Gugu Mbatha-Raw Returns To Television On The New FOX Series, TOUCH

Written By: MIM!—Following her role on the sexy spy drama Undercovers, Gugu Mbatha-Raw returns to television this season as Clea Hopkins on the FOX series, TOUCH, which FOX describes as "a preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact." Get details about Gugu's lead role below.

. . . At the center is MARTIN BOHM (Kiefer Sutherland, "24"), a widower and single father, haunted by an inability to connect to his mute, severely autistic 11-year-old son, JAKE. Caring, intelligent and thoughtful, Martin has tried everything to reach his son who shows little emotion and never allows himself to be touched by anyone, including Martin. Jake busies himself with cast-off cell phones, disassembling them and manipulating the parts, allowing him to see the world in his own special way.

After multiple failed attempts at keeping Jake in school, Martin is visited by social worker CLEA HOPKINS [Gugu Mbatha-Raw], who insists on doing an evaluation of the Bohms' living situation. Although new at her job, Clea sees a man whose life has become dominated by a child he can no longer control. She believes his attempts to communicate with Jake are just wish fulfillment, and determines that it's time for the state to intervene. But everything changes when Martin discovers that Jake possesses a gift of staggering genius—the ability to see things that no one else can, the patterns that connect everything. Jake is indeed communicating after all. But it's not with words, it's with numbers. And now he needs Martin to decipher their meaning and connect these numbers to the cast of seemingly unrelated characters whose lives they affect.

Tune in to watch the series premier of TOUCH, Monday, March 19 (9:00-10:00 PM) on FOX.

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