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The Best Episodes of The Equalizer Season 4

Every episode of The Equalizer Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Equalizer Season 4!

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 as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.

Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Network:CBS

Season 4 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Equalizer" season 4 is "The Last Campaign", rated 8/10 from 66 user votes. It was directed by Richard Compton and written by Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler. "The Last Campaign" aired on 10/26/1988 and is rated 0.5 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Sea of Fire".

  • The Last Campaign
    8.0/10 66 votes

    #1 - 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: Janet Scott Batchler, Lee Batchler

  • Sea of Fire
    7.5/10 69 votes

    #2 - Sea of Fire

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/2/1988

    A desperate high school principal calls on McCall for help in combating the gang responsible for the rape of a girl in the school gymnasium.

    Director: Alan Metzger

    Writer: Peter McCabe

  • Riding the Elephant
    7.5/10 64 votes

    #3 - Riding the Elephant

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/1988

    McCall helps a Thai boxer and his girl friend extricate themselves from the clutches of a racketeer with old connections to McCall's former employers.

    Director: Donald Petrie

    Writer: M.K. Lorens

  • Eighteen With a Bullet
    7.7/10 64 votes

    #4 - Eighteen With a Bullet

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/1988

    McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.

    Director: Richard Compton

    Writer: Bruce A. Taylor

  • The Day of the Covenant
    7.1/10 60 votes

    #5 - The Day of the Covenant

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/1988

    Scott learns first hand about the anti-apartheid movement when his girl friend becomes the target of a zealous Afrikaner who believes she's a terrorist.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: Robert Eisele

  • Splinters
    7.5/10 64 votes

    #6 - Splinters

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/1988

    Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Making of a Martyr
    7.8/10 64 votes

    #7 - The Making of a Martyr

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/1989

    A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: Donna Powers, Wayne Powers

  • The Sins of the Father
    7.9/10 62 votes

    #8 - 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

  • The Visitation
    7.7/10 68 votes

    #9 - The Visitation

    Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 2/1/1989

    McCall's reunion with a former lover is interrupted when her medical skills are needed to deal with a deadly virus being carried by a pair of thugs responsible for killing an international arms dealer.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: Robert Eisele

  • Past Imperfect
    8.5/10 87 votes

    #10 - 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

  • Trial By Ordeal
    7.7/10 68 votes

    #11 - Trial By Ordeal

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 3/1/1989

    McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.

    Director: Marc Laub

    Writer: Coleman Luck

  • Silent Fury
    8.0/10 63 votes

    #12 - 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: Donna Powers, Wayne Powers

  • Lullaby of Darkness
    7.9/10 64 votes

    #13 - 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

  • 17 Zebra
    7.6/10 58 votes

    #14 - 17 Zebra

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 4/6/1989

    McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.

    Director: Alan Metzger

    Writer: Jacqueline Zambrano

  • Starfire
    7.8/10 60 votes

    #15 - Starfire

    Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 4/13/1989

    McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.

    Director: Bradford May

    Writer: Robert Eisele

  • Time Present, Time Past
    7.6/10 61 votes

    #16 - Time Present, Time Past

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 4/20/1989

    Scott is kidnapped along with a former Bulgarian agent McCall helped to defect ten years earlier, and later undergoes his baptism into his father's world when he accompanies a team trying to rescue the man.

    Director: Gordon Hessler

    Writer: Tom Towler

  • Prisoners of Conscience
    7.4/10 63 votes

    #17 - Prisoners of Conscience

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/1989

    McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.

    Director: Marc Laub

    Writer: Robert Eisele

  • The Caper
    8.0/10 81 votes

    #18 - 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

  • Heart of Justice
    7.9/10 55 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Race Traitors
    7.3/10 60 votes

    #20 - Race Traitors

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 6/11/1989

    McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Endgame
    7.9/10 59 votes

    #21 - 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

  • Suicide Squad
    8.2/10 74 votes

    #22 - 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