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The Best Episodes of The Equalizer Season 4

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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...
Episodes
22
Avg. Rating
7.7
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  • Past Imperfect
    8.5/10(88)
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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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  • Suicide Squad
    8.2/10(75)
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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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  • The Last Campaign
    7.9/10(64)
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    #3 - 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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  • Silent Fury
    7.9/10(61)
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    #4 - 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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  • Lullaby of Darkness
    7.9/10(63)
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    #5 - 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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  • The Caper
    7.9/10(80)
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    #6 - 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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  • Endgame
    7.9/10(58)
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    #7 - 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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  • The Sins of the Father
    7.8/10(61)
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    #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

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  • Heart of Justice
    7.8/10(53)
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    #9 - 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

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  • The Making of a Martyr
    7.7/10(63)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Trial By Ordeal
    7.7/10(66)
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    #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

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  • Starfire
    7.7/10(58)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Eighteen With a Bullet
    7.6/10(62)
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    #13 - 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

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  • The Visitation
    7.6/10(66)
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    #14 - 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

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  • Time Present, Time Past
    7.6/10(59)
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    #15 - 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

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  • Sea of Fire
    7.5/10(67)
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    #16 - 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

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  • Riding the Elephant
    7.5/10(62)
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    #17 - 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

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  • 17 Zebra
    7.5/10(56)
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    #18 - 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

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  • Splinters
    7.4/10(63)
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    #19 - 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

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  • Prisoners of Conscience
    7.4/10(62)
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    #20 - 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

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  • The Day of the Covenant
    7.0/10(58)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Race Traitors
    6.9/10(60)
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    #22 - 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

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Past Imperfect" is the best rated episode of "The Equalizer" season 4. 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 is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Suicide Squad".