Touch (TV Series)

Safety in Numbers (2012)

David Mazouz: Jake Bohm

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• Jake Bohm : 7 billion people on a tiny planet, suspended in the vastness of space, all alone. How we make sense of that is the great mystery of all of our existence. Maybe it's being alone in the universe that holds us all together, keeps us needing each other in the smallest of ways, creating a quantum entanglement of you, of me, of us. And if that's really true, then we live in a world where anything is possible.

• [first lines] 

  Jake Bohm : There are 3 million species of animals living in the tropical rain forests, and one of them, the red fire ant, lives underground, under constant threat of annihilation from flash floods. Nature doesn't care. If a species wants to survive, it has to prove it deserves to. When the floods come, the fire ants hold on to each other, creating a living raft that can float until the water recedes. Months, if necessary. So how does a species figure something like that out? Instinct? Trial and error? Was there one fire ant who was being swept away by the rushing water and grabbed on to another ant, only to find that together they could float?

  Jake Bohm : What if you were the one who knew what needed to be done, but you had no words? How do you make the others understand? How do you call for help?

  [Martin's cellphone beeping]