The Equalizer (1985 TV series) season 4

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Recurring

Notable guest stars

Marshall – Tucci
Foh Shen – Pierce

• E. G. Marshall as Virgil Thomas Blake, an incumbent senator.
• Stanley Tucci as Phillip Wingate, an assemblyman who has "dirt" to force Blake to give up his seat and publicly endorse Wingate for the election.
• Laila Robins as Cindy Claussen, Wingate's aide, who stumbles upon material he plans to use to blackmail Blake. Disrupting his plan, she calls The Equalizer. Robins also plays CIA director Suri Nance in the 2021 re-imagined series season one episode, "The Milk Run."
• Yvonne Bryceland as Darlene, Cindy's next door neighbor who witnessed medics carting Cindy away after an apparent drug overdose.
• Larry Keith as Dr. Quentin who runs the psychiatric ward where Cindy has been committed against her will at Wingate's orders.
• Maureen Anderman as Pete O'Phelan, her last guest star appearance, who gets herself committed with Dr. Wolff's help to protect Cindy and to surveil Jay.
• Jay Patterson as Jay Trescott, who works for Wingate doing his dirty work.
• Wendell Pierce as Dr. Cameron Wolff, a psychologist who McCall finds running a neighborhood free clinic in "The Last Campaign."^[30] Pierce's second appearance is in "Starfire," diagnosing Virgil's condition and agreeing to help him recover.^[41]
• Freda Foh Shen as Leslie, a reporter who questions Wingate's plans on running for the Senate.^[30]

K. David & Strathairn

• Seret Scott as Elena Rodriguez, the school principal who tries to keep the school safe and open, as school board members threaten closure.
• Keith David as Cristo, a neighborhood gangster boss trying to expand his narcotics operation into the school market, jumping-in Goat (co-star Tito Núñez) to run his own franchise including Cruz (Sixto Ramos) and the rest of their Demon Lords gang, who intimidate students and gang rape Alicia (Lucy Vargas).
• Reginald VelJohnson as Arthur Williams, a school board member, who tells Principal Rodriguez he has no choice but to close the school according to the board's decision.
• Harsh Nayyar as the Medical Examiner, who demonstrates an autopsy to the Demon Lords in "Sea of Fire," illustrating the consequences of gang violence. Nayyar also appears later in "The Visitation."^[31]
• David Strathairn as Phillip Borchek, a former professional contract killer, who nearly died from a 38-caliber shot to the face, and glimpsed what awaited him in the afterlife if he did not change his life-path.
• Socorro Santiago as Mrs. Sanchez, the mother of Eduardo (Jose Ynoa), who was stabbed by the Demon Lords in retaliation for reporting Alicia's rape to Principal Rodriguez. Santiago also plays the Mother of the Little Girl (played by Diane Lozada) who was stabbed by the unremorseful man Gideon was forced to treat in "17 Zebra."^[32]
• Karina Arroyave as Girl #1, one of many school students who appeared in "Sea of Fire."^[40]

Hong, Wong & Mako

• James Hong as Sirit Bansari, a very traditional Thai national who observes old-world customs, disowning Narong after discovering his involvement with Jimmy Thanarat.
• Russell Wong as Narong Bansari, Sirit's son, who is "Riding the Elephant"^[a] to catch his love Manika regardless of the consequences.^[48] Entrapped in a "stable" of kick-boxers at Jimmy Thanarat's sports arena in return for entry into the United States, and willing do anything to escape his "contract" and buy Manika's freedom, he conducts risky business – smuggling Jimmy's China white heroin through Sirit's store, urging Sirit to forget the past and embrace the current realities of life in America.
• Elizabeth Sung as Manika, who is under "contract," ensconced at Jimmy Thanarat's Rose of Bankok massage parlor in return for entry into the United States. Hoping for eventual citizenship, she calls The Equalizer.
• Mako as Jimmy Thanarat, a ruthless gangster who controls "contracted" slaves worth more to him alive than dead. Jimmy scoffs at Sirit's attempt to buy Manika's freedom with a family heirloom gold Buddha, holding Sirit hostage to force Narong's compliance.^[49]

