The Equalizer: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Equalizer Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Blood & Wine (1)
Sep 23, 1987 · 48 min
McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies
Blood & Wine (2)
Sep 23, 1987 · 48 min
McCall and a former terrorist, now a monk, are both searching for the monk's former partner, a terrorist who uses plastic surgery after each assignment to keep ahead of his enemies
Suspicion of Innocence
Sep 30, 1987 · 48 min
McCall regrets persuading a young retarded friend of his into going to the police after he witnesses a murder; he's arrested for the crime.
In the Money
Oct 7, 1987 · 48 min
The trading on Wall Street gets a little rough; McCall and Mickey pull a half-drowned woman from the river after she gets in the way of some ruthless manipulators.
Encounter in a Closed Room
Oct 14, 1987 · 48 min
McCall tries to help a European defector free her parents from the KGB, who have kidnaped them to exert pressure on her to persuade another defector to return to their homeland.
Mission: McCall (1)
Oct 28, 1987 · 48 min
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion
Mission: McCall (2)
Nov 4, 1987 · 48 min
Scott discovers that his father has been kidnapped by someone, and following his father's instructions, contacts an old Company colleague, Richard Dyson, who sets things in motion
Shadow Play
Nov 11, 1987 · 48 min
McCall helps a fellow Intelligence officer stay alive despite someone's efforts to keep him from talking to a Congressional committee.
Inner View
Nov 18, 1987 · 48 min
A psychic can't convince the police that she has `seen' the next attack of a serial killer, so she turns to McCall for help in preventing it.
The Rehearsal
Dec 2, 1987 · 48 min
McCall and Kostmayer are caught with an acting company rehearsing a new work when a psychopath boobytraps the theater exits with bombs.
Christmas Presence
Dec 16, 1987 · 48 min
McCall asks Harley to help him handle a request for help from a six-year-old AIDS victim who is living with his grandmother and facing increasingly violent harassment from the frig
A Dance on the Dark Side
Jan 13, 1988 · 48 min
A police station switchboard operator overhears a detective discussing the murder of his former partner and goes to McCall for help when she receives threats to keep her quiet.
The Child Broker
Jan 20, 1988 · 48 min
A young woman asks McCall to help her boyfriend break away from the control of a junior Fagin.
Video Games
Jan 27, 1988 · 48 min
A reporter's wife asks McCall to find her husband, who has disappeared while working undercover on a call-girl operation involving blackmail and the death of his daughter.
Something Green
Feb 10, 1988 · 48 min
The ex-wife of a European diplomat asks McCall to help her retrieve her son from his father before he can leave the country with the boy and $10 million in mob money.
The Mystery of Manon (1)
Feb 17, 1988 · 48 min
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years befo
The Mystery of Manon (2)
Feb 24, 1988 · 48 min
Yvette Marcel asks her godfather Control and McCall for help dealing with her irrational father, who is intent on locating Manon, the mother she believed had been killed years befo
No Place Like Home
Mar 16, 1988 · 48 min
McCall comes to the aid of a recently dispossessed man and his family who has been moved in a welfare hotel and is facing pressure from the landlord to take part in his welfare sca
Last Call
Mar 23, 1988 · 48 min
A rapist being hunted by a mob assassin takes hostage Kostmayer, Pete and several customers.
Regrets Only
Mar 30, 1988 · 48 min
A young woman trying to start her life over faces continuing harassment from her upscale, professional husband who won't let her go but who is smart enough to conceal his activitie
Target of Choice
Apr 6, 1988 · 48 min
A man fears for his life and that of his family when the murderer he helped put away is paroled and turns up living in his neighborhood.
Always a Lady
May 4, 1988 · 48 min
McCall's former protege at the Agency calls in a panic when she is apparently framed for the theft of a large amount of money from her gangster employer, but he arrives too late to