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Mister Fixit

By M. Giant | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2012.03.29

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Clea (not Claire, as I've incorrectly thought all this time, how embarrassing) is still giving Kiefer a hard time about his new habit of chasing down numbers for Jake. But that doesn't stop Kiefer from pursuing a new one: 3287, which comes with a picture of a dragon. After another unenlightening visit with Teller, Kiefer witnesses a homeless woman being hit by a car, then chases a homeless man after he takes a book from her belongings. It turns out the book belongs to the homeless man, and it's full of numbers like Jake's. Kiefer latches onto this lead, who calls himself "The Invisible Knight" and goes around facilitating connections without anyone noticing. Kiefer follows one of these connections to a class-action suit where investors are suing a financial firm. Suddenly he finds himself putting his old investigative reporter pants back on and discovers The Invisible Knight is in fact the man who invented the financial instrument that allowed the company to cheat its investors, and has since gone Fisher King over his creation being used for evil. But Kiefer's able to follow the clues, help an old protégé at the paper break the story, and I guess get everyone's money back.

Elsewhere in the world, there's some ridiculous online dance battle going on, where anyone with a computer can log on and take on the defending champion via webcam. The champ is at a festival someplace, where some chick realizes she's been stood up before she meets the Japanese escorts and ends up with their phone before making friends with the ex-champ. Yes, ex-champ, because he got beaten by some kid in Soweto. Whose sister has a friend whose boyfriend beats her up -- at least, until the women of the village take back the night with cooking utensils. It's almost as ridiculous as the dance battle.

Jake doesn't leave the clinic for once, but door six in the building is clearly going to be an ongoing mystery, as a toy car that Jake rolled into the supposedly empty room rolls back out when everything comes together, a moment that coincides with the cessation of Jake's sudden screaming. Yes, he screams, but he stops, too. As for Clea, she gets another phantom call from her mom's old phone number, and it looks like it's going to be the woman Kiefer saw flattened by the cab, until it's not. But at least Clea has the phone that dialed the call, so maybe Jake's helping her find her mom somehow. If nothing else, she promises to try to not be on Kiefer's case so much all the time. That'll be nice.

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This week's episode of Touch is brought to you by the number 3287.

Jake VOs about the three million species living in tropical rain forests. One of them is the red fire ant, which has the ability to survive floods by grabbing onto each other to create a living raft. Elsewhere in the world, a woman is helped onto the back of a pickup truck somewhere in a South Africa township somewhere (I think we can all assume it's Soweto, as this show is all about the invisible connections between the billions of people who live in places everyone has heard of), a dewy schoolgirl sends a text and looks happy and excited, a scroungy guy adjusts a newspaper on the sidewalk outside an apartment building for someone to pick up shortly thereafter, and another woman stands on a roof overlooking the city while Jake's VO goes on about how beings with no words are able to figure these things out and call to each other for help. It's all very symbolic and profound and this way David Mazouz gets paid for having a speaking role.

Early in the morning, Kiefer is awakened on his couch by a cell phone call from the clinic. Kiefer quickly recognizes the sound of Jake not talking on the other end, and goes rushing over. In the hallway, he runs into Clea. Yep, her name is Clea and not Claire, as I've been thinking this whole time until I finally turned on closed captions. I'm surprised I didn't hear about it earlier from the show's legion of rabid fans. Anyway, she's surprised to see him for some reason and not entirely convinced that it was Jake calling him, seeing as how all the kids are supposed to be asleep. Does Clea live there, then? Kiefer argues that all this evaluation crap is moot now that his son is communicating with him, but Claire says they need to be careful anyway, because we have to have some kind of manufactured conflict. But she agrees to let Kiefer see him, although of course when Kiefer opens the door to Jake's room, the kid's gone. They both go running through the halls looking for him, and find him downstairs bolding the number 3287 in his book. Clea insists on taking Jake back to his room, but before going, Jake slips a piece of paper into Kiefer's jacket pocket. Once they're gone, Kiefer pulls it out and unfolds a torn-out page with an illustration of a dragon and the number 3287 written on it. "What the hell does that mean?" Kiefer wonders aloud. As always.