The Worst Episodes of The Equalizer

The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Steve Bello

McCall tries to help a European defector free her parents from the KGB, who have kidnaped them to exert pressure on her to persuade another defector to return to their homeland.

Director: Jim Johnston

Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ann Lewis Hamilton

McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.

Director: Alan Metzger

Writer: Robert Eisele

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

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

McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.

Director: Richard A. Colla

Writer: N/A

A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.

Director: Alan Metzger

Writer: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow

A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Heywood Gould

Two boys drive off in a hearse; not knowing it contains a coffin full of crack.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Charles Grant Craig

The trading on Wall Street gets a little rough; McCall and Mickey pull a half-drowned woman from the river after she gets in the way of some ruthless manipulators.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt

Writer: Scott Shepherd, Ed Waters

McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Robert Eisele

McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow, Victor Hsu

McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.

Director: Rod Holcomb

Writer: Heywood Gould

A bookie that doesn't like the odds on a race kidnaps the son of the jockey and demands the father throw the race.

Director: Donald Petrie

Writer: Scott Shepherd

The ex-wife of a European diplomat asks McCall to help her retrieve her son from his father before he can leave the country with the boy and $10 million in mob money.

Director: Luis Soto

Writer: Kevin Droney

Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Maurice Hurley, Joel Surnow

A window washer witnesses the murder of his pro-union partner by their anti-union boss, who has his own witnesses to back his self-defense claim.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Mark Frost

A womanizer is abducted and threatened with death if he doesn't give his captors what they want-but he can't figure out what.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Mark Frost

While McCall is testifying in Washington, Scott tries his hand and looks for thugs harassing a local merchant.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Jack V. Fogarty

A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy

Writer: Robert Crais

McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.

Director: Alan Metzger

Writer: Scott Shepherd, Susan Woollen

An aspiring reporter, desperate for a scoop that will get her notice and a promotion, becomes convinced that something big is happening right in the next apartment.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Scott Shepherd

A woman asks McCall for help recovering her kidnapped newborn son.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Loraine Despres

McCall gets involved romantically and professionally with a woman wanted in Pennsylvania for killing a cop.

Director: Alan Metzger

Writer: Carleton Eastlake

McCall regrets persuading a young retarded friend of his into going to the police after he witnesses a murder; he's arrested for the crime.

Director: Russ Mayberry

Writer: Robert Eisele