On Bull, Cable McCrory dies off‑screen in the Season 3 premiere, “The Ground Beneath Their Feet.”

What Happens To Cable In Bull?

  • Cable is killed when a large bridge in New Jersey suddenly collapses, sending her rental car into the water below.
  • The team initially just thinks she is late or missing, and they spend most of the episode not knowing where she is.
  • Police divers eventually recover and identify her body under about 30 feet of water, confirming she drowned in the collapse.
  • Later in Season 3, it is revealed that the bridge collapse was tied to a terrorist attack, and Bull’s team pursues the people and bank behind it in “Justice for Cable.”

Why The Show Killed Cable

  • Actress Annabelle Attanasio chose to leave Bull after Season 2 to focus on directing her own feature film, so the writers decided the character would die rather than quietly move away.
  • Showrunner Glenn Gordon Caron said they felt simply saying she moved or disappeared would break the show’s reality, so they used her death as a more “lifelike” and dramatic story turn for Bull and TAC.

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Question Answer
How did Cable die on Bull? She was driving a rental car on a New Jersey bridge that collapsed, and she drowned after the car plunged into the water.
On-screen or off-screen? Her death happens off-screen and is revealed gradually during the Season 3 premiere.
Episode Season 3, Episode 1 – “The Ground Beneath Their Feet.”
Deeper cause Later episodes explain the collapse was caused by a terrorist attack, which TAC investigates.
Real-life reason Annabelle Attanasio left the series to pursue filmmaking, so the writers chose to kill off Cable rather than have her simply leave.

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