
Scripted series · FOX
Touch
The world is connected. But only his son sees how.
Who's in it
Cast
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TV DNA
How Touch actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Touch reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and World Building.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E01
Tales of the Red Thread
Martin 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.
- Directed by Francis Lawrence
- Written by Tim Kring

S01E03
Safety in Numbers
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.
- Directed by Stephen Williams
- Written by Carol Barbee

S01E06
Lost and Found
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.
- Directed by Stephen Williams
- Written by Robert Levine

S01E13
The Road Not Taken
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.
- Directed by Nelson McCormick
- Written by Melinda Hsu Taylor

S02E08
Reunions
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.

S01E07
Noosphere Rising
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.
- Directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton
- Written by Tim Kring, Carol Barbee
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Behind the series
Created by
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Tim Kring
Showrunner

Francis Lawrence
Executive producer

Katherine Pope
Executive producer
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Carol Barbee
Writer
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Jennifer M. Johnson
Writer

Karyn Usher
Writer
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Chris Levinson
Writer
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Tim Kring
Writer

Barry O'Brien
Writer

Robert Levine
Writer

David Eick
Writer

Melinda Hsu Taylor
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Tim KringProducer
- Carol BarbeeProducer
- Kiefer SutherlandProducer
- Peter CherninProducer
- Francis LawrenceExecutive Producer
- Katherine PopeExecutive Producer
Writing
- Tim KringWriter
- Carol BarbeeWriter
- Jennifer M. JohnsonWriter
- Karyn UsherWriter
- Chris LevinsonWriter
- Tim KringWriter
Direction
- Matt Earl BeesleyDirector
- Greg BeemanDirector
- Ian ToyntonDirector
- Milan CheylovDirector
- Gwyneth Horder-PaytonDirector
- Francis LawrenceDirector
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