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The Best Episodes of The Equalizer

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Every episode of The Equalizer ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Equalizer!

The Best Episodes of The Equalizer

Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself...

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  1. Background image for Past Imperfect
    8.6/10(94 votes)

    #1 - Past Imperfect

    S4:E10

    An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.

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  2. Background image for Memories of Manon (1)
    8.2/10(90 votes)

    #2 - Memories of Manon (1)

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
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  3. Background image for Suicide Squad
    8.2/10(77 votes)

    #3 - Suicide Squad

    S4:E22

    McCall comes to the aid of a college student who's lost his athletic scholarship and fears disappointing his parents, and turns to drug dealing as a way to make the big money they expect.

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  4. Background image for Memories of Manon (2)
    8.1/10(83 votes)

    #4 - Memories of Manon (2)

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Tony Wharmby
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  5. Background image for Breakpoint
    8.0/10(130 votes)

    #5 - Breakpoint

    S1:E19

    McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.

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  6. Background image for Counterfire
    8.0/10(100 votes)

    #6 - Counterfire

    S2:E7

    The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.

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  8. Background image for Blood & Wine (2)
    8.0/10(84 votes)

    #7 - Blood & Wine (2)

    S3:E2

    McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies.

    Director:Alan Metzger
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  9. Background image for Nocturne
    7.9/10(114 votes)

    #8 - Nocturne

    S2:E2

    A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.

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  10. Background image for A Place To Stay
    7.9/10(91 votes)

    #9 - A Place To Stay

    S2:E18

    A young girl runs away from her quarreling parents and into the hands of a child pornographer.

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  11. Background image for Blood & Wine (1)
    7.9/10(88 votes)

    #10 - Blood & Wine (1)

    S3:E1

    McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies.

    Director:Alan Metzger
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  12. Background image for The Last Campaign
    7.9/10(65 votes)

    #11 - The Last Campaign

    S4:E1

    The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.

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  13. Background image for Silent Fury
    7.9/10(62 votes)

    #12 - Silent Fury

    S4:E12

    McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.

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  14. Background image for Back Home
    7.8/10(110 votes)

    #13 - Back Home

    S1:E13

    A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.

    Director:Alan Metzger
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  15. Background image for Out of the Past
    7.8/10(116 votes)

    #14 - Out of the Past

    S1:E14

    An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.

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  16. Background image for Beyond Control
    7.8/10(90 votes)

    #15 - Beyond Control

    S2:E13

    Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.

    Director:Alan Metzger
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  17. Background image for The Mystery of Manon (1)
    7.8/10(70 votes)

    #16 - The Mystery of Manon (1)

    S3:E16

    Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before.

    Director:Bradford May
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  18. Background image for The Mystery of Manon (2)
    7.8/10(65 votes)

    #17 - The Mystery of Manon (2)

    S3:E17

    Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years before.

    Director:Bradford May
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  19. Background image for Lullaby of Darkness
    7.8/10(64 votes)

    #18 - Lullaby of Darkness

    S4:E13

    McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.

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  20. Background image for The Caper
    7.8/10(82 votes)

    #19 - The Caper

    S4:E18

    A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:Tom Towler
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  21. Background image for Heart of Justice
    7.8/10(54 votes)

    #20 - Heart of Justice

    S4:E19

    A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.

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  22. Background image for Endgame
    7.8/10(60 votes)

    #21 - Endgame

    S4:E21

    McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.

    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Torn
    7.7/10(113 votes)

    #22 - Torn

    S1:E17

    McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.

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  24. Background image for Nightscape
    7.7/10(97 votes)

    #23 - Nightscape

    S2:E6

    A rape victim asks McCall to stop her husband from tracking down her attackers.

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  25. Background image for Carnal Persuasion
    7.7/10(83 votes)

    #24 - Carnal Persuasion

    S2:E14

    A wife appeals to the judge sentencing her husband and is offered her husband's freedom for sexual favors.

    Director:Leon Ichaso
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  26. Background image for Re-Entry
    7.7/10(80 votes)

    #25 - Re-Entry

    S2:E22

    McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.

    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Past Imperfect" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored 8.6/10 based on 94 votes. Directed by Russ Mayberry and written by Gail Morgan Hickman, it aired on 2/15/1989. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Memories of Manon (1)".