Touch

2012 • FOX
4.7
216 reviews
TV-14
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Season 1 episodes (13)

1 Tales of the Red Thread
1/25/12
Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland), is a widower and single father who is haunted by an inability to connect to his emotionally challenged 11-year-old son Jake (David Mazouz). But when Martin discovers that Jake can predict events before they happen, everything changes. Martin meets social worker Clea Hopkins (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Professor Arthur Teller (guest star Danny Glover) who may have the keys to help unlock Jake's mind. Don't miss the series premiere on Monday, March 19 at 9/8c!
2 1 + 1 = 3
3/22/12
Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland), a widower and single father trying to connect with his mute 11-year-old son Jake (David Mazouz), is led to a pawn shop where a robbery triggers a sequence of unpredictable events that connect a distraught flight attendant in New York, a son visiting from India on a mission to spread his father's ashes, a middle school magician in Moscow, a cancer patient in New York and a mobster in the Bronx. It's up to Jake and Martin to link the thread between them all.
3 Safety in Numbers
3/29/12
When Martin comes in contact with a homeless man who possesses the same obsession with numbers as Jake, he sets out on a series of seemingly unrelated tasks that connect an abused African woman, a group of African boys entering a dance competition and an outgoing woman at California's famed Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Meanwhile, Teller (guest star Danny Glover) pays a visit to Jake's board-and-care facility and emotions run high for Clea.
4 Kite Strings
4/5/12
Martin crosses paths with a young man who has a history with his deceased wife, Sarah. A couple managing an online instrument repair business work with an Iraqi heavy metal band that has a teenage follower who is looking to share his comedic talent with an American soldier (guest star Sprague Grayden) in Baghdad. But the soldier has troubles of her own when her convoy is ambushed, forcing her to hide in the Iraqi desert. Then, a lottery winner comes upon a depressed pastor.
5 Entanglement
4/12/12
Martin gets his laptop stolen on the day Jake is scheduled for an important evaluation. As a result, he becomes ensnared in a young Salvadoran woman's quest to avenge the death of her family. Meanwhile, Teller (guest star Danny Glover) tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Also, a spirited Saudi Arabian girl tries to break free of the societal constraints imposed on her and a Montreal doctor attempts to meet a stranger on a train.
6 Lost & Found
4/19/12
As Martin and Clea work together to uncover a shocking development involving Clea's mentally-challenged mother, Teller (guest star Danny Glover) steps into trouble when he visits Jake at the board-and-care facility. Meanwhile, a plane crash survivor seeks new purpose to his existence and a Chinese couple struggles to find balance between work and life.
7 Noosphere Rising
4/25/08
Martin attempts to find Teller's mysterious workshop and winds up aiding another professor, Logan, to win big at poker. Meanwhile, a young Italian man creates a viral video to track down the love of his life, whom he only met in passing, and a city slicker who plans to sell off his dead father's ranch, winds up learning a lesson from a horse that makes him appreciate the rural life his father chose. Then, Martin's sister-in-law, Abigail Kelsey, visits Clea and Jake at the board-and-care facility, much to Martin's dismay.
8 Zone of Exclusion
5/2/08
Following numbers from Jake, Martin helps reunite a French woman with her biological mother and twin sister, then he attempts to find the person responsible for their estrangement. In the meantime, a superstitious young Italian woman is fretting when her astronaut husband loses contact with earth.
9 Music of the Spheres
5/10/12
Martin exposes a corrupt parole officer (guest star Scott Michael Campbell), and a Brazilian street musician (guest star Louis Ferreira) uses his guitar to win the heart of a beautiful woman. In addition, Jake bonds with another mute boy (guest star Tre C. Roberts), while Clea and Martin learn new information about one of Teller's key patients.
10 Tesselations
5/16/08
When Martin is mistaken for a criminal, he must involve himself with a heist crew in order to win back an innocent dock worker's job. Meanwhile, an Israeli boy (guest star Sean Peavy) and Palestinian girl (guest star Eden Modiano) fight to keep their relationship afloat. Clea uncovers some surprising documents about Jake, while Martin and his late wife's sister (guest star Catherine Dent) meet to make a pivotal decision.
11 Gyre, Part I
5/31/12
As the Aster Corporation increases their interest in Jake, Martin joins forces with Abigail (guest star Catherine Dent) as the stakes of Jake's custody escalate. When Avram (guest star Bohdi Elfman) reiterates to Martin that Jake and Amelia, a presumed dead girl with similar characteristics as Jake, are connected, Martin sets out on a passionate mission to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, circumstances intensify when Lucy (guest star Maria Bello) enters the picture and seemingly unrelated events are tied together. Download part 1 now!
12 Gyre, Part II
5/31/12
As the Aster Corporation increases their interest in Jake, Martin joins forces with Abigail (guest star Catherine Dent) as the stakes of Jake's custody escalate. When Avram (guest star Bohdi Elfman) reiterates to Martin that Jake and Amelia, a presumed dead girl with similar characteristics as Jake, are connected, Martin sets out on a passionate mission to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, circumstances intensify when Lucy (guest star Maria Bello) enters the picture and seemingly unrelated events are tied together. Download part 2 now!
13 The Road Not Taken
9/14/12
In an all-new bonus episode, Martin's car mysteriously breaks down in the town where he first became a reporter. When he begins to suspect his mentor is involved in illegal activity there, he risks severing their friendship in order to find the truth.

About this show

From writer/creator Tim Kring (Heroes) and executive producers Peter Chernin (Terra Nova) and Katherine Pope (Terra Nova) comes Touch, a preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact.

Martin Bohm (Kiefer Sutherland), a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his mute, severely autistic 11-year-old son, Jake. But everything changes when Martin discovers that Jake possesses a gift of staggering genius - the ability to see things that no one else can, the patterns that connect everything. Jake is indeed communicating after all. But it's not with words, it's with numbers. Martin meets Arthur Teller (Danny Glover), a professor and an expert on children who possess special gifts when it comes to numbers. Now it's up to Martin to decipher the meaning and connect the numbers to the cast of characters whose lives they affect.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
216 reviews
candace davenport
March 3, 2013
As the mother of an autistic child I have been subjected to an insane amount of ignorance from my government as well as family/friends when dealing with my daughter. Like Jake, my daughter is also non-verbal. It is through his character that I have been given hope with her future. She is only 2 and has no delay in cognition so I know the potential for her to communicate one day is there. If Jake who is a non-verbal 11 year old has found a way of communicating, so can she. In the second season of Touch I have seen faint smiles on Jakes face. That shows promise. I am very happy to see that Martin has not given up on Jake and is willing to indulge (if you will) on Jakes number theory. Many people as we have watched have dismissed this act of life-altering communication but Mr. Boehm has yet to give up. I like seeing the ratings do so well. It would be tragic if this show were taken off of the air.
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Marilyn Haire
October 31, 2020
This entire series is awesome! I've seen the entire series, as far as I know all of it any way, half a dozen times and am about to begin again. At 74, I think it's opened an area of education I've totally missed. My all time favorite episode is "Music of the Sphereses." That episode could be the catalyst for another entire series! Great family discussion starter no matter the mean individual age. Hope y'all enjoy it, too.
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Hewan Kirkland
April 30, 2013
the most sophisticated suspensed in detailed anaylitical show on television.hope it gets picked up for season 3 but fox may not renew it (2.6 million viewers friday slot not good)
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