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Season 1 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Pilot: The Equalizer

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1985

Pilot: The Equalizer

Disillusioned by his years as a spy, Robert McCall resigns from his job, determined to help people in need. His first two clients are a telecommunications employee who stumbles onto an extortion ring, and a woman threatened by a stalker.

China Rain

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1985

China Rain

A Chinatown gang kidnap whom they believe is the son of a wealthy Chinese-American couple, unaware that he is actually the maid's child. Fearful that the police will not be able to get the boy back alive, the maid contacts Robert McCall.

The Defector

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1985

The Defector

McCall's attempt to help a former agent defect from the USSR goes badly, leaving the man's daughter in peril. McCall is also asked by a teenage boy for help against a local gang of bullies.

The Lock Box

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1985

The Lock Box

The Griffith family arrives in NYC on vacation from Duluth and things go wrong right from the start...their luggage is stolen by a gypsy cabbie and the hotel has lost their reservations. Bored and frustrated, Edie, the Griffiths 17 year old daughter wanders out of the hotel at night to do some exploring. She is lured into accepting a ride and finds herself abducted. The police can offer little help and with no one else to turn to they hire McCall to help find their daughter. His search will lead him into the seedy underworld of prostitution and an 'invitation only' ...

Lady Cop

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1985

Lady Cop

A young New York City patrolwoman contacts McCall to help her take down a trio of dirty cops, which include her partner.

The Confirmation Day

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1985

The Confirmation Day

Prior to his confirmation, a boy hires McCall to protect his father who is caught up in some crooked business deals, while at the same time protecting an aging stage actress from a stalker.

The Children's Song

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1985

The Children's Song

On a camping trip, McCall and his estranged son Scott must band together to protect a young rape victim from a gang of hoodlums who also killed her boyfriend.

The Distant Fire

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1985

The Distant Fire

McCall meets an old Agency colleague who now hires himself out as a killer. His next target is an ambassador and his wife. He asks for McCall's help to save the wife because she is a woman they both used to love.

Mama's Boy

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1985

Mama's Boy

A mother turns to McCall when she discovers her teenage son is working for a dangerous drug dealer.

Bump and Run

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1985

Bump and Run

McCall searches for a vigilante who is killing criminals in his name. Meanwhile, his colleague Kostmeyer protects a young woman from carjackers seeking revenge for a fallen member of their crew.

Desperately

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1985

Desperately

A bored housewife is dared by her friend to pick up a guy which she does. He takes her to a hotel room but when they arrive there's a guy already there. The guy who brought her there pulls out a gun and kills the man there. She runs away and calls McCall but she doesn't want her husband to know what happened. When she tells him what happened, McCall deduces that the man is a professional killer so they go to the police and she tells her husband. But the assassin tracks her down through her friend.

Reign of Terror

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1985

Reign of Terror

A doctor takes over an inner city clinic, upon arriving she discovers that the previous doctor has a deal with the gang who runs the neighborhood to provide them with drugs in exchange for letting them stay there. But when she learns of this, she tells them that it ends. The gang then threatens her but she's not intimidated. But her assistant knowing she's in over her head calls McCall. But upon meeting him, she refuses to accept help from because she doesn't believe in violence.

Back Home

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1985

Back Home

McCall is called by the tenants of an apartment building who are terrorized so that they would move out. They believe that the owner a wealthy man is doing this so he can tear down the building. McCall does a check on the man and discovers that he is looking for a hit man to kill his wife. So McCall approaches her and convinces her to come with him.

Out of the Past

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1986

Out of the Past

McCall's ex-wife asks for his help when her current husband is threatened by a vengeful ex-con.

Dead Drop

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1986

Dead Drop

McCall assembles a team of former colleagues to help an innocent bystander in danger when he is unwittingly involved in a smuggling operation. However, McCall runs into unexpected trouble with a smug bureaucrat gunning for Control's job.

Wash Up

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1986

Wash Up

Two window-washers who want to form a union ask for McCall's help when they are threatened by their murderous employer. Meanwhile, McCall's housekeeper moves into his townhouse temporarily for a few days with her two young sons in tow.

Torn

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1986

Torn

McCall finds his attention divided when Jason Mazer from The Agency offers him a chance at revenge against an old enemy, while at the same time a young girl asks McCall to protect her and her mother against her abusive father.

Unnatural Causes

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1986

Unnatural Causes

A serial killer is targeting New York's lonely single women who respond to a Lonely Hearts newspaper ad. His calling card is an orchid he pins to the body. Meanwhile, McCall is writing an article about Robert E Lee for a military magazine and trying to help a young actress from being exploited by a pimp.

Breakpoint

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1986

Breakpoint

While attending a wedding, McCall is taken hostage by Middle Eastern terrorists seeking to capture and execute a philanthropist from their country.

No Conscience

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1986

No Conscience

A womanizer is grabbed by some people who demand that he give them something that one of the women he's been with gave him. He has no idea what they're talking about so he turns to McCall for help. After going through all the women he knows they hit a wall. That is until he remembers one other woman whom he met briefly.

Unpunished Crimes

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1986

Unpunished Crimes

A man goes to the CEO of a corporation and accuses them of stealing his invention, and when he presents proof the CEO tries to destroy it. He then orders that the man be taken care of. And when they fail, the man's son calls McCall. McCall checks the CEO out and learns that he may have ties to a terrorist group, so he approaches the man in charge of the group and together they run a game on the CEO.

Pretenders

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1986

Pretenders

McCall helps a rookie reporter who suspects her new neighbour of criminal activity. As McCall probes further, he discovers the man may have murderous intentions and is being protected by Control.

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