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| The Equalizer | |
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| Season 5 | |
| Starring |
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| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | October 20, 2024 – present |
| Season chronology | |
The fifth season of the American police procedural television series The Equalizer is set to premiere on CBS for the 2024–25 U.S. television season.
The season sees the introduction of stars Queen Latifah, Tory Kittles, Adam Goldberg, Liza Lapira, Laya DeLeon Hayes, Lorraine Toussaint and Chris Noth who all appear in starring roles.
Cast and characters
[edit]Main
[edit]- Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall
- Tory Kittles as Marcus Dante
- Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian
- Liza Lapira as Melody Bayani
- Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah McCall
- Lorraine Toussaint as Viola Marsette
- Chris Noth as William Bishop
Episodes
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title [1] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [1] | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 57 | 1 | "The Lost Ones" | Geoffrey Wing Shotz | Joseph C. Wilson | October 20, 2024 | 4.61[2] | |
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McCall is asked to rescue a little girl, Randi, after her older brother Kevin steals a grocery truck filled with guns from career thug Paco Alvarez, a lieutenant for a low-level drug dealer Diego Sueño. Harry finds the truck but it's locked down in an NYPD impound lot, so McCall must improvise. Kevin is captured trying to rescue Randi himself. Just when McCall needs Harry on over-watch, Mel has a post-traumatic panic attack, calling him away. He also misses Dante's call, warning him that major cartel member Angel Salazar and his deadly crew are about to show up. McCall is captured, tortured, and nearly killed escaping. Back at home, Miles tends to her wounds, and she must admit she no longer has a team. | |||||||
| 58 | 2 | "Haunted Heights" | Chris Fisher | Aurora Ferlin & Joe Gazzam | October 27, 2024 | 5.16[3] | |
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McCall investigates the death of Priscilla Diaz. Her granddaughter believes it was not accidental, but rather a stalker. Residents believe the building is haunted. McCall and Harry debate Hickam's dictum versus Occam's razor. Harry sets up equipment as a "ghostbuster-buster" to debunk a theory that she was pushed down the stairs by a spirit. He finds a squatter in the attic and thinks he found the stalker, but then hallucinates a demon attacking. Mel arrives and must subdue Harry. The incident leads to both cause and motive. Dante calls McCall from L.A. for a lead in his own case against "pill king" Diablo. Aunt Vi helps Delilah prepare for senior photos, but Dee is preoccupied over Cameron. Vi talks to her friend Evelyn Rodgers about her mammogram and up-coming biopsy. Mel finally shares her own story with her veterans group. | |||||||
| 59 | 3 | "Just Fans" | Darren Grant | Barry O'Brien | November 3, 2024 | 5.13[4] | |
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McCall searches for Lilly, a social worker who has a hidden online presence as a content provider for adult subscription service, Follow Hub. With a closed system, Harry must go undercover as "The Ripped Shredder" to gain access, which leads to a suspect and another missing woman, Sarah. Harry presses COO Victoria Allen who admits to providing their home addresses to a fan. Dante struggles with being separated from his sons for his L.A. job. Dee recommends that Mel visit her therapist, Dr. Willa Roszak, who suggests kintsugi, so Mel tries her hand at songwriting as a creative way to deal with her trauma. Vi and Evelyn attend a Citizens Police Academy outreach, where Captain Curtis Martin warns not to cross the line between vigilance and vigilantism. Vi defends The Equalizer. Curtis' interest is piqued, not by Evelyn, but by Vi. Jokingly, Evelyn calls Vi the worst wing-woman ever. Robyn and Dee encourage Vi to pursue him. | |||||||
| 60 | 4 | "Sacrifice" | Solvan "Slick" Naim | Rob Hanning | November 17, 2024 | 4.91[5] | |
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After Fisk's Budapest side-trip, Harry finally cracks the drive they took, which reveals a young hacker, Jason "Kaos" Smith, being forced to hack for criminals. Harry tells Fisk and McCall his own similar origin story. After a second session with Dr. Roszak, Mel has a breakthrough. Still angry at Fisk, she encourages Harry to help rescue Kaos. When she spots them in trouble, she gets back into the field. Fisk says he hired Kaos to infiltrate the Dragonfly Collective, a cyber-terrorist group specializing in ransomware. But now they have a crippling cyber-weapon that must be stopped. Fisk makes the ultimate sacrifice to achieve the greater good. Dante returns to NYC to check his father's condition. Big Ben wakes from his coma, but with amnesia. Dee struggles with her college entrance essay. | |||||||
