Plot of Bull Episode Where Woman Is From Croatia and Brother Had Drugs Planted on Him
On Bull Season 3 Episode 5, "The Missing Piece," we dispose of all pretense and start taking plot twists straight from soap operas.
Seemingly unwinnable cases are nothing new for the TAC team. They're practically the house special. Even so, this case stacks the deck a bit.
At first, the "100% irrefutable" DNA evidence promoted early on seems not so irrefutable at all. Chunk's extreme but plausible theory would have the police very nearly committing fraud and allow the defense an easy out.
Unfortunately, the cops also know that a man accused of murdering a heroin dealer has an opioid addiction in his own past. Worse, they have the victim's son as an eyewitness.
When Benny was accused of falsifying evidence—an accusation his team saved him from, of course—it turned out to be another cop who'd planted it. He claimed a desperate act to put away a vicious murder, and we could sympathize with him.
Here, the prosecution would have no such excuse. Manipulating evidence against protocol is one thing, especially with someone who's guilty. Making a traumatized child lie about an innocent man is a whole other ball game.
I should be grateful, then, that the prosecution is not the smug, terrible side I take them for at first. Still, I have to ask: do we really have to go for the evil twin instead?
Not only does our kind doctor have an identical brother with a much darker life path, it's a brother he knew nothing about. A long-lost evil twin; separated soon after birth.
The first inking of this melodramatic possibility starts to sink into our heads about halfway through the episode. Would they really go for that twist, a beloved trope of daytime television? Yes, they would.
As with the strange plot twist of the police violence episode, I simply can't imagine that secret twins, good or evil, actually pop up all that often in reality. If they do, the timing is probably anything but convenient.
All this said, I give credit where credit's due. The actors portraying the client, his wife, and their lawyer all draw us passionately into their story. They break our hearts and clearly leave Bull stricken about trying for a deal.
So, yes, in the end, I'm rooting for the sudden miracle we nearly always get, even if that means veering into the same territory as that of hidden identities and love triangles. Just don't actually give us any love triangles, okay?
It's also true that we get some added depth beyond the simple shock value. By the time we learn of the brother, he is dead; lost to his own actions and habits.
The question of what could lead two literally identical people so astray is a more complex one that can be addressed in the closing minutes. Nature and nurture nearly always both play into their own debate. That's very true here.
There is one more point of drama we need to address. Early in the episode, we see Bull looking at photos of Izzy, his ex-wife (and Benny's sister), who, as you may remember, is now remarried.
Leaving the courthouse, he expresses interest in reaching to an "old girlfriend". If the suggestion about who that girlfriend is proves true, we are once again looking at a Bull whose decisions are becoming increasingly questionable.
This episode, twists and all, has TAC getting back to their usual fare. That doesn't mean they should ignore the small, troubling hints being planted one by one—and neither should we.
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Plot of Bull Episode Where Woman Is From Croatia and Brother Had Drugs Planted on Him
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