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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!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 1 - The Last Campaign
    7.9/10(65 votes)

    #1 - The Last Campaign

    S4:E1

    The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.

    Director:Richard Compton
    Writers:Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler

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  2. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 2 - Sea of Fire
    7.5/10(68 votes)

    #2 - Sea of Fire

    S4:E2

    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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  3. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 3 - Riding the Elephant
    7.5/10(65 votes)

    #3 - Riding the Elephant

    S4:E3

    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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  4. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 4 - Eighteen With a Bullet
    7.6/10(64 votes)

    #4 - Eighteen With a Bullet

    S4:E4

    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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  5. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 5 - The Day of the Covenant
    6.8/10(59 votes)

    #5 - The Day of the Covenant

    S4:E5

    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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  6. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 6 - Splinters
    7.3/10(66 votes)

    #6 - Splinters

    S4:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 7 - The Making of a Martyr
    7.6/10(64 votes)

    #7 - The Making of a Martyr

    S4:E7

    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
    Writers:Wayne Powers, Donna Powers

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  8. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 8 - The Sins of the Father
    7.7/10(62 votes)

    #8 - The Sins of the Father

    S4:E8

    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. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 9 - The Visitation
    7.6/10(69 votes)

    #9 - The Visitation

    S4:E9

    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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  10. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 10 - Past Imperfect
    8.6/10(103 votes)

    #10 - Past Imperfect

    S4:E10

    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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  11. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 11 - Trial By Ordeal
    7.7/10(70 votes)

    #11 - Trial By Ordeal

    S4:E11

    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. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 12 - Silent Fury
    7.7/10(63 votes)

    #12 - Silent Fury

    S4:E12

    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
    Writers:Wayne Powers, Donna Powers

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  13. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 13 - Lullaby of Darkness
    7.7/10(65 votes)

    #13 - Lullaby of Darkness

    S4:E13

    McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.

    Director:David Jackson
    Writer:Coleman Luck

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  14. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 14 - 17 Zebra
    7.4/10(58 votes)

    #14 - 17 Zebra

    S4:E14

    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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  15. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 15 - Starfire
    7.5/10(60 votes)

    #15 - Starfire

    S4:E15

    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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  16. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 16 - Time Present, Time Past
    7.4/10(61 votes)

    #16 - Time Present, Time Past

    S4:E16

    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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  17. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 17 - Prisoners of Conscience
    7.3/10(64 votes)

    #17 - Prisoners of Conscience

    S4:E17

    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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  18. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 18 - The Caper
    7.8/10(83 votes)

    #18 - The Caper

    S4:E18

    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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  19. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 19 - Heart of Justice
    7.7/10(56 votes)

    #19 - Heart of Justice

    S4:E19

    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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  20. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 20 - Race Traitors
    6.3/10(72 votes)

    #20 - Race Traitors

    S4:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 21 - Endgame
    7.8/10(62 votes)

    #21 - Endgame

    S4:E21

    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:Unknown

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  22. The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 22 - Suicide Squad
    8.1/10(80 votes)

    #22 - Suicide Squad

    S4:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Jacqueline Zambrano

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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".