Bull: Season 1

2016 · 23 episodes · ★ 8.4

What Season 1 of Bull

Season 1 of Bull Has 23 episodes and premiered on September 20, 2016. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

23episodes

Sep 20, 2016premiered

May 23, 2017latest episode

16.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 The Necklace
Sep 20, 2016 · 43 min · ★ 7.2
Dr. Jason Bull, the brilliant, brash founder of a prolific trial consulting firm, combines psychology, human intuition and high tech data to create winning strategies that steer high-stakes trials in his clients' favor.
Directing: Rodrigo García · Writing: Paul Attanasio, Phil McGraw · Starring: Dena Tyler, Luke Slattery, Katherine Reis, Frederick Weller
1x02 The Woman in 8D
Sep 27, 2016 · 43 min · ★ 7.4
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.
Directing: Douglas Aarniokoski · Writing: David Wilcox, Mark Goffman · Starring: Geoffrey Blake, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Malin Barr, Kendall Lloyd
1x03 Unambiguous
Oct 11, 2016 · 43 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Jan Eliasberg · Writing: Elizabeth Kruger, Craig Shapiro · Starring: Will Tomi, Josh Alscher
1x04 Callisto
Oct 18, 2016 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
When Bull and Trial Analysis Corporation (TAC) help a young woman fight a drug patent lawsuit, they’re forced to travel to Callisto, the small Texan town where Bull suffered the only trial loss of his career.
Directing: Dennis Smith, Dennis Smith · Writing: Jesse Stern · Starring: Jill Flint
1x05 Just Tell the Truth
Oct 25, 2016 · 43 min
Bull turns down a major pay day for his company in order to assist a cook accused of murdering his socialite fiancé when he realizes the man's confession to the crime was coerced by the police. Also when Marissa, Cable, and Danny find out Chunk is going on a date with a man he doesn't know well, they try to convince him to use their collective skills to investigate him beforehand.
Directing: Peter Werner · Writing: Cole Maliska · Starring: Zach Appelman, Kelcy Griffin
1x06 Bedside Manner
Nov 15, 2016 · 43 min
Bull must find a way to reverse the negative effect his egomaniacal client, a surgeon with a God complex being sued for malpractice, has on the jury. Also, Bull hires Liberty Davis, a previous client's attorney, when he decides Benny may not be sympathetic enough to the jurors.
Directing: Paul A. Edwards · Writing: Dan Dietz
1x07 Never Saw the Sign
Nov 22, 2016 · 43 min
Bull uncovers a conspiracy involving a corrupt assemblyman (John Ventimiglia) while helping a new client facing vehicular manslaughter charges. Also, Danny and Cable investigate why Marissa is acting and dressing differently.
Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Mark Goffman, Elizabeth Peterson · Starring: John Ventimiglia, Dan Mc Cabe, Lucca De Oliveira
1x08 Too Perfect
Dec 6, 2016 · 43 min · ★ 7.2
Bull's efforts to assist with his ex-wife Isabella Colón's defense in a wrongful death lawsuit are hindered by unresolved issues from their marriage and her longstanding rift with her brother, Benny.
Directing: Dan Lerner · Writing: Elizabeth Peterson · Starring: Yara Martinez, Lee Garrett, Jénel Stevens, Ned Eisenberg
1x09 Light My Fire
Dec 13, 2016 · 43 min
Dr. Bull confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home, assisting in the arson defense of a young man whose contentious ties to the town mirror Bull's own.
Directing: Dennis Smith, Dennis Smith · Writing: David Wilcox · Starring: Owen Campbell, Catherine Curtin, Grainger Hines, Joseph Adams
1x10 E.J.
Jan 3, 2017 · 43 min
When Bull assists CEO Ginny Bretton, whose company is accused of killing an employee with its self-driving car, he discovers his client is keeping a major secret that could sabotage a trial win.
Directing: Brad Turner · Writing: Paul Attanasio, David Hoselton · Starring: Robert Gorrie
1x11 Teacher's Pet
Jan 17, 2017 · 43 min
An attorney for one of Bull's former clients, Liberty Davis, asks him to consult on a couple's civil suit against a teacher who had a sexual relationship with their son. However, his trial strategy suffers a major setback when the teen switches to the teacher's side.
Directing: Holly Dale · Writing: Chris Erric Maddox, Indira G. Wilson · Starring: Huw Collins, Willa Fitzgerald
1x12 Stockholm Syndrome
Jan 24, 2017 · 43 min
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.
