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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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".