List of The Equalizer (2021 TV series) episodes

Robyn McCall is a former operative of "the Company", an organization that conducts illegal operations for the U.S. government. Having grown disenchanted with her work, Robyn leaves the Company to raise her teenage daughter Delilah. One night, she follows a young teenage girl and saves her from being sexually assaulted. The girl, Jewel Machado, is a suspect in the shooting of a lawyer, Chance Kovak. With no one else to turn to, Robyn contacts her old colleagues, Melody and Harry, and has them hide Jewel while she investigates the murder. Through careful undercover work, and with the assistance of her former superior William Bishop, Robyn captures two mercenaries employed by a tech mogul, who had Chance murdered to cover up his discovery of a fatal flaw in the software for his latest product, a self-driving car. The mogul is arrested by Marcus Dante, an NYPD detective who Robyn met earlier while posing as Jewel's lawyer. Jewel is released and Robyn decides to send an anonymous online message offering to help anyone who has "the odds against them".

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Note: This episode was dedicated to co-creator/executive producer Richard Lindheim, who died from heart failure while the series was in production.

Robyn answers the request of a woman whose son, Jackson, was kidnapped to force her to break into the safe of her employer, an FBI agent. She discovers that the kidnapping is connected to a sex trafficking ring run by a prominent club owner, who is trying to find an informant working with the agent. Robyn takes down the ring's stash house, and the deadline for Jackson's return is moved up. Robyn arranges for the owner's right-hand man to be framed as the informant, allowing her to rescue Jackson, deliver the real informant to the FBI, and get both the owner and his FBI mole arrested. In between, Robyn tries to figure out a secret Delilah is keeping from her. When it's discovered that she is performing with a choir in Times Square, Delilah is upset that her mother won't make it in time to see her perform, but after handling the aforementioned events, Robyn does show up for the event. Robyn gets Bishop to cut a deal with the Company: she will perform freelance work for them in exchange for a blind eye being turned to her vigilantism.

An innocent man, Dale, escapes from prison looking to find the man who framed him for murder, only to be framed again when his old cellmate ends up dead. His former lawyer asks Robyn to find Dale, who is reluctant to put his life in someone else's hands and refuses to accept Robyn's help. Robyn strikes a deal with Dante to obtain evidence that Dale was set up. When Dale gets arrested after his angry son betrays him and alerts the police, the defense requests that the judge recuse herself; an ADA recruited by Dante then arrives with evidence that the judge, who prosecuted Dale's case ten years ago, not only covered up witness statements that would have helped him but also arranged for the cellmate's murder to protect herself. The judge is taken into custody while Dante arrests the real murderer and sets Dale free. Afterwards, Dante and Robyn come face to face; Dante doesn't approve of Robyn's methods and vows to go after her. Robyn knows Dante will need her in the future and reminds him that her quest for justice isn't over.

Robyn takes the case of a community activist murdered by gang members; however, the case is soon complicated when the murder is linked to a wealthy real estate developer who also happens to be a CIA asset involved with the financing of foreign terrorists. As Dante is unable to get the killer to flip on his boss, Robyn recruits Bishop to help her infiltrate the developer's office, having already groomed his idealistic, neglected son as her inside man. Delilah, with her mother's encouragement, meets with a government official to discuss filling in a pothole; unfortunately, the official turns her down. Delilah is bitter, believing that nothing will change. Robyn and Bishop are caught trying to hack the developer's private server, leaving the son to confront his father. As it turns out, a camera planted by Robyn broadcasts the whole thing (including the developer's confession) publicly while Harry delivers the necessary evidence to Dante for an arrest. With the son now committed to fixing his father's wrongs, Aunt Vi and Robyn take Delilah to fill in the pothole themselves.

The Company assigns Robyn a mission: retrieve Dorian Endicott, a British programmer and mathematician who has gone off the grid. Robyn accepts the mission only when Bishop promises that all her debts will be canceled in return. As it turns out, Endicott is trying to sell a valuable piece of software to Russian intelligence; the deal, however, is a set-up, as Endicott reveals the software is fake and he needs the money to get his wife and son into hiding. Robyn takes him into custody, and after a run-in with Delilah (who mistakenly assumes her mother is on a date), Endicott explains that he has devised a program that can hack any digital system on Earth, which he destroyed upon realizing how dangerous it could be if used. Recognizing that she can't turn him in, Robyn calls Bishop for help. Bishop then informs the CIA, who apprehend Endicott and appear to assassinate him when Russian agents (who are actually Robyn's associates in disguise) intercept their convoy. Robyn collects the "dead" Endicott and sends him to Canada with his family. At home, Delilah questions what else her mother could be lying to her about.

Robyn is hired when Maya Ruiz, a volunteer for a mayoral candidate Sinéad Keller, tries to kill herself; she claims that Elijah Reade, a top campaign official, assaulted her. The team quickly deduces that Maya isn't Reade's only victim. Robyn gets Dante to help her investigate Maya's case by promising to help him take down a dirty ex-cop who helped cover up Reade's crimes. Delilah disobeys her mother when she helps her friend Nicki commit a robbery to steal back a necklace. Delilah escapes, but Nicki gets arrested and Robyn angrily yells at Aunt Vi in frustration. Maya agrees to sign a settlement and NDA with Reade's lawyers, but secretly helps Mel steal copies of similar documents signed by all of his victims. These are given to Keller, also a victim of Reade, who exposes him in a public interview, leading to his downfall and arrest. Dante also nabs Reade's fixer, and manages to get Nicki released from custody after being prompted to do so by Robyn. She and Delilah reconcile and Robyn agrees to invite Nicki over for dinner.

