“The patterns never lie. But only some of us can see how the pieces fit together. 7 billon, 80 million, 360 thousand of us live on this tiny planet. This is the story about some of them.”
Fox TV’s new supernatural thriller drama series, Touch, premiered on March 15 experiencing 13.3 million viewers according to yahoo ratings.
With a good start to the show the first season plays episodes every Thursday night at eight p.m. on Fox.
In the show eleven-year-old Jake Bohm believes that everyone is interconnected. He says, “Our lives are invisibly tied to those whose destinies touch ours.”
Everything in the world occurs in patterns according to him. Not everyone sees them—but he does.
He spends his life writing numbers. He does not talk to anyone. He writes numbers and makes sure everything that’s predestinated to happen will happen. To him it’s his responsibility.
He believes in an ancient Chinese myth of the red thread. This myth proclaims that the God’s tied a thread around every one of our ankles and attached it to all the people whose lives we are destined to touch. “They may stretch, or tangle, but they will never break.”
Jake sees that the events are often predetermined by mathematical probability. And he believes that it is his job to keep track of the numbers that keep the world going.
“The ratio is always the same; 1 to 1.1618 over and over and over again. Patterns are hidden in plain sight; you just have to know where to look. Things most people see as chaos actually follow a set of laws of behavior: galaxies, planets, seashells.”
No one understands Jake or what he does. But his dad, Martin Bohm, played by Kiefer Sutherland tries to connect with Jake.
Connecting with a son who is mute seems far from easy. But he finds a way—through the numbers.