McCall endeavors to help an escaped prisoner wrongly accused of murder who is too distrustful of the justice system that failed him to accept her aid. Also, McCall worries when her daughter, Delilah, stops hanging out with a close friend, and Detective Dante's search for McCall takes an unexpected turn.

Just as McCall considers ending her work as The Equalizer, she’s pulled back in when she takes on Detective Marcus Dante as a new client who needs her help to find an untraceable group of bank robbers.

McCall races to find Dante when he’s abducted by a pair of panicked deputies who fear reprisal, after they detained Dante without cause and used excessive force before realizing he’s a fellow cop. Alone and injured, Dante experiences hallucinations that reveal his complicated childhood.

McCall races to save the team after they're put into extreme danger by her former CIA colleague Michelle Chambers while she discovers the truth behind the CIA withdrawal in Venezuela that led to the death of one of her friends.

After a young girl is struck by a car in an illegal street race, McCall tracks down the person responsible for the hit-and-run. Meanwhile, Dee contemplates the idea of following in her mother's footsteps to join the armed forces.

After Dante's old training partner is taken hostage while working undercover in an illegal casino, McCall hires J.J., a former gambling addict, to assist with the mission. Meanwhile, Dee joins a peer counseling group and learns that some students have been bullying her on a social media page.

The team races to rescue a young hacker, who reminds Harry of his past self, being forced to hack for criminals. Meanwhile, Dante is back in town to visit his father and Mel makes a breakthrough in therapy.