Robyn is asked by a young black woman to find her roommate Nia, who was abducted days earlier. Harry reveals that the abduction fits the pattern of a string of abductions/killings of ten other black women, including one that resulted in an innocent man going to prison. Robyn decides to bring Dante in to help as she only has 48 hours to find Nia. When its discovered that the murders are linked to a loan-lending company and that the killer has been surveilling the women from vacant apartments nearby, both Robyn and Dante suspect that a company employee is responsible. Dante helps Robyn find Nia, but becomes increasingly disturbed by her violent methods. The killer snaps after losing Nia and goes to Dante's house, using him as bait to lure in Robyn. When he refuses to give in to Robyn's demands not to kill Dante, Mel is forced to shoot him dead from afar. Dante, enraged that Robyn murdered a suspect right in front of him, goes to see DA Avery Grafton, who is eager to put an end to Robyn's vigilantism, and offers to use his knowledge of Robyn to assist Grafton in her efforts.

The team receives a call from a girl named Carla in southern France; Robyn recognizes her as the daughter of her deceased mentor, David Henson. With armed pursuers on her trail, Robyn and Harry guide Carla to a nearby factory to hide. They also have her take a picture that allows Harry to identify the lead pursuer as a ex-Mossad operative. Robyn contacts a retired British spy who owes her to rescue Carla and take her to safety. Unfortunately, the spy turns out to be in the pay of the man who wants Carla and, soon enough, Robyn is forced to fly to France to save her. She learns that David is still alive and being tortured for information; he winds up sacrificing himself to save Carla's life. A voice then contacts Robyn: Mason Quinn, a terrorist and strategic genius whom Robyn apprehended during her CIA days, only for the agency to then exchange Quinn in a prisoner swap. When Robyn discovers that Bishop knew about this, she lashes out at him for lying to her. At home, Robyn is confronted by Aunt Vi about the true nature of her work. Robyn confesses the truth, and Vi warns her that one day, she'll have to do the same with Delilah.

Robyn answers the call of a concerned housewife, Amanda Wilson, who's suspicious of her husband Elias' strange activities. Harry and Mel discover that he has joined an alt-right terrorist group called the TruthTrappers. The group plans to blow up a key location involving a NYPD officer, prompting Robyn to get Dante involved, while Mel investigates the CEO of a website hosting the servers tied to the group. Dante tracks fellow NYPD officer Murtaugh to a motel where he's meeting Elias, as is Robyn after she tracked him; Dante arrests Murtaugh but Robyn and Elias escape separately. Robyn later finds and captures Elias, and discovers that there is more than one bomb, with the real target being a multicultural and multinational university. Robyn uses interrogation psychology to make Elias realize the error of his ways, causing him to tell her the exact location. The bomb is defused but Dante then tries to arrest Robyn again. She takes the police down, upset with Dante's double crossing. Dante gets the evidence to charge Murtaugh and later tells Grafton that he cannot arrest Robyn for now. Robyn convinces Elias to turn himself in while Mel helps expose the CEO, getting his website shut down. Delilah wants Robyn and Vi to participate in a TikTok video, which has Robyn worried because of her and her family being exposed, but decides to join in, albeit with their faces blocked while going viral.

While skipping school with her friends, Delilah is witness to her friend Jason being shot in a drive-by shooting. He is left in a critical condition, but later dies of his injuries. A second victim, Alejandro Molina from the Molina cartel, is determined to be the real target. With the case hitting close to home, McCall learns from the cartel that Brigada 7 has recently landed in New York and were rejected by them with an offer. She confronts the Brigada's New York leader Victor Shishani and warns of serious repercussions. Dante gives her a Brigada informant, Roddy Thompson, who reveals that they have a ship loaded of cocaine due to arrive. After her daughter and her friends are threatened into silence about their witness statements, McCall enlists the Molina cartel, Harry and Melody to take down the Brigada at the docks themselves. Dante has second thoughts about their partnership. Delilah sneaks out and discovers her mother's hidden garage and a picture at Dante's desk; and confronts her with it, asking who she really is.

Weeks after Delilah discovered the truth about her mother, she has withdrawn and lived with her father. McCall considers taking a break from her vigilantism, but is drawn back when Dante asks her to help with a bank robbery, where the robbers killed his partner and other officers. McCall enlists Bishop's help, who discovers that the dead robber was a rogue CIA agent. Harry finds a lead to Atticus Lee, a former soldier. McCall and Dante investigate, and discover Atticus was actually kidnapped by the robbers. Dante helps find a lead to Sanford Ganis, a congressman. They learn Atticus robbed his home and took evidence linking him to a political assassination, so he had his chief of staff, an ex-CIA officer, retrieve it. Dante and McCall track him to where he's keeping Atticus, saving him and killing the robbers. Ganis is arrested, helping Dante get justice for his partner. Delilah accepts who her mother is after a stern lecture and decides to move back home with her.

