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The Equalizer is an American crime drama television series that premiered on CBS on February 7, 2021. The series centers around Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman in New York City and single mother to teenage daughter Delilah with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn, acting as a guardian angel and a defender for those who cannot defend themselves while pursuing her own redemption. In May 2022, the series was renewed for its third and fourth seasons. The fourth season premiered on February 18, 2024. The fifth season premiered on October 20, 2024.

As of December 8, 2024, 63 episodes of The Equalizer have aired, currently in its fifth season.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2021)

Season 2 (2021–22)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
11	1	"Aftermath"	Solvan "Slick" Naim	Terri Edda Miller & Andrew W. Marlowe	October 10, 2021 (2021-10-10)	7.67
Weeks after Delilah discovered the truth about her mother, she has withdrawn and lived with her father. McCall considers taking a break from her vigilantism, but is drawn back when Dante asks her to help with a bank robbery, where the robbers killed his partner and other officers. McCall enlists Bishop's help, who discovers that the dead robber was a rogue CIA agent. Harry finds a lead to Atticus Lee, a former soldier. McCall and Dante investigate, and discover Atticus was actually kidnapped by the robbers. Dante helps find a lead to Sanford Ganis, a congressman. They learn Atticus robbed his home and took evidence linking him to a political assassination, so he had his chief of staff, an ex-CIA officer, retrieve it. Dante and McCall track him to where he's keeping Atticus, saving him and killing the robbers. Ganis is arrested, helping Dante get justice for his partner. Delilah accepts who her mother is after a stern lecture and decides to move back home with her.
12	2	"The Kingdom"	Randy Zisk	Zoe Robyn	October 17, 2021 (2021-10-17)	7.30
Mira Shah, the daughter of the Saudi Arabian ambassador, reaches out to McCall to ask her to find her brother, Ali, who has gone missing. She discovers that Ali was suspected to be involved with a dissident group, leading to the Saudi secret service to intervene to find him. However, McCall, Harry, and Melody later learn that Ali wasn't a dissident; rather, he was in love with someone who is, Reza Shaheen. Reza goes as far as to offer himself to the secret service in exchange for Ali to be released, but McCall calls on Bishop, who was working with the Saudis, to do so himself. In the NYPD, detective Ken Mallory takes over the vigilante case. Upon learning of her involvement in the Shah case, he arrives to arrest the secret service men who held Ali captive. Dante warns him that McCall is never present at arrests other than making sure things lead to them. The Saudi secret service is not allowed to ever pursue Ali again, but Mira has to move back to Saudi Arabia and Reza could still be exposed to the service if he maintains his claim to be "Dissident X". McCall however doubts this, noting he might as well have done it to protect Ali in the first place.
13	3	"Leverage"	Eric Laneuville	Keith Eisner & Erica Shelton Kodish	October 24, 2021 (2021-10-24)	7.81
The mother of teenager Malik Johnson approaches McCall and tells her that her son has been acting strangely recently and is worried. McCall navigates through the DEA to get to Malik, who has been forced to deal drugs and plant a bug in a stash house owned by 6th Street Mafia leader Lamar Starks. Malik is abducted after planting the bug but calls McCall, who has Harry trace his call. Starks later asks him to plant a bomb in a barber shop belonging to rival gang, K-Block leader Charles Simms. Simms deduces the threat, and Malik escapes at the last second with McCall coming to his aid. McCall approaches the DEA and makes a deal for them to capture both Simms and Starks, under the guise of a cease fire. Mallory gets a hold of the meeting, and has his first encounter with McCall who orders him to cancel his reinforcements. District Attorney Avery Grafton begins to have second thoughts about handing Mallory the job of hunting down McCall. Delilah leaves Jason's funeral, disliking that other students who didn't know him claimed so in their eulogies. McCall encourages her to remember Jason by her own words, rather than verbally attacking the students. Delilah decides to hold her eulogy on a livestream.
