The Equalizer

The Equalizer

1985
7.2
5 Seasons
Action & Adventure Crime Drama

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 as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.

Season

Episodes

Episode 1
Ep 1

Pilot: The Equalizer

A former government agent offers his services to people facing problems too big for them to handle, such as a woman being stalked by a psychopath and a man who learns of a blackmail scheme involving government officials.

Episode 2
Ep 2

China Rain

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

Episode 3
Ep 3

The Defector

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

Episode 4
Ep 4

The Lock Box

McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.

Episode 5
Ep 5

Lady Cop

A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.

Episode 6
Ep 6

The Confirmation Day

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

Episode 7
Ep 7

The Children's Song

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

Episode 8
Ep 8

The Distant Fire

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

Episode 9
Ep 9

Mama's Boy

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

Episode 10
Ep 10

Bump and Run

Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.

Episode 11
Ep 11

Desperately

A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.

Episode 12
Ep 12

Reign of Terror

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

Episode 13
Ep 13

Back Home

A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.

Episode 14
Ep 14

Out of the Past

An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.

Episode 15
Ep 15

Dead Drop

McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.

Episode 16
Ep 16

Wash Up

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.

Episode 17
Ep 17

Torn

McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.

Episode 18
Ep 18

Unnatural Causes

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

Episode 19
Ep 19

Breakpoint

McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.

Episode 20
Ep 20

No Conscience

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.

Episode 21
Ep 21

Unpunished Crimes

McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.

Episode 22
Ep 22

Pretenders

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.

Cast

Edward Woodward

Edward Woodward

Robert McCall