Mira Shah, the daughter of the Saudi Arabian ambassador, reaches out to McCall to ask her to find her brother, Ali, who has gone missing. She discovers that Ali was suspected to be involved with a dissident group, leading to the Saudi secret service to intervene to find him. However, McCall, Harry, and Melody later learn that Ali wasn't a dissident; rather, he was in love with someone who is, Reza Shaheen. Reza goes as far as to offer himself to the secret service in exchange for Ali to be released, but McCall calls on Bishop, who was working with the Saudis, to do so himself. In the NYPD, detective Ken Mallory takes over the vigilante case. Upon learning of her involvement in the Shah case, he arrives to arrest the secret service men who held Ali captive. Dante warns him that McCall is never present at arrests other than making sure things lead to them. The Saudi secret service is not allowed to ever pursue Ali again, but Mira has to move back to Saudi Arabia and Reza could still be exposed to the service if he maintains his claim to be "Dissident X". McCall however doubts this, noting he might as well have done it to protect Ali in the first place.

The mother of teenager Malik Johnson approaches McCall and tells her that her son has been acting strangely recently and is worried. McCall navigates through the DEA to get to Malik, who has been forced to deal drugs and plant a bug in a stash house owned by 6th Street Mafia leader Lamar Starks. Malik is abducted after planting the bug but calls McCall, who has Harry trace his call. Starks later asks him to plant a bomb in a barber shop belonging to rival gang, K-Block leader Charles Simms. Simms deduces the threat, and Malik escapes at the last second with McCall coming to his aid. McCall approaches the DEA and makes a deal for them to capture both Simms and Starks, under the guise of a cease fire. Mallory gets a hold of the meeting, and has his first encounter with McCall who orders him to cancel his reinforcements. District Attorney Avery Grafton begins to have second thoughts about handing Mallory the job of hunting down McCall. Delilah leaves Jason's funeral, disliking that other students who didn't know him claimed so in their eulogies. McCall encourages her to remember Jason by her own words, rather than verbally attacking the students. Delilah decides to hold her eulogy on a livestream.

After his son Luis tries to kill himself while in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Hector threatens D.A. Grafton publicly, then disappears. Hector's father asks McCall to help find him before he gets into trouble. McCall tries to warn Dante, but Mallory follows him to their meet-up, and McCall has Dante arrest her to keep him out of trouble. Dante looks into Hector, and comes into contact with ADA Walter Ellis, who he got into a fight with previously. With Mel and Harry's help, McCall finds out that Hector was kidnapped by the Bridgetown Gang, who are trying to kill Grafton and frame Hector for the murder. Dante and McCall finds out that Ellis is actually a mole for Bridgetown, and they both race to save Hector and Grafton after Ellis kidnaps her. They succeed, and Grafton decides to let McCall go, while Mallory is reassigned elsewhere. McCall befriends a young girl in lockup named Kisha Griffin, and convinces her to take a lighter sentence rather than go to jail.

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McCall is approached by true crime enthusiasts Rachel and Abe Watkins, who have been following videos released of a woman, presumably by a stalker, whom they suspect is Brandon Mackey. McCall later learns that Mackey is innocent and has tried to prove this, but has regardless received threats against his life. Harry narrows down the stalker's location to an Internet café following the release of another video, where McCall finds Watkins, who had withheld some information, even knowing that Mackey was innocent. McCall, Harry, and Mel manage to narrow down the victim's residence based on small clues of its location and identify the woman as Vicki Howell. McCall calls on Dante to help her, and Howell is rescued, but the stalker escapes with her son. When Rachel visits the hospital, she discovers that Howell is in fact her stalker, while the real Howell and her son are discovered tied up in their basement. The stalker is identified as Amber Nelson, Howell's former friend who became jealous of her popularity. Nelson kidnaps Rachel and broadcasts her capture live before Dante and the police arrive in the nick of time, thanks to McCall and her team. While out shopping with Delilah, aunt Vi encounters a white woman who accuses her of stealing and calls the police. Delilah shows them a video of the incident, proving Vi's innocence. Delilah later approaches the woman, offering an opportunity to apologize. When she refuses, Delilah posts the video online in retaliation.

McCall is approached by Dante and Grafton personally, who ask her to assist them in catching a serial sniper on the loose who seemingly targets random citizens. McCall, Mel, and Harry identify the sniper as Silas Furlong, a former Air Force sniper who was trained by the same person as Mel, Dan Erickson. Furlong makes demands for a ransom, but it's later revealed to be a trick to lure the authorities away from his actual target. Dante has the police secure Furlong's wife and daughter, while a woman is fatally injured. Furlong's daughter identifies a park she and him used to go to, as the next target location. Mel deduces Silas's location and has a fight with him on a rooftop, and he's shot by McCall, who tracked Mel via CCTV cameras. Delilah experiences post traumatic stress while out with a friend, and McCall resigns herself to looking after her for a while. She decides that she needs professional help, and enlists Bishop to help.

