The Equalizer
Premiere Date September 18, 1985
- Metascore53
- 1985-1989
- 4 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
Premiere Date September 18, 1985
Season 4 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1988 - 1989
Episode 1
The Last Campaign
Wed, Oct 26, 1988 46 mins
A woman who works for an ambitious Assemblyman learns he is planning to get a Senator to step down, thus paving the way for him to take the Senator's place, by threatening to reveal something from the Senator's past. She calls McCall. But when her boss finds out what she is doing, he has her committed. McCall tries to help her.
Episode 2
Sea of Fire
Wed, Nov 2, 1988 45 mins
When some students at an inner city school get the blessing of a criminal to do whatever they want there, they start by assaulting one of the female students. When one of the students informs the principal what is happening to the girl, she then calls McCall for help. The student who told her about the assault is stabbed. McCall starts by being a new teacher and he takes the students who assaulted the girl to an autopsy and then has a man whom he knows "died" talk about what happened to him during his near-"death".
Episode 3
Riding the Elephant
Wed, Nov 9, 1988 46 mins
A Thai merchant (James Hong) in Chinatown learns his store and son are being used by a drug dealer (Mako).
Episode 4
Eighteen with a Bullet
Wed, Nov 16, 1988 47 mins
Greg Rivers uses young girl singers to make money, then gets them hooked on drugs and kills them. A mother asks Robert to help her daughter, Beverly Heat, before she becomes his next victim.
Episode 5
Day of the Covenant
Wed, Dec 7, 1988 46 mins
McCall and Kostmayer try to protect Scott's girlfriend from a man that claims she is a terrorist.
Episode 6
Splinters
Wed, Dec 14, 1988 45 mins
Mickey leads a raid and his team is killed and he's taken prisoner. Turns out a KGB unit is in the company and have been using their finances to research brainwashing, now being used on Mickey to kill McCall.
Episode 7
Making of a Martyr
Wed, Jan 11, 1989 45 mins
Sylvia Thorton is a gun control advocate whose husband, Brandon, was shot and paralyzed while working. Someone is now threatening her and Brandon asks McCall for help, which Sylvia doesn't want.
Episode 8
The Sins of Our Fathers
Wed, Jan 18, 1989 45 mins
A mother asks McCall to rescue her kidnapped son -- against the wishes of her mobster husband, who prefers to handle things himself. McCall tries to find a way to bring the boy home while bringing the father to justice at the same time.
Episode 9
The Visitation
Wed, Feb 1, 1989 46 mins
A gun runner gets killed by arms dealer Ruger, but not before he infects some people with a fatal African disease, including one of the killers. McCall's friend, Dr Demeter, is visiting him and helps determine the virus. Mccall helps her track down the arms dealer before he infects others.
Episode 10
Past Imperfect
Wed, Feb 15, 1989 45 mins
When a boy that Jimmy is mentoring is nearly abducted, he contacts McCall for help.
Episode 11
Trial by Ordeal
Wed, Mar 1, 1989 60 mins
McCall is brought to testify before a committee. When he demands to know what is going he learns that Control is being charged with all sorts of infractions and if found guilty will be executed. So McCall offers to be his advocate.
Episode 12
Silent Fury
Wed, Mar 8, 1989 46 mins
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community. However, due to the fact that she seeks help from someone who can hear, she faces a great deal of hostility from her deaf boyfriend, as well as some of her peers.
Episode 13
Lullaby of Darkness
Thu, Mar 30, 1989 60 mins
A psychopathic stockbroker, Joseph Morrison, is a habitual wife- and child-abuser who ruthlessly beats & humiliates his family. Because of his money & influence, he is able to avoid accountability for his actions. One night a neighbor in his apartment complex hears him attack his family, and she calls in The Equalizer. Morrison, however, hits McCall with a restraint order, and files a malicious lawsuit against his neighbor in retaliation for reporting him. McCall strikes back, however, by obtaining a video of Mr. Morrison's child giving grim details of physical abuse at her father's hands. Grim details emerge when McCall discovers that Morrison's doctor was accepting bribes to protect Morrison from prosecution. McCall & Kostmayer set a trap for this sociopath, which will catch him in the act of committing the crime...
