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The Equalizer: Season 1, Episode 8

The Distant Fire (6 Nov. 1985)

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McCall meets an old Agency colleague who now hires himself out as a killer. His next target is an ambassador and his wife. He asks for McCall's help to save the wife because she is a woman they both used to love.

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McCall meets an old Agency colleague who now hires himself out as a killer. His next target is an ambassador and his wife. He asks for McCall's help to save the wife because she is a woman they both used to love.

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Robert McCall: If I see you or any of your... "people"... I shall come back and I shall tear out your vicious little tongue. So, why don't you go back to your playpen and sit there: this is a game for adults only. Now: do you understand?
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