14	4	"The People Aren't Ready"	Randy Zisk	Joseph C. Wilson	October 31, 2021 (2021-10-31)	6.48
After his son Luis tries to kill himself while in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Hector threatens D.A. Grafton publicly, then disappears. Hector's father asks McCall to help find him before he gets into trouble. McCall tries to warn Dante, but Mallory follows him to their meet-up, and McCall has Dante arrest her to keep him out of trouble. Dante looks into Hector, and comes into contact with ADA Walter Ellis, who he got into a fight with previously. With Mel and Harry's help, McCall finds out that Hector was kidnapped by the Bridgetown Gang, who are trying to kill Grafton and frame Hector for the murder. Dante and McCall finds out that Ellis is actually a mole for Bridgetown, and they both race to save Hector and Grafton after Ellis kidnaps her. They succeed, and Grafton decides to let McCall go, while Mallory is reassigned elsewhere. McCall befriends a young girl in lockup named Kisha Griffin, and convinces her to take a lighter sentence rather than go to jail.
15	5	"Followers"	Mark Polish	Zoe Robyn	November 7, 2021 (2021-11-07)	6.64
This episode's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (March 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) McCall is approached by true crime enthusiasts Rachel and Abe Watkins, who have been following videos released of a woman, presumably by a stalker, whom they suspect is Brandon Mackey. McCall later learns that Mackey is innocent and has tried to prove this, but has regardless received threats against his life. Harry narrows down the stalker's location to an Internet café following the release of another video, where McCall finds Watkins, who had withheld some information, even knowing that Mackey was innocent. McCall, Harry, and Mel manage to narrow down the victim's residence based on small clues of its location and identify the woman as Vicki Howell. McCall calls on Dante to help her, and Howell is rescued, but the stalker escapes with her son. When Rachel visits the hospital, she discovers that Howell is in fact her stalker, while the real Howell and her son are discovered tied up in their basement. The stalker is identified as Amber Nelson, Howell's former friend who became jealous of her popularity. Nelson kidnaps Rachel and broadcasts her capture live before Dante and the police arrive in the nick of time, thanks to McCall and her team. While out shopping with Delilah, aunt Vi encounters a white woman who accuses her of stealing and calls the police. Delilah shows them a video of the incident, proving Vi's innocence. Delilah later approaches the woman, offering an opportunity to apologize. When she refuses, Delilah posts the video online in retaliation.
16	6	"Shooter"	Milena Govich	Joe Gazzam	November 21, 2021 (2021-11-21)	6.59
McCall is approached by Dante and Grafton personally, who ask her to assist them in catching a serial sniper on the loose who seemingly targets random citizens. McCall, Mel, and Harry identify the sniper as Silas Furlong, a former Air Force sniper who was trained by the same person as Mel, Dan Erickson. Furlong makes demands for a ransom, but it's later revealed to be a trick to lure the authorities away from his actual target. Dante has the police secure Furlong's wife and daughter, while a woman is fatally injured. Furlong's daughter identifies a park she and him used to go to, as the next target location. Mel deduces Silas's location and has a fight with him on a rooftop, and he's shot by McCall, who tracked Mel via CCTV cameras. Delilah experiences post traumatic stress while out with a friend, and McCall resigns herself to looking after her for a while. She decides that she needs professional help, and enlists Bishop to help.
17	7	"When Worlds Collide"	John Terlesky	Rob Hanning	November 28, 2021 (2021-11-28)	5.94