Directing: Jet Wilkinson · Writing: Phil McGraw, Jesse Stern
1x13 The Fall
Feb 7, 2017 · 43 min
Bull helps disgraced Titanfall multiplayer champion Jace (Omar Maskati) file a suit against his former employer, after the employer publicly accuses Jace of intentionally losing a championship match and fires him.
Directing: Douglas Aarniokoski · Writing: David Hoselton, Thomas Wong · Starring: Alexa Mansour, Omar Maskati, Amy Rutberg, Michael James Shaw
1x14 It's Classified
Feb 14, 2017 · 43 min · ★ 8.8
Bull comes to the defense of a military intelligence officer who leaked documents, leaving TAC offline and Benny in hot water.
Directing: Dennis Smith, Dennis Smith · Writing: Ashley Gable · Starring: Giullian Yao Gioiello, Holly Curran, Donnie Keshawarz, Linda Powell
1x15 What's Your Number?
Feb 21, 2017 · 43 min
After a skybridge collapse kills fifteen people, Bull helps prosecute a New York real estate tycoon (and his landlord), only to discover he's a sociopath who will do anything to win, whether it be hiring one of Bull's toughest opponents as his attorney, bribing the mirror jurors, or shutting down the power in TAC. Meanwhile, Benny learns that he is being investigated by the DA's office.
Directing: Edward Ornelas · Writing: Cole Maliska · Starring: Armando Riesco, Samrat Chakrabarti, Nick Sullivan, Toby Leonard Moore
1x16 Free Fall
Mar 7, 2017 · 43 min
The Governor of Connecticut takes his senior office staff skydiving and dies when his parachute fails to deploy; the owner of the skydiving company is also killed attempting to save the Governor. Bull offers his services to the skydiving company, now run by the owner's daughter, after they are sued by the Governor's widow. Meanwhile, Bull is challenged by the widow's counsel, occassional trial partner Liberty Davis, while Danny investigates possible sabotage.
Directing: Jan Eliasberg · Writing: John A. Norris · Starring: Michael James Shaw, Dena Tyler, Amelia Workman, Andrew Stewart-Jones
1x17 Name Game
Mar 28, 2017 · 43 min
Bull funds a class-action lawsuit pitting thousands of victims against a bank that ran a corrupt pump-and-dump investment division, which puts his business at risk. Unbeknownst to Bull, Benny is being haunted by a trial from his past, which throws him off his game and threatens the success of the suit.
Directing: Laura Belsey · Writing: Pamela J. Wechsler · Starring: Cristina Rosato, Kurt Fuller, Paul Fitzgerald, Ian Lithgow
1x18 Dressed to Kill
Apr 4, 2017 · 43 min
The bond between Chunk and Bull is tested when TAC takes on as a client the prime suspect in the death of Chunk's fashion mentor killed during her own show. Meanwhile, Bull rekindles a romance with one of his toughest opponents.
Directing: Larry Teng · Writing: Ashley Gable · Starring: Jill Flint
1x19 Bring It On
Apr 18, 2017 · 43 min
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.
Directing: Douglas Aarniokoski · Writing: Simran Baidwan · Starring: Adam Aalderks, David A. Gregory
1x20 Make Me
May 2, 2017 · 43 min
A young man he believes was brainwashed by a cult-like spiritual learning center to kill his father. Also, Danny and Chunk go undercover at the learning center to find the perpetrator responsible for their client's reprogramming.
Directing: Tricia Brock · Writing: Mary Leah Sutton
1x21 How to Dodge a Bullet
May 9, 2017 · 43 min
Bull makes a deal with top criminal attorney J.P. Nunnelly to defend Benny when he goes to trial for misconduct in a case related to his former career with the District Attorney's office.
Directing: Russell Lee Fine · Writing: John A. Norris, Glenn Gordon Caron · Starring: Eliza Dushku
1x22 Dirty Little Secrets
May 16, 2017 · 43 min
Bull works with top criminal defense attorney J.P. Nunnelly 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 flies that could help identify the source of a recent eco-terrorist attack.
Directing: Dennis Smith, Dennis Smith · Writing: David Hoselton, Glenn Gordon Caron · Starring: Eliza Dushku
1x23 Benevolent Deception Season Finale
May 23, 2017 · 43 min
Bull and the Trial Analysis Corp. team travel to Miami with top criminal defense attorney J.P. Nunnelly to work on a controversial drug trafficking case in which both the client's and the jurors' lives are in danger.
Directing: Douglas Aarniokoski · Writing: Glenn Gordon Caron, Mark Goffman · Starring: Eliza Dushku, Charlie Semine, James Martinez