Dark Horse

"**Dark Horse**" is the seventeenth episode of the sixth season and the one-hundred-twentieth episode overall of the legal drama series *Bull*, which was aired on April 14, 2022.

## Summary

Izzy hires Bull and TAC to defend a jockey accused of committing arson against a stable owner who fired him.

## Recap

Rafael Ramirez was a drunk. He was also once a jockey. He was fired from that job because he was drunk on the job and the horse’s owner hadn’t wanted him to hurt the horse, but Rafael didn’t leave things there. He continued drinking after he got fired. He went to the stables late at night. He claims he saw it already on fire and that he burned his hands trying to open the doors to save his former horse. He also claims that he didn’t know anyone was inside. Nor did he start the fire. Rafael told all of this to Izzy because Izzy was his former mentor and he knew she would believe him and so Izzy involved her husband. She involved Bull.

Izzy wanted to hire TAC to represent Rafael. She believes his claims about his innocence. She even bought the story of how he was found passed out in his car because he panicked and tried to drive drunk. But the man was literally found near the scene. He has a motive because he was fired that day. He wouldn’t have known about the horse trainer staying with the horse because the owner noticed Bold Spirit missed Rafael and he wanted to cheer up his horse. That’s why Lauren was in the building. She was asked to stay with the horse overnight. She died in the fire. Along with the horse. The only person nearby was Rafael.

Rafael looked guilty. Even Bull thought he was guilty. He hadn’t wanted to take this case. His hands were tied because it was his wife hiring him and he couldn’t convince her to let this one go. Izzy believed in Rafael. She then forced Bull to believe in him as well. Bull and his team worked on Rafael’s case and they checked the barn where the fire happened. It turns out that there were tire marks leading to the big house. Not to the barn. Rafael claims he got drunk and thought begging for his job would work. He was technically driving to the big house. His story does hold up in that sense and so he might be telling the truth about the rest of it.

The team believed Rafael might be innocent. They had Chunk make a compelling argument in his opening statement that the fire was an accident and that it could have happened to anyone. But that was a lie. The fire department found an accelerator was used in the fire. The fire wasn’t an accident. It was arson. Someone set the fire using acetone and so the police got a search warrant for Rafael’s storage locker. They didn’t find the acetone, but they did find traces of it that could mean it was being stored there until being moved recently and so that just made Rafael look even more guilty. And it didn’t help that the judge was against them.

The judge was an animal lover. He hated when someone could hurt an animal. Rafael looked really guilty for this and so the judge came to hate him. They tried changing the judge’s perception of Rafael. They put Rafael on the stand. They had him talk about his love for the horse and then that whole testimony got thrown out because Rafael was drunk. The bull came to suspect it once he saw Rafael stagger come off the stand. He later asked Rafael about it in front of Chunk and Rafael tried to deny it, but Bull grabbed his bottle and smelled it. It was vodka. He had been drinking vodka on the stand. Not water.

Chunk had to report it as an officer of the court. The judge later threw out the whole testimony and so that put Rafael in the worst position than before. Rafael had a serious problem. His drinking was out of control. Izzy tried talking to him. Rafael had been sober for four years before his girlfriend broke up with him and that sent him down a spiral. Rafael was just his own greatest enemy. After his testimony was thrown out, Chunk worked doubly hard to win back the jury. He started by putting someone on the stand to state how much the other horse owners had hated Bold Spirit and her trainer.

Their witness also stated that several people complained Lauren was using drugs on Bold Spirit. The horse was tested numerous times and they never found drugs in his system. Not that that stopped the complaints. Wealthy people were always angry about not winning. Chunk was able to change a couple of jurors’ minds with the witness he put on the stand and things got better from there. The team kept looking into possible other suspects. They came to realize that the horse was never the reason for the fire. The reason for the fire was to murder the trainer, Lauren. Lauren made enemies out of the owner’s husband.

Lauren drugged that man’s horse into kidney failure. Afterward, Noah asked Sinclair to fire her, but Sinclair refused because Lauren made sure his horses were winners and so Noah planned his revenge. He got a controlled substance to put down the horse. He then set fire to the building with Lauren inside. The police were able to prove it when they exhumed the horse and had it testified for the control substance. And so Rafael was let go without charges.

Rafael needs to work on his sobriety, but at least he doesn’t tell lies.

## Cast

### Main

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

### Guest

* Adam Irigoyen as Rafael Ramirez
* Stephen Spinella as Garrett Sinclair
* Zachary Booth as Noah Sinclair
* Shelley Thomas-Harts as ADA Martin
* James Healy Jr. as Judge Grant
* Jen Olivares as Lauren Parker
* Tisola Logan as Camille
* Jamaal Burcher as Police Sergeant
* Victoria Lee Parella as Police Officer
* John Henry-Hirozawa as Stu Towney
* Jeb Kreager as Alex Garves

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