Vitamin C & Morton

• Bruce Payne as Greg Rivers, a manager for singers, who specializes in teens, ensuring success to swindle their income, hooking them on drugs for their reliance, and discarding them (even fatally) if they rebel.
• Vitamin C guest stars under her real name, Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick as Beverly Heat, a naive young singing star rising like she's "Eighteen with a Bullet." She respects and idolizes the older, well-established Gina Rox, but doesn't realize how badly Greg used and abused her.
• Amy Morton as Gina Rox, whose career declines after years of earning money and being Rivers' lover. Heroin hastens her deterioration and demise at Rivers' hands. Morton also appears as Linda Wilhite, an intended victim of Rasher's "Endgame."^[45]
• Caroline Lagerfelt as Evelyn, who finds her daughter Beverly drunk and calls The Equalizer to help her escape Rivers' manipulations, and the lifestyle that destroyed Gina Rox.
• Terrence Mann as Graham, a former disc jockey whose career was ruined by Rivers.
• Ken Ober as a DJ, who plays Beverly Heat's new single on the air at WZAD and answers call-ins from fans, and from Mickey Kostmayer who uses the live broadcast to rattle Heat's malign manager.^[50]

Bikel & Bell

• Kasi Lemmons as Zandili, who is Scott McCall's current girlfriend in "Day of the Covenant."^[g] A flautist and student activist, she hides her past, having lost her father to the Department of Cooperation and Development, for which she has a vendetta against the man she holds responsible, who was the deputy director at the time.
• Theodore Bikel as Voorhees, an Afrikaner who has a vendetta against Zandili. whom he blames for the bomb that killed his wife while she was visiting him at his South African Police station.
• Michael Genet as Ben, a fellow member of the African National Congress, who warns Zandili that the ANC will not approve of or abide by any terrorist actions she conducts on American soil.
• Tobin Bell as the Deputy Secretary, the target of Zandili's wrath.^[47]

Bright

• Richard Bright as Gropman, a former Company agent, who runs Stone Freight, and tries to escape the purge by his personal friend, Steven Parmelee. When McCall threatens to flush his $50,000 "retirement" fund down the toilet, Gropman reveals the name of the operation.
• Kevin Conway as John Allenwaite, who developed a "Splinters" procedure to break and "repaint" subjects' minds with any colors he wishes (i.e., brainwashing). To take over as Company Director, he has KGB mole Steven Parmelee (Tom Klunis) launch an operation to kill Company agents, forcing Control to contact McCall.
• Tracy Kolis as Serena, Mickey's former lover, whom the KGB murdered for defecting in Bucharest, Romania, 1982. She appears in Mickey's dream sequence under Allenwaite's Spinter procedure.
• Christopher Meloni as Team Leader, in his screen debut.^[52]

Noonan & Raphael

• Tom Noonan as Brandon Thorton, a victim of gun violence, paralyzed and confined to a wheel chair after a mental patient shot him through a door, who tries to be supportive of his wife Barbara, but pushes her away, believing she no longer loves him because of his broken body.
• Barbara Williams as Sylvia Thorton, Brandon's wife, who has since become a gun control advocate, giving lectures using her husband's injury to drive home her point of view.
• William Converse-Roberts as John Kelly, another gun violence victim, who turned violent, arming himself to the teeth, and setting out to make Sylvia the target of his irrational power trip.
• Sally Jessy Raphael as Herself, in a co-starring cameo, who is set to interview Sylvia in a televised debate against gun advocate Senator Harcourt (co-star, Stephen James).
• Bobby Rivers as Chris Perley, who gives a radio interview with Sylvia leading up to her television debate.
• A.L. Sheppard as a Forensic Detective in "Making of a Martyr,"^[42] before his recurring role as Detective Kelly beginning in "Lullaby of Darkness."^[43]

