List of The Equalizer (1985 TV series) episodes

Cristolides (David Labiosa) exits the train; he's been followed. At knife-point he uses a girl in the subway as a shield. Robert McCall talks him down, but Cristolides is shot by agent Mason (Casey Biggs). McCall considers shooting Mason.... The music teacher (Paul Jabara) jokes with Scott McCall, as his estranged father arrives. Disenchanted, wanting "a new slate," Robert resigned from an unnamed American intelligence "Company." Scott agrees to give his father a chance. On a quest for atonement, McCall checks the ad he bought:

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Art teacher Carlene Randall (Patricia Kalember) rebukes her daughter Sarah (Carrie Kei Heim) for talking to a stranger. The stranger watches... In his restricted account list, Hamilton at Manhattan Telecommunications discovers "a locked sequence, 0900" with an embedded phone number; Pentagon General Branford answers. Olsen and Gardner take him to Sr. VP Leonard Morgan (Michael Levin). The stranger calls Carlene. "What are you wearing? My name is Steve...it is time that we really meet." She hangs up... but he's outside... waving to her. Control dissuades McCall from resigning, as a security risk. Hamilton is nearly killed; his wife Ellen listens as he calls The Equalizer. Carlene is shopping... so is Steve... Someone shoots at Hamilton. McCall drives away, but "This isn't quite working..." He takes action. "NOW it's working." NYPD Detective Lieutenant Jefferson Burnett from the 83rd Precinct wonders about McCall's new "security officer" job and why he should help him. McCall gives him the plate number. Burnett says it's registered to Morgan, but warns, "This isn't 'Nam or Africa or Central America. This is the Big A, and you don't know what guerilla warfare is until you hit those streets." Carlene is also at the precinct with Detective Lt. Goldman (David Proval), whose hands are tied. McCall gets to Hamilton's terminal. Morgan noticing, orders Olsen and Gardner to get him. Steve sees her... in her home... in the shower... "I'll be back." That's it! She calls The Equalizer. Brahms (Jerry Stiller) tells McCall, he doesn't know anyone who left the Company, and McCall is Code Red (i.e., Top Security Violation). McCall asks him to crack the "0900" code. Steve's back! McCall confronts him... with his Jaguar XJ and a gun. "Leave the Lady alone!" About the ad, Brahms comments, "I thought I was the only one who called you 'The Equalizer'." About the code, they bugged a presidential candidate, Senator Jim Blanding (George Hearn). McCall suspects extortion. Control lowers McCall to Code Yellow, "officially dangerous, but tolerable." McCall goes to confront Morgan. Meanwhile... Steve grabs Carlene at knife-point.

The maid Mrs. Tom (Lauren Tom) brings her son Vincent to work, upsetting Mr. Lin (Tzi Ma). Mrs. Lin (Jodi Long) prompts Sarah (Pippa Pearthree), who takes them out. Chinatown gangsters kidnap Vincent, mistaking him for Henry. Lt. Burnett prepares for ransom calls. Hans and Maxine show for the party but quickly retreat. Control wants McCall's operational notes. The Shemoneh Esrei "benediction for new life" persuades McCall to trade. Mr. Lin won't pay two-million. A police detective (James Russo) carelessly blurts defeatist remarks. Sarah sees the ad; Mrs. Tom calls. McCall searches Chinatown, passing a man sitting on the steps (Kim Chan), and a Chinese teen (Linda Wang), to a nightclub. The bartender Dal (Kevin Gray), calls for the "Head of Personal Relations," Cynthia (Karen Akers). Tommy Li (Ching Valdes-Aran) and McCall talk "Old Times." She says, "Joe Boys," but dreads turf wars. McCall replies, "I'm the war you have to avoid." She gives a clue; "Axe." A technician hacks Mr. Lin's system. McCall leverages Lin's interests in Laos and Amsterdam, for a $100,000 token, to "follow the money." Joe Boys celebrate (Donald Li, Al Leong, et al.). McCall scopes Chung's premises, and trades his marker with Control; he needs supplies, and "a wacko willing to stick his finger in the fan," Mickey Kostmayer. Mrs. Tom prays... Burnett gets an address... McCall and Mickey go in...

McCall comes to the aid of a Russian double agent who wants to defect to the west but when the man is murdered, McCall must protect his ballerina daughter, Irina Dzershinsky (Melissa Leo). Meanwhile, McCall also helps a teenager stand up to a group of bullies while balancing time with his latest mistress.

Seventeen year-old Edie Griffith is abducted by DeGraumont (Adam Ant), a pimp who runs an anything-goes, invitation-only brothel. Her parents, Sam (J. T. Walsh) and Eleanor (Maureen Anderman), hire McCall to find Edie.

• Includes appearances by Lori Petty as a Hooker, Luis Guzman as a Gypsy Cabbie, and David Alan Grier as the Desk Sergeant.

A young policewoman, Sandra Stahl (Karen Young), hires McCall when she finds that her partner, Nick Braxton (Will Patton), and his cronies are corrupt. To ensure she doesn't blow the whistle on them, Braxton uses Stahl's own gun to kill a bum (Raynor Scheine). Left with no alternative, Stahl and McCall set a trap for them.

• First appearance of Mark Margolis as Jimmy.

A teenage boy hires McCall for help after his father, Louie Ganucci (Burt Young), steels a truckload of antiques, which results in Louie's friend being killed, and Louie in deep trouble with mob boss Eddie Vanessi (Joseph Wiseman). McCall takes the boy and his mother Marie (Lois Smith) to a safehouse until he can resolve Louie's predicament. McCall also helps an eccentric old lady, Henrietta Fields (Anne Jackson), who is sure someone is stalking her.

McCall takes his estranged son Scott (William Zabka) for a weekend away in the country to try and bond, but they don't exactly have a quiet time when they end up protecting a girl from a group of young thugs led by Dillart (Bradley Whitford) who killed her boyfriend and now intend to keep her from talking.

McCall is forced to team up with a known hitman, to save the life of a woman they both used to love from a killer.

• First appearance of Saul Rubinek as Jason Masur.

A single mother, Victoria Baines (Christine Baranski), hires McCall to straighten up her troubled teenage son Ronald (Adam Horovitz), who is going off the rails after falling in with a drug runner with martial arts skills.

McCall helps a foreign student, Sydney Blake, after one of a trio of "bump and run" thugs dies in an attempt to car-jack her. The remaining two thugs, Abmennet (Charles S. Dutton) and Tessor (Nathan George), vow to make her pay. McCall must also uncover the identity of a copy-cat vigilante who is shooting punks in the name of The Equalizer. To find who bought the .44 magnum used in the shootings, McCall questions "alleged" illegal arms dealer, Sugar Fly Simon (Meat Loaf). Ronnie (Mark Linn-Baker) provides some technology to help trace McCalls phone calls. At the precinct where the calls were traced, defense attorney Donald Polk (Brian Bedford) exchanges literary quotes with McCall. Mickey guards Sydney, and they fall for each other, much to McCall's dismay.

Desperate housewife Allison Webster (Blanche Baker) is lured by a stranger, Geoffery Dryden (Ray Sharkey), into breaking into an apartment where he murders a man. Her friend Samantha Page (Tovah Feldshuh) helps her contact the Equalizer, who recognizes that Dryden is a professional hit-man. Dana Caldrin gives McCall his intell on the hit-man's identity and on Macklin (David Margulies) who hired him. Dana's hooker acquaintance Sindee (Roma Maffia) gives him additional "weird" information.

Doctor Timms (Lester Rawlins) quits the hood because he's just too tired of dealing with Crips thugs "Rat Heart" (Paul Calderón) and "Head" (Joe Maruzzo). The incoming Dr. Elly Walton (Lonette McKee) refuses to pay the gang tribute, in the form of drugs, so her nurse Irma Portman (Rosemary De Angelis) calls The Equalizer. Dr. Walton sends him away; she doesn't want "another man with a gun" in the neighborhood. So McCall takes the opportunity to visit Immanuel Pena (Tomas Milian), who he helped defect from Cuba. Dr. Walton calls the police and her friend Lt. Mason Warren (Fred Williamson) responds. Mason confronts the gang, beats up their new leader, and tells him not to bother his friend Elly. However he has no real power of arrest, as he is no longer with the local precinct. So the Crips intimidate all her patients instead. McCall must strategize on how to defeat them without using lethal force.

Resident thugs Ben (Paul Herman) and Joe (Jude Ciccolella) terrorize elderly residents of a rundown apartment block with a Doberman pinscher, prompting Monty Wynn and his wife Lilly (Allen Swift and Anne Pitoniak) to call McCall. They and other tenants need protection from harassment by the landlord and banker owner Guthrie Browne (Frank Converse). McCall asks George Cook (Charles Hallahan) to stay with the couple for a week while he gathers intelligence. He discovers that Guthrie hired hitman Karn to kill his estranged wife Andrea Browne (Marisa Berenson). McCall asks Lt. Mason Warren to plant information to misdirect him. He then arranges a disturbance at Browne's bank which prompts Browne to order the building to be torched. The race is on to get everyone to safety and save the building.

