The best episodes of Touch
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- 01
As the Aster Corporation increases their interest in Jake, Martin joins forces with Abigail as the stakes of Jake's custody escalate. When Avram 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 enters the picture and seemingly unrelated events are tied together.
- 02
When Avram reiterates to Martin that Jake is connected to Amelia, a girl who is missing and presumed dead, Martin sets out on a passionate mission to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, circumstances intensify when Lucy enters the picture and seemingly unrelated events are tied together.
- 03
Pilot: Tales of the Red Thread
Bohm, is a widower and single father who is haunted by an inability to connect to his emotionally challenged 11-year-old son Jake. But when Martin discovers that Jake can predict events before they happen, everything changes. Martin meets social worker Clea Hopkins and Professor Arthur Teller who may have the keys to help unlock Jake's mind.
- 04
As Martin and Clea work together to uncover a shocking development involving Clea's mentally-challenged mother, Teller 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.
- 05
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.
- 06
Martin exposes a corrupt parole officer, and a Brazilian street musician uses his guitar to win the heart of a beautiful woman. In addition, Jake bonds with another mute boy, while Clea and Martin learn new information about one of Teller's key patients.
- 07
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 and Palestinian girl fight to keep their relationship afloat. Clea uncovers some surprising documents about Jake, while Martin and his late wife's sister meet to make a pivotal decision.
- 08
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 pays a visit to Jake's board-and-care facility and emotions run high for Clea.
- 09
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father trying to connect with his mute 11-year-old son Jake, 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.
- 10
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 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.
- 11
With the Aster Corps quarterly report just days away, executive Nicole Farington becomes increasingly desperate and the pressure is on for Calvin Norburg to deliver results from the company's ongoing study of the "Righteous 36." Following an intense encounter with Aster Corps enforcer Tanner, Martin schemes alongside Trevor Wilcox, who puts it all on the line to go undercover and prevent the company's distressed executives from harming innocent test subjects in the name of corporate greed.
- 12
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.
- 13
Jake leads Martin to Los Angeles, where they team with Lucy Robbins to search for her daughter, who may be the key to understanding Jake's abilities.
- 14
Following an exhausting turn of events at Breakwire, Martin, Lucy, and Jake track down Calvin outside Tony Rigby's house. After Martin collars Calvin into helping him locate Amelia, they head to Calvin's loft where he explains Aster Corps' motivations connected to Amelia, while Jake attaches himself to a revealing brain scanner. Jake's scan provides more information about Amelia's whereabouts as well as a final piece to the puzzle for Calvin to communicate with his brain-dead brother. Armed with leads to Amelia's location, Martin, Lucy and Jake put their lives on the line when they attempt to infiltrate an Aster Corps desert facility.
- 15
As Martin tracks down Philip Green, a man that Jake led him to, he learns that Mr. Greene was Dr. Teller's first patient and is on death row for the triple murder of Aster Corps employees. With the execution in a matter of hours, Martin rushes to the prison to look for answers, but Mr. Green won't reveal anything unless he is reunited with his estranged daughter - Dr. Kate Gordon. Will the numbers add up when time is of the essence and lives are at stake.
- 16
As Aster Corps closes in on the completion of the number sequence that could catapult them to the top of the global economy, determined executive Nicole Farington stops at nothing with her two new test subjects. Meanwhile, Martin and Trevor are on an intense mission of their own to interrogate Aster Corps heavy Tanner for answers. As Jake and Amelia remain at the epicenter of these critical events, it's a race against time for Martin to save them before Aster Corps changes the world forever.
- 17
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 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.
- 18
Unforeseen developments at Aster Corps force Martin to make a nail-biting decision and strike a deal with someone unexpected. Meanwhile, Lucy visits the police with new information about Amelia's kidnapping and Avram spots Guillermo in New York and warns Martin and Jake that he's on the hunt for them.
- 19
Race against time is triggered after Jake contacts Amelia with coordinates to a meeting location and both manage to escape their supervision. As Martin and Lucy desperately search for their gifted and determined kids, they uncover some critical details about Calvin's brain-damaged brother. Meanwhile in Mexico, Guillermo confesses his sins to a priest and faces a brutal decision.
- 20
After three years of searching for Amelia, Lucy's frustration and fury peaks. When she takes matters with Calvin into her own hands, he offers an unthinkable deal for Amelia's return. As Martin and Jake search for Lucy, they enlist Trevor at Breakwire to help. Meanwhile, Guillermo is reeling from his recent sins in Mexico, and he makes some life-changing decisions after running into a defeated man hiking through the Arizona desert.
- 21
During a rare rainy Los Angeles evening, Martin and Jake head to Breakwire to enlist the help of his old friend Dutch, a grizzled ex-Navy Seal. When the lights go out in the building, the storm is suspected, but all hell breaks loose when Guillermo enters the premises. As the intensity ratchets up and people turn up dead, Jake's ability to communicate with Amelia proves to be critical in defending his life.
- 22
Martin's mission to uncover clues and expose the potentially sinister Aster Corps has global consequences when an Aster Corps employee is crossing the border in Pakistan. Meanwhile, ruthless religious zealot Guillermo continues to track down the "36" Righteous Ones, and Jake leads Lucy to a woman with alarming connections to her missing daughter Amelia.
- 23
Martin rolls the dice with the authorities when he attempts to clear his name and spill the beans to a skeptical Detective Lange. As a result, Det. Lange escalates the investigation and issues an APB on a key player. Meanwhile, unforeseen events unfold when Jake leads Avram on a mission to a possible member of the "Righteous 36." Following Calvin Norburg's recent meeting with Aster Corps executive Nicole Farington, their nefarious mission accelerates and it's up to Martin to stop it.
- 24
Aster Corps genius Calvin Norburg is on the verge of a significant discovery. Meanwhile, religious zealot Guillermo Ortiz tries to realize his vision.
- 25
As Jake uses a cipher to locate Amelia, Martin tracks a bloody path to Guillermo, who is stalking Dr. Nell Plimpton, someone we've seen before and one of the righteous "36." Meanwhile, Calvin Norburg meets with Nicole Farington, the uber-competent CEO of Aster Corps, who introduces him to the first quantum computer in an attempt to woo him back to the company. When different roads lead to the same location, lives are lost as shocking events unfold.
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