Bishop approaches McCall after his company server is hacked, aware that Harry is alive and can help him. Despite Mel's distrust, Harry helps Bishop figure out that the hackers were targeting a file with information on Bishop's son, Zade. Zade is kidnapped, and Bishop and McCall find out it was by Hassan Talib, who was previously married to Zade's mother until she fled Syria with Bishop. He tells Bishop to help him escape the country or Zade dies. McCall is able to kill Talib, while Bishop locates Zade and rescues him, though he doesn't tell Zade he's his father. Aunt Vi is approached by a young woman with one of her old paintings, but she denies it's hers. Delilah later learns that the girl in the painting was Vi's former girlfriend before they went their separate ways. She convinces her to reach out again. Harry hacks the CIA server to help Bishop, and is arrested at the end of the episode when they find him.

With Harry in prison, McCall and Bishop attempt to pull every string they can in order to have him released but to no avail. Harry leaves instructions for Mel in order to assist McCall. Back in 2020, Alma Castillo crosses the U.S-Mexico border with her son, Pedro, but is separated from him when border police finds them. A year later, she approaches McCall and Mel and asks them to find him, having last heard that he should be in New York. Dante assists them, and they learn that Pedro was sent to a home that suffered from an arson attack. At a new home, Pedro was taken away by an ICE officer and swapped names with another boy named Emmanuel, who was adopted by the Hobson family. Mel downloads ICE agent Ike Deleo's car info and learns that he frequented a garment factory. McCall searches the place and is cornered by ICE agents, whom she takes down before discovering Pedro and other captured children. He is later reunited with his mother. Bishop attempts one last shot at getting Harry released after he's due to be transferred to another prison, which proves successful.

McCall is asked to re-investigate the murder of rapper Dre Bids, who was supposedly killed by his rival, Dilemma. Dilemma's wife asks McCall to look again when a new track drops revealing details of the murder that were never public. McCall gets Harry to track the song, and discovers that Dilemma was covering for his younger son, who shot Dre Bids out of fright. McCall, though, realizes Dre Bids was shot again, and someone else is the killer. Harry helps her figure out that Dre Bids' protegé, Brawlah, killed him because he was planning to end the feud with Dilemma, which would've ended his career. McCall manages to apprehend him, while Dilemma's older son finishes the truce track to continue his father's work.

A woman asks McCall to help recover a painting that was stolen from her grandmother's family during the Tulsa race massacre. The thieves built a shipping business with what they stole from the family, and their descendant denies having the painting. McCall enlists professional thief Jessie Cook (Jada Pinkett Smith) to assist when Harry discovers the painting is stored inside the Vault, a highly secured facility. Cook goes in for her own reasons, and they fail to recover the painting. When McCall and Mel are captured by the shipping CEO, Cook saves them and they're able to return the painting and send the CEO to jail on corruption charges. Delilah expresses opposition to a friend, Vera Franks, utilizing her grandfather's middle name in an application to a UN program, deeming it unethical due to her being white and not Hispanic as the middle name would imply. Vera later realises Delilah is right and decides to write an essay about what she learned from her family, and asks Delilah to help, which she accepts.

McCall is asked to look into the death of bakery owner in Chinatown as a possible hate crime. McCall crosses paths with Ray Lai, a disgruntled ex-cop who was a friend of the owner and also investigating her death. With Dante's help, McCall finds out about other hate crimes that have happened to Asian-Americans in the area, and the suspects. Without any proof, Dante can't arrest them, and Lai decides to let himself be abducted and killed so that they will get caught. Mel is able to save him, and the suspects are arrested. McCall is annoyed when Delilah decides to hang out with friends instead of helping Aunt Vi make a family recipe. Delilah realizes her mistake, and comes back to help Vi. McCall also helps Kisha with her community service, and invites her to dinner to provide her own family as a safety net she can fall back on.

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Bert Singer, a recently departed accountant for the Romano mafia, approaches McCall and asks her to help him find his ledger that he was going to hand to the FBI in exchange for witness protection. McCall asks Harry to track Bert's car, which has been driven to New Jersey, stripped for parts by 15-year-old Jackie Fowler, and sold to local car parts dealer Floyd. He lures them into a trap in search of a radio for a car, and his right hand man Wick attempts to kill them. McCall concludes that Floyd is keeping Bert's ledger, but upon searching Floyd's apartment, finds him dead. In the process, Romano's assassins abduct Bert, torturing him about the ledger. McCall and Jackie enlist the help of Floyd's girlfriend Rae. She sneaks into his office and finds the ledger. They and McCall ambush the assassins, but the remaining mafia arrive and storm the warehouse. Jackie turns off the electricity as a distraction and McCall takes the remaining men out. Romano stops Bert and seemingly shoots him, but he survives, having shielded himself with the ledger. Aunt Vi reluctantly allows Delilah to join her in a card game against two of her friends. Delilah deduces that the friends' continuous victory streak is due to them cheating. Mel reveals to her friend Shira that Harry is alive. Initially, she refuses to talk to Harry, but he manages to convince her to forgive Mel for lying to her during his isolation.

Dante is at a gas station when two deputies, Barnes and Morales, accuse him of a crime he didn't commit. When they realize he's a cop, they panic and kidnap him, which Dante's sons witness. They call McCall, something Dante taught them to do. She gets help from D.A. Grafton to track Dante, and Harry and Mel figure out Barnes and Morales took him. Having seen a previous partner get fired for wrongfully attacking a black man, Barnes wants to kill Dante, while Morales is reluctant to. Dante experiences flashbacks of his difficult childhood with his father while being held captive. Mel and Harry help McCall find the place where Barnes and Morales plan to dump Dante's body, but Morales gets cold feet, and Barnes knocks him out. Dante ends up killing Barnes in self-defense, and McCall rescues him. Afraid of himself after what has happened, Dante resigns from the police force.

