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* WhyAmITicking: [[spoiler: Abdul]].
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** The Arc Numbers are revealed to all be part of a sequence that governs the connection between people's lives.
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** There seems to be an arc number for every episode, given how Jake sees things in numbers. However, the arc numbers seem to be becoming more than just numbers, but also symbols and names associated with the numbers.
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* ChekhovsGun: Too many to count
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Lyov the dog escaping from his inclosure in episode 2
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* TheMafiya: The Russian mob boss from Episode 2
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* MeaningfulName: Bohm, arguably. David Bohm was a physicist who came up with the Hidden Variable interpretation of quantum physics, which sort of fits the premise of the series.
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* ArcNumber: 318 in the pilot, though it shows up again in the first official episode.
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* ArcNumber: 318 in the pilot, though it shows up again in the first official episode.
**Each episode has a different ArcNumber which Martin must follow.follow. For example, the pilot episode has 318, which is [[spoiler: both the time at which Martin encounters a former firefighter and inadvertently fights with (causing him to miss his train) '''AND''' the number on the bus whose passengers said ex-firefighter saves because he happened to miss his train]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jake presents like an autistic, but we're never specifically told that.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jake presents like an autistic, but we're never specifically told that. Lampshaded by Martin, who claims that doctors were never able to diagnose Jake's disorder
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A new series produced by [[Series/{{Heroes}} Tim Kring]] and starring [[TwentyFour Kiefer Sutherland]] as the single father of Jake, a mute boy who is obsessed with numbers, believing it possible to predict the future with them. Not to be confused with the manga Manga/{{Touch}}.
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A new 2012 series produced by [[Series/{{Heroes}} Tim Kring]] and starring [[TwentyFour [[Series/TwentyFour Kiefer Sutherland]] as Sutherland]].
Since Martin Bohm's wife died in thesingle father of Jake, a September 11 New York attacks, he's been raising mute boy who is number- obsessed with son Jacob as best he can. Jacob has a strange ability to see complex patterns in the world, and does his best to help people who need to connect one another for the better. Upon finding his son's ability, Martin tries to help, but since Jacob mostly communicates through scrawling numbers, believing it possible wondering off into crowds, and apparently making a nuisance of himself, it's not easy for him to predict the future work out what he's doing, or why.
In addition to Martin's struggles withthem. his son, the show has several characters who seem to be wound up in the patterns Jacob sees, such as two teenagers in occupied Iraq trying to achieve fame in the wartorn country and the firemen who attempted to save Martin's wife, trying to make up for his failure.
Not to be confused with the mangaManga/{{Touch}}.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jake presents like an autistic, but his voiceover in the prelude shows a strongly developed intellect.
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* TheVoiceless: Jake, unless he's [[SuddenlyVoiced screaming]].
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** Each episode has a different ArcNumber which Martin must follow.
** Something about Room [[ArcNumber 6]] has definitely caught Jake's attention. [[spoiler: It looks like somebody is ''in'' there, despite a statement from the intstitute's director saying otherwise - though whether that's [[BlatantLies a lie]] or something far more sinister remains to be seen.]]
** Something about Room [[ArcNumber 6]] has definitely caught Jake's attention. [[spoiler: It looks like somebody is ''in'' there, despite a statement from the intstitute's director saying otherwise - though whether that's [[BlatantLies a lie]] or something far more sinister remains to be seen.]]
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* FailureKnight: [[spoiler: The "Invisible Prince."]]
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** In the first episode Martin is forced to scoop Jake up and carry him to a taxi to escape another man who figured out Martin was tricking him. Jake screams and writhes the whole say, and the first thing Martin says to him after tossing him in the taxi is, "I'm sorry, Jake, I had to! I'm sorry!"
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** In the first episode Martin is forced to scoop Jake up and carry him to a taxi to escape another man who figured out Martin was tricking him. Jake screams and writhes the whole say, way, and the first thing Martin says to him after tossing him in the taxi is, "I'm sorry, Jake, I had to! I'm sorry!"
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* RedStringOfFate: Jake references a Chinese variant where your red string is attached to everyone you will affect in your life
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* FiveFiveFive: Averted. Every number used is formatted like a real-life phone number.
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* FiveFiveFive: Averted. Every number used is formatted like a real-life phone number.
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* ChekhovsBoomerang: The cell phone in the pilot.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The pawn shop owner, Arnie, in the first episode.]]
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Starting to look that way.
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* LudicrousPrecision: Jake knows exactly how long he's been alive, to the hour.
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* GeniusBonus: The Fibonacci sequence.
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* 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 the [[HeartwarmingMoments begin to understand each other]].
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* SequelHook: At the end of the pilot. [[JustifiedTrope Understandable]], given that the pilot aired two months before the first episode.
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* FourLinesAllWaiting: The plot circling around the cell phone.
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* ChineseMythology: Jake narrates about the string of the gods.
* EvolutionaryLevels: The Teller institute website says mutism might be an evolutionary step.
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* EvolutionaryLevels: The Teller institute website says mutism might be an evolutionary step.
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A new series produced by [[Series/{{Heroes}} TimKring]] Tim Kring]] and starring KeiferSutherland KieferSutherland as the single father of Jake, a mute boy who is obsessed with numbers, believing it possible to predict the future with them. Not to be confused with the manga Manga/{{Touch}}.
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* 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 the [[HeartwarmingMoments begin to understand each other]].
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Jake presents like an autistic, but his voiceover in the prelude shows a strongly developed intellect.
* ArcNumber: 318.
* BerserkButton: Insulting Jake, for Martin. Unfortunately, his ability to act on it is [[EpicFail compromised]], given that he's not [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]].
* CuteMute: Jake. He speaks only in narration.
* GoldBurier: Martin refuses to take money from his wife's wealthy family.
* EvolutionaryLevels: The Teller institute website says mutism might be an evolutionary step.
* ChineseMythology: Jake narrates about the string of the gods.
* HatesBeingTouched: Jake. Martin recommends the CPS worker not touch him unless she wants to "spend the next three hours peeling him off the ceiling."
* MissingMom: Died on 9/11.
* {{Pride}}: Martin had all money from his wife and her family put into a trust for Jake to stop them from thinking him a GoldDigger.
* TheSpock: Jake shows traits of this.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Orange soda for Jake. It keeps showing up elsewhere, too.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Jake regularly wanders away, climbs phone towers (!), and takes apart phones.
* TheWarOnTerror: Martin lost his wife on 9/11.
* [[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.
!! Tropes:
* AmbiguousDisorder: Jake presents like an autistic, but his voiceover in the prelude shows a strongly developed intellect.
* ArcNumber: 318.
* BerserkButton: Insulting Jake, for Martin. Unfortunately, his ability to act on it is [[EpicFail compromised]], given that he's not [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]].
* CuteMute: Jake. He speaks only in narration.
* GoldBurier: Martin refuses to take money from his wife's wealthy family.
* EvolutionaryLevels: The Teller institute website says mutism might be an evolutionary step.
* ChineseMythology: Jake narrates about the string of the gods.
* HatesBeingTouched: Jake. Martin recommends the CPS worker not touch him unless she wants to "spend the next three hours peeling him off the ceiling."
* MissingMom: Died on 9/11.
* {{Pride}}: Martin had all money from his wife and her family put into a trust for Jake to stop them from thinking him a GoldDigger.
* TheSpock: Jake shows traits of this.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Orange soda for Jake. It keeps showing up elsewhere, too.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Jake regularly wanders away, climbs phone towers (!), and takes apart phones.
* TheWarOnTerror: Martin lost his wife on 9/11.
* [[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.
