Doctor Killer

"**Doctor Killer**" is the seventh episode of the fourth season and the seventy-fourth episode overall of the legal drama series *Bull*, which was aired on November 4, 2019.

## Summary

Bull has a difficult time defending a client who has confessed to accidentally killing the doctor who tried an experimental treatment on his sister, only to later learn that the treatment had never been tested on humans. It turns out the client is covering for his sister's son, who followed the doctor down a street and pushed him into a chain-link fence. The fence's gate was left unlocked, and the doctor plunged into a construction pit to his death. With the son now on trial, the prosecution tries to paint him as aggressive and having no remorse, leaving Chunk to work overtime preparing the teen. Meanwhile, Taylor does some digging and learns the doctor had been given a $500,000 advance from the pharma company to test the treatment on a human, and was only a week away from having to pay back the money due to the contract expiring.

## Recap

A woman named Lily who is diagnosed with cancer that’s spreading to her brain and has limited time to live is given the opportunity to try new medicine to try to help the cancer, Dr. Weber tells the family it’s in the first phase clinical trials.

She’s given 12 weeks to live but her brother and son tell Dr. Weber they want to try it, Eventually Lily dies and her brother Jonathan confronts Dr. Weber while out at a restaurant. Jonathan tells him that he found out from a reporter the drugs have never been used in a human and Dr. Weber admits to this; they have a heated discussion and Dr. Weber walks away.

Jonathan walks into Bull’s office admitting to killing the doctor by pushing him 50 feet into a concrete pit, Bull decides to take him as a client stating he feels he is innocent. The team gets surveillance cameras from the neighborhood and they see Jonathan and his nephew Andrew on the camera, Bull comes to the conclusion that Jonathan didn’t kill Dr. Weber but his nephew Andrew did.

Jonathan admits that the night of the incident he told Andrew he saw Dr. Weber and Andrew confronts him, yelling and screaming about killing his mother but the Dr keeps turning his back and Andrew pushes him into the pit.

Andrew ends up turning himself into the precinct Bull and Benny go down there to represent him. Andrew states he turned himself in to prevent his uncle from taking the blame.

Chuck tries to prepare Andrew for what to expect in the courtroom and tells him he needs to look like he cares for the crime. During the trial, Jonathan is called to the stand and questioned about the night of the incident and he’s asked what took place.

During the questioning, the prosecutor plays a tape of Andrew being aggressive towards a hockey player during a game to paint him as violent. The nurse who worked with Dr. Weber is questioned about Weber’s practice and him not telling the patient about the drug not being used on a human being before.

Taylor does some digging up into Dr. Weber and the pharmaceutical company that Lily was given the medication from and it turns out they paid Dr. Weber to find a patient who had cancer to try the drug. They also gave him $500,000 in advance and two years to do this. The other 17 patients he told about the drug and how it’s never been tested on humans declined the drug, and with only a week left to his contract he approached Lily, leading the team to believe he didn’t tell Lily the risk in order to complete his contract and not be liable to pay back the $500,000 advance given to him.

During the trial, the pharmaceutical company is called to testify and they confirm Dr. Weber only had a few days to repay the money given to him and that the drugs haven’t been proven to work on humans, Andrew decides to take the stand and he’s acquitted of the crime.

Chuck continues to deal with some personal family issues with his daughter and he reassures her she didn’t let him down.

## Cast

### Main

* Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull
* Freddy Rodriguez as Benjamin Colón
* Geneva Carr as Marissa Morgan
* Christopher Jackson as Chunk Palmer
* Jaime Lee Kirchner as Danielle James
* MacKenzie Meehan as Taylor Rentzel

### Recurring

* Jazzy Kae as Anna Baker (credited as Jazzy Williams)

### Guest

* Ray Proscia as Jonathan Zbyszek
* Johan Gran as Andrew Zbyszek
* Jason Liebman as Dr. Floyd Weber
* Hampton Fluker as ADA Maxwell
* Alicia Harding as Lily Zbyszek
* Sally A. Stewart as Judge Connie Yarlborough
* Mandela Bellamy as Brenda Novack
* Doug Trapp as Dr. Bryce Winters

## Trivia

* When Bull hears something which may make him win the trial, he quotes Fred Flintone's famous phrase: Yabba Dabba Doo

## Quotes

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