| 61 | 5 | "Take My Life...Please!" | Richard Lyons | Vanessa K. Herron | November 24, 2024 | 5.14[6] | |
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Shauna Harris asks McCall to help determine who put a hit out on her husband Craig, a stand-up comedian. At first he denies anyone is trying to kill him, and then admits that he himself asked for it so the insurance would cover for financial problems. Now that he's made a come-back, he tried to call off the hit, but someone is still trying to kill him. Dante talks with his mother on how to proceed with Big Ben's amnesia. Delilah is disappointed in Ivy colleges saying she "hits all the DEI boxes," so she considers HBCUs instead. Aunt Vi cannot bear to read her biopsy results, so she asks Robyn to do so. McCall tries to sort out her feelings for Dante. | |||||||
| 62 | 6 | "The Fight for Life" | Benny Boom | Faythallegra Claude | December 1, 2024 | 4.69[7] | |
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Andrew Banks asks McCall to find out why his sister Jenna went missing the day she was supposed to be released from Hopefield prison. Harry finds yet another missing inmate, Ciara Perry. McCall and Mel interview her parents who say they tried every legal means to find Ciara, but after a year, received only her ashes. With no alternative, McCall and Mel go into prison undercover as inmate and C.O., respectively. Dante works with D.A. Grafton from the outside, but without luck. The team learns that lifer Bianca Silva and C.O. Darren Rigby might be involved. So McCall starts a fight with Silva and gets transferred to C Block where illegal fights are hosted for outside gamblers. Dante, backed by Federal Agents, puts a stop to a death-match between McCall and Jenna just in time. Vi and Evelyn visit Captain Curtis Martin again. Evelyn "volunteers" Vi for a self-defense exercise, and Vi accidentally slugs Curtis. Miles meets Dee's boyfriend Cameron for the first time. | |||||||
| 63 | 7 | "Slay Ride" | Chris Fisher | Ora Yashar & Terence Paul Winter | December 8, 2024 | 4.36[8] | |
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Christmas eve darkens when an off-duty Dante interrupts a contract on an AUSA by shooting the hitter, Palma "La Maldad" Zambada, the daughter of a cartel boss. McCall takes a special dish to Miles at the Roy Lewis Memorial Hospital, and Marcus finally meets him. As Palma is wheeled into surgery, McCall observes six more sicarios entering the hospital with guns led by Armando Reyes. She calls Dante in time to order a code silver that locks down his ward. The sicarios blow the door, injuring Dante with shrapnel. As Miles tends to Marcus, Harry provides a way out, but Reyes threatens to kill civilian carolers. Mel arrives with "Cutie Pie," her high-powered sniper rifle that can punch through walls. As she takes out two sicarios, Miles is taken hostage and the team must rescue him. After years of awful presents, Harry gives Mel an apropos gift to compliment her new creative talents. | |||||||
| 64 | 8 | "Guns and Roses" | Carl Seaton | Holly Harold | February 16, 2025 | 3.67[9] | |
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A young girl, Jesse, becomes collateral damage from a stray bullet in a gang war between the Sixth Street Mafia and the Shotta Boys. Harry notes a spike in illegal gun seizures. McCall immediately suspects Angel Salazar for the influx of guns (after events in "The Lost Ones"). Mel interrogates a suspect, and Harry connects the gun to yet another military base heist. They question distribution manager Edward Thompson to intercept a stolen truck, but it's a trap. Captain Watkins again spitefully derides Dante when he uses her precinct for Federal duties, and she finally meets McCall in person. Despite differences, Dante and Watkins collaborate to question Thompson (a Baroni family accountant). They locate and seize the shipment, but Salazar escapes. Aunt Vi has an artful date with Capt. Martin. Dee and Cameron have a fender bender in her grandpa's 1970 Chevelle Super Sport. Dante quits the FTF to stay in NYC for McCall. He also reads the first of Big Ben's prison letters. | |||||||
| 65 | 9 | "Stolen Angel" | Pamela Romanowsky | Joe Gazzam | February 23, 2025 | 4.05[10] | |
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Faith Cooper asks McCall and to search for her friend, an ex-addict Maya Williams, whose pregnancy is clearly at risk after McCall and Mel find nifedipine for pre-eclampsia at her home. Drugs, money, and male associates are the first usual suspects. But they sense sometime more nefarious after checking into Maya's doctor and nurse leading them to more victims, and adoption fraud. Dante finally meets his brother James, a defense attorney, and they argue about Big Ben's care while Ben wonders away from the facility. Now they must cooperate to find him. While still grounded and stressed about college, Dee gets into it with her neighbor, "grouchy ol' Mr. Murray." Aunt Vi helps Dee see things from his perspective. | |||||||