Bishop approaches McCall after his company server is hacked, aware that Harry is alive and can help him. Despite Mel's distrust, Harry helps Bishop figure out that the hackers were targeting a file with information on Bishop's son, Zade. Zade is kidnapped, and Bishop and McCall find out it was by Hassan Talib, who was previously married to Zade's mother until she fled Syria with Bishop. He tells Bishop to help him escape the country or Zade dies. McCall is able to kill Talib, while Bishop locates Zade and rescues him, though he doesn't tell Zade he's his father. Aunt Vi is approached by a young woman with one of her old paintings, but she denies it's hers. Delilah later learns that the girl in the painting was Vi's former girlfriend before they went their separate ways. She convinces her to reach out again. Harry hacks the CIA server to help Bishop, and is arrested at the end of the episode when they find him.
18	8	"Separated"	Neema Barnette	Erica Shelton Kodish	January 2, 2022 (2022-01-02)	6.53
With Harry in prison, McCall and Bishop attempt to pull every string they can in order to have him released but to no avail. Harry leaves instructions for Mel in order to assist McCall. Back in 2020, Alma Castillo crosses the U.S-Mexico border with her son, Pedro, but is separated from him when border police finds them. A year later, she approaches McCall and Mel and asks them to find him, having last heard that he should be in New York. Dante assists them, and they learn that Pedro was sent to a home that suffered from an arson attack. At a new home, Pedro was taken away by an ICE officer and swapped names with another boy named Emmanuel, who was adopted by the Hobson family. Mel downloads ICE agent Ike Deleo's car info and learns that he frequented a garment factory. McCall searches the place and is cornered by ICE agents, whom she takes down before discovering Pedro and other captured children. He is later reunited with his mother. Bishop attempts one last shot at getting Harry released after he's due to be transferred to another prison, which proves successful.
19	9	"Bout That Life"	Eric Laneuville	Jamila Daniel	January 9, 2022 (2022-01-09)	7.18
McCall is asked to re-investigate the murder of rapper Dre Bids, who was supposedly killed by his rival, Dilemma. Dilemma's wife asks McCall to look again when a new track drops revealing details of the murder that were never public. McCall gets Harry to track the song, and discovers that Dilemma was covering for his younger son, who shot Dre Bids out of fright. McCall, though, realizes Dre Bids was shot again, and someone else is the killer. Harry helps her figure out that Dre Bids' protegé, Brawlah, killed him because he was planning to end the feud with Dilemma, which would've ended his career. McCall manages to apprehend him, while Dilemma's older son finishes the truce track to continue his father's work.
20	10	"Legacy"	Yangzom Brauen	Talicia Raggs	February 27, 2022 (2022-02-27)	7.18
A woman asks McCall to help recover a painting that was stolen from her grandmother's family during the Tulsa race massacre. The thieves built a shipping business with what they stole from the family, and their descendant denies having the painting. McCall enlists professional thief Jessie Cook (Jada Pinkett Smith) to assist when Harry discovers the painting is stored inside the Vault, a highly secured facility. Cook goes in for her own reasons, and they fail to recover the painting. When McCall and Mel are captured by the shipping CEO, Cook saves them and they're able to return the painting and send the CEO to jail on corruption charges. Delilah expresses opposition to a friend, Vera Franks, utilizing her grandfather's middle name in an application to a UN program, deeming it unethical due to her being white and not Hispanic as the middle name would imply. Vera later realises Delilah is right and decides to write an essay about what she learned from her family, and asks Delilah to help, which she accepts.
21	11	"Chinatown"	Christine Moore	Zoe Robyn	March 6, 2022 (2022-03-06)	7.13
McCall is asked to look into the death of bakery owner in Chinatown as a possible hate crime. McCall crosses paths with Ray Lai, a disgruntled ex-cop who was a friend of the owner and also investigating her death. With Dante's help, McCall finds out about other hate crimes that have happened to Asian-Americans in the area, and the suspects. Without any proof, Dante can't arrest them, and Lai decides to let himself be abducted and killed so that they will get caught. Mel is able to save him, and the suspects are arrested. McCall is annoyed when Delilah decides to hang out with friends instead of helping Aunt Vi make a family recipe. Delilah realizes her mistake, and comes back to help Vi. McCall also helps Kisha with her community service, and invites her to dinner to provide her own family as a safety net she can fall back on.
