The Equalizer

I serve as an equalizer.

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

Previously on The Equalizer...

Does the name Mason Quinn mean anything to you?

People that tangle with Quinn end up dead.

Bishop!

Don't come for me again,

because then I'll have to come after you.

Everyone needs help with the kind of secrets we carry.

And we can't just talk to anyone.

They need to be someone in my community.

Robyn, I need to know that

you're not putting my daughter at risk.

How much does Delilah really know about you?

Dad called.

He wants to know if she feels safe

in this house.

Lies can be necessary to protect your family,

but they can backfire on you.

They can hurt you and those around you

in ways you'd never anticipate.

That was taken by Mossad two days ago in Sevastopol.

Sevastopol?

What is Mason Quinn doing in Sevastopol?

And who's this guy he's talking to?

That's Omar Delgado.

Former Cuban intelligence.

Right after meeting with Quinn,

our sources say he infiltrated the U.S.

McCall, we've been friends a long time.

This path you're walking down

ends in darkness.

It always ends in darkness, Arieh.

That's where the monsters live.

- Hey, Mom. - Hey.

I just wanted to let you know I was back home.

How'd things go at your dad's?

Uh, it was fine.

He ask you any questions about me?

What I'm up to?

Yeah, but I handled it.

It's no biggie.

You sure you're okay?

You know you can talk to me.

Yeah, I know.

I just, uh... I just wanted to tell you I was back

and say good night.

So good night.

My sister Calista.

She moved up here from Baton Rouge

a few years back to break into journalism.

Your message said she was in danger.

Well, I've been trying to find her for the past few days.

When I couldn't, I came up here to look for her.

Not in her apartment, not at work.

So you think someone's trying to kill her?

Yes.

Man with a scar on his face.

- You know him? - No.

- Well, why do you think he's after her? - I don't know.

Well, what does your sister say?

Why does it matter what she says?

She's out there.

She could...

She could be dead already.

I'm just looking for something to go on.

When is the last time you spoke to your sister?

That doesn't matter.

It matters if you want my help.

A year ago.

A year ago? So how could you possibly know she's in trouble?

Because I see things.

Visions of images that become real.

And I know how that sounds, but I am not crazy.

It started when I was six years old.

My parents were going to the movies.

Before they leave, I just, I knew.

I saw my mother crying. I saw my father...

laying on the ground, bleeding.

And I beg 'em to stay at home, but nobody listens to me.

They were shot and killed in a robbery that night.

That's a terrible trauma at any age.

But at six... Are you sure...

It wasn't my imagination? Or a false memory, right?

No. No! I know what I saw.

And I couldn't do anything to stop it.

When we go into foster care, me and Calista,

the visions continued; car accidents, deaths.

And I couldn't do anything to stop it then.

See, no one wanted to hear me.

So I learned...

keep my mouth shut.

Stave off the visions with various medications.

But when it comes to my family...

The visions of Calista were so real,

I couldn't keep those out.

Please, please help me find her

before it's too late.

With your sister, what, exactly, did you see?

I saw an orange glow, a silver Mercedes,

a man with a scar,

Calista.

She's so scared. She's got a gun in her face.

She screams.

I see.

You don't believe me.

- I didn't say that. - You didn't have to.

Do you have anything else suggesting she's in danger?

An email, a text...

I hoped you would be different...

...but you're just like everybody else.

Hang on, where you going?

I already lost my parents; I'm not gonna lose my sister, too.

Calista Thibideaux, 29.

Currently employed as a lifestyle journalist

for an online news outlet called...

I'm sorry, are we really doing this?

Pretending that it's not, like, I don't know, insane

that we're taking on a case based on a premonition?

I didn't say I was taking on the case.

I can't say I'm not curious.

And what if his sister really is in danger?

It couldn't hurt to figure it out.

Oh. Don't tell me you believe in this nonsense, too.

Babe, it is not a crime to have an open mind.

And I've had several experiences that I cannot explain.

Here comes Skinny Rick.

- Who's Skinny Rick? - Skinny Rick is

a finance bro who hung himself upstairs in the bathroom

during the crash of 1987.

She thinks the upstairs bar is haunted.

Because it is.

Sometimes at night, the light turns off by itself.

Because of the faulty electricity.

- And I hear footsteps. - Of rats.

I'm telling you, I saw the shadow of, like,

two skinny legs just, like dangling and, like,

hitting the wall of the men's room.

Ooh, I... Even during the day

I don't like being in there.

It's just the men's bathroom.

It's revolting. Nobody likes being in there.

Come on, Rob, a little help.

I don't know, Harry.

I gotta say there are times when

I've had a feeling that I should duck

or take a different door,

or go left instead of right.

And more than once, those decisions have saved my life.

I think that's just called training.

I mean, you guys, I've done background on this guy.

Okay? He's been in and out of rehab, he's been arrested

a multitude of times for public disturbances,

and he's taken more than one involuntary trip to the psych ward.

He mentioned he had some problems.

But still, he was rattled. Come on.

What's the harm in spending a little time

looking into his concerns?

Even you cannot argue with that.

I'll reach out to Calista's job

and see if they heard from her.

And I'll look into her phone records and financials

and see what they tell us.

And I will swing by her apartment

and do a wellness check.

Do a wellness check on you guys.

Building maintenance.

Hello?

Calista?

The place looks neat but the drawers are open.

He was looking for something.

Okay, but can we talk about something?

The guy had a scar on his face.

You saying that's a coincidence?

I'm saying I'm sure there's a logical explanation

- for how Julien knew about the guy. - Which is?

I don't know yet.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

Well, Julien was definitely right about

his siter being in trouble.

You talk to the editor?

He hasn't heard from her in a week.

He mention what she was working on?

A lifestyle piece

on a local activist named Rosa Martinez.

Supposed to be the next A.O.C.

It was a puff piece, but she never turned it in.

He tried contacting her a bunch of times

after some missed deadlines,

but he wasn't able to reach her.

I think I know why, though. Calista turned her phone off

a couple of days ago,

but the last call she got was from an unregistered number.

Then, an hour later,

she withdrew a thousand dollars from her bank account.

Why would she need that kind of cash?

She was with some guy when she was taking the money out.

Face rec ID'd him as Carlos Vela.

He's a street-level drug dealer.

He did time for possession and assault.