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Dr. Jason Bull is the brilliant, brash, and charming founder of a hugely successful trial consulting firm.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Bull Season 4 Episode 13 - Child of Mine
    5.7/10(318 votes)

    #1 - Child of Mine

    S4:E13

    Bull and Benny represent a couple being sued by their baby's biological father for custody after a fertility clinic mistakenly used the wrong man's sample. As family court cases are solely decided by a judge, Bull and Benny worry about their best strategy at trial without a jury for TAC to analyze.

    Director:Dennis Smith
    Writer:Marissa Matteo

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  2. Bull Season 3 Episode 1 - The Ground Beneath Their Feet
    6.2/10(442 votes)

    #2 - The Ground Beneath Their Feet

    S3:E1

    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

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  3. Bull Season 3 Episode 2 - Jury Duty
    6.5/10(406 votes)

    #3 - Jury Duty

    S3:E2

    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

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  4. Bull Season 5 Episode 1 - My Corona
    6.5/10(594 votes)

    #4 - My Corona

    S5:E1

    Bull and the TAC team struggle to adjust to a virtual court system as they weather the New York City shutdown due to the coronavirus.

    Director:Glenn Gordon Caron
    Writer:Glenn Gordon Caron

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  5. Bull Season 5 Episode 12 - Evidence to the Contrary
    6.5/10(304 votes)

    #5 - Evidence to the Contrary

    S5:E12

    Bull and the TAC team worry about jury bias when Bull mounts a murder trial defense for a Black Lives Matter activist who is also the son of the wrongly convicted man who inspired Bull to start his trial science company.

    Director:Carl Seaton
    Writer:Leland Jay Anderson

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  6. Bull Season 6 Episode 4 - Uneasy Lies the Crown
    6.5/10(227 votes)

    #6 - Uneasy Lies the Crown

    S6:E4

    Bull faces uncertainty in court, when TAC handles a class action suit against a vaping company selling malfunctioning devices, and the trial outcome hinges on just one juror. Marissa takes the initiative when Bull ignores TAC's growing financial difficulties.

    Director:Dan Lerner
    Writer:Steven Paul Martinez

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  7. Bull Season 6 Episode 9 - False Positive
    6.5/10(244 votes)

    #7 - False Positive

    S6:E9

    Bull helps a grieving mother, Vernice, sue the developers of a computer program that misidentified her son as a criminal, leading him to be fatally shot by the police. Also, Bull and Marissa clash when she considers a job offer from a rival company.

    Director:Eric Stoltz
    Writer:Leland Jay Anderson

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  8. Bull Season 2 Episode 5 - Play The Hand You're Dealt
    7.0/10(531 votes)

    #8 - Play The Hand You're Dealt

    S2:E5

    Bull navigates the unfamiliar rules of a Native American tribal court when his college roommate is accused of committing murder on a reservation. Also, Bull meets Marissa's new boyfriend.

    Director:Edward Ornelas
    Writer:Travis Donnelly

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  9. Bull Season 2 Episode 10 - Home for the Holidays
    7.0/10(563 votes)

    #9 - Home for the Holidays

    S2:E10

    As Christmas approaches, Bull is amused when he meets a 9-year-old girl who wants to hire him to help her divorce her parents, but he's shocked when a judge appoints him her temporary guardian. Also, Marissa discovers disturbing information about her boyfriend, Kyle.

    Director:Michael Smith
    Writers:Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka

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  10. Bull Season 2 Episode 18 - Bad Medicine
    7.0/10(386 votes)

    #10 - Bad Medicine

    S2:E18

    Bull helps a doctor who crossed state lines to purchase a marijuana-derived oil to treat her patients in Virginia, where the oil is illegal. But the case is complicated when Assistant U.S. Attorney Sylvia Banner has the DEA arrest her for possession with intent to distribute.

    Director:Bethany Rooney
    Writer:Erica Peterson

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  11. Bull Season 3 Episode 5 - The Missing Piece
    7.0/10(364 votes)

    #11 - The Missing Piece

    S3:E5

    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
    Writers:Veronica West, Sarah Kucserka

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  12. Bull Season 3 Episode 7 - A Girl Without Feelings
    7.0/10(366 votes)

    #12 - A Girl Without Feelings

    S3:E7

    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

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  13. Bull Season 3 Episode 9 - Separation
    7.0/10(373 votes)

    #13 - Separation

    S3:E9

    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

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  14. Bull Season 3 Episode 15 - Security Fraud
    7.0/10(301 votes)

    #14 - Security Fraud

    S3:E15

    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

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  15. Bull Season 3 Episode 17 - Parental Guidance
    7.0/10(322 votes)