22	12	"Somewhere Over the Hudson"	John Krokidas	Rob Hanning	March 13, 2022 (2022-03-13)	6.95
This episode's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (March 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Bert Singer, a recently departed accountant for the Romano mafia, approaches McCall and asks her to help him find his ledger that he was going to hand to the FBI in exchange for witness protection. McCall asks Harry to track Bert's car, which has been driven to New Jersey, stripped for parts by 15-year-old Jackie Fowler, and sold to local car parts dealer Floyd. He lures them into a trap in search of a radio for a car, and his right hand man Wick attempts to kill them. McCall concludes that Floyd is keeping Bert's ledger, but upon searching Floyd's apartment, finds him dead. In the process, Romano's assassins abduct Bert, torturing him about the ledger. McCall and Jackie enlist the help of Floyd's girlfriend Rae. She sneaks into his office and finds the ledger. They and McCall ambush the assassins, but the remaining mafia arrive and storm the warehouse. Jackie turns off the electricity as a distraction and McCall takes the remaining men out. Romano stops Bert and seemingly shoots him, but he survives, having shielded himself with the ledger. Aunt Vi reluctantly allows Delilah to join her in a card game against two of her friends. Delilah deduces that the friends' continuous victory streak is due to them cheating. Mel reveals to her friend Shira that Harry is alive. Initially, she refuses to talk to Harry, but he manages to convince her to forgive Mel for lying to her during his isolation.
23	13	"D.W.B."	Solvan "Slick" Naim	Joseph C. Wilson	March 20, 2022 (2022-03-20)	7.08
Dante is at a gas station when two deputies, Barnes and Morales, accuse him of a crime he didn't commit. When they realize he's a cop, they panic and kidnap him, which Dante's sons witness. They call McCall, something Dante taught them to do. She gets help from D.A. Grafton to track Dante, and Harry and Mel figure out Barnes and Morales took him. Having seen a previous partner get fired for wrongfully attacking a black man, Barnes wants to kill Dante, while Morales is reluctant to. Dante experiences flashbacks of his difficult childhood with his father while being held captive. Mel and Harry help McCall find the place where Barnes and Morales plan to dump Dante's body, but Morales gets cold feet, and Barnes knocks him out. Dante ends up killing Barnes in self-defense, and McCall rescues him. Afraid of himself after what has happened, Dante resigns from the police force.
24	14	"Pulse"	Paul Holahan	Joe Gazzam	April 10, 2022 (2022-04-10)	6.68
This episode's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (March 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Marcella Mendez, a CIA agent and former student of McCall's, calls her and alerts her to a "code red" situation along with her coordinates. When McCall arrives, she finds Mendez shot dead and meets her handler, Carter Griffin. He reveals that she was just wrapping up a mission involving securing defection of Chinese UN translator Chen Ying in return for state secrets. McCall infiltrates the UN and speaks to Ying's friend and steals a part of her bracelet, which contains a written discussion between the Chinese Vice Premier and an unidentified individual, referencing something dubbed "Willow". Harry and Mel survey the airport after learning that an associate of Daniel Blake is coming to New York, later revealed to be Mason Quinn. Griffin informs McCall that Quinn is in New York to test an EMP he brought from the Chinese, and that it had been tested on an airliner seven months prior. McCall narrows the plausible location to be in a refinery near MacArthur Airport and heads there with Griffin. Harry also identifies the target airplane as belonging to Bishop Security and carrying Bishop himself onboard. Quinn and the buyer hold McCall and Griffin captive while Harry attempts to divert Bishop's plane, which proves successful at first before the EMP hits the plane regardless and crashes, killing Bishop. Mel arrives and takes out the buyer's men while McCall and Griffin break free. Quinn escapes, and warns McCall to not come after him, and if she would, he will be forced to come after her.
25	15	"Hard Money"	Hernán Otaño	Erica Shelton Kodish	April 17, 2022 (2022-04-17)	6.64
