Bull: Season 5

2020 · 16 episodes · ★ 7.8

What Season 5 of Bull

Season 5 of Bull has 16 episodes and premiered on November 16, 2020. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

16episodes

Nov 16, 2020Aired

May 17, 2021latest episode

11.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 My Corona
Nov 16, 2020 · 43 min
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.
Directing: Glenn Gordon Caron · Writing: Glenn Gordon Caron · Starring: Yara Martinez, Josh Hamilton, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Daniel Oreskes
5x02 The Great Divide
Nov 23, 2020 · 43 min
The TAC team experiences a conflict of interest in court when Benny represents the plaintiff and Chunk represents the defendant in the same civil suit, where a mother sues a young artist she deems responsible for her daughter's death.
Directing: Michael Weatherly · Writing: Pamela J. Wechsler · Starring: Yara Martinez, Sasha Frolova, Mercedes Ruehl, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
5x03 Prison Break
Nov 30, 2020 · 43 min
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.
Directing: Eric Stoltz · Writing: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price · Starring: Yara Martinez, Britne Oldford, Jacob Pitts, Jeanine Serralles
5x04 The Ex Factor
Dec 14, 2020 · 43 min
TAC braces for an un-jolly Christmas when Bull and Benny represent Marissa and her estranged husband, Greg, in federal court after they're charged with money laundering and fraud connected to Greg's restaurant. As Bull and Benny defend the divorcing couple together so the prosecution can't use them against each other, they search for jurors who will believe Marissa had no knowledge of Greg's business dealings. Also, as Bull and Izzy prepare to baptize Astrid before the Christmas holiday, they reach an impasse regarding what they want from their renewed relationship.
Directing: Dan Lerner · Writing: Marissa Matteo, Glenn Gordon Caron · Starring: Yara Martinez, Steve Witting, David Furr, Jenny Jules
5x05 Fallen Idols
Jan 4, 2021 · 43 min
Bull worries he can't convince a jury his religious leader client didn't kill his wife when a major secret the pastor is hiding about the marriage is revealed, damaging his credibility in court.
Directed by: Kevin Berlandi · Written by: Steven Paul Martinez · Starring: Yara Martinez, Daoud Heidami, Todd Susman, Rey Lucas
5x06 To Save a Life
Jan 18, 2021 · 43 min
Bull and Chunk represent an emergency room doctor being sued for malpractice after she ignored direct orders to save one near-death patient in favor of helping another who was also critically injured.
Directed by: Bethany Rooney · Written by: Chamblee Smith · Starring: Yara Martinez, Amber Gray, Maddie Corman, Teagle F. Bougere
5x07 The Head of the Goat
Jan 25, 2021 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Bull and Benny mount a difficult federal trial defense for a young mother accused of aiding and abetting her extremist husband in an act of domestic terrorism. When the controversial case makes news, Benny's commitment to TAC complicates his burgeoning political career.
Directing: Michael Smith · Writing: Sarah H. Haught · Starring: Yara Martinez, Daisy Garrison, Celeste Oliva, Daniel Passaro
5x08 Cloak and Beaker
Feb 8, 2021 · 43 min · ★ 7.8
Bull heads to federal court for a client accused of stealing his own scientific research from the company he works for, a corporation he says buried his ground-breaking work because selling medication is more profitable than curing diseases
Directing: Dennis Smith · Writing: Steven Paul Martinez · Starring: Yara Martinez, Frank Wood, Victor Williams, T. Ryder Smith
5x09 The Bad Client
Feb 22, 2021 · 43 min
Bull uses the First Amendment's freedom of speech to defend a controversial news commentator blamed for a man's suicide after she accused him on air of murder
Directing: Eric Stoltz · Writing: Travis Donnelly · Starring: Callie Thorne, Michael Park, Victor Slezak, Stacey Roca
5x10 The Boy Who Cried Murder
Mar 15, 2021 · 43 min
Izzy asks Bull to petition the court to have her best friend's body exhumed when the woman's son alleges she was murdered, despite her death already ruled accidental.
Directed by: Dennis Smith · Written by: Zyanya Salazar · Starring: Yara Martinez, Aryaan Arora, Michael Maliakel, Samrat Chakrabarti
5x11 Truth and Reconciliation
Apr 12, 2021 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
The origin story of TAC is revealed through flashbacks when Bull tries to get a new trial for the wrongly convicted prisoner who inspired him to work in trial science 12 years earlier.
Directed by: Deborah Reinisch · Written by: Gia Gordon · Starring: Yara Martinez, Cyrus Farmer, Adams Desir, Chance K. Smith
5x12 Evidence to the Contrary
Apr 19, 2021 · 43 min
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.
Directing: Carl Seaton · Writing: Leland Jay Anderson · Starring: Yara Martinez, Cyrus Farmer, Adams Desir, Adrianna Mitchell
5x13 Law of the Jungle
Apr 26, 2021 · 43 min
Bull is hired to help a woman determined to go against legal advice when she insists on pleading guilty to the murder of a wealthy philanthropist who preyed on her a teenager.
Directed by: Joe Morton · Written by: Marissa Matteo · Starring: Yara Martinez, Alexa Mareka, Talene Monahon, Veanne Cox
5x14 Under the Influence
May 3, 2021 · 43 min
Chunk does his daughter, Anna, a favor and convinces Bull to represent a teenager on trial robbery, a defendant who faces an uphill battle in court when he refuses to name his accomplice. Also, Chunk is suspicious of Anna's older boyfriend who's a writer with the financial resources to pay the legal fees for TAC's teen client, and Taylor's forced to lean on her ex-husband's girlfriend as childcare for her son when the trial has her working around the clock.
Directing: Geary McLeod · Writing: Nichole Millard, Kathryn Price · Starring: Yara Martinez, Kaden Alexander Hughes, Jazzy Kae, Stacey Sargeant
5x15 Snatchback
May 10, 2021 · 43 min
Bull aims to win over a federal jury without the use of hard evidence when TAC represents Hank Alston, a child recovery agent charged with fraud for not having documented proof of his covert work. Also, Izzy wants Benny to consider hitting back at his opponent in the District Attorney race when the other candidate engages in mudslinging before an important debate
Directed by: Martha Mitchell · Written by: Sarah H. Haught · Starring: Yara Martinez, Gino Anthony Pesi, Armando Riesco, Gillian Saker
5x16 A Friend in Need Season Finale
May 17, 2021 · 43 min
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.
Directed by: Eric Stoltz · Written by: Pamela J. Wechsler, Travis Donnelly · Starring: Yara Martinez, David Wilson Barnes, Michelle Wilson, Joe Grifasi