8.5/1087 votesLoading...#1 - Past Imperfect
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2/15/1989
An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
8.3/1073 votesLoading...#2 - Suicide Squad
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 8/24/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jacqueline Zambrano
8.1/1085 votesLoading...#3 - Memories of Manon (1)
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/1987
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
Writer: Coleman Luck
8.0/10125 votesLoading...#4 - Breakpoint
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/19/1986
McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Don Carlos Dunaway
8.0/1097 votesLoading...#5 - Counterfire
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1986
The odds are against McCall when he's framed for the murder of a blind man.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Coleman Luck
8.0/1079 votesLoading...#6 - Memories of Manon (2)
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/11/1987
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
Writer: Coleman Luck
8.0/1085 votesLoading...#7 - Blood & Wine (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1987
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
Writer: Coleman Luck
8.0/1081 votesLoading...#8 - Blood & Wine (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1987
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
Writer: Coleman Luck
8.0/1066 votesLoading...#9 - The Last Campaign
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/1988
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler
8.0/1063 votesLoading...#10 - 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.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Wayne Powers, Donna Powers
8.0/1082 votesLoading...#11 - 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.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Tom Towler
8.0/1060 votesLoading...#12 - Endgame
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 8/10/1989
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: N/A
7.9/10111 votesLoading...#13 - Nocturne
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1986
A blind music critic asks for help when she hears the voice of the man who raped her years before.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
7.9/1087 votesLoading...#14 - 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.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Carleton Eastlake, Marc Rubin
7.9/1069 votesLoading...#15 - The Mystery of Manon (1)
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/17/1988
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
Writer: Coleman Luck
7.9/1062 votesLoading...#16 - The Sins of the Father
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/18/1989
McCall reluctantly agrees to help the wife of a mobster find her kidnapped son, who's a pawn in a game of revenge against his father.
Director: Paul Krasny
Writer: Tom Towler
7.9/1064 votesLoading...#17 - 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.
Director: David Jackson
Writer: Coleman Luck
7.9/1055 votesLoading...#18 - Heart of Justice
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 5/11/1989
A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.
Director: Bradford May
Writer: Gail Morgan Hickman
7.8/10107 votesLoading...#19 - Back Home
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1985
A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow
7.8/10114 votesLoading...#20 - Out of the Past
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1986
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Cyrus Nowrasteh
7.8/10111 votesLoading...#21 - Torn
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1986
McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
7.8/1094 votesLoading...#22 - Nightscape
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1986
A rape victim asks McCall to stop her husband from tracking down her attackers.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: Carleton Eastlake
7.8/1087 votesLoading...#23 - Beyond Control
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1987
Control becomes McCall's client when a KGB agent who infiltrated a think tank is murdered.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Coleman Luck
7.8/1080 votesLoading...#24 - 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.
Director: Leon Ichaso
Writer: Dennis Manuel
7.8/1078 votesLoading...#25 - Re-Entry
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/27/1987
McCall helps a young boy whose father was tricked into committing a crime.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Equalizer
Every episode of The Equalizer ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Past Imperfect" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored 8.5/10 based on 87 votes. Directed by Russ Mayberry and written by Gail Morgan Hickman, it aired on 2/15/1989. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Suicide Squad".