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Marcella Mendez, a CIA agent and former student of McCall's, calls her and alerts her to a "code red" situation along with her coordinates. When McCall arrives, she finds Mendez shot dead and meets her handler, Carter Griffin. He reveals that she was just wrapping up a mission involving securing defection of Chinese UN translator Chen Ying in return for state secrets. McCall infiltrates the UN and speaks to Ying's friend and steals a part of her bracelet, which contains a written discussion between the Chinese Vice Premier and an unidentified individual, referencing something dubbed "Willow". Harry and Mel survey the airport after learning that an associate of Daniel Blake is coming to New York, later revealed to be Mason Quinn. Griffin informs McCall that Quinn is in New York to test an EMP he brought from the Chinese, and that it had been tested on an airliner seven months prior. McCall narrows the plausible location to be in a refinery near MacArthur Airport and heads there with Griffin. Harry also identifies the target airplane as belonging to Bishop Security and carrying Bishop himself onboard. Quinn and the buyer hold McCall and Griffin captive while Harry attempts to divert Bishop's plane, which proves successful at first before the EMP hits the plane regardless and crashes, killing Bishop. Mel arrives and takes out the buyer's men while McCall and Griffin break free. Quinn escapes, and warns McCall to not come after him, and if she would, he will be forced to come after her.

Two women, Shareen and Jenna, working at a Dollar Store, attempts to rob it one night, but change their minds and are witnesses to a man shooting an accomplice. Shareen is shot while they escape and Jenna calls McCall for help. Determined to not utilize hospitals to treat Shareen's injury, McCall approaches her ex-husband Miles Fulton, a doctor, and asks him to treat Shareen. Jenna identifies the shooter as a man working for a delivery company that frequents the store, while Harry uncovers that the man, Nick Gleeson, was involved in counterfeiting, which was masterminded by Gordon Racine and covered up as an ink incident. McCall also determines that a shop insider conspired with Gleeson, who she confronts after Jenna is abducted. She also enlists Dante's help, who runs ballistics with an old friend in the police, while gaining more intel from a friend in the Secret Service. McCall reaches Gleeson's location and confronts him, Racine and Brody Mavers. Gleeson holds Jenna hostage and lets her go as he makes an escape, but Dante manages to stop him. He later asks for Robyn's name, which she gives him. Miles' concerns about Delilah and McCall reach her home, and Delilah lies to him in order to avoid further suspicion.

Aunt Vi is serving as a juror in a case against Tim Colvin, a black man accused of the murder of a white woman. McCall decides to look into the case after Aunt Vi says she's convinced Tim is innocent, but can't convince the other jurors. McCall is able to disprove a witness's statement of seeing Tim with the victim, but is unable to present proof. Aunt Vi is able to cast reasonable doubt on the evidence against Tim, but encounters bias from the other jurors. McCall gets Dante to help her talk to Tim, and she is able to find the real killer from the information he provides. At the end of the trial, Tim is acquitted, but the real killer remains free. This convinces Dante to rejoin the police force, and go after the real killer.

A self-proclaimed psychic asks McCall for help because he believes his sister, Callista, is in danger. She finds out that Calista was reporting a story on activist Rosa Martinez, and suspected that a councilman was using a Serbian mob boss to put guns back on the street. The psychic is arrested by Dante in connection with an assassin found dead. The assassin was after Callista, but she killed him first. Harry, Mel, and McCall figure out that Rosa is the one putting the guns on the street just as Callista approaches her for help. She instead hands Callista over to the mob boss, Rosa's foster brother, to kill Callista. McCall and Mel save Callista, and Dante arrests Rosa and the Serbian crew. Delilah goes to see a therapist, explaining how her constant lying to her father is taking a toll on her. She eventually decides to be honest with her mother about how she feels and how she's worried about her.

McCall goes after Omar Delgado, one of Mason Quinn's associates. With Griffin's help, McCall figures out that Quinn plans to release a dirty bomb in Manhattan. Delilah's friend Vera runs for student council president, but when her ex-boyfriend Logan releases a nude photo of her, Delilah tries to help. She goes to Dante for help, and he suggests turning to "The Equalizer." McCall puts Delilah in contact with Harry and Mel to help Vera's picture get taken down from porn sites. Harry manages to just as Delilah figures out that Vera is about to commit suicide. She and Mel are able to talk Vera down, and Dante gets the evidence necessary to arrest Logan. McCall agrees to help the CIA catch Quinn, and is telling Aunt Vi and Delilah when her car is hit by another vehicle. A shocked Aunt Vi and Delilah watch helplessly as McCall is abducted.

McCall's closest associates gather in a joint effort to locate her after she was abducted by Quinn and his men. Mel goes to Carter Griffin in order to question Omar Delgado about dirty bombs Quinn has planted throughout the city. Delgado refuses to tell anything and dies of poison in his cigarette. McCall awakens in Quinn's compound, and he reveals that he will blame her for the bombs by releasing a deepfake manifesto. Dante locates the vehicle McCall was taken in, and learned the location from a goon. Harry guides him and Mel through the compound, but are too late before McCall is brought away. They manage to stop three vans with the suspected bombs, but they're empty, but McCall escapes from one of them. They also deduce that there is only one bomb as mentioned in the deepfake. Harry assists the police to remove the bomb's radioactive cylinder before Quinn detonates it. Griffin and the CIA apprehend Quinn, but McCall kills him when he attempts to kill her.

