8.1/10332 votesLoading...#1 - Vox Populi
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/2022
When Aunt Vi is the lone juror on a murder trial who believes the defendant is innocent, McCall covertly investigates the case to find proof that Vi's instincts are correct.
Director: Carl Seaton
Writer: Zoe Robyn
8.0/10404 votesLoading...#2 - D.W.B.
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 3/20/2022
McCall races to find Dante when he’s abducted by a pair of panicked deputies who fear reprisal, after they detained Dante without cause and used excessive force before realizing he’s a fellow cop. Alone and injured, Dante experiences hallucinations that reveal his complicated childhood.
Director: Solvan 'Slick' Naim
Writer: Joseph C. Wilson
7.9/10355 votesLoading...#3 - Shooter
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/21/2021
Mel’s past military expertise proves critical when McCall is hired by District Attorney Grafton to find a sniper on a killing spree, seemingly selecting victims at random. Also, Delilah experiences PTSD when the sniper shootings cause her to relive the trauma of her friend’s fatal shooting.
Director: Milena Govich
Writer: Joe Gazzam
7.9/10345 votesLoading...#4 - When Worlds Collide
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/28/2021
Bishop comes to McCall, Harry and Mel for help when a terrorist from his past uncovers the identity of his adult son, a young man Bishop has kept secret for decades to safeguard him from his intelligence work. Also, Aunt Vi becomes nostalgic about a past romantic relationship when she receives a surprise visitor
Director: John Terlesky
Writer: Rob Hanning
7.8/10303 votesLoading...#5 - Exposed
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/15/2022
McCall’s determination to apprehend Mason Quinn, the criminal responsible for Bishop’s death, veers into a dangerous obsession that could cost her everything. Also, Delilah finally meets her mother’s vigilante team when she requires Harry and Mel’s help to prove a fellow classmate made her best friend a victim of revenge porn. Second season finale.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Terri Edda Miller, Andrew W. Marlowe, Joseph C. Wilson
7.8/10255 votesLoading...#6 - Never Again
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/2023
After a string of antisemitic hate crimes terrorizes a local community, Harry reconnects with his Jewish faith as he leads the team in finding the culprit before they attack again. Also, McCall must calculate what extremes she will go to in order to win custody of Delilah.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Ora Yashar, Adam Glass
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7.8/1059 votesLoading...#7 - Slay Ride
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 12/8/2024
A joyous holiday season turns into a cartel Christmas for McCall, whose romantic life reaches an inflection point when a crime syndicate holds her, Dante and her ex-husband, Miles (Stephen Bishop), captive in a hospital takeover. Also, Harry strives to break his years-long track record of giving Mel awful holiday presents.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10360 votesLoading...#8 - The People Aren’t Ready
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2021
McCall comes closer than ever to being captured when she races to prevent the murder of District Attorney Grafton, the prosecutor seeking to bring her to justice
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Joseph C. Wilson
7.7/10349 votesLoading...#9 - Separated
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/2/2022
McCall and Mel help a deported woman track down her son after she was separated from him while seeking asylum at the U.S. border. Mel, McCall and Bishop exhaust every avenue to get Harry released from prison.
Director: Neema Barnette
Writer: Erica Shelton Kodish
7.7/10220 votesLoading...#10 - Justified
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 5/14/2023
When a note McCall receives leads her to the location of her late father’s car, she must revisit the past to uncover who was behind his carjacking and murder nearly 30 years prior.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10461 votesLoading...#11 - Reckoning
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/23/2021
McCall's personal and professional lives collide when Delilah and her friends are threatened by a European crime syndicate for being eyewitnesses to the outfit's execution of a drug cartel boss.
Director: Benny Boom
Writer: Joseph C. Wilson
7.6/10370 votesLoading...#12 - Leverage
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2021
McCall is hired by a concerned mother who suspects her teen son has joined a local gang, leading McCall to the boy’s surprising motivation behind his spiraling behavior. Also, Delilah faces anxiety as she prepares to speak at her friend Jason’s memorial service, and Dante worries when the new detective pursuing McCall sets his sights on unmasking the people closest to her.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Erica Shelton Kodish, Keith Eisner
7.6/10394 votesLoading...#13 - Followers
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2021
McCall is hired by an online group of true-crime enthusiasts to find the anonymous stalker of an unsuspecting NYC woman when the criminal claims he will murder her in eight hours
Director: Mark Polish
Writer: Zoe Robyn
7.6/10331 votesLoading...#14 - Chinatown
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/6/2022
McCall and Mel work with a jaded ex-cop to find the killers of a beloved Chinese American restaurant owner, who was the victim of a hate crime masked to look like an accidental electrical fire.
