Bull Undone

"**Bull Undone**" is the third episode of the sixth season and the one-hundred-sixth episode overall of the legal crime drama series *Bull*, which was aired on October 21, 2021.

## Summary

TAC takes the case of Jackson Martin, accused of killing his high school girlfriend Sarah 22 years ago after she broke up with him at a party. The case was dismissed, but reappeared in the public interest due to a docudrama television series called *When Rich Boys Kill*, which clearly points to Jackson as the murderer. Bull and TAC have to fight a likely tainted jury, the public and the media, while Jackson continues to maintain his innocence. The case gets worse when Jackson's alibi, that he went to The Hamptons with his brother Billy, is found to have been falsified. But Bull sees something in Billy's responses that leads him to the truth.

## Recap

It was a docuseries. It was all about when rich boys kill. Someone came forward with a new tip after watching the episode involving the disappearance of a young girl named Sarah Norris and the tip led the police to finding Sarah’s body. Sarah disappeared after a night out with her boyfriend Jackson Martin. It was a high school party and she had dumped him quite publicly at the party.

Jackson has always said he left the party after that. He claims he left the party before Sarah did and that he went to Hamptons to hang out with his brother. His brother supposedly cheered him up following the breakup. Jackson has always stated that he didn’t know Sarah was missing until the morning after the party. He said his father informed that Sarah never made it home and her mother filed a missing persons report.

Jackson claims his innocence. He also wanted to hire Bull and Bull’s team to defend him. Bull was still recovering from his daughter’s kidnapping. This case was going to be hard for him because it was about a missing girl being found dead and to make matters worse he needed to step away when he first met Jackson because Jackson’s ringtone was the same as his daughter’s kidnapper.

But in those few moments he got to speak with Jackson before the phone went off, he realized that Jackson was innocent. He still talks about Sarah as if she was missing. He hasn’t come to grips with her death and that wouldn’t be case if he had actually killed her. And so Bull said he had to defend Jackson because Jackson is innocent.

There was just one issue with defending Jackson. Its that everyone has already formed an opinion about the case based on the tv show and so people were believing the show. They believe he was guilty. Bull tried to fight it in the media. He took issue with Vanessa Voss the creator of the show.

He said her main goal is ratings and that she doesn’t care about justice while he does. Its why Jackson was involved in two cases. He was being tried for murder and he was suing Voss for defamation. His defamation suit meant the show turned over all of their footage for his episode and Bull’s team found something. They found out that Voss had coached some of the alleged witnesses. There was one guy who claims that Jackson got physical with Sarah at school.

There was an actual footage showing this guy never remembered this alleged encounter until he was coached. This seemed to do Jackson’s defense some good and the jury was swinging in his favor. Then things hit a snag. A police officer investigating Sarah’s case had been put on the stand and he said that he had been told to drop the case by his lieutenant. The same lieutenant that went on an expensive vacation the next that everyone knew he couldn’t afford and that they stayed at a four star hotel that wasn’t a time share. It had been clear that Jackson’s father bribed the lieutenant. This turned the jury against Jackson. It also turned Sarah’s mother against Jackson. Jackson hadn’t known that his father bribed someone. He didn’t know and now it was being used against him.

The media also wasn’t helping. People followed Jackson and shouted at him. someone even tried punching him, but Jackson defended himself by punching back and the news ran with his punch and not the other guy’s. Bull assigned Danny to watching Jackson. He needed someone to help keep the media and angry public off of his client. Danny agreed to it. She didn’t like it. She was one of the many people who thought Jackson was guilty and so Bull had to talk her into the job. Only it’s a good thing she took it. She saw inside of Jackson’s apartment and she saw that he tore his rotator cuff in the weeks before Sarah’s death. There is no way with that fresh injury he would be able to carry Sarah’s body miles or dig a grave for her.

This was evidence that Jackson was telling the truth. But there was another issue. Jackson lied about his alibi. He wasn’t with his brother that night and so they couldn’t put his brother on the stand. Jackson left the party with his brother. That part was true. Jackson left out the part where he felt so bad that he wanted to be alone and that he went to the Hamptons by himself. Jackson said he and his brother only agreed to lie because his brother was the one person who believed he was innocent from the start. Jackson only had his brother left. Their parents died years ago and so Jackson only has his brother. His brother who has always been protective of him. His brother who never doubted his innocence.

This in turn made Bull question the brother. Bull began suspecting that it was Jackson’s brother Billy who killed Sarah and so he reached out to Voss. Voss asked Billy for an interview. To get his side of the story and Billy agreed to it. Billy was questioned about that night. He panicked when confronted with his lies and confessed to Bull that he killed Sarah. He tried to kiss her. She pushed him away and they struggled before she hit her head. He tried to stop the bleeding with her sweatshirt. It didn’t work and so he called his father. He told his father everything. They agreed to bury the girl on the father’s work site and no one would have said a word if it hadn’t been for the show. Bull was wearing a wire. He got the confession on tape and Billy couldn’t do anything against it because Bull wasn’t a lawyer. And he was hired to defend Jackson, not Billy.

Jackson had been told about his brother. He thanked Bull for getting to the truth and he said his goodbye to Danny. He and Danny had grown close while she acted as his bodyguard. It was Danny that told him that now he gets to tell his story instead of having everyone else tell it.

## 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

* Ryan Cooper as Jackson Martin
* Jeff Adler as Billy Martin
* Yasha Jackson as Vanessa Voss
* Lana Young as ADA Weiss
* Rosalyn Coleman as Judge LeConnell
* Rebecca Nelson as Maryanne Norris
* Samantha Arthur as Sarah Norris
* Fulvio Cecere as Detective Paz
* Gabe Doran as Reed Johnson
* Alexander Mulzac as Wheat
* Ali Bill as Reporter #1
* Morgan McGhee as Server
* Maggie Lakis as Woman
* John Austin Wiggins as Juror #3
* Veracity Butcher as Juror #9/Cecilia Williams
* Daniel Siani as Young Billy
* Kristen Murphy as Sarah in Reenactment
* Bryce Biederman as Shadowy Figure
* Dean Neistat as Big Dude

## Trivia

* The bathroom confession is somewhat similar what happened to Robert Durst.
* While waiting in her car, Vanessa listens to the Outlander podcast, in which they state that Jamie Fraser is the sexiest character of *Outlander*.

## Quotes

**Taylor Rentzel**: Do you think Jackson Martin did it?
**Danielle James**: Well, sounds like he had a nasty temper. His girlfriend dumped him in front of all their friends, humiliated him. And she died that night. Odds are he did it.
**Marissa Morgan**: [*clearing her throat*] Our potential client, Jackson Martin, is here.
**Taylor Rentzel**: It's kind of weird seeing him in person after just thinking of him as a villain in a TV show.
**Marissa Morgan**: If he is innocent, I feel sorry for him. I mean, how must it feel to have the whole world think of you as... a monster?
**Danielle James**: You think the Prince of Park Avenue feels that up in his penthouse?

**Marissa Morgan**: Kind of addictive, huh?
**Taylor Rentzel**: Totally.
**Marissa Morgan**: Last night, I ordered a pie from Joe's, cracked open a bottle of rosé, binged the entire docuseries.
**Taylor Rentzel**: I had Mauricio. I couldn't start doing my homework until this morning, and now I can't stop.
**Danielle James**: You guys are eating this show up like it's candy. You know it's about a real girl, right? She's dead.