• Includes an appearance by Helen Hanft as Mrs. Washburn.

Aided by ex-con Fenn (Brad Dourif), Eddie Washburn (Stephen McHattie), a deranged and dying felon harasses Walter Wesley (Barry Primus) who testified against him. Walter's wife Kay (Sandy Dennis) calls McCall for protection; she is McCalls ex-wife, and mother to their son Scott. McCall enlists the help of Eddie's parole officer, Michael Cub (James Gammon), who roughs Eddie up and warns him away from Walter. After Eddie shoots Cub, Walter confesses to being more than just a witness against Eddie, and McCall arranges a meeting to resolve their grievances.

• Includes appearances by Jasmine Guy as Gloria, and Sylvia Miles as Fenn's mother.

An innocent florist, Barry Konig (James Murtaugh), is targeted for murder after having his name marked on mail in a dead drop by Sam the doorman, who is subsequently stabbed by "the guy in the blue coat with the fur collar" (Robert O'Reilly). McCall assembles a team of contacts including Mickey Kostmayer, Jimmy, Dana Caldrin, Sterno, and Ginger Brock (Robin Curtis) to stake out and tail anyone using the drops. Dana's girl Sindee provides the name Grant Lawseth, an NSA agent, who shows up at a dinner to meet "red parka man." As they all try to reason with Lawseth to call off the hit on Barry, Control's nemesis Jason Masur shows up threatening to fire McCall's contacts. Regardless, after consideration they continue to help McCall to find "the big fish" in control of the ring. McCall reports his findings to Det. Mason at the 75th precinct, and warns Masur not to push Control or it will become personal.

McCall is hired by two skyscraper window washers, Pete (Bill Cwikowski) and Lenny DeWitt (Brian Tarantina) who are certain their boss Michael Riegert (Robert Davi) will kill them for trying to form a union. Complicating matters, McCall's housekeeper Lettie (Yvonne Wilder) and her two sons, Jorge and Ishmael, temporarily move into his apartment. Sterno gives McCall background on Riegart. Among other problems, losing his contract puts him under pressure to square his debt with a mob boss (Joe Spinell). So he stabs Lenny and puts his knife in Lenny's hands. Lt. Isadore Smalls can't get enough evidence to refute Riegart's claim of self-defense, but does lead McCall to Ladonna Page, who agrees to help Jimmy and Alex (Michael O'Hare) set up Riegart for arrest.

• John Michael Bolger appears as a Bartender.
• First appearance of Ron O'Neal as Lt. Isadore Smalls.

Jessie Moore (Caitlin Clarke) asks Det. Smalls for protection from her abusive husband Mike, who is about to be released from prison, just as McCall shows up at the precinct. Detective Smalls says he has no client business there, until Jessie's young daughter Laura (Melissa Joan Hart) says she's the one who called him. McCall gets some insight from case worker O'Toole (Robert John Burke). Jason Masur also hires McCall regarding someone who betrayed him years before, a contact named Brian (Charles Knox Robinson). McCall learns that arms dealer Shumway is also in town, and that Veronica Whitney (Zohra Lampert) is Brian's paymaster, so he sets a trap for Shumway. With Brian on the run, and Mike coming home, McCall is torn on which case to close first.

• Patricia Richardson plays a saleswoman, Veronica Whitney's daughter.

Francine Grant, a librarian helping McCall with research, becomes the latest victim of the Orchid Killer (Kevin Geer), who strangles lonely middle-aged women answering his "Mr. Goodheart" newspaper ad. McCall asks Det. Smalls for details, but was also hired by aspiring actress Sally Ann Carter (Kim Delaney), who was duped by a flashy pimp, Anza Serrato (Bobby DiCicco). McCall warns Anza off, but he roughs Sally up again, so he contacts Jimmy who suggests going to Anza's boss Peters who works for "those guys." McCall contacts an old operative, Kelly Sterling (Gwen Verdon), who helps entrap the Orchid Killer.

McCall attends a wedding reception for Benjamin and Deborah Wade when terrorists kidnap philanthropist Gustav Herant (Aharon Ipalé). Their leader (Tony Shalhoub) calls Herant a traitor to their (unnamed) Middle Eastern nation. Hostages include Deborah Wade (Patricia Clarkson), City Councilman Frank Stevens, Gwen Hunter (Phyllis Newman), and saxophonist Otis Hendricks (Richard Hamilton). Lieutenant Ferraro (Dann Florek) calls to negotiate, and Findlay (Earl Hindman) talks to Mickey who fails to con his way in. Mickey tries the sewers, basement, vents.... Stevens eyes a banquet knife near a distracted terrorist (Ned Eisenberg), but the leader warns him. A cop posing as a doctor tries to slip McCall a .22 pen-gun, but he is shot. Saved by his vest he's told to leave, but the leader moves up the timeline, killing Otis. Intent on stopping them, McCall starts with his restroom escort (Tony Spiridakis). Mickey arrives late to the party but gets one last shot in.

In a club, Vicki (Kelly Curtis) writes her number on a matchbook and gives it to Mitchell (D. W. Moffett), a womanizer, who then gives it to Dana. Mitch is kidnapped and beaten by an industrial spy (Linda Thorson), but has no clue what they want. Given 36 hours to find "it" he hires McCall. After seeing Vicki's friend Theresa (Laurie Metcalf), the he remembers the matchbook. They check on Vicki and find it, but she's been killed. McCall has Jimmy analyze it and finds a microdot, but Theresa swaps it. McCall discovers the switch after his cabbie contact, Mr. Signorello, reports in. McCall and Mitch have to take a big gamble with the spy and her thugs.

Frank Donahue (Dan Hedaya), inventor of a fuel injector, claims IP theft by Penatrax CEO Stuart Cane (John Cullum). Whitney (Lee Wallace) says they never settle nuisance cases. Presented a logbook as proof, Cane starts destroying it and fakes a knife attack. Frank is shuttled out. After they burn his remaining records, his son Rick calls The Equalizer. A bomb goes off in his workshop, so his unsupportive wife Susan (Regina Baff) leaves with his other son Ed (John Cameron Mitchell). McCall invites everyone stay at his place. Sterno gives McCall intel on Cane, including ties to Red Wind terrorists led by Gianni Greco (Jon Polito). McCall enlists Greco to run a game on Cane to uncover his unpunished crimes, with a little "help" from other CEOs, Charles Webber (Clifford David), George Cox (Walter Bobbie), and Richard Phillips.

Rookie reporter Beth Mackie (Chad Redding) suspects her neighbor John Parker (Tony Musante) of criminal activity. Officer Dysan is no help, so she goes to her editor Brian Barclay (Philip Bosco), who doesn't see a story. Her colleague Flynn (Bruce Jarchow) only hits on her. Her sympathetic colleague Dack (Albert Macklin) refers her to The Equalizer. When Parker threatens Beth, McCall warns Parker directly and talks to Det. Smalls, who surreptitiously gives McCall Parker's file. Jimmy says he's using a false identity and protected by Control. Beth's friend Cynthia is killed, and Beth narrowly escapes. McCall gets Beth to a safe-house, and discovers Parker's plot, but not before Beth gets into trouble.

Dictator General Astiz, who Robert helped bring to power, kidnaps American journalist Frank Morrow (Martin Shakar). His daughter Jenny (Lori Loughlin) asks McCall to rescue him. In a surveillance van Robert sees Jacob Stock (Robert Joy) who has a tip to find Vincente (Jaime Sánchez). Frank tries a con, only to find Frank's torture sanctioned by Agency operatives Eric (James Rebhorn) and Stoller (Tim de Zarn), so he confronts Control. Scott isn't pleased with his father. Robert says he doesn't really know the world, and not to judge him. Robert goes after them with a little help from Stock, the police, and the press.

• Includes an appearance by Kelly Lynch as a bartender
• First appearance of Earl Hindman as NYPD Detective Lieutenant Elmer.

Music critic Kate Parnell (Jessica Harper) hears the voice of a man who raped, beat, and blinded her eight years prior, but Det. Smalls has little to go on. Her friend calls McCall after hearing an intruder, so McCall asks the doorman Jeremy (Thomas A. Carlin) about his missing keys. His contact Logan (Michael Parks), who is suicidal after a failed mission, tries protecting her. Matters worsen when Kate reviews Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, and someone tries to kill her. McCall cashes a chit from computer expert Joshua (Brad Sullivan) to create a voice simulation, and Smalls sends an APB. McCall asks former police officer Julian Coe's secretary (Tanya Berezin) about the voice. McCall and Logan race to intercept the suspect.

• Features the 1986 #4 R&B hit single "Count Your Blessings" from Ashford & Simpson's Real Love album.

