History Series / Touch2012

* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:Jake is one of 36 individuals who can see the pattern of the whole life (The pattern of God) in numbers. A legend says that this 36 persons' presence prevents God from destroying the Earth, a direct reference to the Jewish concept of the TzadikimNistarim).]]

* TzadikimNistarim: They make up a large part of the show's mythology.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Jake presents like an [[HollywoodAutism autistic]], but we're never specifically told that. Lampshaded by Martin, who claims that doctors were never able to diagnose Jake's disorder. [[spoiler: It seems to be a trait of being a 36, which possibly wanes as you get older, as Amelia seems to a significantly milder version of the same issues, and the adult 36es that we meet are basically normal humans, albeit chronic insomniacs with occasional CloudCuckoolander traits]]

Not to be confused with the manga ''Manga/{{Touch}}''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Season 1 has characters all over the world. Season 2 stays fairly confined to the Los Angeles area, and has a slightly smaller cast of primary characters

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: David Mazouz as Jake Bohm and Kiefer Sutherland as Martin Bohm.]]

* TheWarOnTerror: Martin lost his wife on 9/11.

* TheVoiceless: Jake, unless he's [[SuddenlyVoiced screaming]].
** ...or doing the beginning or end narration of an episode.

* HatesBeingTouched: Jake. Martin recommends the CPS worker not touch him unless she wants to "spend the next three hours peeling him off the ceiling." He hugs Martin when they [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments begin to understand each other]].

* ArrangedMarriage: In the episode "Entanglement", Norah and Sami are arranged to be married. Neither is too thrilled about the prospect.

* FailureKnight: [[spoiler: The "Invisible Prince."]]

* HatesBeingTouched: Jake. Martin recommends the CPS worker not touch him unless she wants to "spend the next three hours peeling him off the ceiling." He hugs Martin when they [[HeartwarmingMoments begin to understand each other]].

** [[spoiler:Calvin. He keeps Amelia away from her mother to study her brain to found a cure for neurological diseases, like brain damage, which is the case of William, his brother.]]

** Calvin Norburg's mother resembles the mother of a certain regenerating cheerleader from another [[Series/{{Heroes}} Tim Kring series.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Calvin Norberg and his associates, who [[spoiler: stole Amelia from Astercorps and are trying to use her to teach computers how to predict the future and understand the human brain]]

** "Ghosts". [[spoiler:Guillermo finally finds Jake, kills quite a few people in order to get to him, gets in a fight with Martin, and is shot off a roof (but lives). Also, we find out that Jake can communicate telephathically.]]

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Heights?]]: Martin is acrophobic.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Martin used to be a highly paid reporter, but now works various menial jobs.

* ChineseMythology: Jake narrates about the string of the gods.

* [[UngratefulBastard]]: One episode has two Saudi girls, Norah and Shada, cross-dressing as boys to go on a road trip. In their travels, they come across a woman going into labor and decide to help her. When the woman discovers that her saviors are, in fact, girls, she berates them for their poor behavior.