Smith-Cameron, Pendleton & Morton

• J. Smith-Cameron as Natalie Santelli, who is trying to save her son Carlo Jr. (Jordan Gochros) from "The Sins of Our Fathers," as Junior's father is mob boss Carlo Alberto "The Angel" Santelli (Al Shannon). Natalie knew when she married him that his father and grandfather were mobsters, but she believes him when he says that he wants to change all of that and "go legit."
• Randy Danson as Sarah Booth, whose husband and son were shot by Carlo Senior in a restaurant eight years prior, thus she pays for Carlo Junior's kidnapping to make Senior pay.
• Tom Signorelli as Dio, Carlo Senior's right-hand man.
• Austin Pendleton as Johah, Company computer hacker.
• Joe Morton as Carter Brock (or "Brockie" as McCall calls him), a former Company explosives expert turned freelance, who employs ex-military to kidnap Carlo Jr.. Confronted by McCall, he rationalizes, "A guy's gotta eat," struggling after three tours in Vietnam. He provides Sarah's tape cassette recording of the job instructions. Morton appears twice more this season.^[38][39]
• Michael Sergio as Disimone.^[37]

Agutter in 1971 & 2014
Cimino – Starr

• Jenny Agutter as Dr. Lauren Demeter, one of McCall's old flames and an epidemiologist at the U.N.'s International Health Organization, who fights against a contagious deadly virus loosed upon New York City.
• James Tolkan as Daniel Ruger, an international arms dealer trying to sell nerve gas, who has Lazar killed, not trusting his silence.
• Leonardo Cimino as Doctor Phil Molinari, with the Department of Health, Bureau of Contagious Diseases, who helps the Medical Examiner and Dr. Demeter contain an outbreak in "The Visitation." Cimino also advises McCall on the most likely medicine that a paramedic might have access to, which could cause a heart attack in "17 Zebra."^[32]
• Martin Shakar plays Harriman, who is Rudy Bagler's cousin and a doctor who lost his license for performing unnecessary surgeries. He now practices "under the table." Shakar also plays the Detective who questions Susan regarding the shooting in "End Game."^[45]
• Eddie Jones as Lt. Brannigan, his first of three appearances.^[31] Jones had previously appeared as Mr. Winslow in season two, "Joyride."^[53]
• Joseph Ragno as Asa Lazar, a small-time gun smuggler, who, having done a few jobs for the Company, wants nothing to do with nerve gas and other WMDs. He carries the virus, himself a victim of a bio-WMD.
• Randle Mell as Tillerman, one of Ruger's thugs, who catches the virus from Lazar.
• Mike Starr as Garrick, one of Ruger's thugs.
• Mel Gorham as a Mother, an illegal immigrant with a language barrier, whose child has contracted the virus; she fears deportation if reported by hospital personnel.
• Ken Solarino as Jeremy, Pete O'Phelan's bartender. Besides credited appearances, Solarino has an uncredited speaking role in "The Visitation."^[31]

Elizondo

• Katherine Cortez as Cecilia Romero, wife of Ray, for whom the FBI issued an arrest warrant for murder and drug smuggling, leaving her alone as a single mother raising her ten year-old son Thomas (Jose Edwin Soto), who believes his father died a freedom-fighter hero.
• Héctor Elizondo as Ray Quintero, a Company recruit from Special Forces, who got in too deep undercover while penetrating the Darien Cartel, and presently believes he canot extricate himself. He is a person of interest to Federal authorities and the Company, who join forces to end the Cartel. Not believing in heroes anymore, McCall tries changing his thinking, for Thomas' sake.
• Brad Sullivan as Luther Munson, a Company "expert on strange and esoteric information."
• Rudolph Willrich plays Elliott Jarvis, a Justice Department agent who says he wants Ray's testimony, but has another agenda.
• Frank Adonis as the Chauffeur, who tries to kill Ray Quintero.
• Peter Mackenzie as 1st Man, an inept Company surveillance operative who is scolded by McCall and told to report in.
• Al Carmines as the Priest, at Ray's funeral.^[33]

