Touch (2012–2013): Season 2, Episode 1 - Event Horizon - full transcript

Previously on Touch: MARTIN:
You had to call the police, right?

MAN: This is the
third time this month.

Hey, don't go near
him! You can't touch him.

ARTHUR: The numbers
your son gives you, Mr. Bohm,

aren't new.

They've always existed.

He found the Amelia Sequence.

Amelia was obsessed with tides.

She came up with this equation

based on global tidal patterns,

and she was fixated on this
certain sequence of numbers.



God will allow humankind
to exist as long as there are

36 righteous
people in the world.

They walk among us,
blessed with the capacity

to feel the suffering of
the entire human race.

Do you think Jake is
one of these 36? Yes.

Teller was working with a
girl who was just like Jake.

Her name was Amelia. When they
wanted her, they faked her death

and made her disappear. I'm
not letting that happen to my son.

Jake!

We have to get
out of town unseen.

Go!

The farther away, the better.

JAKE: There are infinite
ways to communicate,

some better than others.



Today, the average
person will say 17,520 words

to 7.4 other individuals.

Yet change the language,
one border to the next,

and we are hopeless.

Stumbling to explain
the simplest of concepts.

I want...

I am...

I love.

Well, this is it, buddy.

Can't go any farther
west than this.

Still not exactly sure
what we're doing here.

What is it?

Excuse me.

Is this yours?

Oh, yes.

Thank you so much. Yeah.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

I've never been to this part

of the country before. Yeah.

What brought you out here?

Um, looking for my daughter.

What's your daughter's name?

Amelia.

Amelia.

My name is Jake.

I was born on October 26, 2000.

I've been alive for 11 years,

eight months and 16 days.

And in all that time, I've
never said a single word.

[chuckles, sighs]

But that's about to change.

Oh, my God.

That's her. That's Amelia.

When was this taken?

A few weeks ago.

A board-and-care
facility in New York.

My son was there
at the same time.

He led me to you
to try and help you

find your daughter.
All this time,

and it was some company?

Aster Corps. They
brought your daughter

to the facility after
they staged her death.

Why? Why would they do that?

I don't know. At least not yet.

They're after my son
for the same reasons.

He's like your daughter.

He sees patterns, connections.

Everything seems to revolve
around these numbers.

Jake's been obsessed
with a sequence:

3-1-8, 5-2...

9-6-3-2-8-7-9-5.

The Amelia Sequence.

That's what
Dr. Teller called it.

I have been following these
numbers for three years.

That's what led me
here to Los Angeles.

Okay, this map... Yes?

I saw this map four days
ago in New York City.

Then I'm going there.

I'm going there right now.
Right now! No, wait, wait, wait.

We came out here for
a reason. We think...

He never does this.
Not for strangers.

Wait. They're the
next two numbers, see?

2, 4...

2, 4...

I-I don't understand
what he's trying to say.

The second number is four.

Look, the letter D.

2-D. They're coordinates.

Near Hobart and Western.

That's about ten miles
from here. Wait, wait.

Please tell me the truth.

Is everything that
you're saying really true?

Yes.

So, how's this work?

It's different every time.

So, what, we just follow him?

Welcome to my world.

Hey, is this it?

Look at the sign. "2D."

2D. 2D! Wait, wait!

I think we need
some kind of a plan.

Like what?

I don't know.

Just let me do the talking.

MAN: I hung the
sign out for a reason!

Uh, excuse me. We're
not housekeeping.

We're... we're
looking for someone.

Hi. What's going on? Hi.

Sorry to bother you.

We're looking for a young girl.

She's about...
She's my daughter.

Her name's Amelia.
She's 14 years old.

She has sandy blonde hair.

I'm sorry.

I don't know who that is.

Okay, thank you
for your trouble.

Sorry to bother you.

Let's go. Good luck to you.

Wait. GIRL: Help!

Hey, hey! Amelia!

Back up. Amelia!

Amelia! Amelia!

Amelia! Amelia!

[grunts]

Amelia!

Stop right there.

Who are you?

What are you doing here?

Where is she?

Look, I swear, I'll shoot.

Don't come... I
swear I'll shoot!

Where is my daughter?!

I was just hired to find her!

[Martin groaning]

You all right? Yeah. Go!

Go, go! Get her!
Jake, get inside.

[tires squeal]

He got away.

No, no...

She was here. It was her.

I know.

You all right? Yeah. We got to call
the police and tell them everything.

With what? We don't have any
evidence. Well, we have a videotape.

Yeah, with no time
stamp, no date.

