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Bull Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
The Necklace
Tue, Sep 20, 201643 mins
Jason Bull is a psychologist who works as a trial consultant. He is working on a murder involving the son of a wealthy man. And at the beginning it's obvious that father and son don't get along. Bull polygraphs the boy and when it proves he didn't kill the girl he's accused of killing, it shows he's hiding something. Bull thinks the answer might lie with the boy's mother and her friends whose boat the murder was committed.
Episode 2
The Woman in 8D
Tue, Sep 27, 201643 mins
Dr. Bull and his Trial Analysis Corporation (TAC) team must formulate a new defense strategy when they discover the jury has a subconscious gender bias toward their client, a female pilot accused of negligence after one of her flights crashes.
Episode 3
Unambiguous
Tue, Oct 11, 201643 mins
Bull and his team tackle jury bias against their client, a woman on trial for the murder of a star athlete she very publicly accused of assaulting her. Also, the case brings Benny face-to-face with his former flame, Amanda, a fellow attorney he hasn't seen since their breakup.
Episode 4
Callisto
Tue, Oct 18, 201643 mins
The team must travel to Callisto,Texas, when they agree to take one woman's drug patent lawsuit, and besides he must confront his past while in the small small town, which happens to be the town he suffered the only trial loss of his career.
Episode 5
Just Tell the Truth
Tue, Oct 25, 201641 mins
When the parents of a murdered socialite attempt to hire Bull to help prosecute their daughter's working-class fiancé for the crime, Bull turns down a major payday when he chooses to help defend the fiancé instead. Also, Marissa, Cable and Danny try to convince Chunk to let them investigate the new guy he wants to date.
Episode 6
Bedside Manner
Tue, Nov 15, 201643 mins
Marissa brings them a case of a doctor she knows who's being sued. It seems like a woman went to see the doctor because she was having trouble conceiving and she was told he could help her. But a complication forced to save her life but also would leave her unable to have children. Bull decides to take the case. And at the mock trial he and Benny get into it which shows Bull that he a big ego so he decides to let another lawyer, Liberty Davis handle the case. And everything is evenly matched. Bull then decides to check out a device he was suppose to use but chose not to. Eventually Bull says he needs to be humanized so Benny handles his testimony.
Episode 7
Never Saw the Sign
Tue, Nov 22, 201642 mins
A judge asks Bull to help a man who was in a car accident that killed his wife. For some reason he's being charged with vehicular homicide. Bull thinks the reason for the man being charged is politics. He also learns that the couple may have been arguing at the time of the accident.
Episode 8
Too Perfect
Tue, Dec 6, 201643 mins
Bull's ex and Benny's sister, a lifestyle maven is being sued when someone took one of her products died. Now the person died from an allergic reaction. Supposedly the thing that she's allergic to, is not in her product so she's being sued for maleficence. Bull offers to help but it's very poignant for him and Benny. Because the siblings have not spoken to each other in years. Bull learns that one of her staff may have cut some corners to meet some standards which is how the product may have been tainted. But he then takes a look at the victim and learns her husband may have reason to want her dead.
Episode 9
Light My Fire
Tue, Dec 13, 201640 mins
Bull decides to take a holiday and go to the cabin his father had in New Hampshire. He finds the cabin burned down because of a recent fire at a nearby diner. He learns a young man was arrested on suspicion of starting the fire at the diner which also killed the owner. Bull learns the young man is being singled out because of his family, so he tries to help him. He brings the team over to help him. But he finds that some people in town are not exactly pleased to see him because of something his father did.
Episode 10
E.J.
Tue, Jan 3, 201744 mins
When Bull helps the CEO of a company accused of killing an employee with a self-driving car, he learns that his client is keeping a big secret that could sabotage a trial win.
Episode 11
Teacher's Pet
Tue, Jan 17, 201741 mins
Bull is hired by the parents of a young man who got involved with his teacher and has dropped out of school and is living with her. The parents are suing her. The son is pretty adamant about staying with her. And she feels the same. When the trial begins a lot of things come out like how the son feels about his parents and that the woman is pregnant but who's the father, the son or her estranged husband.
Episode 12
Stockholm Syndrome
Tue, Jan 24, 201742 mins
The wife of a man who Danny helped imprison for manslaughter detonates a bomb at the TAC offices and takes the team hostage in order to force Bull to prove her husband's innocence.
Episode 13
The Fall
Tue, Feb 7, 201742 mins
When Bull helps a professional eSports video game player accused of throwing a championship game sue his former team manager for defamation, his trial strategy is to prove his client is a compulsive winner who is psychologically incapable of losing on purpose.
Episode 14
It's Classified
Tue, Feb 14, 201741 mins
When Bull has Benny defend a whistle-blowing army analyst, Lt. Tamsin Dale, who is being court martialed, the case causes trust issues between them after Benny won't share redacted government secrets with the rest of the team. Also, Marissa forces the office to work without its usual technology to avoid being hacked during the case.
Episode 15
What's Your Number?
Tue, Feb 21, 201742 mins
Dr Bull works a case for the DA's office against a real estate tycoon who's being tried for the manslaughter of 15 innocent people when a cat walk style suspension bridge he built between two buildings collapses. This episode marks the return of Diana Lindsay (Jill Flint) from ep#4 Callisto. Benny gets information on the DA's investigation against him when he worked for that office 8 years prior.
Episode 16
Free Fall
Tue, Mar 7, 201742 mins
When a state governor and the co-owner of a sky-diving company die during a jump, Bull helps the co-owner's brother and daughter fight a lawsuit filed by the governor's widow.
Episode 17
Name Game
Tue, Mar 28, 201741 mins
Bull risks losing his business when he fronts the money to help thousands of people bring a class action suit against a corrupt bank; Benny hurts the case by his attraction to a client and his anxiety over a secret he's keeping from Bull.
Episode 18
Dressed to Kill
Tue, Apr 4, 201741 mins
Bull and Chunk's bond is tested when Bull helps the prime suspect in the murder of Chunk's fashion mentor, Nella Wester (Paulina Porizkova), a model-turned-designer who was killed during her own runway show.
Episode 19
Bring It On
Tue, Apr 18, 201742 mins
When Bull assists Jules Caffrey, a high-powered attorney on trial for his fiancée's murder, he takes advantage of his client's penchant for courtroom theatrics by letting him defend himself.
Episode 20
Make Me
Tue, May 2, 201742 mins
TAC investigates a spiritual learning center to find the person who brainwashed Troy Dickerson (Brendan Dooling) into killing his father, while Bull tries to prove his client's innocence with a temporary insanity plea.
Episode 21
How to Dodge a Bullet
Tue, May 9, 201743 mins
Bull makes a deal with top criminal attorney J.P. Nunnelly (guest star Eliza Dushku) to defend Benny when he goes to trial for misconduct in a case related to his former career with the District Attorney's office.
Episode 22
Dirty Little Secrets
Tue, May 16, 201743 mins
Bull works with top criminal defense attorney J.P. Nunnelly (Eliza Dushku) on the first of three cases to repay her for defending Benny at trial. However, they clash over their client, a computer cloud company that is battling the F.B.I. to retain privacy over their customer's files that could help identify the source of a recent eco-terrorist attack.
Episode 23
Benevolent Deception
Tue, May 23, 201743 mins
To protect a jury's identity during a mob trial, they are placed behind a partition so they can watch the proceedings anonymously on a monitor. Needless to say this seriously inhibits Bull and his team from doing their work as jury consultants.