Sidney – Dotrice
Woodward – Lansing

• Sylvia Sidney as the Judge, who puts Control in danger of the hot seat, literally, the electric chair, during a Company "Trial by Ordeal."
• Roy Dotrice as Charlie McGuinness, the tribunal prosecutor at McCall's and Control's hearing.
• Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, believing he is being on trial, soon learns their primary target is Control.
• Special guest star Robert Lansing returns as Control, the defendant, who is charged with starting his own network, independent of the Company but still utilizing its resources for his own agenda. During the course of the trial, footage from previous episodes is introduced as flashbacks to illustrate the evidence the Company has against Control and McCall. It provides a retrospective of the series, while also integrating plot narrative.^[54]
• Keith Szarabajka as Mickey Kostmayer, who is called as a witness for the Prosecution to testify against Control.
• Reused episode footage featured actors who were given a second screen credit in "Trial by Ordeal."^[54] Jerome Dempsey as Senator Claremont and Kaiulani Lee as Ms. Watson were originally guest stars in "First Light."^[17] Sully Boyar as Judge Maurice Sanderling and Virginia Sandifur as Baker were co-stars in "Counterfire," along with Robert Trumbull as Hodges.^[16]

Nixon
Boone Junior

• Howie Seago as Ron, who was born deaf, abandoned by his parents, and grew up in foster homes or homeless. He has a "Silent Fury" against men who held his wife Jackie at knife-point and stole her wedding ring. He distrusts anyone like McCall who is not deaf, even arguing with Jackie, who can speak and does not associate exclusively with the deaf.
• Cynthia Nixon as Jackie, Ron's wife, who lost her hearing after contracting yellow fever when she was eight years old, thus she can speak and read lips, unlike Ron. She calls The Equalizer.
• Jon Polito as David Pfieffer, Ron's friend and a volunteer at the Center for the Deaf. He has a troubled past with his deaf father, whose anger at his condition was redirected at his son. He believes the deaf "deserve everything they get...they all do."
• Paul McCrane as Crocker, one of Pfieffer's pilferers.
• Mark Boone Junior as Hall, another felon who fleeces the deaf, and absolutely will not go back to prison for it. Fearful of being identified by Ron, Hall goes after him.
• Jeff Weiss as Fineberg, a Company scientist rescued from a gulag by McCall. He tests and perfects sound-wave weapons, being pragmatic, not altruistic, "I expected freedom, not utopia."^[34]

Lang & Brookes

• Mary-Joan Negro as Rebecca Morrison, Joseph's belittled and battered wife, and mother of young Mindy, she has been "conditioned" to stay, obey, and pretend they are the perfect family. She has seizures from repeated head trauma, thus she relies on sedatives administered by Joseph.
• Ellen Hamilton-Latzen as Mindy Morrison, who uses her active imagination to mentally escape the horrible abuse; her dolls "come to life" and tell her to flee upstairs to the Fun Room.
• Stephen Lang as Joseph Morrison, and abusive husband and father, who tells Mindy he "hates disciplining" her but always buys her "a new doll" and the latest is a black-robed sorcerer, which also "comes to life" in a "Lullaby of Darkness" as the sinister avenger.
• Jacqueline Brookes as Dr. Myrna Grayson, a psychologist who hides with hand puppet "Andy the Monkey" who talks to Mindy when she sleepwalks to the Fun Room, while McCall videotapes Mindy's reaction. In this way they obtain evidence of Joseph's abuse, which he shows to Sgt. Shepard.
• Robert X. Modica as The Sorcerer, dressed all in black, hooded and faceless, he asks Mindy "Is there someone you want to kill?" and in her dream, she answers "Yes." In the end, The Sorcerer appears in a "waking dream" and urges her to fly from the top of the building to help her dolls far below.
• Vivian Nathan as Mrs. Drake, the Morrison's worried neighbor, who has twice before called police to no avail, and calls The Equalizer.
• Gwyllum Evans as Dream Father, who along with Dream Mother (co-star, Kate Dezina, who also played Manon in "Memories of Manon" Part 2^[55]), comforts Mindy in times of crisis.