The image is so poor,

you barely recognize
your own daughter.

They'll rip it to shreds.

It was Amelia. I saw
her with my own eyes!

They will say you saw
what you wanted to see.

Look at me. I need
you to hear me now.

The people that we are
dealing with are ruthless.

I had evidence that Aster Corps
faked your daughter's death.

They had a man following me.

He knocked me
out and took it back,

and then he tried to kill me.

When I went to the
police to tell them,

the people from Aster
Corps made me sound crazy.

I am not crazy!

And neither are you.

Right now, the only evidence

that's going to matter is
finding your daughter alive.

And if we move
too fast, if we push

these people, we scare
them, they will kill her.

Do you understand
me? It's that simple.

They will kill her.

So we cannot go to the police.

Okay.

So, what do we do now?

We start from scratch.

I got the guy's license plate
number as he was driving off.

We just have to figure
out how to trace it.

But how do we do that?

I know a guy
here. An old friend.

He works for the L.A.
Times. He owes me a favor.

We were correspondents together.

You're a journalist?

Was.

A lifetime ago. Jake. Jake?

MARTIN: Hey..

I'm sorry that happened.

Look, I know you wanted us
to come out here and find Lucy,

but I don't know where
that's gonna lead us.

And sometimes, something
scary might happen like today.

But I need you to know that I will never
let anything bad happen to you, okay?

MAN: At Aster Corps,
we don't just wait

for the future to happen,
we think about it every day...

When we create the
energy that powers the world,

when we ship our products
to the four corners of the globe.

And it's crucial you underscore

that profits are
up dramatically.

Our new initiatives
are successful,

dynamic, game-changers.

It'll all be on the
teleprompter, same as always.

Corporate says it's verbatim
the draft they e-mailed you.

Now, as far as wardrobe
goes, I need that decision.

Uh, either works
with the backdrop.

If it were me, I might...

Uh, Mr. Norburg?

We'll go with this.

MAN: Bonjour, monsieur.

Pardonnez-moi.

Do you speak English?

Yes, a little.

What brings you to
Brussels? Are you a tourist?

I'm on a mission, of sorts.

I'm looking for someone.

Have you heard of the
composer Frederick LeMay?

No, monsieur. I'm sorry.

He wrote an amazing
piece a few years ago.

A violin concerto in F major.

Some say it's like
hearing the voice of angels.

But he never wrote another.

Maybe he didn't want to.

It was not for him to decide.

That's beautiful.

On the necklace there.

The Tree of Life.

Perfection of the universe.

Each of us has his
own path to God.

Destiny. Preordained.

It's a mortal sin to deny it.

Like your friend no
longer composing music.

He's not my friend.

Anything else, monsieur?

How tall are you?

I'm sorry, monsieur?

I said, "How tall are you?"

Almost two meters.

Thank you.

You seen Calvin?

One of these days, you're gonna
run out of places to hide, mate.

It's okay, I talked to them.

You can wear your
hoodie for the speech today.

The board actually
thinks it sells the image...

Genius, iconoclast.

Calvin? Calvin?

I can't do it.

It's just one speech out of

about eight others
they're gonna hear today.

It's not that big of a deal.

I'm not talking
about the speech.

Well, you're certainly
not talking about

the algorithm project,
because it would be unthinkable

for you to derail
it at this point.

So let's talk about
the speech, please.

Aster Corps premier
shareholders want to hear from

the guy with the Midas touch.

In turn, they will continue
to fund our efforts.

It's worth quite a lot of money.

We promised each other it was
never gonna be about the money.

Wait, we sold our company
to Aster Corps for $42 million.

It was always about the money.

We were gonna change the world.

We have.

No, we haven't!

All we've done is gotten rich.

Rightfully so.

Mate, your algorithms reinvented

Aster Corps' entire
customer-facing business.

It made them $40 billion.

All from your weird little
chicken scratch here.

Look, when are you gonna
tell me what this is really about?

We've been best mates
since freshman year at college.

I know you, Calvin;
something's up.

It repeats.

What?

The sequence that
I've been working on.

It's gonna wrap around
back to the beginning,

back to 3-1-8,
eventually, I know it.

And?

This is the God sequence.

It's gonna change
humanity forever.

That's why I can't let
Aster Corps have it.

Sorry, humanity.

That's what we're talking
about now, is it? It's not funny.

I don't get it. What
is it you want, Calvin?

I want to get out of
my contract, Tony.

I need you to get
me out of my contract.

You're my friend.

Please, I can't do this.

I'm dying here.

Okay.