Episode 14
17 Zebra
Thu, Apr 6, 1989 47 mins
A highly decorated NYC paramedic, Gideon (William Atherton), is on an "angel of death" killing campaign targeting homeless winos. No one suspects a thing as he drugs them and it appears they die from heart attacks. A Skid Row mission worker becomes aware that someone is doing this as his latest victim, though certified dead from a heart attack, was known to him to be in perfect health. He calls in McCall to find out who it is and stop them. It turns out there is more to Gideon's murder episodes than meets the eye as it becomes clear he suffers from an advanced state of Combat fatigue after 20 years of service.
Episode 15
Starfire
Thu, Apr 13, 1989 47 mins
A strange reclusive man(Michael Moriarity) calling himself "Seti" and claiming to be an alien from outer space has befriended a young girl, Amber. this episode by telling her he is being followed by other aliens bent on killing him. He shows her a strange futuristic device and has her promise to keep it hidden and safe after his imminent death. Amber contacts McCall whom, touched by her compassionate sincerity, discovers that "Seti" is actually a highly respected top secret aerospace engineer, and that he is being targeted by no less than Company assassins. Events become more complex as it is revealed that Seti/Wayne has information crucial to a secret government and industrial cover up as well.
Episode 16
Time Present, Time Past
Thu, Apr 20, 1989 47 mins
Harold Ross is helping Scott McCall with his music. But they are both kidnapped because Harold defected from Bulgaria and now they want him back. Robert now has to help his son and the man he helped to defect.
Episode 17
Prisoners of Conscience
Thu, Apr 27, 1989 45 mins
McCall tries to save a man who has been kidnapped by the man who killed his father.
Episode 18
The Caper
Thu, May 4, 1989 45 mins
Emmy Rutherford sees a man get killed, but the police don't believe her because she's called wolf before because she'd read too many detective stories. She calls Mccall in for help.
Episode 19
Heart of Justice
Thu, May 11, 1989 44 mins
In a New York City courtroom, a pair of sociopathic rapists are released after their sleazy lawyer points out a technicality in their arrest & discovery of evidence that pointed exclusively to them. These low-lifes, Tony Santiago & Max Gorman, had savagely raped a pregnant woman and beat her with a steel pipe to prevent her from testifying against them. The attack left her brain-dead and on machines. Not long after their release, the woman's sister discovers her brother-in-law carrying a .38, and calls The Equalizer for help. When the husband confronts Santiago, he levels his gun, but before he can shoot, another shot comes from elsewhere and Santiago falls, dead. Police trail the woman's sister and arrest the husband for murder. McCall, however, believes the husband is innocent, and soon he finds a disturbing pattern in 7 different unsolved murders involving ex-cons. Each one of the 7 had been killed after he had been arrested for a violent crime - and each had been released by the courts on legal technicalities! McCall soon finds out it is the work of 1 man, whose family was murdered by a pair of drug addicts who were set free by the courts, and were then hunted down & killed. Now McCall must link this man to the death of Tony Santiago before the woman's husband finds himself on trial for that murder...
Episode 20
Race Traitors
Thu, May 25, 1989 47 mins
A black family who moves into a white neighborhood is being terrorized by some white supremacists. So they turn to McCall for help who brings in Kostmayer and Stock to help. But things are a little difficult for Kostmayer cause the neighborhood where the family moved into is where he grew up. And he learns that a boy he knows is with the white supremacists.
Episode 21
Endgame
Thu, Aug 10, 1989 45 mins
When a woman who was playing paint-ball kills someone because someone tampered with her gun, she is arrested and calls McCall. Her sister, a lawyer, wants to help her but she refuses. McCall looks into her background and discovers some interesting things.
Episode 22
Suicide Squad
Thu, Aug 24, 1989 45 mins
When a boy is cut from the football team, a cunning drug dealer attempts to lure him into the business. The boy's sister contacts McCall for help.
