The Equalizer


 * [first lines; Robert McCall is up before his alarm goes off, we see him getting ready and going to his job at Home Mart, we see McCall wheeling bags of cement down to some construction workers]
 * Robert McCall: Thought you finished this job last week.
 * [he hands them the paperwork to sign]
 * Construction Worker: The owner wants the driveway wider now.
 * Robert McCall: When they pay…
 * Construction Worker: They say. Thank you.
 * [the construction worker gives the paperwork back to McCall who turns and makes his way back through the hall passing two employees talking]
 * Jay: They make the newer guys take tests. Like firemen.
 * Marcus: Yoh, Pops. Bet you didn’t have to push dollies at your old job, did you?
 * Robert McCall: Guilty as charged.
 * [McCall enters the lunch hall]
 * Robert McCall: How you doing, Jenny?
 * Jenny: Mm-hmm. Better now.
 * [McCall joins his co-worker Ralphie for lunch]
 * Ralphie: How’s it going, Mr. McCall.
 * Robert McCall: Alright, Ralphie. What you got there?
 * Ralphie: It’s tuna.
 * Robert McCall: Bread?
 * Ralphie: Whole-grain, gluten-free.
 * Robert McCall: Okay. Condiments?
 * Ralphie: Sprouts, avocado and veganese mayo.
 * Robert McCall: Okay.
 * [Ralphie takes a bite of his sandwich and McCall hears a crunching noise]
 * Ralphie: The bone in the tuna.
 * [McCall gives him an “I don’t believe you” look, Ralphie passes his sandwich to McCall]
 * [after McCall finishes work we see him taking the bus home, he has his dinner alone, washes his dishes, he then reads his book for a bit before deciding to go to the diner to read his book, as he enters the diner he takes a seat and sets his book “The Old Man and the Sea” and the cutlery at the table exactly as he wants, then he takes out his own tea bag]
 * Diner Patron: All right, see you later, Jake.
 * Jake: Have a good one, Billy.
 * [as the two construction workers leave one of them blows air kisses at the young girl, Teri, sitting at the diner counter, she flips him off]
 * Teri: Fuck you.
 * [the waiter places a cup in front of McCall and pours hot water, McCall places his tea bag in it]
 * Robert McCall: Thank you.
 * Jake: You’re welcome.
 * [McCall picks up his book to read when Teri interrupts him]
 * Teri: He catch that fish yet?
 * Robert McCall: Just hooked it.
 * Teri: It’s about damn time.
 * Robert McCall: Well, it’s a big fish. Don’t know if he can hang on, though.
 * Teri: Oh, no.
 * Robert McCall: Mm. Tooth and nail right now.
 * Teri: Yeah, well, maybe he’s just too old.
 * [McCall chuckles]
 * [as Teri eats her pie]
 * Robert McCall: Thought you were gonna give up refined sugar.
 * Teri: I am.
 * Robert McCall: When?
 * Teri: Any day now.
 * Robert McCall: Yeah? Bad for your vocal cords. Body, mind, spirit, remember?
 * Teri: I bought a little machine for making demos.
 * Robert McCall: Yeah? I bet you’re good.
 * Teri: What makes you say that?
 * Robert McCall: Intuition.
 * [Teri gets up to leave]
 * Teri: Alright, well, I’ll see you later, Jake.
 * [she places her money on the counter]
 * Jake: Okay. See you later, honey.
 * [Teri turns to leave]
 * Teri: You let me know what happens with that, uh…
 * Robert McCall: Mm?
 * Teri: …fish.
 * Robert McCall: Okay.
 * Teri: Alright, I’ll see you.
 * [Teri leaves the diner and hails down a cab]
 * Teri: Hey!
 * [the next day as McCall is sitting taking a break at work Marcus and Jay walk over to him]
 * Marcus: Hey, yoh, Pops. We’re betting on what you did before you got here.
 * Jay: Like, for a living.
 * Marcus: I’m saying insurance, claims and shit.
 * Jay: He was a stock dude, man. He was on Wall Street.
 * Robert McCall: I was a Pip.
 * Jay: Yoh, you were a pimp?
 * Robert McCall: No, not a pimp. A Pip. P-I-P. Pip.
 * Jay: What the fuck is a Pip?
 * Robert McCall: Why you gotta curse so much? You know, like Gladys Knight and the Pips. Like this.
 * [he starts doing the dance moves]
 * Home Mart Employee: Check this out!
 * [as they watch McCall doing his Gladys Knight and the Pips dance moves]
 * Marcus, Jay: Oh, come on!
 * Marcus: Stop it. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Don’t do that, right now. Don’t do that.
 * Home Mart Employee: Yeah. Break it.
 * [McCall continues doing the moves and spins around]
 * Marcus: Oh, the spin?
 * Jay: What?
 * Marcus: Wait a minute. Oh, the slide
 * Jay: You’re gonna blow the whistle!
 * [as McCall does the final move]
 * Jay: Oh!
