Bull: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Bull Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
The Ground Beneath Their Feet
Sep 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 live
Jury Duty
Oct 1, 2018
Bull finds himself serving jury duty while simultaneously mounting a defense for a woman on trial for killing her daughter's murderer.
Excessive Force
Oct 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
Justice for Cable
Oct 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 ho
The Missing Piece
Oct 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 B
Fool Me Twice
Oct 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 al
A Girl Without Feelings
Nov 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 brothe
But for the Grace
Nov 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
Separation
Dec 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 nat
A Higher Law
Dec 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 complica
Separate Together
Jan 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 wi
Split Hairs
Jan 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. A
Prior Bad Acts
Feb 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
Leave It All Behind
Feb 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
Security Fraud
Feb 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 w
Forfeiture
Feb 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' grandfa
Parental Guidance
Mar 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,
Don't Say a Word
Apr 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 gra
Bounty
Apr 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.
The Good One
Apr 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 tr
When the Rains Came
May 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. D
Pillar of Salt
May 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.