‘The Equalizer’ Season 3 Episode 2 Photos, Cast, Plot and Air Date

A daughter’s desperate search for her missing father sets the team in motion on CBS’s The Equalizer season three episode two. Directed by Randy Zisk from a script by Joe Gazzam, episode two – “Where There’s Smoke” – airs on Sunday, October 9, 2022 at 8pm ET/PT.

Queen Latifah leads the cast as Robyn McCall. Season three also stars Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian, Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani, and Laya DeLeon Hayes as Delilah. Lorraine Toussaint returns as Viola “Vi” Marsette. Brett Dalton, Gabriel Sloyer, Chris Vance, and Stephen Bishop recur.

“Where There’s Smoke” Plot: The team helps an NYFD firefighter’s daughter when her father suddenly goes missing. Also, Aunt Vi and Delilah continue to cope after McCall’s abduction.

Chance Kelly, Brett Diggs, Riley Cooper, Michael Emery, and Michel Vidal guest star.

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Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani and Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian in ‘The Equalizer’ season 3 episode 2 (Photo: Michael Greenberg © 2022 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)

The Equalizer Plot:

The Equalizer is a reimagining of the classic series starring Academy Award® nominee and multi-hyphenate Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills as a former CIA operative to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall presents to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is The Equalizer – an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden, who’s also dogged in her pursuit of personal redemption.

Robyn’s clandestine work and her personal life collide when her smart and observant daughter, Delilah, and her aunt Vi, who lives with Robyn to help her balance life as a working mother, discover her secret career as a vigilante. While Robyn contends with uncertainty at home, she is joined in her pursuit of justice by Melody “Mel” Bayani, an edgy bar owner and sniper from Robyn’s past; and Harry Keshegian, a paranoid and brilliant white-hat hacker.

As Robyn aids the oppressed and exploited, she sometimes works with Marcus Dante, an NYPD detective who once sought to uncover her identity, but now respects the need for Robyn’s type of justice even as he often questions her methods.

The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 2
Tory Kittles as Detective Marcus Dante in the “Where There’s Smoke” episode (Photo: Michael Greenberg © 2022 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
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Brett Diggs as Derrick and Michel Vidal as Juan in season 3 episode 2 (Photo: Michael Greenberg © 2022 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
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Chance Kelly as Fire Captain Sanders in season 3 episode 2 (Photo: Michael Greenberg © 2022 CBS Broadcasting, Inc)
The Equalizer Season 3 Episode 2
Adam Goldberg as Harry Keshegian and Liza Lapira as Melody “Mel” Bayani in season 3 episode 2 (Photo: Michael Greenberg © 2022 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.)