 * Marcus: Ah!
 * [McCall starts walking off]
 * Marcus: Come on. I’m gonna look it up right here. Man, I’m looking this up. I’m gonna look.
 * [Marcus takes out his phone and searches for Gladys Knight and the Pips on “Soul Train”]
 * Marcus: Yoh, so which one were you?
 * Robert McCall: The one on the right.
 * [Marcus and Jay look at the show on the phone]
 * Marcus: Yoh, that’s not him right there.
 * Jay: Yeah, that’s him with the afro.
 * Marcus: Hm? He’s bald!
 * Jay: So he had a wig on!
 * Marcus: That’s cool, yoh.
 * Jay: That’s him.
 * [that night McCall is back at the diner reading his book when Teri walks in]
 * Teri: Hey, Jake. What a fucking night.
 * [she sits at the counter]
 * Jake: Yeah, it’s tough out there, honey.
 * [he places coffee and a plate of pie in front of her]
 * Jake: Here you go, kid.
 * Teri: Thanks.
 * [Teri looks over to McCall and notices he’s reading a new book]
 * Teri: He ever catch it?
 * Robert McCall: Hm?
 * Teri: The fish.
 * Robert McCall: Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah, he did.
 * Teri: It’s a happy ending.
 * Robert McCall: Well, mm…not exactly. The old man tied the fish to the side of the boat, had to row back to shore. The fish bled in the water, sharks came and ate the whole fish till there was nothing left.
 * Teri: Well that’s just kind of a waste, isn’t it?
 * Robert McCall: No. Depends upon how you look at it. The old man met his greatest adversary just when he thought that part of his life was over. He saw himself in the fish. Came to… came to respect it the more it fought.
 * Teri: Why didn’t he just let the fish go?
 * Robert McCall: The old man’s gotta be the old man. Fish gotta be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, right? No matter what.
 * [as a limo pulls up across from the diner Teri gets a call from her pimp, Slavi; in Russian]
 * Slavi: You’ve got a client.
 * Teri: I don’t want to.
 * Slavi: What?
 * Teri: Can’t you get someone else?
 * Slavi: He wants you.
 * Teri: But this customer is a pig.
 * Slavi: He’s waiting outside.
 * [the limo outside honks its horn, the limo car door opens to reveal an obese man waiting sat in the car, clearly upset Teri turns to Jake]
 * Teri: How much is it, Jake?
 * Jake: Don’t worry about it. Go make your living.
 * Teri: Thanks, Jake.
 * [Teri slowly makes her way towards the door, McCall watches as she wipes her tears and walks outside to meet her client]
 * Teri: Hey, honey! How you doing? You ready to have a good time?
 * [we see McCall helping Ralphie get into shape by pulling a bit heavy tire]
 * Robert McCall: Come on. Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull! Pull, pull, pull! Come on, come on. Eight, seven, six, five, four, four, four.
 * [Ralphie falls to the floor as he pulls]
 * Robert McCall: Oh, come on, now. Come on.
 * Ralphie: I can’t.
 * Robert McCall: You can’t? What if that were me? You gonna leave me to die of smoke inhalation? I’m a buck ninety. How you gonna pull me out of a burning building if you can’t pull a tire twenty yards?
 * Ralphie: I’m not strong enough.
 * Robert McCall: Hey, don’t doubt yourself, son. Doubt kills. Get up. Come on, get up. Get up. Giddyup, giddyup, giddyup!
 * [Ralphie pulls himself up]
 * Robert McCall: On your mark, get set, pull.
 * [Ralphie starts pulling the tire again]
 * Robert McCall: Come on. Who’s gonna make security guard?
 * Ralphie: I am!
 * Robert McCall: Who’s gonna make security guard?
 * Ralphie: I am!
 * Robert McCall: Who’s gonna make security guard?
 * Ralphie: I am!
 * [Ralphie finally pulls the tire to the cross line]
 * Robert McCall: There you go. I like it. Let’s do it again.
 * [McCall goes to diner in the evening again, he finds Teri listening to music and wearing sunglasses to hide a bruise on her face, he gets her attention by offering her a doughnut]
 * Robert McCall: Loaded with poison, just like you like it.
 * Teri: Is it your birthday?
 * Robert McCall: No, it was some guy at work. I didn’t want to waste it.
 * Teri: Happy birthday, Some Guy at Work. How old are you?
 * [McCall walks over to sit at his usual table]
 * Robert McCall: How old are you?
 * Teri: Doesn’t really matter.
 * [Teri gets up, take the doughnut and walks over to McCall’s table, he looks at her]
 * Teri: I’m sorry. I’m breaking protocol, right?
 * [she turns to walk away]
 * Robert McCall: No, no. Listen. Hey, come on, sit down. Sit. Sit. Sit.
 * [he pulls the chair opposite him out]
 * Teri: Okay.
 * Robert McCall: Come on, sit down.
 * Teri: Alright.