McCall uses an old friend to track down a serial killer and also helps a woman trying for her big break into acting to avoid a life on the streets.
A creep is murdering older lonely hearts and it becomes personal when a dear librarian who occasionally helps Robert with research (and we suspect has a crush on him) falls victim. Meanwhile a naive young woman from 'Anytown' middle America has been lured into prostitution and her pimp just doesn't get the Equalizer's message.
Genuine tension as McCall juggles the two cases, both of which deal with women being exploited by scumbags in the big lonely NYC, and both of whom need his help at almost the same time. As usual, a thoughtful episode; a hard take on the downside of big-city life and the exploitation of innocence and desperation by unscrupulous, deceitful and somewhat psychotic bad guys. What is the difference between the pimp and the serial killer? Not much it seems.
A creep is murdering older lonely hearts and it becomes personal when a dear librarian who occasionally helps Robert with research (and we suspect has a crush on him) falls victim. Meanwhile a naive young woman from 'Anytown' middle America has been lured into prostitution and her pimp just doesn't get the Equalizer's message.
Genuine tension as McCall juggles the two cases, both of which deal with women being exploited by scumbags in the big lonely NYC, and both of whom need his help at almost the same time. As usual, a thoughtful episode; a hard take on the downside of big-city life and the exploitation of innocence and desperation by unscrupulous, deceitful and somewhat psychotic bad guys. What is the difference between the pimp and the serial killer? Not much it seems.
