The Equalizer season 5 episode 6 ending explained: How  Robyn and Mel escaped death match

The Equalizer season 5 episode 6 was released via CBS on Sunday, December 1, 2024. The episode, titled 'The Fight for Life', revolved around the protagonist Robyn McCall as she went undercover as a prisoner in jail.

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for The Equalizer season 5 episode 6.

By the end of the episode, Robyn and Mel were essentially trapped in prison with only each other as backup. Robyn was even coerced into fighting a 'death match' with one of the prisoners, all set to die.

Then, Marcus Dante showed up with federal agents at the prison, saving Robyn and Mel, and apprehending the person responsible for the mishap: Bianca Silva, the most feared woman in the prison facility.

The official summary for the episode reads:

“McCall and Mel go undercover in a prison to find a woman who went missing on the day she was scheduled to be released.”

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What was the new case that the equalizing team took up in The Equalizer season 5 episode 6?

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Robyn and her team were hired by someone whose sister disappeared in prison during the time of her supposed release from the facility. The prison authorities claimed that the prisoner in question, Jenna Banks, was released after serving her seven years.

However, there was no record of her leaving, since her brother also stood outside the prison gate, waiting for her. He believed that Jenna got lost in the system somehow, which is where Robyn came in.

In their investigation, the team realised that another woman named Ciara Perry had also disappeared along with Jenna. Robyn started feeling worried about the two missing women.

After a conversation with Dante, she decided to go undercover as a prisoner at the jail. Mel accompanied Robyn, taking on the guise of a guard to give her some backup as an authority figure.

The mission had two parts going in. Robyn was supposed to interact with other prisoners to try and get some clues about Jenna and Ciara. Meanwhile, Mel would sort through the official documents as a guard and try to piece the puzzle together.

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What happened inside the prison facility?

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Once undercover, Robyn started making her presence felt by asking about Jenna in prison. She claimed that Jenna had killed her cousin, which was the reason she was asking around for her.

Robyn convinced the inmates that she was out to settle a score with Jenna. She cemented this by further getting into trouble at the prison, initiating fights and starting brawls that the correction officers on duty had to stop.

Then, Robyn got some information that Jenna had been involved in a fight with Bianca Silva. She was the one who seemed to have an iron grip on the prisoners, despite being one herself. While trying to fight Bianca, a guard knocked Robyn out and took her to a special cell for those who instigated fights.

This briefly made Mel and Harry uneasy because they could no longer track Robyn. However, Mel soon managed to find Robyn and bring her back to the main prison.

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How did Robyn get out of the 'death match' at the end of The Equalizer season 5 episode 6?

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Robyn found out that Jenna was in solitary confinement the way she had been after initiating a fight with Bianca. Later, Bianca organized an underground fight club, with its main attraction being a 'death match' or a fight to the death between two prisoners.

She prepared to have Jenna and Robyn face off against each other.

As the women tried to escape, Mel's cover was unveiled too. Jenna, Robyn and Mel were at the mercy of Bianca and the prisoners she had control over. However, they were saved in the nick of time when Dante showed up with federal agents at the prison.

Though Bianca did not care about the additional sentences imposed on her, Jenna was finally free and reunited with her brother. A few other missing women, including Ciara, were also liberated at Robyn's request.

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What was the storyline with Miles and Cam on The Equalizer season 5 episode 6?

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Robyn's ex-husband Miles was set to meet his daughter Delilah's boyfriend Cam for the first time in the episode. Initially, Delilah asked her mom Robyn to be present during the meetup, just in case the situation got intense and needed diffusing.

However, due to the mission, Robyn ended up missing the meeting between Miles and Cam. During their introduction, Cam mentioned that he was dropping out of college to work on expanding his own business, which Miles thought was an unwise decision.

Even though Miles believed that Cam should not be dating Delilah, she stood her ground and reminded her father that she was the one who chose to date Cam in the first place.

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Audiences can watch The Equalizer season 5 episode 6 streaming now via CBS and Paramount+. New episodes of the show are usually released weekly on Sundays.