| # |
Title |
Writer(s) |
Director |
Original airdate |
ProdCode |
| 01-01 |
"The Equalizer" |
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1985-09-18 |
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| Former secret agent Robert McCall resigns from the job and goes into business for himself. Calling himself "The Equalizer," he hires himself out to people who are in need of help and have nowhere else to turn. |
| 01-02 |
"China Rain" |
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1985-09-25 |
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| Kidnappers mistakenly grab a housekeeper's son, and it's up to McCall to get him back. |
| 01-03 |
"The Defector" |
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1985-10-02 |
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| McCall comes to the aid of a double agent who wants to defect to the USA. |
| 01-04 |
"The Lock Box" |
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1985-10-09 |
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| A pimp with government connections abducts a young girl. |
| 01-05 |
"Lady Cop" |
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1985-10-16 |
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| A crooked police officer resorts to murder to prevent his new partner from going to his superiors about his actions. |
| 01-06 |
"The Confirmation Day" |
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1985-10-23 |
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| McCall is hired for two cases, one involving a stalking and another involving a boy whose father, a thief, who is wanted for stealing antiques. |
| 01-07 |
"The Children's Song" |
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1985-10-30 |
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| McCall and his son Scott are called on to protect a girl from a group of rapists, who are looking to kill the only witness to a murder they committed. |
| 01-08 |
"The Distant Fire" |
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1985-11-06 |
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| McCall is forced to team up with a known hitman and a rival for his lover to save the woman's life. |
| 01-09 |
"Mama's Boy" |
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1985-11-13 |
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| McCall is enlisted by a woman to steer her son away from a life of drug dealing. |
| 01-10 |
"Bump and Run" |
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1985-11-20 |
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| McCall must track down a serial killer who leaves his own Equalizer ad on the victims, as well as protect a student from a group of angry muggers. |
| 01-11 |
"Desperately" |
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1985-12-04 |
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| McCall protects a married woman who ends up witnessing a murder while having an affair. |
| 01-12 |
"Reign of Terror" |
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1985-12-11 |
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| A new doctor at a medical clinic in gang territory is harassed by members of a gang who want drugs as a "rent payment." |
| 01-13 |
"Back Home" |
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1985-12-18 |
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| A banker is planning on murdering his wife and driving people away from a valuable property. |
| 01-14 |
"Out of the Past" |
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1986-01-15 |
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| McCall's ex-wife's new husband is being harassed by a man who he helped put behind bars. |
| 01-15 |
"Dead Drop" |
|
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1986-01-22 |
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| A man is a murder target for no apparent reason. |
| 01-16 |
"Wash Up" |
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1986-01-29 |
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| A window washer witness the murder of a coworker by his boss, who claims self-defense and has witnesses to confirm. |
| 01-17 |
"Torn" |
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1986-02-05 |
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| McCall must try to split his time between a case and settling a feud. |
| 01-18 |
"Unnatural Causes" |
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1986-02-12 |
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| McCall pursues a serial killer while trying to keep tabs on a woman who is caught in a bad situation. |
| 01-19 |
"Breakpoint" |
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1986-02-19 |
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| Terrorists after a philanthropist take McCall hostage. |
| 01-20 |
"No Conscience" |
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1986-03-05 |
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| A womanizing man kidnapped by thugs faces death unless he can figure out what his captors want in exchange for his safety. |
| 01-21 |
"Unpunished Crimes" |
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1986-04-01 |
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| An inventor's design ideas are stolen by a multi-million dollar corporation run by an executive who is willing to do anything to get his way. |
| 01-22 |
"Pretenders" |
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1986-04-08 |
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| A reporter is convinced something big is happening in a neighboring apartment. |
| # |
Title |
Writer(s) |
Director |
Original airdate |
ProdCode |
| 02-01 |
"Prelude" |
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1986-10-08 |
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| A dictator, who McCall helped bring to power, kidnaps an American journalist who McCall must now rescue. |
| 02-02 |
"Nocturne" |
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1986-10-15 |
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| McCall comes to the aid of a blind rape victim who hears the voice of her attacker. |
| 03-03 |
"A Community of Civilized Men" |
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1986-10-22 |
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| A widow is being pressed to pay off her husband's debts, and enlists McCall's help to keep the collectors off her back. |
| 02-04 |
"Joyride" |
