Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
Episode 1
A former government agent offers his services to people facing problems too big for them to handle, such as a woman being stalked by a psychopath and a man who learns of a blackmail scheme involving government officials.
Episode 2
McCall comes to the aid of a housekeeper when kidnappers grab her son by mistake.
Episode 3
McCall helps a double agent defect and a young boy stand up to bullies.
Episode 4
McCall helps a man whose daughter has been abducted by a pimp who services covert government operations.
Episode 5
A crooked cop is willing to murder to ensure that his new partner won't blow the whistle on his operations.
Episode 6
McCall helps a former showgirl convinced someone is stalking her and a boy whose father helped steal antiques now wanted by two separate parties.
Episode 7
Father and son protect a girl from would-be rapists intent on killing the only witness to a murder.
Episode 8
A hit man wants help to prevent another killer from murdering a woman both McCall and the hitman once loved.
Episode 9
A career woman wants McCall's aid in ending her son's fascination with a charismatic drug dealer.
Episode 10
Muggers seek revenge on a student who injured one of them while escaping, and a vigilante killer pins McCall's ad to his victims.
Episode 11
A lonely, neglected wife gets more than she wanted when she considers a fling and ends up witnessing a murder.
Episode 12
The new doctor at a local clinic refuses to give gang members drugs as `rent' for using their turf.
Episode 13
A banker is harassing tenants of a potentially valuable property and planning to murder his wife.
Episode 14
An ex-con is harassing the man whose testimony put him away-the man now married to McCall's former wife.
Episode 15
McCall assembles some old friends to protect a man marked for murder for no apparent reason.
Episode 16
A window washer witnesses the murder of his pro-union partner by their anti-union boss, who has his own witnesses to back his self-defense claim.
Episode 17
McCall tries to divide his time between defending a woman from her abusive husband and settling with an old enemy.
Episode 18
McCall's on the trail of a serial killer, leaving him little time for an actress fallen into the wrong crowd.
Episode 19
McCall is among those taken hostage by terrorists seeking a Middle Eastern philanthropist.
Episode 20
A womanizer is abducted and threatened with death if he doesn't give his captors what they want-but he can't figure out what.
Episode 21
McCall is hired by an inventor whose designs were stolen by a huge corporation headed by a ruthless executive.
Episode 22
An aspiring reporter, desperate for a scoop that will get her notice and a promotion, becomes convinced that something big is happening right in the next apartment.
