7.9/10416 votes#1 - 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
7.9/10385 votes#2 - 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
8.0/10368 votes#3 - 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
8.3/10374 votes#4 - 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
7.5/10343 votes#5 - The Missing Piece
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2018
Bull joins the defense team of a seemingly unwinnable case when a doctor is put on trial for murder after his submission to a DNA database links him to a homicide. While Bull and Benny work on selecting jurors who are predisposed to trust their instincts instead of incontrovertible evidence, Danny and Mackenzie research if their client's DNA sample may have been contaminated.
Director: Stacey K. Black
Writer: Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka
7.8/10323 votes#6 - Fool Me Twice
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2018
Bull and the TAC team help one of their own when Marissa’s restaurateur husband, Greg, is charged with involuntary manslaughter after one of his employees dies in a kitchen fire allegedly caused by negligence. During voire dire, Bull and Benny aim to select jurors who will believe the fire was an accident and not a pattern of irresponsible management.
Director: Michael Smith
Writer: Sarah H. Haught
8.0/10342 votes#7 - 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
8.0/10320 votes#8 - 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
7.9/10350 votes#9 - 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
7.1/10317 votes#10 - A Higher Law
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2018
Bull agrees to have TAC represent a priest who is charged in a fatal hit-and-run after he’s found behind the wheel of the church van involved in the crash. But the case is complicated when the priest claims that the actual driver confessed to him, but he can’t reveal that person’s identity due to the confidentiality that comes with confession.
Director: Carl Seaton
Writer: Steven Paul Martinez
7.5/10299 votes#11 - Separate Together
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2019
Bull and his on-again, off-again romantic rival, Diana Lindsay, join forces to create two separate but collaborative defense teams when Diana's niece and her husband are charged with armed robbery. As the trial gets underway, Bull's reunion with Diana is strained by his new post-heart attack regimen.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: Bill Chais
8.0/10291 votes#12 - 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
7.6/10288 votes#13 - Prior Bad Acts
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2019
Bull’s new relationship with Diana, his on-again romantic rival, is complicated by his renewed feelings for his ex-wife, Isabella, when they’re reunited by the sudden death of her and Benny’s father. Also, a deceased tech billionaire’s brother comes to TAC for help in bringing suit against the doctor he holds personally responsible for the tycoon’s death.
Director: Dan Lerner
Writer: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price
7.8/10273 votes#14 - Leave It All Behind
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2019
Bull aims to raise reasonable doubt among the jurors in his friend Nathan’s trial when the man is tried for his wife’s murder and the prosecution’s case is based on circumstantial evidence.
Director: Michael Smith
Writer: Sarah H. Haught
7.7/10281 votes#15 - Security Fraud
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2019
Bull gets to work alongside his idol, Walter Franklin, a legendary lawyer who asks him to help a family bring suit against the U.S. government for the wrong death of a man killed while in witness protection. As the trial gets underway, Bull’s admiration for Walter is tested when the eminent litigator begins to deviate from Bull’s advice in court.
Director: Jono Oliver
Writer: Marissa Matteo
8.0/10290 votes#16 - 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
7.9/10301 votes#17 - 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
7.9/10293 votes#18 - 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
7.9/10275 votes#19 - 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
7.8/10289 votes#20 - The Good One
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2019
Bull fears that his client’s family ties will negatively impact the jury when TAC represents the seemingly innocent young heir, Connor McCandless, of an infamous crime family on trial for murder with his brother. As the trial begins, Bull aims to convince his client to sever his trial from his brother’s, which would pit the siblings against each other in court.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Travis Donnelly, Steven Paul Martinez
7.4/10275 votes#21 - When the Rains Came
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2019
Bull helps mount a defense for Taylor’s brother-in-law, Ralph Kelly, a prison guard charged with manslaughter for the drowning deaths of two inmates in the middle of a hurricane. During the trial, Bull aims to convince the jury that his client tried to prevent a “greater harm” when he abandoned his prison command to evacuate his own family.
Director: Bethany Rooney
Writer: Sarah H. Haught, Chamblee Smith
8.1/10292 votes#22 - 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
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Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.
Genres:CrimeDramaComedy
Network:CBS
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"The Ground Beneath Their Feet" is the best rated episode of "Bull" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 416 votes. Directed by Bethany Rooney and written by Glenn Gordon Caron, it aired on 9/24/2018. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Jury Duty".