The WORST episodes of The Equalizer
Every episode of The Equalizer ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Equalizer!
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 - The Caper
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/4/1989
A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
#2 - Regrets Only
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/1988
A young woman trying to start her life over faces continuing harassment from her upscale, professional husband who won't let her go but who is smart enough to conceal his activities.
#3 - Re-Entry
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/1987
McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.
#4 - Memories of Manon (2)
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1987
#5 - Heartstrings
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1986
A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.
#6 - Starfire
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/13/1989
McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
#7 - Last Call
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/23/1988
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
#8 - Carnal Persuasion
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1987
A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.
#9 - Christmas Presence
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1987
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.
#10 - Eighteen with a Bullet
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/1988
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
#11 - Making of a Martyr
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/1989
A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.
#12 - Silent Fury
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/1989
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
#13 - Lullaby of Darkness
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/30/1989
McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
#14 - The Visitation
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/1/1989
McCall's reunion with a former lover is interrupted when her medical skills are needed to deal with a deadly virus being carried by a pair of thugs responsible for killing an international arms dealer.
#15 - Prisoners of Conscience
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/1989
McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
#16 - Race Traitors
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/11/1989
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
#17 - Something Green
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1988
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.
#18 - Video Games
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1988
A reporter's wife asks McCall to find her husband, who has disappeared while working undercover on a call-girl operation involving blackmail and the death of his daughter.
#19 - The Child Broker
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1988
A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.
#20 - The Rehearsal
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1987
McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
#21 - Shadow Play
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1987
McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.
#22 - Encounter in a Closed Room
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1987
McCall tries to help a European defector free her parents from the KGB, who have kidnaped them to exert pressure on her to persuade another defector to return to their homeland.
#23 - In the Money
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1987
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.
#24 - Suspicion of Innocence
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1987
McCall regrets persuading a young retarded friend of his into going to the police after he witnesses a murder; he's arrested for the crime.
#25 - A Place to Stay
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1987
A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.