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