Firefighter Jeff's daughter asks McCall to help find him when he goes missing. With Mel and Harry's help, McCall discovers that Jeff and his two friends Derrick and Juan set fire to a restaurant to rob it. That restaurant belonged to notorious criminal Xavier Mannis, who kidnapped Jeff until Derrick and Juan pay him back. Derrick reveals to Dante that they stole the money because their boss, Captain Sanders, is about to lose his home due to piling medical bills from his efforts during 9/11. Juan delivers the remaining money, but Mannis ties him up with Jeff before lighting up the warehouse. McCall and Dante fight through the flames and save the firefighters. Mannis is arrested by Dante, while Harry funnels Mannis' money to pay off Sanders' debts. McCall attempts to be more transparent with Aunt Vi and Delilah, with the latter telling her to train her if she is to help her in any way.

Single-mother Evelyn Weber approaches McCall about mysterious happenings in her house which she suspects stems from her recently deceased husband. Though McCall, Mel and Harry are skeptical to the initial sounds of the case, they soon discover a much larger scheme behind the mysterious happenings. After Evelyn's husband, Richard, died in a cabin fire, she has been working all time around and taking in insurance claims. Richard's brother Kevin breaks into the house and tells McCall that Evelyn had wanted Richard dead to benefit from the insurances, and that sickness runs in her family. McCall learns that a neighbour spotted Richard's car previously, while Mel and Harry discover that Richard faked his death in a fraud scheme. They also deduce that Evelyn's sister, Alex Roth, was the culprit behind the mysterious happenings, calling in complaints to child services and tampered with Evelyn's medication. Her aim had been to take custody of Evelyn's daughter Kaylee and get together with Richard. McCall talks her down in a park until the police, led by Dante, arrive to arrest her.

McCall is approached by Storm, a member of Brooklyn Disciples, to help her boyfriend T-Bone after he is framed for gun possession. McCall, Mel and Harry discover a connection to a council election between Elijah Moore and Bob Bass, in which the former is closely associated with the Brooklyn Disciples. Bass has tried to use this connection against Moore, but the team discovers that Bass got into a brawl with T-Bone at a club, and could be personally targeting him. T-Bone takes Bass hostage at a debate to get him to confess to framing him, but Bass denies it. Harry helps McCall figure out that T-Bone was framed by Leo Day, Moore's bodyguard who wanted Bass to win the election. McCall and Mel corner Leo, and get him arrested. McCall's ex-husband Miles seeks the truth about her kidnapping and bomb involvement, but when she refuses, he threatens to take sole custody of Delilah. As a result of her heroics and help, McCall becomes an honourable member of the Brooklyn Disciples.

The CIA apprehend Ezra Ryback in Madrid, and return him to the United States for further questioning. McCall is appointed to Ryback's security detail along with Griffin and agents Samford and Shaw. Ryback expresses paranoia about the Brigada 7 being after him and a possible mole within the agency, which proves correct after their transport motorcade is attacked. McCall has them relocate to a factory facility, where a confrontation about who is the mole ensues. With both Samford and Shaw killed in a shootout with the Brigada, McCall deduces that Griffin was the mole. She shoots him before he can pull his gun, and a CIA team arrives to take in Ryback. Ryback later reveals himself to be Colton Fisk, a senior member in the CIA; he has taken over Bishop's program, and thereby forces McCall back into the agency to work for him. Dante deals with his father being released from prison and struggles to decide whether or not to welcome him back into his life. After initially declining to train Delilah, Mel reconsiders and decides to train her without McCall's knowledge.

17-year-old Taylor Schwarz collapses and dies at a club, supposedly due to an overdose. Her mother approaches McCall, asking her to investigate and find who supplied the drugs. The drugs are revealed to contain fentanyl, while Taylor's friend Sienna didn't suffer the same setbacks. After McCall, Mel and Harry identify the drug dealer, the former discovers him dead and is wanted by the police, with the exception of Dante, who assists McCall and her team. Mel and Harry lure out the middle man and identify the supplier, Kyle Howard, but he's found dead as well. The team look back at last victims of the drugs, and discover that the real killer is former army officer Earl Reid, whose daughter also died from the drugs. McCall goes to stop Reid from killing the drug lord, Alexi Petrov. She manages to talk Reid down, but Petrov shoots Reid before McCall manages to subdue him. Reid dies from his injuries. McCall suspects that Delilah is hiding something, which Aunt Vi initially dismisses, but later sneaks out after Delilah and discovers her training with Mel.

After popular singer Misty announces her retirement and receives hateful fan mail, her bodyguard Lucas asks McCall to investigate. Misty is nearly attacked while McCall and her team pose as reporters, and they try to find the culprit. Dante questions Misty's manager Martin after Harry finds a large payment to a hit man. Martin reveals he paid the man to go after the son of the woman who wrote Misty's hit song, but that Martin bought and claimed as his own writing. The son, Elton Smith, infiltrated Misty's circle as a band player to get revenge. McCall arrives, and she and Misty talk Elton down, revealing Misty never knew about Martin's deception. She gives Elton's mother the rightful credit during her final performance. McCall discovers Mel and Delilah's secret training after Delilah gets in trouble at school, and is furious with both of them. Aunt Vi makes McCall understand Delilah's perspective, and she agrees to some basic self-defense classes.