The widow Julia Jacobs (Tammy Grimes) is pressed by Mr. Cooper (Lewis J. Stadlen) to pay her husband's debts. She asks McCall for help after collectors Michaels (Bruce Altman) and Wirth (Zach Grenier) vandalize her business. McCall has his IRS contact Wilhite look at Cooper's books and warns him off, but Julia is killed. McCall suspects her daughter Valerie Jacobs (Jennifer Grey) is being targeted by a third party, a ghost named Zahn (Lewis Van Bergen). Control wants McCall's help with project Genesis.

• Includes an appearance by Patrick Kilpatrick as Webster, and Marlene Willoughby as a Peepshow Girl.

Teens Michael Winslow (Christian Slater) and Steve takes a hearse on a joyride, but are unaware of the crack cocaine in the coffin. Steve tries to find a buyer through their friend Rachel (Kristen Vigard). Mike's mother Ruth Winslow (Olga Bellin) calls McCall for help, so Mike and Mr. Winslow (Eddie Jones) show McCall the hearse, which now has a dead body in the coffin. Before Control can find out, McCall pays off a gambling debt for his Company contact Sonny Raines (Cleavant Derricks). In return, Sonny gives McCall intel on the hearse owner Norton R. Selby (Roger Robinson), and Jimmy bugs his funeral home. McCall goes to find Steve and the drugs, and calls Det. Smalls when they find Steve dead. McCall goes after Aurelio and Selby, and tries to save Rachel from herself.

National Guard Lieutenant Dan Turner (Lenny Von Dohlen) sees deranged mercenary Rick Dillon (Bill Sadler) escape after murdering Nancy Polinski. Leo Barnes (Sam Coppola) witnesses Dan over Nancy's body. After being arrested, Dan's priest Father Martin O'Donohugh (Edward Binns), who was with McCall in the army, contacts The Equalizer for help. Judge Paula G. Walsh (Olympia Dukakis) releases Dan on his own recognizance, angering Nancy's father Frank Polinski (J. J. Johnston). Dillon tells Dan he is going to hunt him, and he starts with Dan's sister Lorraine. Martin takes McCall to see a recruiter (Caroline Kava) to identify the mercenary, and the hunt is on.

After a brutal subway gang-rape, Amanda Kaufman (Frances Fisher) asks McCall to stop her husband Jim (Thomas G. Waites) from exacting revenge. McCall suggests she talk to a friend, so she calls Zena (Madeleine Potter). He asks Det. Smalls for computer access so his hacker contact Jonah can determine the suspects' routine; they rob first, then rape later. McCall intercepts Jim, just as he is about to shoot Ricky Franklin (Tim Guinee) and two others who are the wrong guys. One of the rapists (Matthew Cowles) robs a watch from a guy (Mark Boone Junior) before their next rape. As the gang are about to rape Zena, McCall intercedes, after which he finally admits what he does to his new love interest, Allison (Lisa Banes).

• First appearance of Austin Pendleton as computer expert Jonah.

McCall walks into a bar... while a comedian (Mickey Freeman) does his act... poorly. McCall meets waitress Anne Fitzgerald (Lisa Pelikan) who asks him to protect her from being killed. He tracks down Terry (Laura Dean), a hooker who put Anne's name in the obituaries, but says it was a joke from her john, Thomas Marley Jr. (Vincent D'Onofrio). Then, elderly blind conman Tom Clark (William Hickey) fakes being hit by McCall's car, after which Marley frames McCall for Clark's murder. Lieutenant Kramer interrogates McCall. At arraignment, Judge Maurice Sanderling (Sully Boyar) denies bail, but Control arranges a distraction to extract McCall. Marley reports his progress to his incarcerated father (Leonardo Cimino). After Marley tries to kill Anne, she tells McCall that Clark gave her that alias, and her real name is Diane Snyder, but is it really? On the run with his face in the newspaper, McCall races to thwart Marley and clear his name.

• Includes an appearance by Miguel Pinero as a Drunk.
• First appearance of Charles Cioffi as NYPD Detective Lt. Kramer.

McCall is called by Miriam Blain (Novella Nelson) whose son Randy is killed accidentally by five men of the West Grove Citizen's Patrol. They lie to Lt. Vocek (Joe Grifasi) saying Randy was committing a crime. Jimmy gathers intel on patrolmen and local police who try to set up McCall. When they fail, patrolman Al Weaver goes after Miriam in her home and she kills him in self-defense. Her son Eugene tries to buy a gun from local thug Jumpin' Jack (Giancarlo Esposito). Patrolmen Vic Roselli and Lou Marsh receive blackmail photos, so they suspect patrolman Ben Carrigan (Donald Buka), and they turn on each other. McCall intercedes when Vic tries to kill their leader, Marty Bennett.

McCall starts his day while Warner Wolf announces horse racing news on television. Maria Rivera (Denise Dumont), the wife of jockey Luis Rivera (Daniel Faraldo), calls McCall after a bookie named Chance (Robert O'Reilly) has his associate Pike (Ted Ross) kidnap their son Roberto in an attempt to fix the outcome of a horse race between Survivor Too and Notaquita. McCall enlists Sonny Raines' help, who leads them to his own "blind" bookie Barry (Nestor Serrano). Notaquita's trainer, Oscar Peabody (Roberts Blossom), tries to encourage Luis, but Mr. Greenleaf (Paul Gleason) learns of Roberto's kidnapping and tries to cash in as well. McCall and Ronny must find Roberto before the race begins to save him from being killed.

Mickey's brother, Father Nicholas Kostmayer (Dennis Christopher), hears Stephen's criminal confession right before a drive-by kills Stephen. After a second attempt on Nicholas, his Bishop (Colin Fox) demands police protection from Lt. Elmer. McCall and Mickey learn that Stephen was part of a Polish group that was infiltrated in a KGB plot to discredit Solidarity using a false-flag assassination. Nicholas slips out, allowing Spetsnaz commander Monica another chance to kill him, but McCall and Micky intercede. They all race to a conference for the new Russian Ambassador Sikora to thwart the plan.

• Includes appearances by Lanny Flaherty as a Policeman, and New York media personality Donna Fiducia as newscaster Diane Waters.

Tommy, the newborn son of Vanessa Daniels (Michele Dotrice), is kidnapped by a nurse (Jana Schneider). Nurse Frank (Carol Woods) calls security, and the Chief of Administration Eugene Whitman (David Margulies) meets Vanessa just as FBI Agent Frank Carter (Michael Margotta) arrives. Carter predicts a ransom or disturbed person as the motive, but Vanessa rules it out and calls The Equalizer. McCall suspects an illegal adoption broker, so Mickey distracts hospital personnel while McCall checks maternity records. He learns that the client for Tommy is Hector Kouros (Aharon Ipalé), and Whitman arranges the adoptions. Control warns McCall that Kouros is an Agency asset, and thus off-limits. The kidnapping nurse calls Vanessa to meet, but it's a trap by Norell. McCall and Mickey confront Kouros to get Norell's location and must now save both Vanessa and Tommy.

Construction worker Sally Stevens (Patricia Charbonneau) witnesses hit-man Jordan (Michael Wincott) killing Mr. Tremayne's wife. Lt. Kramer arrives on-scene but there's no body, so she calls The Equalizer. She becomes the next target when Jordan and Tremayne (James Remar) see her watching them. Due to his acrophobia, McCall enlists Mickey's help to review the construction site. Mickey also finds a button from the wife's outfit in the apartment. To find who hired Jordan, McCall asks Dorian (Doris Belack) who else bought the same outfit from her clothing store. Armed with his identity, McCall sets a trap for him.

After the death of KGB mole John Ferman who infiltrated the Company, McCall and Mickey meet with Control who says he needs protection from KGB hit-man Paul Coble (Brian Bedford). He also asks McCall to retrieve top-secret files that Fermen copied. Two agents chase Fermen's niece Elaine Ferris (Liane Curtis) and she calls police after her apartment is tossed. Her neighbor Mrs. Hammerschmidt (Paula Trueman) hands her a letter from her uncle that was delivered, but it is in code. Coble, assuming Fermen's niece must have the files, goes after Elaine at her bank but fails, so instead he kills her boss Winston Erdlow (Josh Mostel) as a distraction to escape. While Mickey and Elaine try to crack the coded letter, Coble abducts Control to trade McCall for the files. McCall takes out his own insurance with comrade Durkin, and a stand-off ensues.

Judge Howard Tainey (John Cullum) offers to release tugboat skipper Jake Hughes (John Laughlin), who was convicted of heroin possession, but only if his wife Lisa Hughes will have sex with him. Lisa insists the drugs were planted. She calls McCall who asks Judge Paula G. Walsh (Cynthia Harris) about Tainey. She says Tainey has powerful allies. While Jimmy monitors Tainey and Mickey protects Lisa, McCall questions dock dispatcher Zeke (Louis Zorich). Zeke says Antonio (Raymond Serra) framed Jake who refused to smuggle for him. Tainey is also receiving bribes through Antonio's man Frank (Rocco Sisto). McCall confronts Tainey to save Jake and stop the smugglers.

