The Equalizer — Season 1
If the rules are against you he'll change them. If the odds are against you he'll even them.
About this season
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.
Episodes (22)
1. Pilot: The Equalizer
7.5Aired 18 September 1985 • 48 min
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.
2. China Rain
7.5Aired 25 September 1985 • 48 min
McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.
3. The Defector
8.0Aired 2 October 1985 • 48 min
McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.
4. The Lock Box
7.5Aired 9 October 1985 • 48 min
McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.
5. Lady Cop
8.5Aired 16 October 1985 • 48 min
A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.
6. The Confirmation Day
8.0Aired 23 October 1985 • 48 min
McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
7. The Children's Song
8.0Aired 30 October 1985 • 48 min
Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
8. The Distant Fire
7.5Aired 6 November 1985 • 48 min
A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.
9. Mama's Boy
8.5Aired 13 November 1985 • 48 min
A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
10. Bump and Run
8.0Aired 20 November 1985 • 48 min
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
11. Desperately
8.0Aired 4 December 1985 • 48 min
A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.
12. Reign of Terror
7.0Aired 11 December 1985 • 48 min
The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
13. Back Home
8.0Aired 18 December 1985 • 48 min
A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
14. Out of the Past
8.0Aired 15 January 1986 • 48 min
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
15. Dead Drop
3.3Aired 22 January 1986 • 48 min
McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.
16. Wash Up
7.0Aired 29 January 1986 • 48 min
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.
17. Torn
8.0Aired 5 February 1986 • 48 min
McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
18. Unnatural Causes
4.0Aired 12 February 1986 • 48 min
McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.
19. Breakpoint
8.0Aired 19 February 1986 • 48 min
McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
20. No Conscience
8.0Aired 5 March 1986 • 48 min
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.
21. Unpunished Crimes
7.0Aired 1 April 1986 • 48 min
McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.
22. Pretenders
8.0Aired 8 April 1986 • 48 min
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.