"Fantastica Voyage" is the second episode of the fourth season and the sixty-ninth episode overall of the legal drama series Bull, which was aired on September 30, 2019.
Summary[]
A whistleblower causes entrepreneur Whitney Holland to be charged with defrauding investors by promising them her water desalination technology can handle volumes that are not possible. Bull agrees to take her case amid protests from the TAC team, especially Benny. Bull feels they can make the case that despite lying about her backstory and other things, Whitney truly believes her technology will eventually be viable. The trial results in only one juror siding with Whitney, which is enough to cause a mistrial. Bull tells the judge that the TAC team is tied up for the next seven months, giving Whitney and her company extra time to fully develop the technology before a retrial. Meanwhile, Chunk is proud of his daughter when she is chosen out of 1500 applicants for a journalism study-abroad program in Jordan, but he grows concerned when she appears to be avoiding him.
Recap[]
Dr. Jason Bull gets a client that is asking him to represent her in a federal whistleblower case that a former employee has turned on her and states that the water product she was trying to pass off as a scheme, and she’s charged with wire fraud and lying to companies.
His partner Benny doesn’t fully agree they should represent her and feels as if she didn’t sound convincing enough proving her innocence to then. But Dr bull takes her as a client and, as to begin the jury selection process and try to pick jurors who will help him win his case.
They weed out the ones who wouldn’t help and try to manipulate some into thinking the same way as they plan to defend their client. During the trial, Benny includes in his opening statement that the former employee who’s a whistleblower stands to make a profit if the government wins against his former employer Whitney.
The team does some research on Whitney and find out some inconsistent lies she’s told about her past. For example, her writing bad checks in college and being forced to leave, also her story on how her father died was a lie as well, Bull decides to do a polygraph test on her for himself.
Bull proceeds to ask Whitney a series of questions during the polygraph test to try and figure out if she’s telling lies to cover the truth or tells the truth to cover lies. Whitney intrigues Bull and he decides to move forward in representing her and her water filter company and the claim that she can clean large supplies of water state and citywide.
Whitney takes the stand and she’s questioned by the DA and in closing arguments, all the lies she’s told investors are exposed. Bull and his team prepare for the worst during jury deliberations. Bull apologizes to Benny because he insisted on taking Whitney as a client and he admits Benny was right they should’ve passed on her due to all her lies and inconsistent stories that have come out.
Surprisingly the case is a mistrial as one juror is undecided. The judge adjourns the case and Bull gives 7 months to come back and retry, to give Whitney time to prove her water system works. It turns out the juror who was undecided is one who’s taken interest in Whitney’s water system and wants to help fund her further research. He’s the same juror that Bull and Benny handpicked during jury selection to have the casework in their favor and it all worked out.
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
Guest[]
- Elizabeth Alderfer as Whitney Holland
- Keith Reddin as Derek Goodman
- Kate Blumberg as AUSA Yolanda Cruz
- Veanne Cox as Judge Graves
- James Michael Reilly as Juror #11/David Murphy
- Marisa Brau-Reyes as Youngish Woman
- Rand Guerrero as Polygraph Examiner
Trivia[]
- Dr. Bull's client is very similar to Elizabeth Holmes, founder of biotech company Theranos.
Quotes[]
- Jason Bull: Do you lie to hide the truth, or tell the truth to hide your lies?
| Season 4 |
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| Labor Days • Fantastica Voyage • Rectify • Her Own Two Feet • Billboard Justice • Into the Mystic • Doctor Killer • Safe and Sound • The Flying Carpet • Imminent Danger • Look Back in Anger • Behind the Ivy • Child of Mine • Quid Pro Quo • Flesh and Blood • Missing • The Invisible Woman • Off the Rails • The Sovereigns • Wrecked |