Mel's brother Edison is abducted, and she goes after the driver, but he is hit by a taxi. Despite her resentment for Mel training Delilah behind her back, McCall makes Edison's rescue mission a priority. Harry discovers that 20 million dollars was transferred from Edison's company to a shell company registered in the Cayman Islands, which is owned by the Colombian mafia. Their enforcer, Jim Voss, is still after Edison, who is trying to leave town. Mel manages to reach him and brings him to safety. Edison calls their sister Ruby, and the mafia follows her, leading to a shootout and Edison being taken. Voss has him fully transfer the money sum to the mob's account, but Harry manages to halt the process while McCall and Mel enter to save him. Harry also learns that Edison's boss had set him up and he is subsequently arrested. Aunt Vi attends an art gallery with Trish and Delilah, and is offered a job after encouraging a struggling young artist.

Tim Fells is approached by his former crime boss Randall Grayle, who asks him to do one last heist, which Fells is reluctant to do, but is divided on the issue when Grayle reveals that he has kidnapped his brother. Fells approaches McCall for help. McCall eventually realises that her interests for Fells collides with Dante's investigation into Grayle, but she convinces him to let him rescue Fells' brother alongside Grayle's apprehension. Mel replaces one of Grayle's goons and McCall asks Fells to fully join the heist when she is unable to save his brother the first time. During the heist, a fight escalates after Grayle blames Mel for the early police response. She struggles in a fight with one of his goons before Dante rescues her, having gone back to save her instead of capturing Grayle. Afterwards he blames McCall for their failure to capture Grayle. Aunt Vi helps Kat and Cecil with their appraiser who deliberately lowers their house price prior to their move to Florida. She lured him to her house under the pretence of a refinancing, and gives his offer to his boss, who has him fired.

Dante calls McCall to a hospital after a desperate mother, Lauren Stone, takes people hostage to save her dying daughter. Both have to deal with a hot-headed tactical team commander who wants to take Lauren out immediately. McCall gets Grafton's help to infiltrate and talk to Lauren. An angry hostage tries to shoot Lauren, but ends up shooting the surgeon who was supposed to save Lauren's daughter. Harry and Mel help McCall find another doctor who can save her. Dante realizes the commander sent someone in to kill Lauren and warns McCall, who convinces Lauren to surrender so that her daughter won't be orphaned. Aunt Vi takes Delilah to a Southern cuisine restaurant to learn about gumbo, and helps the owner re-create his late mother's dishes and preserve their heritage.

When Miles files for sole custody of Delilah, McCall debates giving up her work just as a deli owner asks her to look into a string of antisemitic crimes in her neighborhood. Harry and Mel step up to help while McCall deals with Miles. The case brings up painful memories for Harry, who felt abandoned by his Jewish mother after his parents divorced. Harry discovers a connection to a comic book, which leads the team to a group of neo-Nazis planning to attack a synagogue during Shabbat. They're able to thwart the attack, and the neo-Nazis are arrested by Dante. Aunt Vi confronts Miles about his petition, saying McCall can't stop what she's doing and that she's looking after Delilah, as well. Miles drops his petition, and Harry makes peace with his past after learning his mother had mental issues and couldn't take care of him.

McCall helps a man who claims to have woken up with no memory of who he is and a gun that's been recently fired. The team traces his movements, and discover that his name is Eric, and he's in witness protection after testifying against Rodolfo Martinez, who was released and killed Eric's father. Eric came back to get justice, and nearly got killed. The team traps Martinez, and manage to get him sent back to prison with Dante's help. McCall has Dante bring Delilah to his boxing gym, where she meets his mentor, Manny. Delilah meets another boxer, Jackson, and finds out he's being pressured into dealing. She convinces him to tell Manny, who roughs up the dealers and helps bail Jackson out of trouble.

An employee runs to McCall after being the only survivor of a shooting massacre at his office. McCall gets a lead pointing to Colton Fisk. He tells her the assassin is connected to a CIA program called Nomad, which he shut down years before. McCall and Fisk discover that Nomad wants to get a hold of lithium mines in Nicaragua by assassinating a military general so the U.S. will invade Nicaragua. McCall and Mel are able to save the general, while Fisk eliminates the other Nomad agents. McCall confronts Fisk about originally creating Nomad, but Fisk reveals that CIA Director Platt was the one who re-started Nomad and is behind the office shooting. When McCall wants to go after Platt, Fisk says it's impossible, but Harry manages to dig up the evidence and McCall exposes it, forcing Platt to resign. Dante saves Manny's life when he is shot in a drive-by. After seeing the strained relationship between Manny and his son, Dante decides to give his father a second chance just as he's released from prison.

