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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#9 - 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
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#10 - 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
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#11 - 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
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#12 - 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
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#13 - 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
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#14 - 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
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#15 - 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
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#16 - 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
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#17 - 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
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#18 - 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
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#19 - 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
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#20 - 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
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#21 - 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
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#22 - 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
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#23 - 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.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Peter McCabe
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#24 - The Mystery of Manon (2)
Season 3 Episode 17
Aired 2/24/1988
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
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#25 - 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
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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!
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
Episodes
88
Avg. Rating
7.6
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
7.6
7.7
8.0
7.9
7.2
7.9
8.0
7.5
7.2
7.5
7.4
7.5
Best Episodes Summary
"Past Imperfect" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored 8.5/10 based on 88 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".