Part 1 : A joint American/Canadian task force, led by Quebec police Inspector Phillipe Marcel (Anthony Zerbe), is destroying mob operations along the Eastern seaboard with the assistance of an informant code-named Chrysalis. Mob boss Frank Dorgan (George DiCenzo) and his associate Jean Carmack (Jon Polito) kidnap Phillipe's daughter Yvette (Melissa Sue Anderson), and threatens to kill Phillipe if she doesn't provide the identity of Chrysalis. Yvette turns to her godfather Control, who asks McCall to protect the Marcels. Control reveals that Yvette is the daughter of McCall's beloved former operative, Manon, but doesn't reveal her other secret. To get Yvette away from Mob enforcers Ernie Slackman and Al Geiger, McCall asks Mickey and Billie Bump (Maurice Hines) to carry out an operation of "diversion and psychological warfare." McCall meets with Yvette to tell her he will help, and that he knew her mother. Later when Slackman tries to kill Yvette, McCall and Mickey force him tell who ordered it. Mob boss Tom Calvert who is under indictment puts pressure on Dorgan to take care of Chrysalis. So Dorgan orders Slackman to abduct Yvette again, and in the process Mickey is shot.

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Part 2 : Dorgan tells Carmack he's going to grab federal agent Blanchard, head of the task force. McCall tells Phillipe he suspects exactly that. McCall must now play Dorgan against Chrysalis to thwart Chrysalis' plans and save the Marcels. But his plan back-fires when Slackman gives Yvette the impression that McCall wants to trade her for money. Yvette escapes McCall's protection and is caught again by Dorgan, so she must give up Chrysalis' identity to save herself. McCall and Phillipe go through with their plan to trap both Dorgan and Carmack. McCall must then come to terms with his own connection to Yvette.

McCall stops a robbery for bartender Stan, attracting the attention of Sarah McGee (Lindsay Crouse). She tries tricking McCall into staying with her for protection. Dubious, he leaves just as she is grabbed by Detective Sergeant Gunther Cole (Kevin Spacey). Unaware who he is, McCall shoots Cole, who is saved by body armor. Seeing Cole's badge, they flee. She claims she was framed for killing Cole's partner, and has been checking clubs frequented by her lover, Max to clear her name. Still dubious, McCall asks Jonah to check her story. Unable to find Lt. Kramer, McCall talks instead to Sergeant Worley (Leon Russom), but Det. Cole is there too. McCall is too sly to be interrogated, so Cole leaves with a warning. He checks one of the clubs for Max, but the manager (Bruce Hubbard) can't or won't help. Jonah verifies Sarah was framed to hide the theft of weapons from her warehouse, Armstech. McCall tracks down the perpetrators.

Thirteen year-old Lynn Rowan runs away to NYC from abusive father Walter Rowan (Ed Lauter). She's hassled by street people, including "Scam" (Rick Aviles) who tries selling “A Place to Stay” for "only fifty bucks." Her parents follow, but they're frustrated. NYPD Detective Sergeant Alice Shepard says 50,000 run away annually. Her mother Melanie hires McCall. Lynn meets Judy who says she can find work with photographer Griswald (Kario Salem), but a street woman (Bethel Leslie) berates Judy for selling herself. McCall asks Shepard where to start; she says "The Deuce," 42nd street. The street woman tells him Lynn might be in next month's Puppy Love, like Judy. So he questions a porn shopkeeper (Tim Cappello). With new photos, Griswald meets Peter Marstand (Trey Wilson). Suspecting abuse, McCall confronts Walter. Shepard asks them to come to the morgue; McCall checks Judy's belongings for clues to find Lynn. Shepard tries to save yet another teenage girl from the city streets.... An end-credits PSA reads:

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Alex Hayes (Mitchell Lichtenstein) is a serial killer who cannot stop himself from targeting middle-aged women. He hires The Equalizer to kill him. McCall reports it to Lt. Elmer who wants to know why the killer called him. His next client is Dr. Stephanie Davis (Patricia Kalember), who asks him to save her from a peeping tom. He promptly catches Rags Maloney (Chris Elliott) in the act, and then asks her out to dinner and a little romance. Meanwhile, Hayes bumps into Frances (Gale Garnett) who just missed her bus. The next morning Hayes calls again to warn McCall to stop him, just as he is walking Jill to her stranded car. When McCall gets home he finds a note with an address, just as Hayes arrives at the theater dressing room of Dorothy Hermes (Lois Smith). McCall arrives in time to save her, but Haynes escapes and goes after Dr. Davis next.

Scott McCall and Jenny Morrow talk about dating at a store where she works for Harry Dawson (Mike Nussbaum). Two thugs, Woods and Porter (Ira Lewis), vandalize the store and beat Harry. Scott chases them out. Harry suspects real estate developer Victor Thorpe (Marco St. John), who is buying up the neighborhood. Robert is out of town, questioned by Lorraine Watson (Kaiulani Lee) at a Senate Hearing against Control. So Scott becomes "The Equalizer" and confronts Thorpe, who denies involvement. Terrance Booth trashes Harry's home, then hires theater set designer Ernie Frick (Quentin Crisp) to recreate "Barracks M." Harry is threatened via his wife's headstone, with a scratched-in death date; 3/29/1987...tomorrow! Booth abducts Harry, so Scott calls his father. Robert's testimony settles the hearing, saving Control, so he returns to help. Harry wakes up in Barracks M. Booth calls Harry a traitor, for which he wants "Vindication" saying, at "first light" Harry will die. Robert explains the significance of the date on the headstone, but for 1944 (i.e., WWII). Scott does some detective work of his own and gets a lead to Frick, from which Robert gets Booth's location. Robert and Control lure the actual traitor to Booth.

Invalid Deborah Whitten (Barbara Garrick) has a nightmare of a hooded figure trying to killer her. When she wakes, the hooded figure is in her room. Her uncle Kenneth Whitten (Charles Keating) wants to call her psychiatrist, not the police. She claims the figure will kill her, just like her father. Her cousin Ken Jr. (Mark Soper) only believes "in her" before leaving for a triathlon. Scott visits his father with a new client, Shirley Gossett, who then claims Scott is the father of her unborn baby. Robert sets him straight about sharks (i.e., con-women). Deborah describes another vision to her psychiatrist Dr. Spaulding (William H. Macy). Whitten suggests institutionalizing her, so she leaves and meets Scott. Robert takes the case and plants a bug on her wheelchair. Scott finds her will and Whitten Manor building plans while Robert listens to the bug. When she screams he barges in, but Whitten forces him to leave. Kenneth starts the commitment process and Deborah is taken to another house. Robert tells Scott to follow and observe, but don't act. When Scott sees a hooded figure approach the house, he acts, and so must Robert.

Former Chemerc security specialist Harold Winter (John Goodman) is abducted at gunpoint by Garnet (David Johansen). Slate (Joe Morton) tells him to commit a robbery at Chemerc or else. At a bar, Harold meets Joan Hawkins and his former Chemerc boss George Hershey (Graham Beckel). Harold asks Joan to take care of his son Chris if anything happens to him. Sensing trouble, Chris calls The Equalizer, but Mickey answers. Chris explains he can't call the cops because his dad had previously sold Chemerc secrets, but George didn't press charges. McCall interrogates Wizard-o-Electro owner Archie (Steve Buscemi) about what Harold wanted; a machine to copy an access card stolen by a pickpocket (Stewart Copeland). McCall develops a plan to catch Slate and Garnet in the act, but Garnet kidnaps Chris. Slate calls Joan to tell McCall to call off his plan or Chris dies. McCall and Mickey must now improvise to save both Chris and Harold.

Part 1 : Martin Loeber (William Atherton) blows up the Harlequin Club, "and that's just the beginning" he tells the media, calling himself "Alpha." McCall and Mickey save Agency operative Rudy Bagler from thugs. Brother Joseph Heiden (Telly Savalas) meets with FBI Detective Frank Standish (Tom Atkins) about the bombing. Loeber poses as music teacher Brad Hartman to his girlfriend Linda (Moira Sinise). Linda's mother Elizabeth Thomas (Elizabeth Franz) finds "Brad's" shotgun. Linda doesn't believe her because it's now gone. So Elizabeth calls McCall. Loeber tries to kill them both; only McCall survives. He tells Control it was a professional hit. Mickey surveils Loeber, and McCall asks Rudy to check his Manhattan Network for hit-men. Loeber learns McCall's identity from his contact Kroslick. Mickey puts a tracker on Loeber's car, but Loeber has his own locater. He drives to Standish's house, plants a nitro-bomb on Mrs. Standish, and kills an FBI agent in a fiery car crash. Det. Standish arrives on-scene with Brother Heiden, who McCall sees... and recognizes...