Okay, we'll... we'll
talk to the legal team.

We'll figure it out, mate.

Come on, we'll figure it out.

MARTIN: Trevor,
this is my son, Jake.

And this is... Oh, Lucy.

Hi. How are you? Hi.
Trevor, Trevor Wilcox.

So, I'm going to take

a wild guess that this is not

the L.A. Times.

It's called BreakWire.
It's a Web-based,

user-generated
news organization.

A billion smartphones
in the world,

everyone with an Internet
connection and a camera.

That's a billion potential
reporters out there.

I knew I got out of the
business at the right time.

Um, [clears throat]

would you mind
if Jake and I went

and raided your refrigerator?

He's probably a
little hungry by now.

Oh, no, make yourself at home.

Uh, kitchen's just

around the corner there.

Thanks.

So, we were able

to track the plate. Great.

Uh, Santiago here
has been on it.

He's our resident nerd

promoted to hacker.

Reuben, Reuben Santiago.

Martin B... Bishop.

Don't ask.

All right, so turns out
the car is registered

to a private detective who works

out of a P.O. box in the Valley.

Now, his e-mail is secure,

but I backdoored
into his bank account

and his appointment book.

He deposited 15 grand in
cash into his checking account

four days ago.

Same day,

he has an appointment

with Larry Pearl, senior partner

at Lesser, Rasmussen
& Howe, law firm,

Century City.

Any of this adding up to you?

No. Can you run a check
on the firm's primary clients?

Yeah.

Looks like their
big account is with...

Aster Corps.

[sighs] TREVOR: Aster Corps?

That help?

Yeah, that helps.

[door opens, bell jingling]

[speaking French]

[speaks French]

On, no, no, not yet.

[speaks French] Please, uh,

take your time.

I like the company while I work.

[violin plays classical melody]

From time to time,
people find me.

I had a gift to see how
things all fit together.

A long time ago.

[chuckles]

There are precious few of us
who speak with the voice of God.

I share the same gift.

It's how I found you.

I've traveled many miles

to remove you from
the path to God.

But I am not in your way.

No, no, my friend.

You are in His way.

You're an aberration,

a blasphemy in the
eyes of the Father.

I'm sorry?

It's not your fault.

Would you take a small
step forward, please?

[sighs] I'm sorry.

I'm a little bit nervous.

Why?

I'm still not used to this.

[gasps]

You want to play those?

Go ahead. I'm sure
they won't mind.

Hey. Hey.

So, it looks like our guy
was a private detective.

He was hired by a
lawyer who works for a firm

whose primary
client is Aster Corps.

Reuben, their I.T. guy,
gave me this; it's a flash drive

with a sniffer program.
It'll allow me to remotely

access someone else's
computer. All I have to do

is sneak into this
lawyer's office

and download it to his desktop.

[exhales] Great, but how are
you gonna get into the office?

Well, from my experience,
walking through the front door

seems to be the
least conspicuous.

Let's go.

Lucy, hey,

I-I need to do this on my own.

What?

What if Amelia's there?

She-she won't even
know who you are.

She won't trust you.

I need to go with you.

Look, they're not
gonna take her there.

It's too public, too visible.

Look, I want to help you.

Hell, I have to help you.

But I need to do this my way.

Fine.

I'll watch Jake.

Thank you.

[video game music and
sound effects playing]

Hey.

Just find my girl, please.

We will.

Hey, buddy,

I'll be back as
soon as I can, okay?

♪♪

♪♪

[beep]

Excuse me.

[over phone]:
BreakWire. This is Trevor.

Hey, it's me.

This is gonna take
longer than I thought.

Jake and Lucy all right?

They're fine. What's up?

Hold on one sec. I think I
might've caught a break.

♪♪

How you doing?

Can I help you?

Yeah, I'm supposed to be taking
measurements for a painting

that's gonna be
delivered later today.

Painting? Where?

Um, Lesser, Rasmussen & Howe.

Some guy named Pearl.

Yeah.

Let's see, fifth floor.

Hey, you know what?

I don't have his office number.

You got it?

5227. Thanks a lot, man.

[elevator bell dings]

Must be going to the same place.

Belly of the beast.

Lawyers.

Yeah, tell me about it.

[elevator bell dings]

[doors slide open]

They're waiting in
the conference room.

[muttering]: 5227.

Sorry.

It's all right.

♪♪

LUCY: 5227.

Pretty great score, Jake...
Especially since they're

old-people games.

You two all right in here?

Yep, all good.

Just twiddling our
thumbs till 007 gets back.

Well, you know Martin...
Could be a while.

