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 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.