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1986-10-29 |
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| A hearse, bearing a coffin full of crack cocaine, is stolen and taken for a joyride by two young boys who are unaware of the contents of the coffin. |
| 02-05 |
"Shades of Darkness" |
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1986-11-05 |
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| McCall must clear a National Guardsman charged with murder. |
| 02-06 |
"Nightscape" |
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1986-11-12 |
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| McCall is asked by a rape victim to stop her husband from seeking revenge on her attackers. |
| 02-07 |
"Counterfire" |
|
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1986-11-19 |
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| A stripper is sent death notices for herself, and McCall is framed for a blind man's murder. The connection? The son of a mob boss that McCall helped to put in jail and is set to testify against in court. |
| 02-08 |
"The Line" |
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1986-11-26 |
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| McCall is called upon to help a woman whose son was killed by a citizen's patrol group. |
| 02-09 |
"Tip on a Sure Thing" |
|
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1986-12-03 |
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| A bookie kidnaps a jockey's son in an attempt to fix the outcome of a horse race. |
| 02-10 |
"The Cup" |
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1986-12-10 |
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| Mickey Kostmayer's father, a priest, hears a criminal confession moments before the man is murdered. |
| 02-11 |
"Heartstrings" |
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1986-12-17 |
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| A woman's baby son has been kidnapped, and McCall is called on to retrieve him. |
| 02-12 |
"High Performance" |
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1987-01-07 |
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| McCall protects a construction worker who is both a witness to a killing and the murderer's next target. |
| 02-13 |
"Beyond Control" |
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1987-01-14 |
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| McCall must protect Control from a group of murderers. |
| 02-14 |
"Carnal Persuasion" |
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1987-01-21 |
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| A judge offers to set a convicted man free...if his wife will perform sexual favors for him. |
| 02-15 |
"Memories of Manon: Part 1" |
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1987-02-04 |
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| Control's goddaughter's father, a Canadian secret, is being held and will be killed unless he gives up his informant. McCall is enlisted to help and does so for very personal reasons. |
| 02-16 |
"Memories of Manon: Part 2" |
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1987-02-11 |
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| Part 2 of previous episode. |
| 02-17 |
"Solo" |
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1987-02-18 |
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| A woman is wanted in Pennsylvania for a policeman's murder...and McCall is the woman's new lover. |
| 02-18 |
"A Place to Stay" |
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1987-02-25 |
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| McCall takes the case of a runaway child who has been taken in by a child porn artist. |
| 02-19 |
"Coal Black Soul" |
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1987-05-06 |
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| McCall deals with someone who claims he can't stop killing women and also has his eyes on a female psychiatrist. |
| 02-20 |
"First Light" |
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1987-05-13 |
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| Scott takes on his father's role as "The Equalizer" while his father is away, and his case involves a merchant being harassed by local thugs. |
| 02-21 |
"Hand and Glove" |
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1987-05-20 |
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| An invalid woman has nightmares, and one of them comes true when one of the figures from them appears in her room. |
| 02-22 |
"Re-Entry" |
|
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1987-05-27 |
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| McCall is called on to help a man tricked into committing a crime. |
| # |
Title |
Writer(s) |
Director |
Original airdate |
ProdCode |
| 03-01 |
"Blood and Wine: Part 1" |
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1987-09-23 |
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| McCall and a monk, who was a terrorist prior to his conversion, must track down the monk's former partner. |
| 03-02 |
"Blood and Wine: Part 2" |
|
|
1987-09-23 |
|
| Part 2 of a 2-hour season premiere. |
| 03-03 |
"Suspicion of Innocence" |
|
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1987-09-30 |
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| A mentally retarded man (Played by a young Vincent D'Onofrio) witnesses the murder of one of his coworkers in an alley, and is charged with the crime although he is incapable of committing it. McCall is enlisted to find out what really happened. |
| 03-04 |
"In the Money" |
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1987-10-07 |
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| A woman crosses some corrupt stock traders. |
| 03-05 |
"Encounter in a Closed Room" |
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1987-10-14 |
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| A Soviet defector's parents have been kidnapped by the KGB and will only release them if she convinces another defector to return to their home. |
| 03-06 |
"Mission: McCall; Part 1" |
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1987-10-28 |
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| McCall is kidnapped and Scott enlists help of a former colleague to free him. |
| 03-07 |
"Mission: McCall; Part 2" |
|
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1987-11-04 |
|
| Part 2. |
| 03-08 |
"Shadow Play" |
|
