The Equalizer

Previously on The Equalizer...

I'm the one you call when you can't call 911.

Oh, man, we're screwed. This guy's a cop.

I'm here for you.

Whenever you need me.

Give that to the chief for me?

Now that you know my secrets,

you're gonna have to grow up just a little faster.

But maybe we can just start by

giving each other the benefit of the doubt.

That's Dad.

Mayday, Mayday, Mayday.

No, no, no, no!

Bishop.

I can't do it, Shareen.

Thank God. I thought I was the only one.

This isn't us.

We're cashiers, not criminals.

But we really need the money.

We'll find another way.

We planned the heist, didn't we?

And look how far we got.

We'll figure it out and do it honestly.

Come on. We leave now,

it'll be like we were never here.

Are you kidding me?

After everything I have done for you,

you stuff your pockets in the middle of a job?

No! I swear.

That's why we've been short.

He's been skimming us this whole time.

Oh, you're a little Judas bitch, you know that?

- Yo. - Someone here?

Go! Get them!

Come on!

Well, sure, if you're up for it.

Okay. I'll meet you there.

Going out?

Aunt Vi, what you doing up so late?

The muse strikes at odd hours.

When it does, I listen.

I could ask the same of you.

The muse and trouble both.

You be careful out there.

I always am.

Hey. Mom just go out?

Yeah. She, uh...

She just got one of those calls.

Did we wake you up?

No, I, um, heard her on the phone.

It's like 2:00 a.m.

Does she really have to get up and run out

in the middle of the night?

I mean,

Dad's a doctor, he has to.

But at least when he does it, I know he'll come back.

You're worried.

Aren't you?

Bishop was her mentor.

She said that he was one of the best agents

she'd ever met, and...

he's gone.

Mom's been pretty devastated.

Don't you worry?

Yeah, I do.

Because no matter

how capable your mom is, she's...

...she's not invincible.

I say we talk to her. Together.

Soon as she gets home.

Yeah. Okay.

We heard something weird coming out of the safe,

so we hid and then these guys came out.

There were three of them.

They were arguing, and then one of them just, like,

pulled out a gun and, like, murdered the other one.

Just slow down, Jenna.

Which Dollar One was robbed?

The big one, off the 3.

I'm a cashier there with my friend Shareen.

Why were you at the store so late?

Okay, you got to understand, we were desperate.

The court just gave full custody

of my five-year-old son to my ex because I got evicted.

I can't pay rent with what they pay me there.

Shareen, she's got all these medical bills

from a miscarriage that she had which...

probably wouldn't have happened if our college boy boss

would've let her, I don't know, sit down for five minutes

or keep a water bottle by the register.

We didn't see any other way out.

I'm not gonna get my Cody back working minimum wage.

Not even with overtime.

But we decided not to go through with it, I swear.

Go through with what, Jenna?

We were gonna try and rob the place, too.

Give ourselves a leg up.

I figured insurance would cover the losses.

So Shar stole the key to the safe,

I cut the power to the cameras.

And that's why you didn't call the police.

Yeah, but we didn't do it.

As messed up as our lives are, we-we knew it was wrong.

We were about to walk away,

and that's when those guys came out.

We ran and they shot at us. They shot Shareen.

- Wait, they shot Shareen? - Yeah, they shot her.

Where is she?

Hey, Shar?

These people are here to help us.

How's it look?

Jenna had a semester

at nursing school and she...

did her best to stop the bleeding.

You got a serious gunshot wound. We got to get you to a hospital.

No. No hospitals.

We heard them say they'd check every ER in the city

until they found us.

- Did they see your faces? - No.

We were wearing ski masks.

But we saw theirs.

Did you recognize them?

The shooter looked familiar, like I'd seen him before.

At the store.

A customer, maybe.

She's got a bullet lodged in her abdomen.

If we don't it treated, she's gonna die.

You get Jenna to the safe house. I'll take Shareen to help.

Any hospital you take her to

will have to report it to police.

I'm not going to a hospital.

Rob, what are you doing here?

Delilah okay?

Delilah's fine. Miles, I need your help.

Oh.

Look, I know it's a hell of a thing to ask your ex,

but you're one of the best surgeons in the city

and I got no other choice.

I need to know whose life I'm saving here, Rob.

The less you know, the better.

Well, let's see.

You couldn't take this woman to a hospital,

and so you brought her to me, at home.

Who's she running from?

Police?

Some international bad guy collective?

Shouldn't you be concentrating?

I just know how you operate.

Thought you left the CIA.

I did.

Then who are you working for now?

No one. I'm just helping a friend.

Well, your friend is very lucky.

The bullet entered right here.

A couple centimeters down, this could've pierced her spleen.

You guys were lucky I was here.

I knew you'd be here.

Kelly's out of town and you a homebody now.

Not like back in the day.

Well, that's 'cause I am older and wiser

and we're not in Somalia anymore.

Oh, don't act like you didn't love it.

The danger, the adrenaline.

Bullets flying over our heads,

both of us believing we could save the world.

Yeah, I remember.

But I left Doctors Without Borders a long time ago,

and this...

is clearly not a peacekeeping mission you're on.

You know, Rob, if anybody finds out about this,

I'm gonna lose my medical license.

You can trust me, Miles.

Yeah, I know better than to trust you.

I promise, no one will find out about this. Just...

I just need you to help me save this woman's life.

I just did.

You're taking the bullet?

I got to find out who shot her.

She has no one else.

I really appreciate this, Miles.

Truly.

Hey, wait, what should I do with the patient?

Keep her alive.

You do know I'm not a cop anymore?

You still have friends.

Look, I know what you're going through,

and I know it's not easy.

Questioning the institution and yourself.

But I know you still believe in justice.

Does this have anything to do

with what happened to your friend?

That's gonna take a little more time.

But I'm dealing with it the best way I know how,

which is focusing on others.

Maybe that'd help you.

You're really selling this.

Look, I'm just trying to see

if you'll call in a favor, that's all.

Run ballistics, see if that slug connects to anything.

Call in a favor, huh?