| 66 | 10 | "Dirty Sexy Money" | Chris Fisher | Barry O'Brien | March 2, 2025 | 3.42[11] | |
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Andre and Marisol Espinosa ask McCall recover their life savings after a suspicious electrical fire burns it all. McCall and Dante quickly determine the bills were marked "Unfit for Legal Tender" and the fire was to cover a robbery, including cash laundered by the Russian mob. Jimmy Talbot, Niko Espinosa's college friend, is found exchanging stolen Euros, and the Russians nab both of them. McCall and Dante must then rescue them. With advice from Dr. Roszak and Harry, Mel tells her parents about her PTSD, but her father just walks away. When confronted, he recounts his own WWII story in the Philippines under the Japanese, and as a hostage of the Moro National Liberation Front. Vi is dismayed when Curtis interrogates a non-compliant suspect during a ride-along. McCall empathizes, but tries to get Vi to see the inherent danger of police work. | |||||||
| 67 | 11 | "Taken" | Tasha Smith | Vanessa K. Herron & Rob Hanning | March 9, 2025 | 4.31[12] | |
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Little boy Dylan Baker rides his tricycle away from his mother Francine in Queens Ridge Mall, while McCall and Dee are shopping for her prom dress. Ten minutes pass before McCall convinces the security guard to lock down the mall. McCall calls Harry to hack surveillance to look for suspicious adults. McCall and the guard check a fire exit and find the boy's clothing. Marcus helps prepare an Amber Alert. Harry and Mel spot suspicious behavior from a man photographing the play area. Dee enlists friends, social media, and fliers which provides a new lead. A shopper recognizes Dylan from the parking garage, being taken by a couple. Harry checks make, model, plates, and its emergency signal. While Vi and Curtis try to find common ground, debating "Stop-and-Frisk" versus "Observe, Protect, Connect", they agree to take another ride-along to help find Dylan. McCall and Mel catch up to the low-life druggies, who sold Dylan for $3,000. Back to square-one, McCall, Harry and Mel try to narrow the search and find the buyer. | |||||||
| 68 | 12 | "Trust No One" | Bola Ogun | Holly Harold & Terence Paul Winter | March 16, 2025 | 4.22[13] | |
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History professor Dr. Johan Kinkaid is shot by an intruder. His estranged daughter Ariel tells McCall that police think it was a home invasion, but she insists he was targeted. Ariel shows McCall a coded letter. While Harry and Mel dig into the professor's records, McCall meets Marcus for a breakfast date. Later, Professor Charles Radcliff says Kinkaid was trying to locate Captain William Kidd's buried treasure. Radcliff helps decode the letter, and asks if they have Kinkaid's journal. Now they suspect Ariel may be in danger. Journal clues lead Harry and Mel to Dr. Tiffany Luttrell in search of John D. Rockefeller's chessboard. They decipher Morse code leading to a library where Dante and McCall are forced to shoot a Special Forces mercenary, Aaron Drake, who was after another clue. They get a call from his leader, who demands they find the gold or they will kill Ariel. Delilah learns that Cameron has been hanging with Tyrese who wants to apologize, but Ty's little sisters Venetta and Tonya are about to be taken by social worker Ms. Howell. Dee tries to help. Aunt Vi and Dee want Marcus and his sons to visit them, but there are complications. | |||||||
| 69 | 13 | "A Few Good Women" | Terrence Laron Burke | Vanessa K. Herron | March 23, 2025 | 3.71[14] | |
| 70 | 14 | "The Grave Digger"[15] | Marcus Stokes | Terence Paul Winter & Holly Harold | March 30, 2025 | TBD | |
| 71 | 15 | "Deception" | TBA | TBA | April 13, 2025 | TBD | |
Ratings
[edit]| No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) |
Viewers (millions) |
DVR (18–49) |
DVR viewers (millions) |
Total (18–49) |
Total viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Lost Ones" | October 20, 2024 | 0.3 | 4.61[2] | 0.1 | 1.87 | 0.4 | 6.49[2] |
| 2 | "Haunted Heights" | October 27, 2024 | 0.3 | 5.16[3] | 0.1 | 1.44 | 0.4 | 6.60[3] |
| 3 | "Just Fans" | November 3, 2024 | 0.3 | 5.13[4] | 0.1 | 1.70 | 0.4 | 6.83[4] |
| 4 | "Sacrifice" | November 17, 2024 | 0.4 | 4.91[5] | 0.1 | 1.81 | 0.4 | 6.72[5] |
| 5 | "Take My Life...Please!" | November 24, 2024 | 0.3 | 5.14[6] | 0.1 | 1.53 | 0.4 | 6.67[6] |
| 6 | "The Fight for Life" | December 1, 2024 | 0.3 | 4.69[7] | 0.1 | 1.56 | 0.4 | 6.25[7] |
| 7 | "Slay Ride" | December 8, 2024 | 0.3 | 4.36[8] | 0.1 | 1.51 | 0.4 | 5.87[8] |
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