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Part 2 : McCall tells Standish that "Brother" Heiden is a terrorist, but Standish is undeterred. McCall describes how Loeber could've faked his own death. He tells Mickey to watch Linda while he finds a dentist and a crematorium. Heiden narrows the search for targets to a religious festival. A young nun tells Loeber about a mass by a blind monsignor. So he tells Benjamin Harris to find him "a new pair of eyes" (i.e., contacts), and takes the VX nerve crystals Harris procured. McCall finds the crematorium destroyed, and the dentist gone, according to his cleaning lady (Lynne Thigpen). Heiden describes his conversion, but McCall replies how his godson died at Heiden's hands. Loeber dupes Linda into helping him, claiming that McCall killed her mother. McCall learns about the stolen VX from Control. Loeber poisons Standish, putting him in critical condition. Rudy demands $100,000 for Loeber's new "eyes" or he'll give him to McCall. Loeber offers Rudy more to kill McCall. They meet, but Loeber escapes and abducts Mickey and Linda. Loeber calls McCall with instructions to save them. Loeber interrupts Heiden's prayers, shoots him, and assumes the monsignor's identity. McCall must diffuse a bomb... Brother Heiden must stop a mass... and Heiden asks McCall to forgive him.

• Includes appearances by Ted Beniades as a Police Officer, and Nicholas Georgiade as an FBI Agent.

An intellectually challenged department store shipping clerk, Davy Baylor (Vincent D'Onofrio), witnesses the murder of his coworker Cheryl Jansen. Afraid the police will shoot, he flees and calls "Mr. Equalizer" for help. McCall takes him to Lt. Kramer, who thinks his motive was sexual. The prints match, as Davy inadvertently touched the pipe. Despite McCall's objections, Davy goes to The Tombs. McCall meets Davy's mother Irene (Ann Wedgeworth), who can't see Davy until his arraignment. The D.A. (James Eckhouse) requests remand for psychiatric evaluation. Davy panics and flees again. McCall prevents the court officer from shooting him, then bluffs Lt. Kramer about Davy's location. McCall takes Davy back to crime scene to relive that night, hoping for clues. He asks Jimmy for a background on Cheryl. Evidently, she had an affair with Davy's coworker Will Rattigan (William Converse-Roberts). McCall rattles Will, so Will goes to his father Jack (John Randolph) asking him to provide an alibi. Irene dupes Jimmy to get Davy away from McCall. Davy flees his mother's grasp, and the killer comes looking for him.

• Includes an appearance by Nancy Giles as the Bailiff.

Norm Jameson (Oliver Platt) and Craig Rose (Paul Perri) abduct Samantha Chesborough (Ashley Crow) from her apartment. McCall and Mickey find the body...still alive! Mickey protects her while McCall investigates. Jameson chases the actual target, Fraunces Tavern waitress Wendy Muller, who is run down by Rose's car. But Wendy left a clue for Samantha, so McCall talks to Sandy (Patricia Richardson) at Fraunces Tavern, who tells him about Wendy's "playmate" C.R. Heaton (Dennis Boutsikaris) who performs mergers and acquisitions; the "King of Junk Bonds." Drawn into Wall Street's dark underbelly, McCall presses Heaton, who panics and calls risk arbitrageur Ron Parrish (John Heard) about Wendy. Parrish cuts Heaton loose to deal with the SEC on his own. Facing economic ruin and jail time for insider trading, Heaton shoots himself. Jonah hacks "Ma Bell" for phone records on who called Heaton before his suicide. McCall sets a trap with the help of his carny contact, Freddy (David J. Steinberg).

A TV reporter (Warren Keith) interviews Czechoslovakian genetic scientist Dr. Peter Kapik (Michael Moriarty) about his DNA breakthrough shortly before Kapik escapes his Russian handlers. Peter visits his friend Alina Jennings (Maureen Mueller) and her husband Wayne (Jamey Sheridan), but State Department Agent Foster (Adam LeFevre) takes Kapik into custody. Alina meets her mother, but KGB agent Sarka (Liliana Komorowska) confronts her; she knows she is Alina Polivka who defected from Russia. Sarka threatens her parents, Emil (Noberto Kerner) and Vera Polivka (Lola Pashalinski), unless Alina does a job. Alina notices another Russian spy (George Gerdes), and calls The Equalizer, but Control wants McCall to disassociate. McCall contacts NYPD Detective Sgt. Alice Shepard, who transferred to Intelligence Division. Shepard meets Alina, who is watched by Sarka, who is now watched by McCall. Sarka tells Alina to kill Peter or her parents will die. McCall and Shepard track down Emil's "Wolf" clue, which leads to Nordic Nights Import/Export. Alina confesses to Wayne that the KBG have her parents, and goes to meet Peter to kill him. McCall tries to rescue her parents, but is captured, so he must improvise to escape. Sarka goes after Kapik herself.

Part 1 : Scott McCall visits his father Robert but the place is trashed. A masked man with a gun in his tattooed hand escapes. Control gives Scott a ticket out of town, but he follows Robert's contingency plan instead; a video recording to contact Mickey. Mickey leads Scott to former Agency colleague Richard Dyson (Robert Mitchum), via Zudo's Curios, but Zudo (Frankie Faison) isn't cooperative. Scott and Mickey meet Dyson, who is actually Southern Control. Control wants Dyson "out of this" but Dyson has leverage. So Control confesses Robert was to be exchanged for twelve Agency agents, but the KGB took him first. Dyson tells Mickey that Harley Gage was the best man they ever had in Moscow, so they free Gage from prison. Gage meets his KGB lover Francesca (Frances Fisher), who questions his loyalty. Dyson confronts Control that the KGB doesn't have Robert; Control does, which angers Scott. Control explains that Robert would've given himself up to save a dozen colleagues, so he kidnapped Robert to save his life and buy more time. Francesca and Borda invade Control's safe house, killing Weber/Cronin (Tobin Bell) to get to Robert, but he resists and is shot....

• First appearance of Richard Jordan as Harley Gage.

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Part 2 : Mickey and Scott hold Control at the safe house so he can't undermine them, while Dyson and Gage infiltrate the Russian regional facility to rescue Robert. Control distracts Scott to transmit a code from his watch which summons his agents to free him. After Gage kills Kamarov, he seduces Dr. Zara Klemik to get her pass to the lower level where Robert is held. Dyson knocks out some soldiers to get their passes. Colonel Vlasov suspects Dr. Klemik and follows her while she gets a message from her "top secret" contact, Tangent Zero (Control); she has two infiltrators! So she arranges to help Dyson and Gage. Dyson gives her a surprise present for the control room to help them escape.

Defense Department Logistical Officer Andrew Banks (J. T. Walsh) testifies at a Congressional hearing about arming and training Angolan counter-revolutionaries, as ordered by Control, while his counselor (Tibor Feldman) advises him. Chacon (Paul Calderón) sets up a sniper position, but cannot get a clean shot. An agent tells Det. Shepard that security was pulled and her intelligence unit is disbanded. Chacon makes another attempt on Banks; Banks and Shepard defend each other. Alice goes to Robert about the shooting, so Harley and Mickey offer to help while Robert recovers. Control warns Gage off, but Gage asks Rudy Bagler what he knows about Lyle Murdoch (Tom Klunis) the Federal Agent in Charge, William Virgil (Walter Bobbie) a DOD agent with White House ties, and Renaldo Duran (Tomas Milian) an international banker with ties to Meyer Lansky. Chacon hunts down Gage at McCall's apartment. McCall suspects Control, but Gage, suspecting Bagler, barges passed his butler Robbie (Ethyl Eichelberger) and threatens him; Rudy claims Virgil set up Andrew. McCall consults Billy Bump and gets a codename; Excelsior. A shootout ensues and Chacon grabs Shepard. Mickey, Gage, Banks and McCall all try to save Shepard.

Psychic Karen Alden (Katherine Cortez) is awoken from a surreal dream at the police station by a female detective (Starletta DuPois) who advises her not to hold anything back or be named an accessory to murder. McCall is there as well, trying to convince a Lieutenant (Ron Vawter) that Miss Sarah Hendricks (Toni Kalem) has identified the Scrapbook Killer. Karen asks her detective who he is; The Equalizer. She calls him after having a vision of the killer's next murder. Since McCall is still working with Sarah, he asks Harley Gage to help Karen. Karen provides Gage details that he recognizes as lyrics to a song by Archon called "Shadow Man" (Terrence Mann). McCall checks in when Gage is nearly shot. Gage returns to talk to Archon's singer Jarret (Paul Hipp) and is threatened by their roadie (Tim Cappello). Gage gives a description; Jarret gives a name. Sarah and Karen trade notes, and McCall uses Karen's vision to their advantage. End-credits read:

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McCall and Harley Gage watch as Everett Austin (George Morfogen) directs Sandra Benning (Jennifer Van Dyck) and Josh (Ned Eisenberg) in a stage play rehearsal. Someone watches from above in the lighting bridge, calling to Sandra saying, "Elise..." She alerts McCall, mentioning that someone has left her romantic notes. They find the phone lines cut, the stage door jammed, and all the exits booby trapped with bombs. With a janitor scheduled to arrive who will set off the bomb, they have one hour to find who set the trap. McCall and playwright Jenna Rydell get separated from the rest. She finds an old playbill from Dark Night, another of Austins' productions, starring Elise de Venn and her boyfriend Michael (Chris Cooper). Stage manager Phil Davine explains to Gage what happened a year ago, revealing a motive to his madness.

