7.9/1065 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: Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler
7.5/1068 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
7.5/1063 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
7.7/1063 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
7.0/1059 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
7.5/1064 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
7.7/1064 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: Wayne Powers, Donna Powers
7.8/1062 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
7.6/1067 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
8.5/1088 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
7.7/1067 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
8.0/1062 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: Wayne Powers, Donna Powers
7.9/1064 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
7.5/1057 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
7.7/1059 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
7.6/1060 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
7.4/1063 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
8.0/1081 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
7.8/1054 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
7.1/1060 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
7.9/1059 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
8.3/1074 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
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...
Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDrama
Network:CBS
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"The Last Campaign" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer" season 4. It scored 7.9/10 based on 65 votes. Directed by Richard Compton and written by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler, it aired on 10/26/1988. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Sea of Fire".