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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!

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. 8.6/10(89 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. 8.2/10(75 votes)

    #2 - 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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    Director:N/A
  3. 8.1/10(85 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    Director:Tony Wharmby
  4. 8.0/10(79 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Alan Metzger
  5. 7.9/10(128 votes)

    #5 - Breakpoint

    S1:E19

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

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  6. 7.9/10(96 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. 7.9/10(78 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Director:Tony Wharmby
  9. 7.9/10(83 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Alan Metzger
  10. 7.9/10(59 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. 7.9/10(79 votes)

    #10 - The Caper

    S4:E18

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

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    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:Tom Towler
  12. 7.8/10(111 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. 7.8/10(66 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Bradford May
  14. 7.8/10(62 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. 7.8/10(61 votes)

    #14 - Lullaby of Darkness

    S4:E13

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

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  16. 7.8/10(51 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. 7.8/10(56 votes)

    #16 - Endgame

    S4:E21

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

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    Director:Alan Metzger
    Writer:N/A
  18. 7.7/10(108 votes)

    #17 - Back Home

    S1:E13

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

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    Director:Alan Metzger
  19. 7.7/10(114 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. 7.7/10(93 votes)

    #19 - Nightscape

    S2:E6

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

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  21. 7.7/10(86 votes)

    #20 - Beyond Control

    S2:E13

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

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    Director:Alan Metzger
  22. 7.7/10(86 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. 7.7/10(66 votes)

    #22 - The Child Broker

    S3:E13

    A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.

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    Director:Mark Sobel
  24. 7.7/10(58 votes)

    #23 - Video Games

    S3:E14

    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.

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  25. 7.7/10(60 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Director:Bradford May
  26. 7.7/10(69 votes)

    #25 - No Place Like Home

    S3:E18

    McCall comes to the aid of a recently dispossessed man and his family who has been moved in a welfare hotel and is facing pressure from the landlord to take part in his welfare scams.

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    Director:Tobe Hooper

Best Episodes Summary

"Past Imperfect" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored 8.6/10 based on 89 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, "Suicide Squad".