The Equalizer — Season 4
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. The Last Campaign
8.0Aired 26 October 1988 • 48 min
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
2. Sea of Fire
8.0Aired 2 November 1988 • 48 min
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.
3. Riding the Elephant
8.0Aired 9 November 1988 • 48 min
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.
4. Eighteen With a Bullet
8.0Aired 16 November 1988 • 48 min
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
5. The Day of the Covenant
7.0Aired 7 December 1988 • 48 min
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.
6. Splinters
9.0Aired 14 December 1988 • 48 min
Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.
7. The Making of a Martyr
7.0Aired 11 January 1989 • 48 min
A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.
8. The Sins of the Father
8.0Aired 18 January 1989 • 48 min
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.
9. The Visitation
7.0Aired 1 February 1989 • 48 min
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.
10. Past Imperfect
8.0Aired 15 February 1989 • 48 min
An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
11. Trial By Ordeal
7.0Aired 1 March 1989 • 48 min
McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.
12. Silent Fury
8.0Aired 8 March 1989 • 48 min
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
13. Lullaby of Darkness
8.0Aired 30 March 1989 • 48 min
McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
14. 17 Zebra
9.0Aired 6 April 1989 • 48 min
McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.
15. Starfire
8.0Aired 13 April 1989 • 48 min
McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
16. Time Present, Time Past
Aired 20 April 1989 • 48 min
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.
17. Prisoners of Conscience
7.0Aired 27 April 1989 • 48 min
McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
18. The Caper
Aired 4 May 1989 • 48 min
A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
19. Heart of Justice
8.0Aired 11 May 1989 • 48 min
A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.
20. Race Traitors
8.0Aired 11 June 1989 • 48 min
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
21. Endgame
7.5Aired 10 August 1989 • 48 min
McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.
22. Suicide Squad
8.0Aired 24 August 1989 • 48 min
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.