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The Best Episodes of Bull

Every episode of Bull ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bull!

Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
Genres:CrimeDramaComedy
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Death Sentence" is the best rated episode of "Bull". It scored 8.6/10 based on 462 votes. Directed by Glenn Gordon Caron and written by Glenn Gordon Caron, Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka, it aired on 5/8/2018. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Justice for Cable".

  • Death Sentence
    8.6/10462 votes
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    #1 - Death Sentence

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/2018

    Bull’s team is rocked when their client, Elliott Miles, is found guilty of murder, and they must regroup as the trial enters the penalty phase in order to prevent him from being sentenced to death. But when new evidence emerges that could prove Elliott’s innocence, Bull must find a way to present it in court without being found in contempt. Also, Marissa faces hard truths about her relationship with Bull.

    Director: Glenn Gordon Caron

    Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka

  • Justice for Cable
    8.3/10374 votes
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    #2 - Justice for Cable

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2018

    Business becomes personal for Bull when TAC assists with a civil suit against the bank that funded the terrorists responsible for Cable's death. Also, Marissa enlists her former homeland security co-worker and international banking cyber-investigator, Taylor Rentzel, to help with the suit.

    Director: Randall Zisk

    Writer: Bill Chais

  • A Friend in Need
    8.2/10250 votes
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    #3 - A Friend in Need

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 5/17/2021

    Izzy puts the brakes on her wedding to Bull after he jeopardizes Benny’s election campaign by handling the defense in the corruption trial of the former District Attorney that Benny hopes to replace. Season finale.

    Director: Eric Stoltz

    Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler, Travis Donnelly

  • Silent Killer
    8.2/10168 votes
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    #4 - Silent Killer

    Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/2022

    When Bull handles the negligent homicide defense of a building owner accused of killing tenants by carbon monoxide poisoning, the case rocks Bull and the TAC team to their core. Also, TAC’s trial defense is made more difficult when the ADA prosecuting the case is Chunk’s ex-boyfriend, Rob Jones, someone very familiar with Bull’s tricks; and Taylor is forced to reevaluate her work-life balance when she gets shocking news about her son.

    Director: Bethany Rooney

    Writer: Andrew Karlsruher

  • Reckless
    8.1/10374 votes
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    #5 - Reckless

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/2018

    Bull's team takes on a seemingly unwinnable case; a mute man faces the death penalty if he's found guilty of murder and arson; Bull is stunned to learn that his ex-wife is remarrying.

    Director: Vincent Misiano

    Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka

  • Pillar of Salt
    8.1/10291 votes
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    #6 - Pillar of Salt

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2019

    Bull works to convince a jury that an alleged murder was actually a tragic accident when TAC represents a woman charged with her 3-year-old stepdaughter’s death.

    Director: Glenn Gordon Caron

    Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron, Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

  • Safe and Sound
    8.1/10310 votes
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    #7 - Safe and Sound

    Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2019

    Bull mounts the defense of an old college friend, Eric Crawford, who is charged with negligent homicide after Eric’s youngest child kills his eldest with Eric’s handgun.

    Director: Glenn Gordon Caron

    Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler

  • Confidence Man
    8.1/10194 votes
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    #8 - Confidence Man

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2021

    Bull’s legal troubles go from professional to personal when new evidence in his bribery trial implicates his wife, Izzy. Also, the TAC team’s efforts to assist Bull in court are thwarted by his attorney, who fears they will cross a legal line to help their boss.

    Director: Geary McLeod

    Writer: Jenny Raftery

  • Goodbye
    8.1/10225 votes
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    #9 - Goodbye

    Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/26/2022

    Bull and the team head to court one last time to finalize a negligent homicide defense that will change the nature of their company and their lives forever.

    Director: Eric Stoltz

    Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

  • Witness for the Prosecution
    8.0/10412 votes
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    #10 - Witness for the Prosecution

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/2018

    The DA hires Bull to help convict Hazel Diaz, an infamous drug dealer who murdered a police officer but has managed to avoid jail for years on an insanity defense by feigning schizophrenia.

    Director: Alex Pillai

    Writer: Marissa Matteo

  • Excessive Force
    8.0/10366 votes
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    #11 - Excessive Force

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2018

    When the team consults for the NYPD on the defense of a police officer accused of excessive force in the shooting of an unarmed man, the social politics surrounding the case create tension within their own ranks.

    Director: Russell Lee Fine

    Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

  • A Girl Without Feelings
    8.0/10340 votes
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    #12 - A Girl Without Feelings

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/2018

    Bull confronts his guilt over closing his psychiatric practice to start TAC when his former patient, a young woman who is a clinical sociopath, goes on trial for killing her brother. When Bull and Benny’s client has no memory of the crime due to her mental condition, they enter a "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" plea and aim to seat jurors that are sympathetic to mental illness.

