The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 8, “Condemned,” starts by showing us where the episode will take us, and the danger Dante (Tory Kittles) will be in a while taking his father to a funeral. In the meantime, the rest of the team is enjoying their time at a block party.
Nevertheless, they ditch the party to save him and his father. As always, there is no rest for this equalizing team.
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Block Parties and Peach Cobbler
Aunt Vi (Lorraine Toussaint) and Robyn (Queen Latifah) start their morning by talking about the block party and how Robyn’s getting to enjoy a day off. That is when Delilah (Laya DeLeon Hayes) walks into the kitchen and tells them that Miles (Ashton Sanders) can join them that day.
As if on cue, Dante calls Robyn to let her know that he will be on his way to the block party after taking his father to the funeral of his former partner. After speaking to Robyn, he and his father argue about all the times he hasn’t shown up for himself or his grandchildren.
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At the block party, Aunt Vi and Barbara argue about who will win first place in the peach cobbler competition. That is when they find out a judge is out, so Harry (Adam Goldberg) will replace him, trying the different cobblers in the competition.
In the meantime, Delilah and Robyn are talking to Miles, laughing and reminiscing. Delilah sees her friend Cam made it to the block party, so she ditches her parents to say hello. Cam introduces her to his friend Tyrese, but he soon leaves them alone, and they start talking about Cam’s new app. Delilah tells him he did well when he chose not to go to college and that she is reconsidering college herself, so she’d like to talk to him.
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Shots Fired
Dante and Ben continue to argue in the car about Ben’s past. He claims to be trying to start over, but Dante points out he continues to blow it each time. Before Ben could say anything else, they are intersected by a car that starts chasing them down the street and shooting at them.
Dante crashes the car into a warehouse and is unconscious for a little bit. That is when his father gets out of the car and kills the two men who were chasing them. When Dante recovers consciousness, he pulls a glass out of his thigh before they both decide they need to keep moving because more men are coming after them.
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Unaware of what is happening, Robyn watches Mel (Liza Lapira) sing karaoke at the block party. When he sees Mel and Harry, Miles asks her if they are part of her operation and wonders if she has given another thought to him joining the team because she knows they are great in the field together. Robyn says she needs to consider it a bit longer, and Miles asks her to play H.O.R.S.E. for it.
A Commotion
While her parents are playing, Delilah is still with Cam when they hear a commotion because the money from the raffle has been stolen. Delilah suggests they ask Tyrese if he saw something, but when questioned, he gets defensive and walks away. Moments later, Mel comes over to ask if they have seen anything, but because neither of them saw what happened, she finds another person who may have recorded what happened.
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Dante and his father are still hiding in the warehouse, and he realizes he lost his phone in the crash. When they begin to wonder who might be coming after them, Dante mentions it’s probably someone from Ben’s past, as if he was condemned to pay for his mistakes.
The two of them can’t come to an agreement. Instead, Ben focuses on burning Dante’s gunshot wound to stop him from losing any more blood.
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Dante Is Missing
Robyn and Miles are playing H.O.R.S.E., and he is losing, so she can still consider whether to let him into the team. He asks her to dinner, which she believes includes Delilah, but he points out it’s supposed to be just the two of them.
Meanwhile, Dante and Ben are trying to escape the warehouse, but more cars arrive. Ben recognizes one of the men from an old crew he used to rob. Instead of fighting them because they don’t have enough bullets, they decide to hide.
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Robyn meets Aunt Vi and tells her about her time with Miles and that he asked her out on a date. However, Aunt Vi immediately points out that she again falls for his tricks. Even though Robyn admits she might have considered going out with him for a second, she talks about how nice it would be for her to have more normal days like that. Their conversation is cut short when Aunt Vi points out Dante hasn’t made it yet.
A Fight
That is when Dante and Ben fight one of the men who entered the warehouse. Although they take him down, Ben gets shot and believes he cannot keep going.
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Because Robyn’s call goes straight to voicemail, she asks Harry to track Dante’s phone. By asking for M.E.L.’s help, they discover the phones are off. The only thing they can do now is look into Ben’s ex-partner to see if there are any clues there.
Mel finds Delilah and Cam and shows them the footage she could find from the time of the robbery. They can only see a sneaker leaving the scene, which Cam and Delilah immediately recognize as Tyrese’s. Cam and Delilah argue about it because he believes his friend isn’t capable of stealing. However, when they both confront Tyrese, he pulls a gun on them.
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An Unexpected Revelation
While his father is wounded on the floor, Dante tells him he recognizes the man from a drug ring that had taken his partner, so maybe they are after him. As they start talking about the events that led them to that moment, they discover Dante was tricked by a parole officer who wasn’t his father’s officer.
Ben encourages Dante to get away, telling him he won’t be able to keep going. Because he believes he is dying, in that moment, he tells Dante that he has a brother, which is why he constantly had to leave him and his mother behind.
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Tyrese is still holding Cam and Delilah at gunpoint while telling them everything that has been happening in his life and all the misfortunes that have occurred in his family. Before anything happens, Mel arrives. Tyrese runs away, and Delilah begs Mel to let him go.
Finding a Way Out
Meanwhile, Ben begs Dante to let him go because he cannot walk due to his injury. Dante refuses to let him go or talk about his brother and instead focuses on finding a way out of the warehouse.
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After Harry announces that Aunt Vi’s peach cobbler is the winner, Barbara accuses them of cheating because they know each other. She calls Harry a clown, but instead of getting mad at her, he lists every ingredient in her cobbler. That is when he mentions that it was clear her cobbler was bought from a famous store. Barbara obviously can’t defend herself and ends up walking away.
When Robyn returns, Harry mentions that there are no signs of Dante’s car ever leaving the city, and none of the passengers are in any of the hospitals in the city. The only option they have now is to start tracking their steps after they leave Ben’s place.
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Robyn to the Rescue
Dante and Ben are using different strategies to lure the men where they are and take them out. When the remaining men trap Dante in a corner, he uses the materials around him to get rid of them. Running back to Ben, he mentions there is only one shooter left.
After managing to get his father up and ready to go, Dante comes face-to-face with the only shooter left. Luckily for him, Robyn kills the shooter before he can kill them.
Dante and Robyn stand outside his father’s hospital room and talk about his father’s prognosis. When Robyn asks what else is bothering him, Dante tries to avoid the subject, but she convinces him to tell her. He then tells her about his brother and how hard it is to accept it because his father lied to him for so long.
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Mel is closing the bar after talking to Harry about the block party when Delilah shows up to discuss what happened. She asks Mel not to tell her mom about Tyrese and explains he is on a bad path and doesn’t want him to end up in jail. Delilah also takes this as an opportunity to ask her how she deals with being unable to help someone who needs it. Mel explains that you can’t always help everyone.
The chaotic day ends with Robyn and Aunt Vi talking about how hard it is to have a relationship because of her line of work. She cannot predict what will happen and can’t talk about what she does for a living. However, Aunt Vi points out there is a certain detective who surely can understand.
The Equalizer airs Sundays at 8 pm on CBS.
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