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The Equalizer Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1986 - 1987
Episode 1
Prelude
Wed, Oct 8, 198646 mins
When an investigative reporter is abducted, his daughter calls McCall and demands to know where her father is. It seems her father was doing a piece on a country's leader whom the Agency helped get into power, only to have become an oppressor and they want to know who the opposition are. And she claims McCall was the man who helped him get into power. McCall tries to find him but is warned he's going to be stepping on some big toes.
Episode 2
Nocturne
Wed, Oct 15, 198646 mins
A music critic overhears a voice in an elevator and identifies him as the man who had abducted her, raped and beaten her so badly that she lost her sight.
Episode 3
A Community of Civilized Men
Wed, Oct 22, 198646 mins
McCall helps a woman who's being harassed by a guy. He warns him off. Later the woman is killed and McCall goes after the guy but it turns it wasn't him. And it also turns out it wasn't her whom the killer was after. McCall thinks it's the woman's daughter and when he goes to see her she doesn't know why so McCall offers to protect her. At the same time Control wants something from him.
Episode 4
Joyride
Wed, Oct 29, 198646 mins
Some boys decide to take a hearse for a joyride. They find a casket inside filled with drugs. One of the boys decides to sell them, he is later killed. The father of another boy calls McCall for help. McCall learns that the owner of the drugs is a dangerous man and will do whatever he has to to get them back.
Episode 5
Shades of Darkness
Wed, Nov 5, 198647 mins
A National Guard lieutenant witnesses a murder but the perpetrator escapes and the victim dies in his arms. He is arrested and accused of the crime. His priest, who was with McCall in the army, contacts the Equalizer for help.
Episode 6
Nightscape
Wed, Nov 12, 198647 mins
A woman is brutally gang-raped in the subway and her husband tries to track down those responsible. She contacts McCall to help save her husband.
Episode 7
Counterfire
Wed, Nov 19, 198646 mins
McCall is arrested for the murder of a blind man who had earlier thrown himself on McCall's car pretending to have been run down.
Episode 8
The Line
Wed, Nov 26, 198646 mins
A young black man is killed accidentally when a watch group startles him. To protect themselves, they make it appear he was caught in the commission of a crime. And the police believe their claim. But his mother refuses to believe it and calls McCall to prove it. But her other son just wants to get a gun and go after them by himself.
Episode 9
Tip on a Sure Thing
Wed, Dec 3, 198646 mins
When a race between two horses is being highly touted the press is giving a lot of coverage to the underdog. And everyone seems to be betting on that horse. So a bookie takes all of the action and decides to ensure that the other horse will win. So he kidnaps the son of the underdog horse's jockey. The jockey's wife then calls McCall who advises them to call the police but the man refuses to do that. So McCall turns to an agent who is a gambler to help him find out who kidnapped the boy before the race begins.
Episode 10
The Cup
Wed, Dec 10, 198646 mins
With McCall at his side, Kostmayer tries to help his brother, a priest, who refuses all assistance after being wounded in a drive-by shooting that kills a parishioner. They soon determine that Father Kostmayer has become privy to a KGB assassination plot revealed through the confession of the murdered man.
Episode 11
Heartstrings
Wed, Dec 17, 198646 mins
When a woman's newborn baby disappears and the police are unable to help her, she calls McCall. After ruling out the possibility of her child being abducted for ransom or by disgruntled relative. McCall believes that her baby was taken by someone who deals with gray adoptions and when the mother who had earlier agreed to give her baby changed her mind, the person grabbed her child in desperation. McCall tries to find out who this mother is so he can find the broker. And when he finds the person who was going to adopt the baby, McCall learns he has ties to the Agency.
Episode 12
High Performance
Wed, Jan 7, 198747 mins
A female construction worker while on the job thinks she saw a murder. She then calls McCall to help prove she wasn't seeing things. So he goes to where she saw it to check it out. Problem is that it's the skeletal structure of a building under construction and it's on a high level and he has a fear of heights.
Episode 13
Beyond Control
Wed, Jan 14, 198748 mins
The death of a KGB mole forces Control to operate without the resources or knowledge of the Company; he asks for McCall's help to locate the stolen files of a secret committee while avoiding one of the KGB's top operatives.
Episode 14
Carnal Persuasion
Wed, Jan 21, 198746 mins
A woman, whose husband was arrested for a crime she knows he didn't commit, is approached by the judge handling her husband's case and is propositioned by the man. She then calls McCall and tells him what happened. McCall first starts by asking another judge what she knows about the man, and learns that he appeared to come from out of nowhere, which means he is in someone's pocket. McCall then goes to see a friend of her husband who tells him that some criminal needs a man in his position for his smuggling operation but the man is honest and wouldn't be a part of it so they frame him. McCall then decides to rattle the judge hoping he'll make a mistake.
Episode 15
Memories of Manon: Part 1
Wed, Feb 4, 198746 mins
Yvette Marcel who is Control's god daughter was grabbed by a couple of men, who then threatens to kill her father who is a Canadian agent unless she can find out who her father's informant known as Chrysalis is. She turns to Control who then asks Robert for help because her mother is someone Robert knew very well.
Episode 16
Memories of Manon: Part 2
Wed, Feb 11, 198746 mins
After Marcel tells McCall of his connection to Yvette, he goes to make sure she's safe. But Dorgan who is desperate to know who Chrysalis is, grabs her. So McCall has to try and find a way to save her and get Dorgan off Marcel.
Episode 17
Solo
Wed, Feb 18, 198747 mins
McCall falls for a woman framed in the murder of a police officer.
Episode 18
A Place to Stay
Wed, Feb 25, 198748 mins
When a young girl from the suburbs runs away from an abusive home environment to live on the streets of New York, the girl's mother hires McCall to find her. He is thrust into the seedy underworld of child pornography in order to save her.
Episode 19
Coal Black Soul
Wed, May 6, 198746 mins
A serial killer of middle-aged women wants McCall to kill him. Meanwhile, McCall begins a romance with a psychiatrist whom he saves from a peeper.
Episode 20
First Light
Wed, May 13, 198746 mins
McCall is out of town appearing in a hearing being conducted by a Senator over an op (operation) Control did a few years ago on him, and McCall's testimony could take Control down. Scott and a friend are trying to help an old man who is being terrorized by someone. After McCall saves Control, he hurries home to help Scott.
Episode 21
Hand and Glove
Wed, May 20, 198746 mins
When the father of a woman with psychological issues is murdered, McCall steps in to help.
Episode 22
Re-Entry
Wed, May 27, 198746 mins
A boy who senses something is wrong with his father calls McCall to help him. McCall learns that he is being pressured to help some people rob his employer. McCall has a plan to help him but the people coercing the father grabs the boy and tells McCall not to interfere. So McCall has to find out how they knew about him and where the boy is.