    Director: Mary Lou Belli

    Writer: Chamblee Smith

  • But for the Grace
    8.0/10318 votes
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    #13 - But for the Grace

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/2018

    Bull takes on a pro bono client who was poorly advised by his public defender to plead guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and is now facing felony manslaughter after the victim dies.

    Director: Dennis Smith

    Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler

  • Split Hairs
    8.0/10289 votes
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    #14 - Split Hairs

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2019

    Bull mounts the defense of New York City’s chief medical examiner, Julia Martin, when she is charged with tampering with evidence tied to the years-old case that made her career. As Bull worries that his client’s propensity for brutal honesty could affect her chances in court, he aims to fill the jury with individuals inclined to believe she made a mistake rather than conspired to tamper with forensic evidence.

    Director: Bethany Rooney

    Writer: Samuel McConnell

  • Forfeiture
    8.0/10289 votes
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    #15 - Forfeiture

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2019

    The TAC team works tandem cases when Chunk represents his first legal client, Darius Lambert, a young man facing federal counterfeiting charges, and Bull represents Darius’ grandfather, Willie Lambert, who may lose his business to the FBI for owning the barbershop where the fake goods were sold.

    Director: Alex Pillai

    Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler

  • A Redemption
    7.9/10337 votes
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    #16 - A Redemption

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/2018

    Bull helps Jim Grayson, a respectable family man who was arrested for changing his identity after being the unwitting getaway driver in a fatal robbery years ago. Bull hopes they can convince the jury that Jim has redeemed himself for his past misdeeds by living an upstanding life for years.

    Director: Alrick Riley

    Writer: H. Park

  • Justified
    7.9/10349 votes
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    #17 - Justified

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/17/2018

    A friend from Bull’s past enlists his services to help convince a jury that a domestic abuse survivor who shot her husband in his sleep is not guilty of murder because she feared for her life and the life of her unborn child.

    Director: Dennis Smith

    Writer: Chamblee Smith

  • The Ground Beneath Their Feet
    7.9/10415 votes
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    #18 - The Ground Beneath Their Feet

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2018

    Bull returns to work following his heart attack with a new rich client for the firm to represent: an insurance company being sued by a dying mother for denying coverage of her liver transplant.

    Director: Bethany Rooney

    Writer: Glenn Gordon Caron

  • Jury Duty
    7.9/10383 votes
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    #19 - Jury Duty

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2018

    Bull finds himself serving jury duty while simultaneously mounting a defense for a woman on trial for killing her daughter's murderer.

    Director: Aaron Lipstadt

    Writer: Pamela J. Wechsler

  • Separation
    7.9/10349 votes
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    #20 - Separation

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2018

    Danny enlists her colleagues to help when her boyfriend, Gabriel, is arrested for being in the country illegally and threatened with deportation. Also, Bull represents a German national who is being sued by a museum over possession of a valuable painting.

    Director: Kevin Berlandi

    Writer: Travis Donnelly

  • Parental Guidance
    7.9/10299 votes
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    #21 - Parental Guidance

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/18/2019

    Bull and the TAC team represent a teen boy raised in complete isolation when the young man goes on trial for murder after engaging in a deadly shootout. As the trial gets underway, Bull looks to select jurors who believe his sheltered client acted under the misguided influence of the only other person he has ever known, his survivalist father.

    Director: Dennis Smith

    Writer: Travis Donnelly

  • Don't Say a Word
    7.9/10292 votes
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    #22 - Don't Say a Word

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/1/2019

    Bull's romantic rival, Diana Lindsay, jeopardizes her career when she secretly has Bull come to Texas to assist a couple fighting against her former client for custody of their grandchildren.

    Director: Alex Pillai

    Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

  • Bounty
    7.9/10274 votes
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    #23 - Bounty

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 4/15/2019

    Danny enlists Bull's help for the assault trial of her former FBI mentor, a bounty hunter who kidnapped the wrong mark during his first assignment.

    Director: Tessa Blake

    Writer: Bill Chais

  • Rectify
    7.9/10278 votes
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    #24 - Rectify

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2019

    Benny’s previous career with the District Attorney’s office comes into focus when Chunk, working with his law professor’s legal clinic, aims to get a new trial for Eddie Mitchell, a man he believes was wrongfully convicted of triple homicide by a prosecution team that included Benny.

    Director: Kevin Berlandi

    Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

  • Imminent Danger
    7.9/10253 votes
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    #25 - Imminent Danger

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/2019

    Bull and the TAC team take a difficult pro bono murder case before the holidays and realize it will take a Christmas miracle to win, as the presiding judge has a grudge against Bull. Also, Marissa pushes for an office Christmas party, and Taylor embarks on a new romance.

    Director: Mary Lou Belli

    Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price