Rewatchables Reference

Unanimous: Denzel goes to see the Russians (Slavi's office) – the $9,800 scene where he locks the door and kills everyone. Bill: 'Elite six minutes for an action movie.' Bill Sr.: 'If you could only watch 10 minutes, that's those 10 minutes.'

• 'Who the fuck are you?' – the classic action movie line, said multiple times.
• Denzel never uses a gun in the movie.
• Boston as a setting / Russian mobsters in Boston.
• Taking the local bus to your final fight showdown.
• Identifying someone's profession by looking at their hands.

• Chris: The dissolve from Teddy stretching / his tattoos to the Boston skyline – 'Antoine's really cooking here.'
• Bill: The overhead shot of Teddy's tattoos – 'It almost looks like it's moving.'

• Bill: 'Vengeance' by Zack Hemsey during the Home Depot massacre.
• Chris: 'New Dawn Fades' by Moby (originally from Heat) before the credits.

• Bill: It's not a real Home Depot – 'it really bothers me.'
• Chris: The Alina/Teri music career subplot.
• Bill Sr.: 'There's no weak link in the film.'

• Explaining Old Man and the Sea to a 17-year-old Russian prostitute.
• David Harbour's Boston accent – 'an absolute front.'
• Chris: The OCD stuff – 'I don't really think it lends a ton to the story.'

• Chris: Robert can't be a passenger – he's too qualified to let Ralphie be the security guard.
• Bill: Denzel might be his favorite Desert Island actor filmography (over Cruise and Stallone).

• In 2010, it was supposed to be Russell Crowe as the Equalizer, directed by Paul Haggis.
• Nicholas Winding Refn was attached to direct, left one month before production.
• For the Moretz role, they originally auditioned adult women; she won over Fuqua at 17.

• Chris: David Harbour – 'Harbor is screaming the entire movie.'
• Teddy (Marton Csokas) 'does dial it up a couple of times.'

Chris: Johnny Messner – the diner assassin / power lines guy.

• Bill Sr.: Ralphie's mother – 'Just looking at the heavens when she gets like $9,000.'
• Chris: Slavi (David Meunier).
• Bill: Melissa Leo, Bill Pullman.

• Denzel's apartment at 40 Falcon Street, East Boston (can be Google Earthed).
• The Bridge Diner was a converted building in Chelsea – the diner doesn't actually exist.
• Denzel added the OCD elements and backstory himself.
• Teddy's tattoo (CMEPTB) is Russian for 'death.'
• Robert's last book is Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

• East Boston as a movie location: Yes – 'Hands down.'
• Boston Herald trucks: Yes – 'I don't remember a Herald truck figuring more prominently into pop culture.'
• Fake Home Depots / hardware store as killing field: Yes.
• Denzel: No (too many peaks).

• Would a diner really stay open all night in East Boston?
• He kills six guys because of a Russian prostitute he's talked to three times.
• The $9,800 figure – where did that come from?
• Denzel playing right field on the softball team (should be left field).

• Did Alina/Elena know McCall was the one helping her?
• Did Robert fly commercial to Russia to kill Pushkin?
• Did he go back to work at Home Mart on Monday?

• Equalizer 2.
• 'Man on Fire' – Chris: 'Pretend Creasy lives.'

Bill and Chris: The watch (Suunto Core All Black with modified stopwatch).

• Bill: Don't cross Denzel.
• Chris: 'When you pray for rain, you got to deal with the mud too.'

Denzel – unanimously. They've never done a Denzel movie where he didn't win the movie.