Seneca, Atherton & Joy

• Joe Seneca as Fossil Williams, a spiritual man who quotes scripture from memory and runs the homeless McKenzie Mission in The Bowery. A building Superintendent (Raymond Moy) calls 9-1-1 falsely reporting a heart attack to forcibly removal Lucky (Stephen Payne), who ispassed out drunk, but healthy. Suspecting murder, Fossil calls The Equalizer.
• Cordelia González as Donna Marie Estrelita Concepcion Friedman, a one-year rookie paramedic, whose long Puerto Rican-Jewish name amuses fellow paramedic, Gideon. "17 Zebra" is the dispatcher's call sign for her ambulance team, who affectionately call each other Tonto (Friedman) and Kemosabe (Gideon). Friedman looks up to Gideon, and cannot believe McCall suggesting he may have caused Lucky's death. She eventually helps after observing Gideon's behavior.
• William Atherton as Edward F. Gideon, a twenty-year veteran paramedic nicked named "The Pride" for having been decorated several times. He suffers traumatic flashbacks while dealing with the homeless, drunks, and addicts, suffering from burn-out compounded by a derelict killing a little girl.^[32]
• Robert Joy as Jacob Stock, who researches names and commonalities of four fatal heart attacks leading to Gideon.^[32] Joy has two more appearances after "17 Zebra."^[35][36]

Plimpton & Goethals

• Michael Moriarty as Wayne "Seti" Virgil, an aerospace systems engineer at AeroDimensions, who has a traumatic psychotic break leading to schizophrenic delusions that he was sent from another planet to Earth to stop The Confederation of Vega from enacting an apocalyptic "end times" catastrophe. The trauma stems from unwarranted guilt he feels after a Vega-1 rocket explodes at Vandenberg Space Force Base, killing twelve ground crew. Virgil's self-appointed alias derives from the real-world organization, SETI. Moriarty was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role in "Starfire."
• George Plimpton as Clinton Brandauer, who, after Virgil's breakdown, positioned himself as AeroDimensions' new Senior Engineer to profit millions of dollars from merging with Transnational Aviation, assuming the Vega-1 failure is covered up by Virgil's demise.
• Angela Goethals as Amber Sweeny, a young girl who befriends Seti as her new father figure.
• Deborah Hedwall as Claire Sweeny, Amber's single mother who becomes increasingly concerned for her daughter's safety after men try to kill Seti.^[41]

Knight

• Brian Bedford as Harold Ross, his "Time Present... alias after defecting to American ten years prior in "...Time Past" as Emil Kostov, head of Covert Operations for Bulgarian Intelligence. As a musicologist, Ross is helping Scott McCall's studies after Robert McCall's introduction. Emil's defection causes family problems in Bulgaria for younger brother Yorgi.
• Dennis Boutsikaris as Yorgi Kostov, who followed Emil into intelligence work and must prove his worth and loyalty, determined to bring Emil back to Bulgaria for trial and execution to restore the family name. Scott is captured when Yorgi abducts Emil to the Bulgarian Embassy.
• Shirley Knight as Kay, who is angry at her ex-husband Robert McCall for their son Scott's abduction, and cannot understand introducing him to an ex-spy, placing him in danger. She abhors Scott following Robert's violent path. Knight was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in "Time Present, Time Past." Previously, the role of Kay was played by Sandy Dennis in "Out of the Past."^[56]
• Barry Primus as Walter Wesley, Kay's new husband.
• Tom Mardirosian as Arnoff, a Bulgarian agent working with Yorgi.^[38]

Plana, Hingle & O'Herlihy

• Pat Hingle as Waldo Jarrell, a university teacher, and former Hollywood screenwriter, blacklisted during the McCarthy era. The humiliation of jail and "naming names" estranged him from his son for forty years. He pleads McCall to save his fellow "Prisoner of Conscience" and surrogate son "Tony" from death.
• Tony Plana as Antonio Cruz, a Chilean poet jailed by Central Nacional de Informaciones, the secret police and intelligence agency guilty of kidnapping, torture, murder and disappearance of political opponents during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. Having fled to the United States, Cruz attends university and encourages Waldo Jarrell to begin writing again.

