The BEST episodes of Bull (2016) season 1

Every episode of Bull (2016) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Bull (2016) season 1!

Dr. Jason Bull is the charming and cocky founder of successful trial consulting firm Trial Analysis Corporation, where he and his team of experts employ psychology, human intuition and high-tech data to understand jurors, lawyers, witnesses and defendants, and construct effective narratives to help their clients win.

Last Updated: 11/5/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
Dirty Little Secrets
star
7.86
1433 votes

#1 - Dirty Little Secrets

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/2017

Bull works with J.P. Nunnelly on the first of three cases to repay her for defending his brother, 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 client files that could help identify the source of a recent eco-terrorist attack.

Directors: Dennis Smith
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How To Dodge A Bullet
star
7.85
1469 votes

#2 - How To Dodge A Bullet

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/2017

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.

Directors: Russell Lee Fine
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Benevolent Deception
star
7.84
1435 votes

#3 - Benevolent Deception

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/23/2017

Bull and the Trial Analysis, Corp. team travel to Miami with J.P. Nunnelly to work on a controversial drug trafficking case in which both the clients’ and the jurors’ lives are in danger.

Writer: Mark Goffman
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Make Me
star
7.81
1437 votes

#4 - Make Me

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/2017

Bull aims to prove temporary insanity at a murder trial for his client, Troy Dickerson, 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.

Directors: Tricia Brock
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What's Your Number
star
7.79
1573 votes

#5 - What's Your Number

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/2017

When Bull assists the U.S. Attorney’s Office with a manslaughter trial against a real estate magnate, Andrew Withrow, he finds himself once again opposing Diana Lindsay, his romantic rival. As the case gets underway, Bull’s penchant for winning goes into overdrive when he realizes the defendant is a clinical sociopath determined to use Diana to antagonize him during the proceedings.

Directors: Edward Ornelas
Writer: Cole Maliska
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Stockholm Syndrome
star
7.77
1558 votes

#6 - Stockholm Syndrome

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2017

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.

Directors: Jet Wilkinson
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Never Saw the Sign
star
7.75
1718 votes

#7 - Never Saw the Sign

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2016

As Bull assists a man facing vehicular manslaughter charges, he uncovers a connection between his client’s trial and a corrupt state assemblyman who would greatly benefit from a guilty verdict. Also, Danny and Cable team up to investigate why Marissa is suddenly acting and dressing differently.

Directors: Peter Leto
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Bring It On
star
7.73
1456 votes

#8 - Bring It On

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/18/2017

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.

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Light My Fire
star
7.73
1667 votes

#9 - Light My Fire

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/2016

Bull confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home to assist in the arson defense of a young man whose contentious ties to the town mirror Bull’s own.

Directors: Dennis Smith
Writer: David Wilcox
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Dressed to Kill
star
7.70
1467 votes

#10 - Dressed to Kill

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/4/2017

Bull and Chunk’s bond is tested when Bull helps the prime suspect in the murder of Chunk’s fashion mentor, Nella Wester, a model-turned-designer who was killed during her own runway show.

Directors: Larry Teng
Writer: Ashley Gable
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Just Tell the Truth
star
7.70
1849 votes

#11 - Just Tell the Truth

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2016

When the parents of a murdered socialite attempt to hire Bull to help prosecute their daughter's working-class fiancé for the crime, Bull turns down a major payday when he chooses to help defend the fiancé instead. Also, Marissa, Cable and Danny try to convince Chunk to let them investigate the new guy he wants to date.

Directors: Peter Werner
Writer: Cole Maliska
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Too Perfect
star
7.69
1661 votes

#12 - Too Perfect

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/2016

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.

Directors: Dan Lerner
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It's Classified
star
7.68
1542 votes

#13 - It's Classified

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/2017

When Bull has Benny defend a whistle-blowing army analyst, Lt. Tamsin Dale, who is being court martialed, the case causes trust issues between them after Benny won’t share redacted government secrets with the rest of the team. Also, Marissa forces the office to work without its usual technology to avoid being hacked during the case.

Directors: Dennis Smith
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The Fall
star
7.68
1503 votes

#14 - The Fall

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/2017

When Bull helps a professional eSports video game player accused of throwing a championship game sue his former team manager for defamation, his trial strategy is to prove his client is a compulsive winner who is psychologically incapable of losing on purpose.

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Callisto
star
7.67
1937 votes

#15 - Callisto

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/2016

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.

Directors: Dennis Smith
Writer: Jesse Stern
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Bedside Manner
star
7.66
1827 votes

#16 - Bedside Manner

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/2016

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.

Directors: Paul A. Edwards
Writer: Dan Dietz
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The Woman in 8D
star
7.66
2273 votes

#17 - The Woman in 8D

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2016

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.

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Name Game
star
7.66
1479 votes

#18 - Name Game

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/2017

When Bull fronts the money to help thousands of people bring a class action suit against a corrupt bank, he stands to lose his business if he doesn’t win at trial. Also, Benny hurts the case when he’s distracted by his attraction to a client and his anxiety over a secret he’s keeping from Bull,

Directors: Laura Belsey
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Free Fall
star
7.66
1503 votes

#19 - Free Fall

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/7/2017

When a state governor and the co-owner of a skydiving company die during a jump, Bull helps the co-owner’s brother, Max Hyland, and daughter fight a lawsuit filed by the governor’s widow by trying to find who sabotaged the parachute. Also, Bull and his frequent trial collaborator, Liberty Davis, find themselves on opposing sides in court for the first time.

Directors: Jan Eliasberg
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Unambiguous
star
7.64
2086 votes

#20 - Unambiguous

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2016

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

Directors: Jan Eliasberg
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EJ
star
7.62
1590 votes

#21 - EJ

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/3/2017

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

Directors: Brad Turner
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The Necklace
star
7.54
2741 votes

#22 - The Necklace

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2016

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.

Directors: Rodrigo Garcia
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Teacher's Pet
star
7.52
1361 votes

#23 - Teacher's Pet

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/2017

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.

Directors: Holly Dale
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