Director: Christine Moore
Writer: Zoe Robyn
7.6/10294 votesLoading...#15 - Pulse
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 4/10/2022
McCall receives a desperate plea for help from her former CIA trainee, now a full-fledged agent, that leads her into a confrontation with Mason Quinn, the most dangerous enemy from her past in intelligence. In need of confidential information about the agent's latest assignment, McCall forms a tentative alliance with Carter Griffin, a by-the-book CIA handler.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: Joe Gazzam
7.6/10261 votesLoading...#16 - Blowback
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2022
When a smuggler being detained by the CIA must be transferred quickly to a secure debriefing site, McCall works with Carter Griffin to ensure he arrives unharmed. Also, Dante deals with the possibility of his father being released from prison.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10229 votesLoading...#17 - No Way Out
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 4/23/2023
Aunt Vi enlists the help of McCall and the team when she realizes her masseuse is a victim of domestic abuse. Also, McCall trains Dee on situational awareness and Dante goes against orders by chasing after the man who shot his friend Manny.
Director: Richard Lyons
Writer: Rob Hanning, Vanessa K. Herron
7.5/10507 votesLoading...#18 - The Room Where It Happens
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/2021
Mel goes undercover as a volunteer for a rising politician when McCall tries to help a despondent college student being threatened by someone inside the candidate's campaign. Also, McCall worries when Delilah starts hanging out with a young girl who served time in juvenile detention and reminds McCall of her own troubled youth
Director: Stephanie A. Marquardt
Writer: Zoe Robyn
7.5/10351 votesLoading...#19 - Somewhere Over the Hudson
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/13/2022
McCall helps a mob accountant, Bert Singer, scour the city for a lost ledger of evidence he must provide to the FBI in exchange for entrance into the Federal Witness Protection Program. Also, Mel frets over how to tell her best friend, who comforted her for years about Harry's death, that Harry never died at all.
Director: John Krokidas
Writer: Rob Hanning
7.5/10230 votesLoading...#20 - He Ain't Heavy
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2023
Mel engages in a tense family reunion when she and her disapproving sister race against the clock to save their brother Edison after he’s abducted. Also, as the team unravels the motivation behind Edison’s kidnapping, Mel grapples with the fallout of her argument with McCall about training Delilah.
Director: John Terlesky
Writer: Melissa R. Byer, Treena Hancock
7.5/10189 votesLoading...#21 - Blind Justice
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/2024
After a high-powered real estate developer is killed by a moving subway train, his widow hires McCall to investigate his death. Meanwhile, Aunt Vi and Dee visit an old neighbor living in a nursing home who may need their help.
Director: Geoff Wing Shotz
Writer: Adam Glass
7.5/10147 votesLoading...#22 - Shattered
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 5/19/2024
The team races against the clock after Mel is kidnapped by a member of her veteran support group and his older brother. Meanwhile, Dante is offered a position with the NYPD's Special Investigation Unit in Los Angeles.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10384 votesLoading...#23 - The Kingdom
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2021
McCall finds herself in the crosshairs of a foreign government’s intelligence agency when her friend Mira, a diplomat’s daughter, seeks McCall’s help to find her missing brother. Also, Dante faces suspicion from a fellow detective newly tasked by the district attorney to find the vigilante knows as the Equalizer
Director: Randall Zisk
Writer: Zoe Robyn
7.4/10289 votesLoading...#24 - Hard Money
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/17/2022
McCall's vigilante work further complicates her personal life when she is forced to ask her ex-husband, Dr. Miles Fulton, to help with a gunshot victim: one of two women being hunted by thieves after they witnessed a robbery.
Director: Hernán Otaño
Writer: Erica Shelton Kodish
7.4/10300 votesLoading...#25 - Boom
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2022
In the aftermath of her abduction, the walls between McCall’s family and vigilante life continue to crumble as those closest to her must come together for the first time to save her.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Joseph C. Wilson
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!
Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Episodes
63
Avg. Rating
7.3
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Best Episodes Summary
"Vox Populi" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer". It scored 8.1/10 based on 332 votes. Directed by Carl Seaton and written by Zoe Robyn, it aired on 4/24/2022. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "D.W.B.".