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1987-11-11 |
|
| McCall must protect colleague Harley Gage from murderers who are looking to keep him from testifying before Congress. |
| 03-09 |
"Inner View" |
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1987-11-18 |
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| McCall is enlisted by a psychic who claims to have seen a serial killer's next murder. |
| 03-10 |
"The Rehersal" |
|
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1987-12-02 |
|
| McCall and Mickey Kostmayer are trapped in a theater with an acting company after someone plants bombs at all the theater exits. |
| 03-11 |
"Christmas Presence" |
|
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1987-12-16 |
|
| McCall and Gage are called on to protect a six-year old with AIDS, whose grandmother is dealing with increasingly violent harassment from his neighbors. |
| 03-12 |
"A Dance on the Dark Side" |
|
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1988-01-13 |
|
| McCall must protect a police switchboard operator who overheard a policeman talk about his former partner's murder and is being threatened to keep her mouth shut. |
| 03-13 |
"The Child Broker" |
|
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1988-01-20 |
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| McCall helps a young woman whose boyfriend is being used as a pseudo-slave. |
| 03-14 |
"Video Games" |
|
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1988-01-27 |
|
| An investigative reporter tracking information on a call-girl operation and his daughter's death goes missing. |
| 03-15 |
"Something Green" |
|
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1988-02-10 |
|
| A diplomat has kidnapped his son from his ex-wife and has $10 million in mob money in tow. McCall is called on to stop them from leaving the country. |
| 03-16 |
"The Mystery of Manon: Part 1" |
|
|
1988-02-17 |
|
| Control's goddaughter returns, asking Control and McCall to help deal with her father's obsession over her mother, who may still be alive after all these years. |
| 03-17 |
"The Mystery of Manon: Part 2" |
|
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1988-02-24 |
|
| Part 2. |
| 03-18 |
"No Place Like Home" |
|
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1988-03-16 |
|
| A man on welfare is in need of help from McCall to protect him from his landlord. |
| 03-19 |
"Last Call" |
|
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1988-03-23 |
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| Kostmayer and several others are taking hostage by a rapist, on the run from a Mafia assassin. |
| 03-20 |
"Regrets Only" |
|
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1988-03-30 |
|
| A woman is stalked by her husband. |
| 03-21 |
"Target of Choice" |
|
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1988-04-06 |
|
| A murderer is paroled, and a man who helped put him away finds out he is living in his neighborhood. |
| 03-22 |
"Always a Lady" |
|
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1988-05-04 |
|
| McCall is called on to try to save a former colleague, who is apparently framed for money theft. |
| # |
Title |
Writer(s) |
Director |
Original airdate |
ProdCode |
| 04-01 |
"The Last Campaign" |
|
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1988-10-26 |
|
| A state senate candidate is blackmailing the incumbent to endorse him for election. |
| 04-02 |
"Sea of Fire" |
|
|
1988-11-02 |
|
| McCall is called on to help a high school principal deal with a gang who raped a female student in the school gym. |
| 04-09 |
"Riding the Elephant" |
|
|
1988-11-09 |
|
| Two Thai nationals are being hassled by a racketeer with connections to McCall's past employers. |
| 04-04 |
"Eighteen with a Bullet" |
|
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1988-11-16 |
|
| McCall and Mickey Kostmayer help a young singer escape the clutches of her manager, who is up to no good. |
| 04-05 |
"The Day of the Covenant" |
|
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1988-12-07 |
|
| In a case of mistaken identity, Scott's girlfriend is kidnapped by an Afrikaner who believes she is a terrorist. |
| 04-06 |
"Splinters" |
|
|
1988-12-14 |
|
| Kidnappers take Mickey Kostmayer and torture him in an attempt to turn him on McCall |
| 04-07 |
"The Making of a Martyr" |
|
|
1989-01-11 |
|
| A gun control advocate receives threatening phone calls. |
| 04-08 |
"The Sins of the Father" |
|
|
1989-01-18 |
|
| A mobster's son is kidnapped as part of a revenge plot against his father. |
| 04-09 |
"The Visitation" |
|
|
1989-02-01 |
|
| An ex-lover of McCall's is forced to help victims of a virus carried by two men who have killed an international arms dealer. |
| 04-10 |
"Past Imperfect" |
|
|
1989-02-15 |
|
| A cartel uses a man's estranged son to try and make the man bow down to them and do what they want. |
| 04-11 |
"Trial by Ordeal" |
|
|
1989-03-01 |
|
| McCall defends Control against treason charges filed against him by The Company. |
| 04-12 |
"Silent Fury" |
|
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1989-03-08 |
|
| McCall helps a deaf robbery victim. |
| 04-13 |
"Lullaby of Darkness" |
|
|
1989-03-30 |
|
| McCall is called on to help a mother and daughter escape their abusive home life. |
| 04-14 |
"17 Zebra" |
|
|
1989-04-06 |
|
| McCall investigates the death of several homeless people who have died from heart attacks while in ambulances. |
| 04-15 |
"Starfire" |
|
|
1989-04-13 |
|
| McCall helps a man who is convinced he is an alien being hunted by killers. |
| 04-16 |
"Time Present, Time Past" |
|
|
1989-04-20 |
|
| 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. |
| 04-17 |
"Prisoners of Conscience" |
|
|
1989-04-27 |
|
| McCall tries to free a Chilean poet from the grasp of a man who killed his father years ago. |
| 04-18 |
"The Caper" |
|
|
1989-05-04 |
|
| A cleaning woman witnesses a murder and tries to solve it. |
| 04-19 |
"Heart of Justice" |
|
|
1989-05-11 |
|
| 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. |
| 04-20 |
"Race Traitors" |
|
|
1989-06-29 |
|
| McCall comes to the aid of a black family being harassed by racists. |
| 04-21 |
"Endgame" |
|
|
1989-08-10 |
|
| A man who is a master of strategy games uses his knowledge to plot revenge against two sisters. |
| 04-22 |
"Suicide Squad" |
|
|
1989-08-24 |
|
| McCall aids a young student who has turned to drug dealing after he loses his athletic scholarship at college. |
