The BEST episodes of Touch (2012)

Every episode of Touch (2012) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Touch (2012)!

The show follows a group of unrelated characters. One of these is Martin Bohm, a widower and a single father who is haunted by an inability to connect to his mute and severely autistic 10-year-old son, Jake. Martin has tried everything he could do in order to reach his son, but at no success. To spend his time, Jake has cast-off cell phones, disassembling them and manipulating the parts. This allows him to see the world in a different way entirely.

Last Updated: 10/15/2024Network: FOXStatus: Ended
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Fight or Flight
star
8.12
921 votes

#1 - Fight or Flight

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/3/2013

After a run-in with an Aster Corps enforcer, Martin and Trevor go under cover to protect the Righteous 36.

Directors: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Brynn Malone
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Tales of the Red Thread
star
8.10
3540 votes

#2 - Tales of the Red Thread

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/2012

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.

Directors: Francis Lawrence
Writer: Tim Kring
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Gyre (2)
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8.04
1477 votes

#3 - Gyre (2)

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/31/2012

Martin searches for a connection between Jake and Amelia, the missing girl who shares his gift for numbers.

Directors: Greg Beeman
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Reunions
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7.88
902 votes

#4 - Reunions

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/22/2013

After tracking down Calvin, who agrees to help them find Amelia, Martin, Lucy and Jake try to infiltrate an Aster Corps facility.

Directors: Roxann Dawson
Writer: Brynn Malone
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Enemy of My Enemy
star
7.87
899 votes

#5 - Enemy of My Enemy

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/2013

Martin's mission to expose Aster Corp. has global consequences; Guillermo continues to track down the 36 Righteous Ones; Jake leads Lucy to a woman with connections to her missing daughter, Amelia.

Writer: Rob Fresco
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Tessellations
star
7.87
1630 votes

#6 - Tessellations

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/17/2012

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.

Directors: Jon Cassar
Writer: Zach Craley
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Clockwork
star
7.86
935 votes

#7 - Clockwork

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/29/2013

As Martin tracks down a man Jake led him to, he discovers that he was Dr. Teller's first patient and is now on death row.

Directors: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Carol Barbee
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Closer
star
7.85
1040 votes

#8 - Closer

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/2013

Guillermo, a religious zealot, tries to attain his vision.

Directors: Michael Waxman
Writer: Carol Barbee
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Leviathan
star
7.83
877 votes

#9 - Leviathan

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/10/2013

Aster Corps gets closer to completing the number sequence; Martin and Trevor race to stop them and save Amelia and Jake.

Directors: Nelson McCormick
Writer: Tim Kring
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Zone of Exclusion
star
7.82
1677 votes

#10 - Zone of Exclusion

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/3/2012

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.

Directors: Adam Kane
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Gyre (1)
star
7.81
1662 votes

#11 - Gyre (1)

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/31/2012

The Aster Corporation's interest in Jake increases as Martin and Abigail seek common ground in the custody battle for his son.

Directors: Nelson McCormick
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Safety in Numbers
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7.80
2884 votes

#12 - Safety in Numbers

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/29/2012

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.

Directors: Stephen Williams
Writer: Carol Barbee
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Entanglement
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7.79
2221 votes

#13 - Entanglement

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/12/2012

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.

Directors: Milan Cheylov
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Lost and Found
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7.79
2084 votes

#14 - Lost and Found

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/2012

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.

Directors: Stephen Williams
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Music of the Spheres
star
7.79
1742 votes

#15 - Music of the Spheres

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/10/2012

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.

Directors: Michael Waxman
Writer: Rob Fresco
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Ghosts
star
7.73
1008 votes

#16 - Ghosts

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/15/2013

Jake and Martin visit Breakwire to ask Martin's friend, an ex-Navy Seal, for help; chaos ensues when Guillermo closes in on Jake.

Directors: Seith Mann
Writer: David Eick
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Eye to Eye
star
7.72
961 votes

#17 - Eye to Eye

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/1/2013

Jake and Amelia escape their supervision to meet; while searching for the kids, Martin and Lucy find information about Calvin's brain-damaged brother; Guillermo faces a difficult decision.

Directors: Milan Cheylov
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1 + 1 = 3
star
7.71
3247 votes

#18 - 1 + 1 = 3

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/22/2012

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.

Directors: Ian Toynton
Writer: Tim Kring
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Kite Strings
star
7.70
2618 votes

#19 - Kite Strings

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/5/2012

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.

Directors: Tucker Gates
Writer: Melinda Hsu
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The Road Not Taken
star
7.69
837 votes

#20 - The Road Not Taken

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/14/2012

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.

Directors: Nelson McCormick
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Two of a Kind
star
7.67
913 votes

#21 - Two of a Kind

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/5/2013

Jake uses the cipher to find Amelia; a bloody path leads Martin to Guillermo, who is stalking Dr. Plimpton; as shocking events unfold, lives are lost.

Directors: Michael Waxman
Writer: Rob Fresco
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Broken
star
7.67
876 votes

#22 - Broken

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/8/2013

Calvin offers Lucy a troubling deal for Amelia's return; Trevor at Breakwire helps Martin and Jake look for Lucy; Guillermo meets a man hiking through the desert, leading to some life-changing decisions.

Writer: Karyn Usher
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Perfect Storm
star
7.64
870 votes

#23 - Perfect Storm

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/2013

Unforeseen developments force Martin to make a decision and form a deal; Lucy goes to the police with new information about Amelia's kidnapping; Avram sees Guillermo in New York.

Directors: Nelson McCormick
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Accused
star
7.64
966 votes

#24 - Accused

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/26/2013

Martin decides to take a chance and spills the beans to Detective Lange in hope of clearing his name; Jake leads Avram to a possible Righteous 36 member.

Directors: Adam Kane
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Noosphere Rising
star
7.60
2043 votes

#25 - Noosphere Rising

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/2012

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.

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