    #15 - Parental Guidance

    S3:E17

    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

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  16. Bull Season 3 Episode 18 - Don't Say a Word
    7.0/10(309 votes)

    #16 - Don't Say a Word

    S3:E18

    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
    Writers:Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

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  17. Bull Season 4 Episode 2 - Fantastica Voyage
    7.0/10(334 votes)

    #17 - Fantastica Voyage

    S4:E2

    Bull sees a visionary whereas the federal government sees a con woman, when he helps the defense of a charismatic entrepreneur, Whitney Holland, who's accused of defrauding investors in her seemingly groundbreaking water filtration system company. As the trial gets underway, Bull focuses on selecting jurors whose belief systems allow them to see his client as a dreamer who never meant criminal intent.

    Director:Michael Weatherly
    Writer:Pamela J. Wechsler

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  18. Bull Season 4 Episode 3 - Rectify
    7.0/10(299 votes)

    #18 - Rectify

    S4:E3

    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
    Writers:Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

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  19. Bull Season 4 Episode 4 - Her Own Two Feet
    7.0/10(296 votes)

    #19 - Her Own Two Feet

    S4:E4

    Bull helps a famous social media influencer, Sadie Washington, take her father to court to overturn his legal guardianship over her empire, which he was granted after the young mogul suffered a public mental breakdown. To counteract any jury bias Sadie faces due to the public's perception of her mental illness, they aim to select jurors who believe in giving people second chances.

    Director:Dan Lerner
    Writer:Sarah H. Haught

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  20. Bull Season 4 Episode 5 - Billboard Justice
    7.0/10(306 votes)

    #20 - Billboard Justice

    S4:E5

    Taylor becomes personally invested in having Bull help a dancer, Jessica, bring a civil suit against a real estate mogul who assaulted her at a gentlemen's club when the district attorney's office refuses to pursue criminal charges. As the TAC team faces an uphill battle in court due to the defendant's fame and popularity, Bull aims to select jurors who believe privileged people don't deserve special treatment.

    Director:Aaron Lipstadt
    Writer:Travis Donnelly

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  21. Bull Season 4 Episode 11 - Look Back in Anger
    7.0/10(284 votes)

    #21 - Look Back in Anger

    S4:E11

    Bull looks to select jurors who can empathize with an individual's need for personal privacy when he helps Marissa's friend sue a notable philanthropic businessman for abusing him as a child.

    Director:Tessa Blake
    Writer:Sarah H. Haught

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  22. Bull Season 4 Episode 12 - Behind the Ivy
    7.0/10(269 votes)

    #22 - Behind the Ivy

    S4:E12

    Chunk's friend asks Bull to help the parents of an athletic scholarship student bring a wrongful death suit against the school after the teen dies suddenly while training.

    Director:Alex Pillai
    Writer:Steven Paul Martinez

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  23. Bull Season 4 Episode 17 - The Invisible Woman
    7.0/10(247 votes)

    #23 - The Invisible Woman

    S4:E17

    Bull takes on the trial defense of Dr. Natalie Reznick, an expert on anthrax, who is accused of orchestrating a series of anthrax attacks that terrorize the city. While the facts are against her, Bull sets out to prove the city was in such a rush to get the bacteria off the streets and calm the public's hysteria, they arrested the wrong person.

    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Sarah H. Haught

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  24. Bull Season 4 Episode 19 - The Sovereign
    7.0/10(289 votes)

    #24 - The Sovereign

    S4:E19

    Bull mounts the defense of an idealistic state judge, Judge Duggan (Kelcy Griffin), who's on trial for obstruction of justice after she helped a trial witness evade federal arrest in her courtroom. During voir dire, Benny looks for jurors who believe the law is open to interpretation and that Judge Duggan broke the law to uphold courtrooms as sacred spaces within the justice system.

    Director:Carlos Bernard
    Writer:Pamela J. Wechsler

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  25. Bull Season 5 Episode 3 - Prison Break
    7.0/10(281 votes)

    #25 - Prison Break

    S5:E3

    Bull assists Chunk as he represents a convict from his law school's legal aid clinic, a woman accused of killing a guard while trying to escape during a prison transport. While the prosecution alleges the woman shot the guard as she tried to flee, Chunk argues that she is being falsely accused by a guard who attempted to sexually assault her during the transport.

    Director:Eric Stoltz
    Writers:Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Child of Mine" is the worst rated episode of "Bull". It scored 5.7/10 based on 318 votes. Directed by Dennis Smith and written by Marissa Matteo, it aired on 2/3/2020. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Ground Beneath Their Feet".