'' Touch '' centers on former reporter Martin Bohm ( Kiefer Sutherland ) and his 11-year-old son , Jake ( David Mazouz ) , who has been diagnosed as autistic . Martin 's wife died in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks , and he has been struggling to raise Jake since then , moving from job to job while tending to Jake 's special needs . Jake has never spoken a word , but is fascinated by numbers and patterns relating to numbers , spending much of his days writing them down in notebooks or his touch-screen tablet and sometimes using objects ( for instance popcorn kernels )
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Touch (TV series)