Touch, Season 2

Jake:
[voiceover] There are infinite ways to communicate; some better than others. Today, the average person will say 17,520 words to 7.4 other individuals. Yet change the language, one border to the next, and we are helpless. Stumbling to explain the simplest of concepts: I want, I am, I love. My name is Jake. I was born on October 26, 2000. I've been alive for 11 years, 8 months and 16 days. And in all that time, I've never said a single word. But that's about to change.

Jake:
[voiceover] "From the smallest amoeba to the grandest of galaxies, we define ourselves by our borders. Our boundaries. I am me, therefore, I am not you. We are safe within our territory. But borders can be places of instability, of danger. Cold fronts collide with warm. Dynamic energy explodes. And yet... it's at the edges, the frontiers between us, where ideas are exchanged, where knowledge is gained. I am me, but I must push past my borders if I'm ever to truly know you."

Jake:
[voiceover] Sometimes storms do not arrive full blown. Sometimes they build over days, or even weeks. An arctic storm moving southward can suddenly crash into a tropical hurricane that's traveling north. And when these collisions of weather systems occur, it causes the storm to explode. The sum total of their destructive energy is far greater than what any of them would have been had they remained on their own, creating what meteorologists sometimes call perfect conditions for a deadly storm. A perfect storm.

Jake:
[voiceover] In a vacuum, radio waves travel at the same speed as all forms of electromagnetic radiation. That is, 299,792,458 m/s. But human beings do not live in a vacuum. Wherever we are, we're surrounded by stimuli, both positive and negative. When negative stimuli is perceived, it travels from its source to its destination, the sensory cortex, at a mere 100 m/s. But regardless of its relatively slow speed, this unpleasant sensation registers as something we call pain, and as humans, we are conditioned to do anything and everything to avoid it.

Jake:
[voiceover] An arctic storm moving southward can suddenly crash into a tropical hurricane that's traveling north. And when these collisions of weather systems occur, it causes the storm to explode. The sum total of their destructive energy is far greater than what any of them would have been had they remained on their own, creating what meteorologists sometimes call perfect conditions for a deadly storm. A perfect storm.

Amelia:
[to Jake] It's okay, there's another way.

Jake:
[voiceover, to Guillermo Ortiz] She loved you. I know you're in pain, unbearable pain.

Guillermo Ortiz:
[to Jake] Stop it. Stop it, boy. Whatever you thought you could accomplish tonight, you failed. But we both know what that date means to me. It's all the more reason you can not exist here.

Jake:
[voiceover, to Guillermo Ortiz] But you also knew love, before you turned to death.

Guillermo Ortiz:
[to Jake] You can't hurt a man who lost everything. I'm already dead. God took my family, my wife, my son, on the blackest day. The day you were born.

Jake:
[voiceover] Bodies at rest stay at rest, and bodies in motion stay in motion, unless acted on by an outside force.