Congresswoman Elena Acevedo is murdered, and the prime suspect is Jaime Perez, a Venezuelan refugee who Acevedo let stay in her house. Jaime's wife, Marisol, asks McCall to help clear his name. With information from a man who made threats against Acevedo, McCall figures out that Lacey, Acevedo's assistant, killed her. Before Dante or the team can question her, Lacey is found dead. Harry figures out that she was killed by Congressman Walter Grey, one of Acevedo's opponents of her migrant bill. Lacey tried to bug Acevedo's home on Grey's orders, but got caught and killed her boss. McCall and Mel are able to corner Grey's men and get the proof that exonerates Jaime. Grey is arrested, and Jaime is released. Aunt Vi sees the paintings done by one of her students, Robbie, and tries to help him. Robbie admits that he's looking for his brother, Darius, who he was separated from while in foster care. With Dante's help, Aunt Vi is able to reunite the brothers. Dante tries to find out about Manny's shooting, but is stonewalled by the lead detectives of the case.

Aunt Vi notices her masseuse, Angie, has a nasty bruise. Angie says she fell, but Mel and Harry help Aunt Vi figure out that Angie's husband, Doug, is beating her. They also discover that Doug's real name is Felix White, a domestic abuser who changed his identity to escape from the authorities after he abused and murdered his first wife. After Doug hits their son, Craig, Angie comes to Aunt Vi for help. Doug abducts Angie before Vi and Dante can help her. McCall comes to help, after training Delilah to read people and situations. The team rescues Angie and puts her up in a hotel room with Aunt Vi while Craig is safe with Child Services, but Doug finds her through a Bluetooth tracker that he purchased a few months earlier and placed in her purse without her knowing. Trying to defend Angie, Aunt Vi pulls her gun, but is unable to shoot. Fortunately, McCall arrives and kills Doug. Mel remembers a friend of hers who was also an abuse victim, and Harry helps her get closure by showing Mel that her friend left her husband, and has a new life where she's happy. When Aunt Vi becomes shaken by the incident, wondering if she can protect McCall and Delilah, McCall assures her that she does. Dante is frustrated at the detectives dragging their feet over arresting Manny's shooter, Lo-Lo, and goes after him with Jackson's help. Despite his captain's warning, Dante tracks Lo-Lo down just as he's about to leave town. Lo-Lo tries to escape, but ends up falling off a building.

Fisk tasks McCall to travel to Paris to make contact with former MI6 agent Rick Dawson, who disappeared after killing weapons dealer Diego Alcazar. Their mission is to retrieve a file of plutonium rings from landing in the wrong hands, with clues provided by a former friend of Dawson. The trail leads them to an old church, where they find a hidden hard drive. Alcazar is revealed to be alive and seeking the file as well. He takes it from them before escaping, while Fisk appears to aid McCall and Dawson as they give chase. A final confrontation takes place before Alcazar is arrested and the file secured. McCall is implied to have tricked Fisk regarding the file's new whereabouts. Delilah is accepted to start an internship at a luxury fashion store, but is disappointed to be relegated to warehouse duties due to her hair style. Delilah is shocked that her contact Stacy (another African American girl) actually straightens her hair and enables their boss's racist actions. Aunt Vi encourages her to stand up for herself, and Delilah decides to quit the internship, but as she is leaving, her boss suddenly sees her and the two get into an argument. A customer notices this. When Delilah tries to tell her what's going on, their boss tells her she's lying. Delilah asks for Stacy's support, but she sides with her boss. Stacy later arrives at Delilah's house to apologize, but Delilah makes it clear it was too little, too late.

McCall receives an anonymous note while at lunch with Delilah and Aunt Vi that leads to a clue about her father's murder almost 30 years before. She, Harry, and Mel follow the clues and discover her father was targeted after he stood up to some young gang kids in their neighborhood. He was killed by Yancy Turner, now a major crime boss. McCall goes to confront Yancy, but Dante stops her from killing him, convincing her to let him be arrested. Yancy goes free, though, and McCall goes to get justice. Though she's outnumbered by Yancy's men, she turns the tables, and has Harry send information that reveals Yancy has been throwing his people under the bus to save himself. McCall escapes while Yancy is beaten and killed by his own men. Lo-Lo is in a coma, and Dante is being investigated. Lo-Lo wakes up, and accuses Dante of pushing him off the building. Dante's captain puts him on suspension until an investigation can clear him. In the end, Robyn returns to her garage with her fathers car and cries while remembering a moment she spent with her father before his spirit thanks her for solving his death. She returns to the real world and Aunt Vi and Delilah join and comfort her.

McCall and her team find themselves fighting an unknown enemy when several goons attempt to abduct them. Fisk reaches out and shares his findings, which pinpoint chatter about McCall. A contact of Mel identifies the syringe found by McCall to contain a variant of truth serum, which can be fatal after 90 minutes. When Fisk is abducted, McCall and Mel go to rescue him, only to find themselves captive, and likewise does Harry and Dante. Before his abduction, Fisk identifies the group as freedom fighters he and McCall worked with in Venezuela against their regime before the CIA pulled out. Their leader, Enrique Vargas blames Fisk for betraying the group and their trust. McCall discovers that her former colleague Michelle Chambers, with whom she worked with in Venezuela; is alive and seeks revenge for being left for dead. Aunt Vi and Delilah find themselves in the midst of a robbery in a grocery store. Vi manages to talk the robber down, sympathising with his personal reasons. Delilah shields him from the cops, realising his gun is unloaded. McCall attempts a solo escape, but is swiftly recaptured and forced to watch as the room her friends are trapped in is set ablaze.