• Tim Woodward as William McCall, Robert McCall's father who was murdered during the 1952 Egyptian revolution at Port Said next to the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal. William was a captain with the British Army responding to the coup d'état against King Farouk. William appears in a flashback to Robert's childhood, and again as an imaginary/ghost figure with whom Robert converses inside Pete O'Phelan's bar. Robert tells Control he had searched for William's killer for twenty years, but gave up after being told by the Company that Randall Payne had been gunned down. Robert is furious to learn he has been lied to for the past fifteen years, and that Randall Payne is not only still alive, but also working for the Company.
• Dan O'Herlihy as Randall Payne, who is in New York to torture Antonio to force him to "name names" so that he can change the outcome of the up-coming Chilean elections.
• Jaime Tirelli as a CNI Operative, who works for Payne.^[46] Tirelli also played Ramon Scavosa in season one "The Lock Box."^[57]

Stapleton, San Giacomo, & Grenier

• Maureen Stapleton as Emmy Rutherford, a cleaning woman and avid detective novel aficionado who gets caught up in "The Caper" that puts her in danger after witnessing a man's murder. Sgt. Alice Shepard is dubious of Emmy's latest claim, having called police numerous times reporting crimes derived from her overactive imagination.
• Laura San Giacomo as Trudy Collins, the young energetic and eager Company agent McCall assigns to guard Emmy. Graduating top of her class in marksmanship, her skills are put to the test.
• Richard Hamilton as Frank, Emmy's neighbor and handyman who would prefer that Emmy get her nose out of her books and pay more attention to him. Frank's life is also put in danger by Emmy's obsession to solve the murder herself.
• Alberta Watson as Taffy Gould, an exotic dancer and Kenny Pack's girlfriend, who has a secret she withholds from McCall.
• Michael Wincott as Jarrow, a British criminal who runs an international crew.
• Lewis J. Stadlen as Danny, a small-time criminal out on parole who McCall leverages for information.
• Zach Grenier as Kenny Pack who is the killer Emmy witnessed.^[44]

Guilfoyle – Gallo
Malina – Mullen

• John Shepherd as Michael Gianelli, who seeks the "Heart of Justice" against low-life thugs who gang raped his wife Cynthia and beat her into a brain dead coma to silence her testimony. A peaceful man, Michael struggles to enact vengeance.
• Paul Guilfoyle as Max Gorman, an ailing drug addict and rapist.
• Joseph Hindy as Victor Koslo, whose wife and child were killed by violent men. Koslo has become a heartless vigilante killer who monitors the courts for violent criminals released on technicalities, seeking his own vengeance.
• Margaret Klenck as Laura, who contacts The Equalizer to prevent Michael's vengeance and ensure her sister Cynthia's unborn child is delivered before she dies.
• Philip Bosco as Oscar, who works in the Criminal Data Analysis division of the Company. McCall tries to leverage his extra-marital affair to wrest a favor, but Oscar says his wife already knows. So McCall instead warns he'll reveal his mistress as a Cuban double-agent to elicit Oscar's cooperation.
• Roberta Maxwell as Justice Lindsey Smith, who by law must unfortunately dismiss the rape case because the car search was technically illegal.
• Vincent Gallo as Tony Santiago, who raped and beat Cynthia.
• Judith Malina as an Old Woman, who witnesses Michael Gianelli aiming a gun at Tony, but does not see Koslo.
• Patty Mullen as Teresa, Oscar's mistress who he believes is named Michelle.^[35]

