8.0/1085 votes#1 - 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 votes#2 - 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
7.4/1082 votes#3 - Suspicion of Innocence
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1987
McCall regrets persuading a young retarded friend of his into going to the police after he witnesses a murder; he's arrested for the crime.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Robert Eisele
7.2/1076 votes#4 - In the Money
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1987
The trading on Wall Street gets a little rough; McCall and Mickey pull a half-drowned woman from the river after she gets in the way of some ruthless manipulators.
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ed Waters
7.0/1062 votes#5 - Encounter in a Closed Room
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1987
McCall tries to help a European defector free her parents from the KGB, who have kidnaped them to exert pressure on her to persuade another defector to return to their homeland.
Director: Jim Johnston
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ann Lewis Hamilton
7.5/1074 votes#6 - Mission: McCall (1)
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1987
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ed Waters
7.4/1074 votes#7 - Mission: McCall (2)
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1987
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion to find out who has McCall and to get him back.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ed Waters
7.2/1066 votes#8 - Shadow Play
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1987
McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Robert Eisele
7.4/1067 votes#9 - Inner View
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1987
A psychic can't convince the police that she has `seen' the next attack of a serial killer, so she turns to McCall for help in preventing it.
Director: Marc Laub
Writer: Jim Trombetta
6.9/1067 votes#10 - The Rehearsal
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1987
McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
Director: Alan Metzger
Writer: Robert Eisele
7.6/1072 votes#11 - Christmas Presence
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1987
McCall asks Harley to help him handle a request for help from a six-year-old AIDS victim who is living with his grandmother and facing increasingly violent harassment from the frightened and angry neighbors.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Coleman Luck
7.4/1065 votes#12 - A Dance on the Dark Side
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1988
A police station switchboard operator overhears a detective discussing the murder of his former partner and goes to McCall for help when she receives threats to keep her quiet.
Director: Jonathan Perry
Writer: David Lightstone
7.8/1068 votes#13 - The Child Broker
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/1988
A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.
Director: Mark Sobel
Writer: Mick Curran
7.8/1060 votes#14 - 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
7.3/1061 votes#15 - Something Green
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1988
The ex-wife of a European diplomat asks McCall to help her retrieve her son from his father before he can leave the country with the boy and $10 million in mob money.
Director: Luis Soto
Writer: Kevin Droney
7.9/1069 votes#16 - 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
7.8/1063 votes#17 - 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
7.7/1072 votes#18 - No Place Like Home
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/16/1988
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.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Robert Eisele
7.3/1062 votes#19 - Last Call
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/23/1988
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Robert Crais
7.7/1066 votes#20 - Regrets Only
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/1988
A young woman trying to start her life over faces continuing harassment from her upscale, professional husband who won't let her go but who is smart enough to conceal his activities.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Robert Crais
7.5/1061 votes#21 - Target of Choice
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 4/6/1988
A man fears for his life and that of his family when the murderer he helped put away is paroled and turns up living in his neighborhood.
Director: Mark Sobel
Writer: Kevin Droney
7.7/1061 votes#22 - Always a Lady
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1988
McCall's former protege at the Agency calls in a panic when she is apparently framed for the theft of a large amount of money from her gangster employer, but he arrives too late to save her life.
Director: Marc Laub
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Equalizer Season 3
Every episode of The Equalizer Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Equalizer Season 3!
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
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Blood & Wine (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 85 votes. Directed by Alan Metzger and written by Coleman Luck, it aired on 9/23/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Blood & Wine (2)".