For his Christmas tradition, McCall takes Gage to his favorite restaurant, but it's "For Sale," so he finds his old Company friend, Pete O'Phelan. At Kelly's Bar, Kelly Stigman (Martin Shakar), Bishop, Spicer, and Martin (Dean Norris) conspire to do something about six year-old Mickey Robertson (Corey Carrier) who has AIDS; they don't want him in the neighborhood. Stigman throws a smoke grenade into Mickey's room that starts a fire. His grandmother Phyllis Robertson (Jacqueline Brookes) tells an investigator who can't or won't help, so Mickey calls "Mr. Manhattan." McCall gives Gage his Christmas Gift; to meet Mickey and check out Kelly's bar. Gage also talks to Dr. Feinberg (Don McManus), who says Mickey's father Dave Burton is still alive, but unable or unwilling to visit, because Mickey's mother was an intravenous smack addict. While Gage confronts Dave, masked men trash the Robertsons' apartment. McCall says he'll do some undercover work on Stigman, and for back-up, sends Pete to Gage.

• First appearance of Maureen Anderman as Pete O'Phelan.

Detective Charlie Kelly claims undercover cop Del Larkin (David Andrews) fed lies to the Organized Crime Task Force about Bruno Dominic (George DiCenzo), and threatens to turn Del in. They struggle and Charlie is shot. Larkin slips into Captain Maldisi's office to use the phone. Police switchboard operator Risa (Brooke Smith) takes a break, leaving only Jill O'Connor (Amanda Plummer) on duty. Jill accidentally overhears Larkin talking to a woman about Kelly's death. Jill's life is threatened, so she calls McCall. He meets with Maldisi and Det. Shepard who is on temporary attachment with the task force. Shepard takes Jill's statement and contacts IAB. Del meets Simone Peters (Madeleine Potter) and wonders what to do. At the funeral, Robert asks Charlie's wife Maureen (Marilyn McIntyre) about Del, who he confronts, despite Alice's objections. Gage gets Larkin's phone records with Dominic and Simone; McCall takes a calculated risk. At Pete's restaurant, the team learns about Simone's other identity, Susan Petersborough, and her profession.

• Includes an appearance by Matt Mitler as Detective Bates.

Eddie is killed by a car while being chased by a gang of boys, Danny Winters (Christopher Collet), Bobby (Jerry O'Connell), Press (Frank Whaley), Slick (Sam Rockwell), and Streak (Max Casella), who are led by the manipulative and ruthless Shep Morrow (Thomas G. Waites). Morrow's girlfriend Sylvie (Frances Ruffelle) ensures their loyalty with money and seduction. Sensing that Danny is troubled, his girlfriend Amy (Lycia Naff) tries to help. But Morrow turns up at Danny's home to get him ready for a robbery. Amy calls The Equalizer to save Danny from Morrow. Danny's single mother, Irene Winters (Mary-Joan Negro), is also worried, so she applies some tough love. After Amy and Gage are threatened, McCall sets up Morrow with the help of Gage and a fellow agent (Anthony LaPaglia).

Chauffeur Eddie Mason (Daniel Davis) drives Christine Hayes (Vanessa Angel) to Warren Briggs (Andreas Katsulas), where a receptionist (Colleen Flynn) connects clients with high-end call girls. Briggs blackmails Gina Harper (Darlene Vogel) with her video tape, then pays Christine to be with Serge (Tony Ganios) while he records them. Afterwards, Eddie pays her to "just talk." His wife Angela meets The Equalizer through Pete at her restaurant. She says Eddie is an investigative reporter who is missing. His boss Rennick tells Gage about Eddie's story on prostitution. Gage pilfers Eddie's notes that lead to a hotel clerk (Paul Zaloom), who talks about the "stunning broads" Eddie sees. Christine is found strangled to death, with her madam's message on her machine. Gage knows Joy Tang (Ching Valdes-Aran), who he leverages for her client list. D.A. Francis Scanlon (John Bedford Lloyd) owes McCall, so he tells Gage about the "whore wars" and that Christine was going to testify. Gage follows Eddie driving Suzanne (Annabelle Gurwitch), and confronts him. Eddie finds his daughter Janelle's tape and attacks Briggs, so Steiner (Hunt Block) grabs Eddie. Now, McCall and Gage must rescue Eddie.

Greedy diplomat Raymond Gephardt (Jon DeVries) plans on keeping ten million dollars he has been helping to launder from corporate raiders and mobsters with his go-between lawyer Mr. Binder (Ronald Hunter). But that is not enough; he also wants to kidnap his son Paul (Macaulay Culkin) away from his ex-wife Anne (Lisa Eichhorn). NYPD Detective Lt. Borley (Leon Russom) is first on-scene, but he says diplomatic immunity has tied his hands. Anne asks McCall, with help from Kostmayer and Gage, to stop them from leaving the country.

Part 1 : Inspector Phillipe Marcel (Anthony Zerbe) is summoned to Brighton Park Zoo and, seemingly, shown his long-dead wife, Manon Brevard Marcel (Anne Heywood). He sees experiments from 1985, Vladivostok Labor Camp, and Instructions to kill Control and McCall within 24 hours or Manon dies. A newscaster (Roger Grimsby) reports on a timber wolf released from the zoo, as Robert and Jimmy listen. Control delivers bad news about Ben Silva, and good news about Yvette Marcel (Melissa Sue Anderson). Yvette asks McCall to help her father. Control gets the files on Manon. Scott finds an amnesiac woman. McCall finds a tape with a particular song from Manon's past; he suspects Control planted it. McCall finally tells Scott the truth about Yvette. Control tasks Sterno to find Phillipe. Yvette sees Manon outside McCall's apartment. Phillipe tells Control and McCall to meet him at the zoo; to kill them. But someone shoots Phillipe as Yvette arrives. Phillipe dies telling her the truth about McCall...

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Part 2 : Scott and Yvette embrace as siblings. Yvette and McCall come to an understanding. The amnesiac woman resurfaces, and Scott finds her beaten and bloody. She sees a photo of Control and McCall and screams; listening in from a bug is Arthur Trent (Lawrence Dane). Scott, Yvette, Control and McCall compare notes. McCall, Control, and Sterno must discover the true identity of the woman who believes she is Manon, expose the shadowy party controlling her, and rescue Scott who has been taken captive.

On a street full of homeless people a raggedy man asks McCall for food. Bill Whitaker (Michael Rooker) arrives home to find his evicted wife Paula (Kelly Curtis). While an HRA/DSS social worker finds them shelter, their son Billy calls The Equalizer. A security guard shuffles them to a squalid room. Jim Harding (Leo Burmester) tries to scam Bill and they fight. McCall warns Harding off, and asks Jimmy to find the owner, while Mickey protects them. While Vegas (Richard Bright) surveils, Mrs. Morales says Harding threatened her. The guard prevents entry to reporter Jackie Chenier (Valarie Pettiford), who's doing a documentary on the Alexandria. Mickey shows Bill a homestead renovation; "a chance to work for a place...to call my home." Jimmy reports the hotel was bought (i.e., stolen) by Mr. Amar (Michael Lerner) from Robert Nichols (Ed Lauter), who McCall talks with next. McCall "makes things very unpleasant for Mr. Amar," by subletting Amar's own apartment, as he's informed by the doorman (Thomas A. Carlin). Amar calls Vegas to frame and kill Bill... then McCall.

Psycho rapist Lewis Fipps (Joe Maruzzo) leaves a red-light grindhouse followed by his compliant brother Frank (Michael Cerveris) as shots are fired by international hit-man Gant (James Rebhorn). Pete O'Phelan declares, "last call." The young, beautiful Susan (Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick) tries to lift a purse from Lucy (Kathleen Bates). Ben just wants to pay his tab and leave, while Mickey argues with Lucy's husband Joe (David Schramm) to let Susan go without pressing charges. Lewis and Frank run in, take everyone hostage, and warns Gant about all the collateral damage inside. Frank tries calling for help, but the line is cut. Mickey suggests an alternate method; enter The Equalizer. Lewis tells him to kill Gant or he'll start killing hostages. McCall asks Woody (Peter Sellars) to hack Fipps' criminal record, and provide his mercenary contacts. McCall asks Jameson (Tony Azito) about Gant's motive; $500,000 payable by the raped and mutilated girl's father, Vincent Brennard (Charles Keating). When neither Gant nor Fipps back down, McCall must intervene before anyone is killed... or raped.