Fishburne, Cerveris & Cale

• Laurence Fishburne as Casey Taylor, a law-abiding teacher who moves from an expensive but run-down city apartment to a better neighborhood. Skinheads pour white paint, saying the only way he can live in their neighborhood is to be white.
• Aleta Mitchell as Martha Taylor, who calls The Equalizer when her husband Casey threatens to buy a gun and take care of the skinheads himself. Martha is also concerned for the safety of their baby.
• David Andrews as Dale Stevens, a low-level member of the KKK who vows to lynch all "Race Traitors" when the "day of the rope" arrives. Stevens is a "community" organizer who wants to set up his own network in multiple cities while liaising with other neo-Nazi groups to instigate race riots. Stevens gives speeches to indoctrinate, radicalize, and rally young working class locals like Nick Kaminsky and Chuck to join the skinhead ranks and carry out violent attacks.
• Morgan H. Margolis as Chuck, an active skinhead cell member Stevens is trying to control.
• Michael Cerveris as Nick Kaminsky, an embittered youth and a neophyte skinhead, who wants someone to pay for the death of his brother, John, who was shot to death two months prior by a black man committing a robbery at his mother Ellen's tavern, with only $100 in the register.
• Verna Bloom as Ellen Kaminsky, Nick's mother and tavern operator, who does not hate the Jewish owner she leases from, but remarks on declining local businesses, which she partly attributes to the influx of "the blacks." She works with Mickey to disuade Nick from skinhead hate and vengeance.
• Caroline Kava plays Barbara Ashton who quit the Company, and whose son McCall and Mickey once helped. She creates a backstory for McCall's new identity as a powerful European Nazi to stop Stevens.
• Bruce Hubbard as Detective Warren who helps McCall in the investigation and arrests the perpetrators.^[36]
• John Cale as an unnamed Aryan Leader, from whom Stevens is petitioning financial and political support to expand his own network and power base.^[36]

Bakay

• Elizabeth Berridge as Susan Wilhite, an intended victim in an "Endgame" planned by Rasher.
• Josef Sommer as Ernest Rasher, a wargame strategist, whose son was a U.S. Army Colonel imprisoned for stealing weapons to sell on the black market. Linda Wilhite (Amy Morton) was responsible for his incarceration five years prior. Rasher's son hanged himself in jail, so he wants revenge and hires Dodd to frame Linda's jealous sister Susan for murder, rigging her paintball gun to fire a .44 Magnum cartridge, killing a random opponent. Rasher kills Dodd and frames Linda for it, then reveals a terrible secret about Susan to Linda, hoping Linda will either kill her sister and be convicted of murder, or commit suicide like his son.
• Lewis Van Bergen as Stuart Dodd, the hit-man Rasher hires to kill Susan.^[45]
• Nick Bakay as a Yellow Team Member of the paintball group.^[45]

Rhames & Harris

• Ving Rhames as Luther "Million" Paxton, who uses his hooligan "Suicide Squad" of former athletes to "run interference" in drug deals with his buyers, keeping himself clean of direct involvement. He launders proceeds through Cayman Islands accounts back into his health clubs, running his drugs out of his flagship 47th street gym. He enjoys corrupting athletes like Willie because they, "think they own the Earth...I love their expressions when they realize they're just as dirty as everyone else." Million manipulates Willie into his Suicide Squad, with no way out but self-destruction.
• Adam Coleman Howard as Willie Halsey, who fails at academics (1.7 GPA), struggling to finish his papers, half of which are written by his sister Mary Lou Halsey (Alyson Kirk). With a bad knee hampering athletic performance, he fears losing his athletic scholarship, and not even graduating. Mary Lou, who knows Hammer sells to students, calls The Equalizer.
• Robert Swan as Joe Halsey, Willie's father, who suggests Willie make an honest living at his sign business. But Joe's business is declining, and he wants a better life for Willie, pushing him harder than he should, not recognizing he may lose Willie to the "easy money" of "thug life" dealing drugs.
• David Harris as Hammer, one of Million's minions who is known around the school as "a regular supermarket" from which athletes buy performance-enhancers such as anabolic steroids, and "anything else" he might have.
• Regina Baff as Kitty Halsey, Willie's concerned mother.
• Leo Burmester as Coach Bell, who has limited football scholarships slots. He cuts Willie from the team to allow a better performer to succeed. McCall convinces Bell to reinstate Willie until he improves his grades.^[39]