Two women, Shareen and Jenna, working at a Dollar Store, attempts to rob it one night, but change their minds and are witnesses to a man shooting an accomplice. Shareen is shot while they escape and Jenna calls McCall for help. Determined to not utilize hospitals to treat Shareen's injury, McCall approaches her ex-husband Miles Fulton, a doctor, and asks him to treat Shareen. Jenna identifies the shooter as a man working for a delivery company that frequents the store, while Harry uncovers that the man, Nick Gleeson, was involved in counterfeiting, which was masterminded by Gordon Racine and covered up as an ink incident. McCall also determines that a shop insider conspired with Gleeson, who she confronts after Jenna is abducted. She also enlists Dante's help, who runs ballistics with an old friend in the police, while gaining more intel from a friend in the Secret Service. McCall reaches Gleeson's location and confronts him, Racine and Brody Mavers. Gleeson holds Jenna hostage and lets her go as he makes an escape, but Dante manages to stop him. He later asks for Robyn's name, which she gives him. Miles' concerns about Delilah and McCall reach her home, and Delilah lies to him in order to avoid further suspicion.
26	16	"Vox Populi"	Carl Seaton	Zoe Robyn	April 24, 2022 (2022-04-24)	6.94
Aunt Vi is serving as a juror in a case against Tim Colvin, a black man accused of the murder of a white woman. McCall decides to look into the case after Aunt Vi says she's convinced Tim is innocent, but can't convince the other jurors. McCall is able to disprove a witness's statement of seeing Tim with the victim, but is unable to present proof. Aunt Vi is able to cast reasonable doubt on the evidence against Tim, but encounters bias from the other jurors. McCall gets Dante to help her talk to Tim, and she is able to find the real killer from the information he provides. At the end of the trial, Tim is acquitted, but the real killer remains free. This convinces Dante to rejoin the police force, and go after the real killer.
27	17	"What Dreams May Come"	Millicent Shelton	Teleplay by : Rob Hanning Story by : Jordan Bringert & Rob Hanning	May 8, 2022 (2022-05-08)	6.46
A self-proclaimed psychic asks McCall for help because he believes his sister, Callista, is in danger. She finds out that Calista was reporting a story on activist Rosa Martinez, and suspected that a councilman was using a Serbian mob boss to put guns back on the street. The psychic is arrested by Dante in connection with an assassin found dead. The assassin was after Callista, but she killed him first. Harry, Mel, and McCall figure out that Rosa is the one putting the guns on the street just as Callista approaches her for help. She instead hands Callista over to the mob boss, Rosa's foster brother, to kill Callista. McCall and Mel save Callista, and Dante arrests Rosa and the Serbian crew. Delilah goes to see a therapist, explaining how her constant lying to her father is taking a toll on her. She eventually decides to be honest with her mother about how she feels and how she's worried about her.
28	18	"Exposed"	Eric Laneuville	Terri Edda Miller & Andrew W. Marlowe & Joseph C. Wilson	May 15, 2022 (2022-05-15)	6.84
McCall goes after Omar Delgado, one of Mason Quinn's associates. With Griffin's help, McCall figures out that Quinn plans to release a dirty bomb in Manhattan. Delilah's friend Vera runs for student council president, but when her ex-boyfriend Logan releases a nude photo of her, Delilah tries to help. She goes to Dante for help, and he suggests turning to "The Equalizer." McCall puts Delilah in contact with Harry and Mel to help Vera's picture get taken down from porn sites. Harry manages to just as Delilah figures out that Vera is about to commit suicide. She and Mel are able to talk Vera down, and Dante gets the evidence necessary to arrest Logan. McCall agrees to help the CIA catch Quinn, and is telling Aunt Vi and Delilah when her car is hit by another vehicle. A shocked Aunt Vi and Delilah watch helplessly as McCall is abducted.

Season 3 (2022–23)

Season 4 (2024)

Season 5 (2024)

Ratings

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Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

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External links

• Official website
• The Equalizer at IMDb

• The Equalizer
• Lists of American drama television series episodes