Susan Foxworth (J. Smith-Cameron) is walking with Mark and a car follows her. She yells and kicks the car thinking it's her psychopathic, stalker ex-husband, Dr. Gary Edward Foxworth (Philip Kraus). Instead, an irate woman jumps out and yells back. At home, Gary calls her again and again. It's "a little hard to believe" for Detective Bishop (Jean De Baer). Susan calls McCall, who confronts Gary after talking with his assistant Marge (Debra Jo Rupp). Gary claims Susan is mentally unbalanced. McCall refers Susan to a counselor. Gary attacks her in the market. After Pete O'Phelan and McCall mull it over, he pleads with Bishop, but she still won't act. Mickey investigates Gary's background, while McCall "pushes back," setting Garry off. A skinhead takes Gary to buy a gun from Young (Tony Longo). Gary hires him to "stomp" someone; himself. McCall is arrested for aggravated assault. Bishop hands McCall a restraining order. Mickey tries to convince Sister Sara (Polly Holliday) to show him Gary's student files. McCall confronts Bishop with the malicious, vindictive, chilling facts. They act.

Jonathan Grey (Michael Parks) gets a surprise party from his son Devin (Lenny Venito) and wife Marian (Verna Bloom), who is disabled by multiple sclerosis. Joy fades when flowers arrive from paroled murderer, Willie Jay Hawkins (Kevin Geer). Hawkins terrorizes Johnny's family in revenge for testifying. Marian calls McCall. Kostmayer tails Hawkins. D.A. Francis Scanlon says Hawkins staged the murder to claim it wasn't premeditated, avoiding murder one (25 to life) to get manslaughter (8 years). Hawkins goes to ground so McCall has Jimmy and Pete guard Marian. Marian visits her doctor Claudia (Cecily Adams); Hawkins is already there. Cellmate Roscoe Lee Boyd looks for Hawkins too, but Mickey and Jimmy are prepared. Mickey rattles Hawkins, who pays a hooker (Denise Faye) to check out Mickey. McCall confronts Boyd, who goes after Hawkins himself, but Hawkins has a plan. McCall must hurry to save Hawkins' "target of choice" and end the terror.

At his casino, Tony Costa (Joseph Mascolo) discovers $800,000 missing. He suspects McCall's former protégé, Meredith Browning (Anne Twomey). To find it, he tasks Johnny Sax (Lewis Van Bergen). McCall and Pete return from the theater, and Meredith calls for help. McCall's mind flashes back to Honeywell, Southern Control, and Meredith captured. McCall arrives, but apparently, Meredith was murdered. McCall tells Sgt. Alice Shepard she ran a Company "travel agency." Detective Barry Calloway reports, "Shotgun blast to the head... no prints." Wondering, McCall reminisces and calls her name. A hooker, Cynthia (Rita Jenrette), breaks his dream. "For $200 you can call me Meredith all night long." Control sends Mickey and Pete to the funeral. Angela (Susan Gibney) tells McCall she worked for Meredith in "customer relations" but coworker Donna Morgan was fired. Cousin Jean Carson returns Meredith's bracelet; McCall's gift inscribed, "Always a Lady." Mickey produces the medical examiner's report and says Donna must've skipped town. By request, Alice has Sax arrested. McCall sets a trap for Costa and Sax. Calloway tells Shepard they still haven't found the money. McCall suspects where to look....

A reporter, Leslie (Freda Foh Shen), asks if Assemblyman Phillip Wingate (Stanley Tucci) is running against incumbent Senator Virgil Thomas Blake (E. G. Marshall). While publically supportive, he secretly wants Blake's resignation and endorsement. Wingate's assistant Cindy Claussen (Laila Robins) discovers blackmail material on Blake. Having heard of McCall from Susan Foxworth, she asks for help. Jay Trescott (Jay Patterson) drugs Cindy. Her neighbor Darlene (Yvonne Bryceland) tells McCall, "Medics took her." Sterno finds her committed to Longview Psychiatric Institute. At a free clinic, McCall asks his friend Dr. Wolff (Wendell Pierce) for help. Since Wolff can't get her out, he commits McCall; paranoid schizophrenic. "I am quite wonderful at feeling hostility, Dr. Quentin." "Hrmm... OK... spies, adventurism, overthrow governments... I see," replies Dr. Quentin (Larry Keith). Pete gets in too; "bi-polar disturbance." Robert prevents Jay from drugging Cindy, and they hear her story. Pete keeps eye on Jay and protects Cindy. After fencing, Wingate blackmails Blake. McCall asks Blake to help, but he's afraid, so he rattles Wingate to "resign, Resign, R E S I G N."

Cristo (Keith David) and the Demon Lords watch as "Goat" gets jumped in to run a "franchise." Principal Elena Rodriguez (Seret Scott) complains to Arthur Williams (Reginald VelJohnson) about school resources. The Demons rape Alicia. Elena calls The Equalizer. They stab Eduardo Sanchez, who reported it. McCall and Elena talk to Alicia. Mrs. Sanchez (Socorro Santiago) frantically arrives at the ER. Frustrated, Sgt. Shepard doesn't have the manpower. McCall requests off-duty volunteers from the Gang Task Force, who seize forty-three guns from school. McCall starts teaching Physical Science 800. The subject? Death! A thanatology field trip to the morgue. The Demons watch an autopsy by the ME (Harsh Nayyar). Cruz is sickened; Goat chastises them. "Hitter" Phillip Borchek (David Strathairn) explains his profession, until he was shot in the face with a .38, and had an out-of-body experience... an ocean, but not water... a Sea of Fire. McCall wants Alicia to return to school, and testify. Elena asks Williams for time before dismantling the school. Williams argues with McCall. Cristo and Goat try to trap McCall. Mickey protests McCall going in unarmed....

• Includes an appearance by Karina Arroyave as a school girl.

A kickboxing match goes poorly for Narong Bansari (Russell Wong) as drug dealing slaver Jimmy Thanarat (Mako) watches at his sports arena. At the Rose of Bankok massage club, Narong gives Manika (Elizabeth Sung) his mother's necklace, but she can't wear it, doing what she does. Jimmy breaks them up; he won't let either of them out of their contracts. Narong says he'll do anything. At Pete O'Phelan's on his birthday, McCall reminisces with Control about "riding the elephants" in Angola. Thai national Sirit Bansari (James Hong) finds China white heroin in a crate his son Narong was holding for Jimmy, so Sirit chastises Narong. Sirit throws the heroin in the trash. In the shadows, Flack sees it. Narong warns Sirit the "ghost soldiers" will kill him if they don't find it. Sirit disowns Narong, so he asks Manika to flee with him. She calls The Equalizer. He intervenes to save Sirit, but learns Control buys intelligence from Jimmy, giving Jimmy a free hand. Sirit tries to buy Manika's freedom for his son, but Jimmy holds Sirit hostage. McCall, Mickey and Narong have to be careful, but quick to get him back.

Eighteen year-old singer Beverly Heat (Vitamin C) is on the rise, while Gina Rox (Amy Morton) is on the decline. Beverly's mother Evelyn Weaver (Caroline Lagerfelt) finds her drunk and warns her. Evelyn asks McCall to help Beverly escape the clutches of her manipulative manager Greg Rivers (Bruce Payne). Mickey provides McCall background; Rivers specializes in teens, swindles their earnings, hooks them on drugs, and discards them. They visit Graham (Terrence Mann), who was the hottest DJ in town. Graham says Rivers ruined his career and moved on to Gina Rox. Jealous of Beverly, Gina threatens Greg with cops and reporters, regarding the pay-offs, the drug deals... She's not heard from again. Beverly takes fan calls Live on the air with a WZAD DJ (Ken Ober). Mickey turns the tables on Rivers by calling in. Outside, he separates Rivers from Beverly and drives off so McCall can enlighten her. At Gina's apartment, he shows her the future. Then he starts in on Rivers, with voice-modulation help from Graham.

Twelve years removed from the violent Soweto uprising, Scott and his girlfriend Zandili (Kasi Lemmons) play a happy tune. She leaves with "cousin" Ben (Michael Genet). A masked man tries to kill her, and they flee. Robert asks why Special Branch is after her. He draws out the gunman, an Afrikaner named Voorhees (Theodore Bikel). McCall asks why he would harm a defenseless girl. "Defenseless? Kafir bitch," he replies before ranting about Blood River and his "Day of the Covenant." He claims she's a terrorist who killed his wife by bombing his SAP station. McCall takes him to Anton Jooste (David Leary), an NIS operative at the South African Consulate. Ulysses (Jihmi Kennedy) tells Mickey she led an uMkhonto cell, but the ANC wouldn't operate in America. Having learned her past, Robert confronts Zandili. She leaves, but now Jooste is after her. Ben helps Zandili escape Jooste and his impimpi. McCall deduces the next target is the Deputy Secretary for the Department of Cooperation and Development (Tobin Bell).

