What if that fatherly figure in your office turned out to be the ultimate killing machine? What if that guy helping you train to be a volunteer fireman was secretly a whiz at setting booby traps? Don & Pat are discussing Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer on this week's The Academy Academy, an eminently entertaining film that dares to ask the question: "What if the guy from Man on Fire was just a cool dude and everything he did was cool?"

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