No, actually, I
don't know Martin.

I just met him this morning.

You want to play?

[sighs] Sure.

Okay.

This morning?

Yeah.

We were thrown together.

Circumstances.

I have some unfinished business

he's helping me with.

Well, you're in good hands.

Martin puts his
mind to something,

he never gives up.

You go back a long way, huh?

Old friends?

Not at first.

Rival newspapers.

Kind of got into a spot
of trouble on a story

we were both
covering in the Balkans,

and he put the rivalry
aside and spent three days

helping me out
of a bad situation.

We got pretty close after that,

but, well, things change.

Why? What happened?

[sighs]

He lost his wife in 9/11.

Oh.

We spoke a couple of days after,

but, well, that was it.

Month later, he
punched out his boss

at the New York Herald
and walked away from it all.

I never heard from
him again until today.

Hmm.

I've been trying to figure out
a reason not to trust the guy.

I do that.

[chuckles] Yeah, well...

there are lots of reasons

to keep your
distance from Martin.

Not trusting him
isn't one of them.

Of course, Mr. Norburg

understands the
terms of his managerial

and public relations
responsibilities

should he leave.

What is... what is
he talking about?

WOMAN: "Refusal to perform tasks

"listed therein will
result in Mr. Norburg's

removal from the company..."

Right, right, that's...
that's what I want.

"which will result

"in absorption of
all assets acquired

during the period of the term."

Meaning what?

[cell phone ringing]

Uh, excuse me.

Yes?

Meaning they own
everything you're working on.

You leave with nothing.

What... what do you
mean, you lost her?

How do you lose
a 14-year-old girl?

I don't care if you
have to retrace

every inch of this city.

You find her, do
you understand me?

No, no, I am not going
to pay for another day.

Retrace your steps and
call me when you have her.

[clears throat]

Done.

Can I help you?

Yeah, I-I was sent up to take
measurements for a painting.

A painting.

Yeah... right here.

Security.

There's no way I
can win, is there?

No, there isn't.

[alarm blaring]

MAN: Hold it right there!

Stop!

[groaning]

You okay?

[sighs]

You hit the mother lode.

Not only can I see what's
on Pearl's computer,

but he's got all
his project files

for Aster Corps.

Can you search
through those for me?

Yeah. What do
you want me to find?

Anything you can find on that.

Okay. Bring up his e-mails.

Whoa. Whoa.

Find anything?

Was he e-mailing
the private eye?

Yeah. There's, like,
a dozen of them,

and it started
about six days ago.

What are all those addresses?

TREVOR: He's giving
him his whole itinerary.

Everywhere he looked
for her all over the city.

She might try to go
back to one of them.

It'll take two days
to check them all.

Hold on. Wait, wait.

Right there, that
address... 5227.

That was the number

of the lawyer's office.

Bring that up.

5227... I don't understand.

What does his office number
have to do with anything?

Martin?

It's on all the other ones, too.

MARTIN: 5227... that's it.

What is this place?

I don't know.

Amelia! Lucy, wait.

Wait, Lucy!

Lucy!

I'm going to lock the door
so no one can get at you.

Please, just stay here.

Lucy!

[man coughing]

Lucy.

[indistinct chatter]

MARTIN: Jake.

Get back to the car now.

Made me lose her once.

That's not going
to happen again.

[gasps]

Amelia!

You!

Stay away!

Get off of me, you crazy bitch.

Stay away from her!

What is it with you people?

I swear,

you're messing with the wrong...

You all right? Thanks.

Amelia.

It's me. It's your mom.

Get away from me!

She's not my daughter.

She's not my daughter.

You all right? I'm fine.

This whole thing
was a pipe dream.

You're crazy, and I'm even
crazier for listening to you.

I'm never gonna find
her. Lucy, don't say that.

I have lost everything
looking for her,

and I've finally hit
rock bottom here.

Lucy.

This isn't yours.

Hey. Hey, wait!

Wait! Please.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

This is your backpack, right?

How did you get this map?

Some girl gave it
to me this morning.

Why? What girl?

What was her name?
What did she look like?

I don't know.

My age, blonde hair.

Where did you see her?

On the beach, near the pier.

Let's go.

Show me.

Do you have any idea why
Lawrence Pearl would hire

a private detective to find you?

Hey, we're not trying to get
you in trouble here, okay?

He's my father.

My real father.

I didn't find out till
about six months ago.

I figured, since he was rich,

that maybe if I told
him who I was, he...

He's married and everything.

So I'm pretty
much the last thing

he wanted showing up.

