan Naim
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The Fight for Life
star
7.51
111 votes

#10 - 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.

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Somewhere Over the Hudson
star
7.53
456 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: John Krokidas
Writer: Rob Hanning
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Glory
star
7.53
775 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Liz Friedlander
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What Dreams May Come
star
7.53
429 votes

#13 - What Dreams May Come

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/8/2022

McCall, Mel and Harry take a leap of faith when they help a self-proclaimed psychic, Julien, find his missing sister who he says is in imminent danger, according to his visions. Also, Delilah’s PTSD returns as she struggles under the weight of keeping McCall’s secrets and her worries about her mother’s safety.

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Condemned
star
7.53
245 votes

#14 - 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

Directors: Cheryl Dunye
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Truth for a Truth
star
7.54
297 votes

#15 - Truth for a Truth

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/18/2024

McCall races to save the team after they're put into extreme danger by her former CIA colleague Michelle Chambers while she discovers the truth behind the CIA withdrawal in Venezuela that led to the death of one of her friends.

Directors: Solvan Naim
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One Percenters
star
7.55
431 votes

#16 - 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.

Directors: Benny Boom
Writer: Adam Glass
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Haunted Heights
star
7.55
176 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Chris Fisher
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Shattered
star
7.55
242 votes

#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.

Directors: Darren Grant
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The Equalizer
star
7.55
938 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Liz Friedlander
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Second Chance
star
7.55
336 votes

#20 - Second Chance

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/2023

McCall and Dante’s relationship is tested when a conman the NYPD has been building a years-long case against kidnaps a relative of McCall’s client and forces him to assist in a heist in order to save them.

Directors: Paul Holahan
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Lost and Found
star
7.55
348 votes

#21 - Lost and Found

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/19/2023

When a man claiming to have lost his memory wakes up behind a dumpster with a gun in his hand, McCall and the team follow a trail of clues to help uncover his whereabouts the night before.

Directors: Tamika Miller
Writer: Joe Gazzam
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The Kingdom
star
7.56
522 votes

#22 - 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.

Directors: Randy Zisk
Writer: Zoe Robyn
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Bout That Life
star
7.56
491 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: Eric Laneuville
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Gaslight
star
7.57
438 votes

#24 - 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.

Directors: Chris Fisher
Writer: Kim Rome
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Aftermath
star
7.57
545 votes

#25 - Aftermath

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2021

Just as McCall considers ending her work as The Equalizer, she’s pulled back in when she takes on Detective Marcus Dante as a new client who needs her help to find an untraceable group of bank robbers.

Directors: Solvan Naim
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