The Equalizer airs tonight on CBS with an all-new Sunday, April 17, 2022, season 2 episode 16 called “Vox Populi” and we have your The Equalizer recap below. In tonight’s The Equalizer episode as per the CW synopsis, “When Aunt Vi is the lone juror on a murder trial who believes the defendant is innocent, McCall covertly investigates the case to find proof that Vi’s instincts are correct.”
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In tonight’s The Equalizer episode, a family man was on trial for rape and murder. McCall’s Aunt Vi was one of the jurors. Vi didn’t hear enough compelling evidence to find a man guilty and so she was the lone voice that stood up for this man. Every other juror had found him guilty.
They also claimed that his defense attorney hadn’t proved he was innocent. But Vi said that wasn’t on the defense attorney. It was up to the prosecution to prove he was guilty of these crimes. Vi also doubted the evidence. She thought it was a little too neat. A little too tidy for a murder case. She had doubts and that’s what she told her nieces when she came home.
Vi told McCall that the whole trial had been full of holes. She wasn’t an irrational person in general and so McCall listened to her aunt when she talked. She became convinced that something was wrong with the case. Now, Vi didn’t give her names or concrete details. She couldn’t because she was a juror and that’s what led McCall into looking up this case herself.
She got help from Harry and Mel. They looked up the case and they found out about Tim Colvin. Colvin was the defendant. He was being accused of raping and murdering Sara Ross. Ross was a white woman. Colvin was a black man.
It’s believed that the two ran into each other at the bar. Ross went out for drinks with a friend and Colvin, while denying he had in fact been at the bar, had recently got into a fight with his pregnant fiancé. They argued because after Tim got fired but was offered a new job by an ex-girlfriend.
They argued because the fiancé hadn’t wanted Colvin to be talking to an ex. The prosecution believed that Colvin was so angry after the fight that he came upon Ross and targeted her. It didn’t matter that Ross wasn’t his type. She was white. His fiancé and even his ex were both blacks. There was also evidence of a tranquilizer being found in Ross’s bloodstream.
Colvin has a prescription for that drug. The prosecution thinks that in spite of claiming this was a crime of passion that Colvin knew enough to walk with drugs after he left an apartment during a fight. Another thing that doesn’t add up. There was no DNA. The prosecution claims that Colvin – after committing a crime of passion – was well aware to clean up the crime scene. He erased all evidence that he was there. They were also using the fact that Colvin was spotted leaving the victim’s building as a justification for him killing the girl. It didn’t matter that Colvin claimed he stopped in the building’s lobby to get warm before going outside to hail a cab.
Colvin was arrested two days after the murder. The cops felt they found everything they needed to know and so McCall became curious about it. She dug into the case. She was able to determine that Ross took those tranquilizers herself. She was having fun with a friend. Her girlfriend who also identified Colvin as a man they met at the bar had been drinking and on drugs too. She lied when she said she recognized Colvin. She only said it because she thought the police had caught the right man. But while McCall uncovered this, Vi was in the jury room slowly convincing the other jurors to take this case seriously.
They couldn’t just write off the black man. Vi wouldn’t let them. Vi didn’t let them paint Colvin as a thug because he came from a bad neighborhood and this man genuinely didn’t have a criminal history. The prosecution raced to close this case because a white woman was killed. They would never have done so if the victim had been black or any other minority. Vi was also able to prove that at least one of her fellow jurors is racist. The woman had been with the jury for two weeks and yet she somehow confused the two black women in the group. And still, this woman was able to change her mind about Colvin being guilty when Vi proved that the neighbor heard Ross’s scream at a much later time than initially reported.
The neighbor said she heard the scream when her favorite program came on that night. This was the same night as a big football game and the game went into overtime. This would mean the show would push back. Possibly by thirty minutes. Therefore, Ross screamed around the same time that Colvin was seen getting a cab. There’s no way he could get a cab at midnight and rape and murder a woman and then clean up the scene all in the span of ten minutes. It would be impossible. Vi was convincing the jurors and this was happening at the same time as McCall was having doubts. McCall learned that it was Ross who let Colvin into the lobby that night.
Colvin hadn’t wanted to say so to the police because he was afraid it would make him look guilty. He also talked about tripping over the trash and that triggered something in McCall’s memory. She remembered that the neighbor who claimed they saw Colvin getting into a taxi at midnight couldn’t have possibly witnessed it. Not from his apartment which was blocked by the trash. He had to have seen Colvin from Ross’s apartment. The neighbor was the murderer. McCall just couldn’t prove it and Vi had gotten the jury to issue a “Not Guilty”. And so Colvin was safe.
But the real murderer is still out there. McCall told everything she knew to Dante and once Dante got back his detective badge – he questioned the neighbor.
THE END!