He told me not to
come near his house.

So I left.

Maybe he realized he was wrong.

Hired a private detective

just to make sure
you were all right.

And we thought it all had
something to do with us.

Hey, honey, does your
mom know where you are?

You need to call her.

You need to go home.

I can't.

How could she lie
to me all those years?

Sweetheart, I think she
was just trying to protect you.

Listen, as a mom myself,

I know what it is
to lose a daughter.

Your mom won't
be able to breathe

till she knows you're okay.

You need to call her. All right?

Just open the door.

Okay.

I'll call her.

[applause]

Aster Corps has seen record
increases in profits this year.

Together, we've
redefined distribution,

predicted consumer behavior

and more than tripled
our stock price projections.

All through the use of
state-of-the-art algorithms

developed by me and my team.

[applause]

At least that's what it says
here on the teleprompter.

[laughter]

The truth is, Aster Corps

is using these same
algorithms to program machines

to be more intelligent
than any of us.

These machines will in
turn create new machines

more intelligent than
them, and so on and so on,

until the very idea
of being human,

the very brain
inside each of us,

will become obsolete.

Driven by profits
and corporate greed,

it's a dystopian
nightmare in the making.

Brought to you by our good
friends here at Aster Corps.

All right, Calvin, let's, uh...

let's, uh, stick to
the point, okay?

The work that I'm doing
now, the new meta algorithms,

Excuse me. are like
nothing we've ever seen.

All right, Calvin.

Evolution of the species
in numerical form.

A single numerical equation

in the right order, with
proper implementation,

ending illness, cancer, despair.

Calvin, for God's sake.

We can solve global warming.

Calvin. End hunger.

Enough's enough. Enough, enough.

I'm talking about
a manifest destiny!

You've said enough.
That's it, that's it.

Imagine the beauty of...
That's enough, enough.

Ladies and gentlemen,
my apologies.

Calvin here has obviously
put in a few late nights,

and pressures of
the job and all that.

Um, he'd probably
rather be working,

but we twisted his arm
to get him to speak today.

And let's, um...
let's take five.

[crowd murmuring]

Well, you just
opened yourself up

to the mother of all lawsuits.

You've never been
on my side, Tony.

[man speaking French over radio]

♪♪

Hi. Vikash Nayar.

Oh, yeah, I know who you are.

I saw... I saw an article

about you in Venture Weekly.

Then you know I'm a man
who invests in bold ideas.

Throwing away a billion-
dollar golden parachute?

That's about as bold as it gets.

Well, it's a good thing I
never care about money.

And yet money is what you need.

And money is what I have.

A lot of it.

No questions asked.

I don't understand.

My money, Mr. Norburg,

and your vision.

An auspicious combination.

I think it was somewhere
right about here.

MARTIN: Jake, stay close!

It was really
pretty this morning,

and I just wanted
to look at the water.

That's when she came walking by.

She just walked right past me.

Then turned around like
she knew me or something.

Handed me that map.

Did she say anything?

Just smiled and walked away.

It was the nicest thing
anyone's done for me

in a really long time.

She was right here this morning.

She's here. My baby's here.

♪♪

[door opens, closes]

Hey.

Heard you went to
the beach this morning.

I don't like it here.

I miss my parents.
I want to go home.

Look, Amelia,
we've been over this.

Your parents gave you away.

We're your family now, okay?

JAKE: There are three
things that I've learned

in my time on this planet.

One: We are all connected.

It's very nice.

I get a call from my
cousin Avram in New York.

He says you're okay.

If he's okay, I'm
okay, you're okay.

JAKE: Two: Where
you end, I begin.

And vice versa.

And three: No matter how
hard we try to control it...

Good luck. Thank you.

Nothing is exactly
what it appears to be.

LUCY: Wow.

Yeah. It's a little weird.

Nine hours and we're
already living together.

It's a record, even for me.

But thanks for letting
me stay here until...

We're gonna find her, Lucy.

I know it, I... I just
do. [cell phone ringing]

Sorry, I got to take this.

Okay.

Yeah.

Uh, listen, that
search you wanted?

I cross-referenced
everything I could find

on the Aster Corps mainframe
with the name Jake Bohm...

And turns out, he's
your son, by the way.

But I guess you knew that.

There were a couple records

for a board-and-care facility...

Yeah, in New York City.

But that's not why I'm calling.

I found something else.

It's... it's a
death certificate.

What are you talking about?

Your son.

Injuries sustained
in a car crash.

And that's not the weird part.

The date is blank.

All they have
to do is fill it in.

I'll get back to you.

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