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Note: The opening scene portraying the South African government crackdown on the 1976 anti-apartheid Soweto uprising is an excerpt taken directly from the 1987 film, Cry Freedom (starring Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline), filmed in Zimbabwe. It ends with another excerpt of a speech by Desmond Tutu.^[71][72]

John Allenwaite (Kevin Conway) is informed the operation is underway. Mickey leads a clean-up mission. His team is ambushed, killed, and he is captured. McCall answers a coded call from Control who suspects the mission was compromised by Parmelee (Tom Klunis). For the enemy operation, McCall confronts Gropman (Richard Bright)...with his retirement fund and a toilet. The project is called "Intangible Plastics" (i.e., psychological warfare). "We call the procedure, Spinter," Allenwaite explains to his audience, as Mickey, unconscious, has a vision of McCall implanted. For Mickey's location, McCall confronts Parmelee...with a garbage truck. Mickey next envisions a murdered woman, Serena (Tracy Kolis). Allenwaite's assistant (David Brisbin) increases the dosage. Allenwaite waits for McCall; Parmelee is of no further use. McCall learns the Company has been infiltrated by a KGB unit, using agency finances to research brainwashing. McCall must overcome Mickey's programming, before Mickey kills him.

• Includes an appearance by Christopher Meloni as Team Leader.

Brandon Thorton (Tom Noonan) wakes from a dream of being shot and paralyzed. Sylvia Thorton (Barbara Williams) gives a gun control presentation. In the audience is pro-gun Congressman James Harcourt, and gun-violence victim John Kelly (William Converse-Roberts). She receives threatening calls. Brandon calls McCall. Sylvia argues for police, not vigilantes. McCall asks Shepard for a wiretap. A policeman (Harry O'Reilly) rousts Mickey from his surveillance van outside the Thorton's home, allowing Kelly entry. Shots are fired, but he escapes. The forensic detective (A.L. Sheppard) finds fibers but no prints. Shepard and McCall argue motive, but agree on a computer search. Sylvia goes live on WFQB-FM's Talkback with Chris Perley (Bobby Rivers) about her upcoming television debate with Harcourt. She talks about the man threatening her. He calls in and fires a gun. She calls him a coward. McCall suspects Sylvia is orchestrating it, and repudiates making a martyr of herself. McCall and Mickey review Shepard's research, establish motive, and confirm their suspect. At the TV-8 Facing Facts studio, Kelly gains entry and plants a gun after fooling the stage manager (Bruce Kirkpatrick). During the interview with Sally Jessy Raphael, he fires the gun....

It's a normal day at the playground with Carlo Jr., his nanny Estrella... and mafia guards Blanda and Disimone (Michael Sergio). Carlo is taken. Mobster Carlo Alberto "The Angel" Santelli (Al Shannon) is livid, shouting at Tommy Dio (Tom Signorelli). Lettie and McCall discuss Shakespeare before the call from Carlo's mother, Natalie Santelli (J. Smith-Cameron). Mickey describes what happened. McCall smells a military operation. They contact Carter Brock (Joe Morton), who got a letter, $5,000, and "one very weird tape of instructions." Santelli is contacted; "I don't want money, I want YOU Angel. I'm going to kill everything you love." Jonah hacks the D.A. and The Times for Santelli's rap sheet: assault, racketeering, extortion, drug smuggling in Turkey... and murder. "No Disposition!" McCall intends to change that. Natalie meets McCall, Carlo has her tailed, Mickey intercepts them. Santelli demands to know who's helping her. Mickey has the tape analyzed at InterTex Sound Lab; "modern technology triumphs again...the original dulcet tones of the kidnapper." Armed with identity and motive, McCall tries to find Sarah Booth (Randy Danson), open Natalie's eyes, get her into WITSEC, save the son, jail the father, and read Sonnet 73 to Lettie. Just a normal day.

International arms dealer Daniel Ruger (James Tolkan) is selling nerve gas, so (coughing) small-time gun smuggler Asa Lazar (Joseph Ragno) won't deal. Ruger can't trust him, so Garrick (Mike Starr) and Tillerman (Randle Mell) grab him. Lazar flees into a residence, but the new mother (Mel Gorham) denies entry. Garrick shoots him, but catches a fatal strain of African orthopoxvirus. At Pete O'Phelan's, McCall dines with an old flame, Dr. Lauren Demeter (Jenny Agutter), an epidemiologist at the U.N.'s International Health Organization.^[77] The Medical Examiner performs Lazar's autopsy, and quickly enlists Dr. Phil Molinari from the Dept. of Health, Bureau of Contagious Diseases. Molinar sends blood to the CDC, and calls his colleague, Lauren. Lt. Brannigan's mass round-up of suspects tips Carpenter who says, "The Mayor would want the people to know." McCall convinces him to grant 48-hours to isolate Lazar's killers. Mickey finds Bagler's cousin, Dr. Harriman (Martin Shakar); a "top quack in NYC" who "lost his license for performing unnecessary surgeries." He finds Tillerman, but Lauren takes Ruger's number, trying to deliver the serum to anyone who needs it. Now McCall and Mickey must rescue Lauren.

Corman (Kenneth J. McGregor) welcomes Ray Quintero (Hector Elizondo). Ray's chauffeur (Frank Adonis) hands him the phone. "Hello, Ray. Goodbye, Ray." The chauffer tries to garrote him, Corman tries to shoot him, but Ray escapes. Big Brother Jimmy visits Thomas and his mother Cecilia Romero (Katherine Cortez). Men try to kidnap Tomas. Ray shoots one, the others escape. Jimmy scoffs at Lt. Brannigan's theory. Mickey identifies him as David Lance. McCall sees his tattoo; "What we need is an expert on strange and esoteric information." For meaning, Mickey leverages Luther Munson (Brad Sullivan). McCall tells Jimmy and Cecilia about the Darien Cartel, and Ray Quintero. "Name mean anything to you Mrs. Romero?" She tells her story, while Tomas eavesdrops. Mickey spots Company surveillance men. McCall berates the first man (Peter Mackenzie) and orders the second to contact Control. Control and Justice Department agent Elliott Jarvis (Rudolph Willrich) want Ray's testimony. McCall hears Ray's story. Jimmy dissuades Tomas from running away. Corman comes after Tomas, and Garfield is shot. McCall suspects a Company mole. Ray gives his testimony and is shot. At the funeral the priest (Al Carmines) reads "a mystery" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). Tomas gets his own special chauffeur.

McCall is summoned by Prosecutor Charlie McGuinness (Roy Dotrice). Lights reveal the Sword Star; "I think you know what this is," says the Judge (Sylvia Sidney). "A Company tribunal... a bloody kangaroo court." Convened by Internal Operations, McCall has "been reclassified Category Red." He recalls Control warning, it's too dangerous to resign (years ago in "The Equalizer"). The Judge reminds McCall of his oath upon joining 29 years ago. But it's Control on trial; establishing his own network in Violation #28 of the Morrison Directives. Treason! The penalty? Death! He's asked about utilizing Control's network (in "Counterfire"). As evidence, is his quid pro quo with Control (in "First Light"). If Control is convicted, McCall also goes on trial. Having worked for the Operations Director (in "Beyond Control"), Mickey testifies about Exden Doc. #1344-H (25 years of assassinations, government destabilization, currency manipulations... Everything!). Control's letter is entered into evidence; the Sand Star Confederation declaring, "We the undersigned pledge our lives, and our resources to the worldwide defense of human rights, accepting as our mission, the overthrow of any force that shackles the freedom of human conscience, by unjust imprisonment, false trial, torture, and execution." The Judge asks Control, "Do you disavow this document?" "No, I do not." The Tribunal finds him guilty, but a death sentence requires unanimous peer agreement. McCall calls for a statement; Control makes his plea... to free the "prisoners of conscience..."

McCall helps a deaf robbery victim. Cynthia Nixon appears.

McCall is called on to help a mother and daughter escape their abusive home life.

McCall investigates the death of several homeless people who have died from heart attacks while in ambulances.

McCall helps a man (Michael Moriarty) who is convinced he is an alien being hunted by killers. George Plimpton appears.

Scott and a Bulgarian defector (who was aided by his father) are kidnapped, and Scott enters his father's line of work when he tries to rescue the man.

McCall tries to free a Chilean poet from the grasp of a man who killed his father years ago.Edward Woodward's son Tim Woodward plays Captain McCall.

A cleaning woman (Maureen Stapleton) witnesses a murder and tries to solve it.

A man hellbent on getting revenge on the men who attacked his wife enlists McCall's help when he finds out someone else has gotten to them first.

McCall comes to the aid of a black family being harassed by racists. Guest star Laurence Fishburne.

A man who is a master of strategy games uses his knowledge to plot revenge against two sisters.

McCall aids a young student who has turned to drug dealing after he loses his athletic scholarship at college. Ving Rhames appears.