The Equalizer: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
The Last Campaign
Oct 26, 1988 · 48 min
The aide to an ambitious candidate for state senator discovers that her boss is blackmailing the incumbent into endorsing his candidacy.
Sea of Fire
Nov 2, 1988 · 48 min
A desperate high school principal calls on McCall for help in combating the gang responsible for the rape of a girl in the school gymnasium.
Riding the Elephant
Nov 9, 1988 · 48 min
McCall helps a Thai boxer and his girl friend extricate themselves from the clutches of a racketeer with old connections to McCall's former employers.
Eighteen With a Bullet
Nov 16, 1988 · 48 min
McCall and Mickey try to help a young rock singer escape from her greedy, immoral manager.
The Day of the Covenant
Dec 7, 1988 · 48 min
Scott learns first hand about the anti-apartheid movement when his girl friend becomes the target of a zealous Afrikaner who believes she's a terrorist.
Splinters
Dec 14, 1988 · 48 min
Mickey Kostmayer is captured when a Company operation fails, and he's turned against McCall using drugs and torture.
The Making of a Martyr
Jan 11, 1989 · 48 min
A gun control advocate whose husband was crippled by a stray bullet seeks McCall's help when she receives threatening phone calls.
The Sins of the Father
Jan 18, 1989 · 48 min
McCall reluctantly agrees to help the wife of a mobster find her kidnapped son, who's a pawn in a game of revenge against his father.
The Visitation
Feb 1, 1989 · 48 min
McCall's reunion with a former lover is interrupted when her medical skills are needed to deal with a deadly virus being carried by a pair of thugs responsible for killing an inter
Past Imperfect
Feb 15, 1989 · 48 min
An international crime cartel tries to use a man's estranged son against him when the man refuses to honor their wishes.
Trial By Ordeal
Mar 1, 1989 · 48 min
McCall becomes the defense counsel when a Company tribunal on charges of treason tries Control.
Silent Fury
Mar 8, 1989 · 48 min
McCall tries to help a young woman who is one of the victims of a series of robberies directed against the deaf community.
Lullaby of Darkness
Mar 30, 1989 · 48 min
McCall tries to help a woman and her daughter escape from her abusive husband.
17 Zebra
Apr 6, 1989 · 48 min
McCall investigates when a mission worker tells him about several winos who have died from heart attacks enroute to the hospital in paramedic ambulances.
Starfire
Apr 13, 1989 · 48 min
McCall tries to help a girl and her friend, a confused man who claims to an extraterrestrial being hunted by killers.
Time Present, Time Past
Apr 20, 1989 · 48 min
Scott is kidnapped along with a former Bulgarian agent McCall helped to defect ten years earlier, and later undergoes his baptism into his father's world when he accompanies a team
Prisoners of Conscience
Apr 27, 1989 · 48 min
McCall's search for a kidnapped Chilean poet gets very intense when he learns the kidnapper killed his father many years ago.
The Caper
May 4, 1989 · 48 min
A cleaning woman works at cross-purposes to McCall as she tries to solve a murder she witnessed.
Heart of Justice
May 11, 1989 · 48 min
A bitter man tries to get revenge on the men who brutalized his wife but he calls McCall when someone else gets them first.
Race Traitors
Jun 11, 1989 · 48 min
McCall answers a call for help from Kostmayer's old neighborhood, where a racist group is harassing a black family.
Endgame
Aug 10, 1989 · 48 min
McCall helps two sisters whom are the victims of a revenge that has been plotted by a master strategy game player.
Suicide Squad
Aug 24, 1989 · 48 min
McCall comes to the aid of a college student who's lost his athletic scholarship and fears disappointing his parents, and turns to drug dealing as a way to make the big money they