The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 2 Review: Full Throttle

The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 2, “Full Throttle,” does what the show does best, which is to balance Robyn’s personal and professional lives to better understand who she is as a woman and what is going on in her world.

While Robyn is busy trying to help two families who are at risk of losing their children for different reasons, Aunt Vi is helping Delilah figure out what she wants for her future. They say it takes a village to raise a kid, and Aunt Vi is the perfect village for that.

It has become very clear that Delilah’s decision on what to do after high school will be an ongoing discussion throughout The Equalizer Season 4.

The truth is that Robyn wouldn’t be able to do her job on The Equalizer without the help of Mel and Harry. There are episodes that focus heavily on Robyn and what she does, but The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 2, “Full Throttle,” gives Mel and Harry the screen time they deserve.

Mel’s skills and knowledge give her a big advantage when it’s time to fight the bad guys. We know she is a trained shooter, which we have seen her do multiple times. However, this episode shows her as an emotional and sensitive woman.

As she helps Robyn with the case, she is the one connecting with Ari’s mom. That first connection is what helps Ari’s mom trust the team, follow their lead, and push Ari’s dad to tell the truth about what he did in the past.

Without her, Robyn wouldn’t be able to solve the cases and stay alive. Mel is a key character on the show, and it’s nice to see her skills and her emotions put to work on an episode that ends on a good note. She is the one who helps bring Ari home.

At the same time, we get to see Harry’s emotional side as well.

He is usually portrayed as the tech guy who stays in his cave working on his computer(s). In the beginning, he was technically dead, so he wasn’t allowed to go out. Nowadays, he rarely goes out.

However, even though he isn’t part of the action on most episodes, he listens to everything and has heard the team being in danger on more than one occasion. That is why he decides to create his own AI bot to help take care of the more mundane tasks so he can help with what really matters.

The AI bot, which he named MEL after his wife, gives him a hard time, doesn’t do the tasks as he requires, and shuts down on him. This leads to extreme frustration on his end.

It isn’t until his final conversation with Mel on The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 2, “Full Throttle,” that we understand he is upset because that is his way of trying to protect them from what is out there. If he can use the software to stay ahead of the game, he can protect those he loves.

Hopefully, as The Equalizer Season 4 goes on, we will see more of MEL, and it will work the way Harry expects it to.

Even though it is more of an emotional episode with Jordan’s mom staying by her side at the hospital and Ari’s mom fighting to bring her son home, The Equalizer still delivers an action-packed episode.

This time around, there are car races and shooting scenes that prove how high-risk Robyn’s job is. But those are the moments that make the show so entertaining.

As much as the audience can enjoy learning more about the lives of these characters and watching them relate to scenes at home, the action is what keeps us coming back for more.

For a show that is based on an action movie franchise, the expectations are really high. Luckily, The Equalizer Season 4 has been able to keep up. These first two episodes have delivered exactly what the name McCall has us used to.

Hopefully, the rest of the season will remain on the same level.

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The Equalizer airs Sundays at 8/7c on CBS.

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