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The Equalizer Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Blood & Wine: Part 1
Wed, Sep 23, 198747 mins
A woman who discovered her daughter's husband has a gun but couldn't find it when she tries to tell her daughter about calls McCall. McCall initially refuses to help until he sees the man following them. Later McCall thinks he's a terrorist, the Feds are looking for so he calls the agent in charge. He learns that they are being aided by a man who knows the terrorist who is now a priest whom McCall also knows and hates so he doesn't want to do anything with him.
Episode 2
Blood & Wine: Part 2
Wed, Sep 23, 198747 mins
A terrorist blends in with visitors from all over the world at a Roman Catholic religious festival, His former partner, who repented and became a monk, arrives in New York City to search for him. The partner suspects that the terrorist will hit the religious festival to show his contempt for Christianity, in the guise of a priest he has murdered. The title is quite literal, because the terrorist plans to commit perhaps the ultimate act of blasphemy by pouring the poison into a chalice of wine -- which is to be converted to Christ's blood -- and serve it to a thousand people at a Mass where he is officiating.
Episode 3
Suspicion of Innocence
Wed, Sep 30, 198746 mins
McCall is hired by the mother of a mentally challenged man falsely charged in the murder of his coworker.
Episode 4
In the Money
Wed, Oct 7, 198760 mins
A banker on Wall Street commits suicide and the waitress he was dating also turns up dead. When the waitress' friend is almost murdered, McCall is dragged into the dark underbelly of Wall Street to seek answers.
Episode 5
Encounter in a Closed Room
Wed, Oct 14, 198746 mins
A Russian scientist who's in New York City gets away from his security and goes to the home of a friend. Later some American agents show up and ask him if he wants to defect and when he says yes they take him in. The scientist's friend is later approached by someone who wants her to help them take the scientist out or else her parents will be killed. She then calls McCall and tries to neutralize them.
Episode 6
Mission: McCall: Part 1
Wed, Oct 28, 198745 mins
When Scott can't find his father, he first calls Control but they give him the brush off. He later finds a message from his father telling him to contact a man named Dyson who also worked for the Agency and like McCall wanted out. Dyson tries to find him and thinks that the KGB might be involved, so he breaks out another former Agency operative, Harley Gage to help him. They discover that the KGB has nothing to do with happened to McCall.
Episode 7
Mission: McCall: Part 2
Wed, Nov 4, 198744 mins
The KGB get McCall and take him to the Russian embassy. McCall was shot so they try to treat him before sending him to Russia. Dyson upon learning this tries to get him out by getting into the Embassy along with Gage. They tell Kostmayer to sit on Control because they fear he might try to stop them. Eventually his people find him and tries to contact someone at the Embassy. Eventually Dyson and Gage are caught.
Episode 8
Shadow Play
Wed, Nov 11, 198747 mins
Harley Gage and Alice Shepard try to protect an old friend who is testifying at a government hearing. McCall continues his recovery.
Episode 9
Inner View
Wed, Nov 18, 198746 mins
A female psychic is having visions of a serial killer and his victims. McCall is busy protecting a woman who claims she had a run-in with him but the police don't believe her so Gage goes with the psychic to check a place she saw in her vision but when they don't find anything, he doesn't believe her. But then later on, another victim is found.
Episode 10
The Rehearsal
Wed, Dec 2, 198747 mins
McCall and Gage attend the rehearsal of a play in which the daughter of an associate will be starring. While she's in her dressing room, a shadowy figure tells her to leave. Later they discover that someone has cut the phone lines and booby trapped the theatre so when anyone comes inside, the bomb will go off. So they have to find the one who planted it so they can deactivate it. And it's while they wait that they discover that the people there know more than they are telling.
Episode 11
Christmas Presence
Wed, Dec 16, 198745 mins
McCall and Gage protect a young boy who is being terrorized by a group of men who want him out of the neighbourhood because he has AIDS.
Episode 12
A Dance on the Dark Side
Wed, Jan 13, 198847 mins
When a woman accidentally hears a phone call implicating an undercover cop in the murder of his partner, her life is threatened and she contacts McCall for help.
Episode 13
The Child Broker
Wed, Jan 20, 198846 mins
A robbery gang of semi-homeless kids is run by a ruthless manipulator. One of the kids has a caring single mother who enlists the Equalizer to look into things. When the gang boss shows his true colours anytime the possibility arises to advance in the world, the boys and The Equalizer bring him to justice.
Episode 14
Video Games
Wed, Jan 27, 198846 mins
A man tricks women into prostitution and videotapes them, using the videos to blackmail them into doing even more, and eventually each is killed. McCall helps a chauffeur planning to avenge the death of his daughter.
Episode 15
Something Green
Wed, Feb 10, 198846 mins
When the son of a woman who was fathered by a Swiss diplomat is missing, she calls McCall. He then talks to the boy's father and learns that he's in bed with some criminals who use him to get their money into Swiss banks. It seems he stole from them and it appears they grabbed his son to get him to return it but he claims that he sent the money out of the country. So McCall tries to shake the men who have the boy.
Episode 16
The Mystery of Manon: Part 1
Wed, Feb 17, 198860 mins
Philipe Marcel is told he can see Manon again if he kills McCall and Control.
Episode 17
The Mystery of Manon: Part 2
Wed, Feb 24, 198860 mins
Manon's captor takes Scott, Control, and McCall hostage, intent on torturing them, then killing them.
Episode 18
No Place Like Home
Wed, Mar 16, 198846 mins
A slumlord is hard to stop due to his connections, but McCall is determined to help the Whittaker family, and in the process, the other people being exploited.
Episode 19
Last Call
Wed, Mar 23, 198845 mins
A psycho and his compliant brother take over Pete's, capturing several patrons as hostages, including Mickey. They are willing to turn themselves in to the police, but a man trying to collect on a contract will kill them if they come out.
Episode 20
Regrets Only
Wed, Mar 30, 198846 mins
An attractive divorcee, Susan Foxworth, has become the target of malicious & vindictive stalking from her psychopathic ex-husband, Gary. Despite her repeated complaints to the police, they state they are powerless to act until her ex does something to harm her or her children. Susan turns to Robert McCall for help, who discovers some chilling facts about her ex-husband's past. When the psychopathic ex finds out that McCall is working for Susan, he breaks into her home in the hope of killing her, but McCall has set a clever trap for him...
Episode 21
Target of Choice
Wed, Apr 6, 198845 mins
A killer seeks revenge on the man who helped put him in prison.
Episode 22
Always a Lady
Wed, May 4, 198845 mins
When a former protege of McCall's is murdered, he vows to seek out those responsible. His subsequent investigation, however, reveals that she may have been involved in criminal activity following her departure from The Company.
