"One to 1.618 over and over and over again." "Patterns are hidden in plain sight." "You just have to know where to look." "Things most people see as chaos actually follow subtle laws of behavior:" "Galaxies." "Plants." "Seashells." "The patterns never lie." "But only some of us can see how the pieces fit together." "7,080,360,000 of us live on this tiny planet." "This is the story of some of those people." "There's an ancient Chinese myth about the red thread of fate." "It says that the gods have tied a red thread around every one of our ankles  and attached it to all the people whose lives we are destined to touch." "This thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break." "It's all been predetermined by mathematical probability  and it's my job to keep track of those numbers  to make the connections for those who need to find each other  the ones whose lives need to touch." "I was born 4161 days ago on October 26, 2000." "I've been alive for 11 years, four months, 21 days and 14 hours." "And in all that time  I've never said a single word." "Welcome to Kennedy Airport." "Just a reminder, this is a non-smoking facility." " Another 25 or so." " Thanks." "No chargers, so probably dead." "What do you do with these things?" "My son likes to take them apart." "Hello?" "Oh, thank God." " Who is this?" " It's the owner of the phone..." " ...you are illegally in possession of." " I'm not illegally possessing anything." "It was in the lost and found at JFK." "I work here." "New York." "You're kidding me." "I don't care how you got it, okay?" "I just want it back." "I lost it at Heathrow Airport two days ago." "People have been phone-skipping it around the globe since." "So can I please have it back?" "Can't you just get another one?" "It's not the phone that I need." "It's a photograph inside it of my daughter." "It's her birthday tomorrow." "I'm in Mumbai now." "I just need it back, okay?" "All right, let me get your address." "Hang on." "Now my phone is ringing." "Hello?" "Again?" "You gotta be kidding me." "I pay your school good money to keep my son safe." "Are you grasping the iron...?" "Just tell them not to touch him, understand?" "Do not touch him!" "I'll be there as fast as I can." "Hello?" "Are you still there?" "Hello?" "MAN 1:" "Yeah, I'll put it back in the truck." "MAN 2:" "Well, the dad just showed up here." " MAN 3 All units be advised, we've..." " Damn it, Jake." "You had to call the police?" "MAN 4:" "Third time." " Don't go near him." "You can't touch him." " Sir, your son cannot keep doing this." "I told you, you cannot touch him." "You gotta let me bring him down." "I can't let you go up there." "I'm not going up there." "I'm scared of heights." "I got another idea." "Jake!" "Come back down, Lenny." "The kid's dad is here." "Hey, buddy!" "Come on down, okay?" "I got a present for you." "See?" "Jake, it's all right." "Just come on down." "Come on down, buddy." "Jake!" "Lucky there wasn't any rain today." "That thing gets wet, he goes up like a torch." "Does the time 3:18 mean something to that kid?" "Wait for me by the car." "All three times he tripped the alarm on the security system at exactly 3:18." "Kid is like clockwork." "I don't know anything about that." "I'm gonna have to report him to Child Services this time." "I know, I know." "I'm sorry for your trouble." "Jake." "Come on." "Come on." "Why don't we leave the bus alone now, okay, Jake?" "You know what?" "I got a good idea." "I bet the store here has got orange soda." "Would you like that?" "Of course you would." "Come on, Jake, please?" "Jake!" " MAN And tonight at 8:00..." " Give me a lottery ticket, please." " Hang on." " The Children of 9/11  an in-depth look at the struggles and the triumphs of the forgotten victims  those too young to have memories of the mothers and fathers..." "Eight-seven one, nine, 20 31, 11." "... explores the psychological implications of this tragedy on their young lives." " Hey, hey." "Kid, come here." " Jake!" "Kid, come back here." " Whoa, whoa, whoa, no!" " Jake." " Hey, hey, whoa, kid." " I'm sorry, I'll take care of it." " Open the door." " Hey, kid." "Open it now." " One, two, three..." " Jake." " You ought to keep that kid in a cage." " What did you say?" "Hey!" "Unh!" "Smile with the rising sun" "Three little birds Perched on my doorstep" "Singin'sweet songs Of melodies pure and true, yeah" "This is my message to you" "Sayin'don't worry about a thing" "'Cause every little thing Gonna be all right" "'Cause every little thing Gonna be all right" "Whoo!" "Ladies and gentlemen, the song stylings of the next global phenom Kayla Graham." "Play it forward, pass it along." "Start your fan clubs here." "Oh, you know what?" "I'm starstruck." "I mean, you killed tonight." "And now, for the post-performance depression." "Kay..." "Kayla?" "Kayla." "How is it that you always end up sitting out here?" "It's the obvious place to ruminate on the things I'll never be." "Half the company is here because of you." "Niles, you know I love you." "But let's face it I'm gonna be working two cubicles down from you for the rest of my life." "We all have a destiny, Kayla, okay?" "And yours is to be a megastar." "And this here..." " This is the rocket ship that launches it all." " A mobile phone?" "You know Doug from Sales?" "He got back from New York today." "Someone stuck this into his bag." "You should see the videos and the messages that are in here from all around the world." " It's like a pollen burst ready to explode." " You got a video of me on that phone..." " ...singing in this bar in Dublin, Ireland." " Yeah." "You'll send this phone out into the ether and people are going to discover me?" " That's right." " And just like that I'll become a megastar?" " Exactly." "Heh, heh, heh." " I'll see you tomorrow, Niles." "Yeah, well, we'll see, Kayla." "A megastar, love." "I mean, it's viral marketing." "We can't fail." "Heh, heh, heh." "Taxi." "Airport, please." "Air Japan." "Come on, buddy." "It's serious this time, Jake." "The police filed another report today." "We're already on thin ice." "I don't know what to do..." "Aah!" "Damn it!" "I'm sorry." "It's my fault." "Heh." "There." "The doctor says you're gonna be bigger than me." "How the hell's that gonna work?" "Okay." "Okay." "Get some sleep." "They're all the same number." "Jake, how did you do that?" "ROCK Hello?" "Hello?" " Hello, hello?" " Hello, hello?" "They're picking up the phone, "Hello?" "Hello, hello?"" "Mr. Bohm?" "Clea Hopkins." "Child and Family Services." "I've come to do an assessment..." "Oh, my God." "Your paper." "Thank you." "Can I get you something to drink?" "You still working as a doorman?" "I've been a taxi driver, construction worker and baggage handler since then." "I guess I'm still trying to find myself." "Mr. Bohm, I'm sure you know why I'm here." " I can explain the cell tower." " Third time in three weeks." "Well, look on the bright side." "At least he's consistent." "It's a symptom." "Five schools in seven years." "No mother in the home." "Your multiple jobs in the past few years?" "It doesn't add up to a promising picture." "We've had our challenges, but we always get through them." "Unfortunately, these things come down to resources, commitment..." " ...personal involvem..." " You do not get to talk about commitment." "I'm just pointing out the obvious here." "When your son was born, you were a reporter at the Herald." "You're working 50 hours a week at ajob that cannot provide the care..." "I've provided for him for the last 10 years." "With less and less success, apparently." "The financial challenges will only increase as your son gets older." "I wanna offer solutions, I do." "I'm all ears." "At the risk of being presumptuous, this is a three-bedroom loft." "In the Meatpacking District?" "For conversation's sake, it was my wife's." "She was a stockbroker." "She worked in the North Tower of the World Trade Center." "It should all be there in your file." "Still, a loft like this has to be worth an awful lot." "My wife's family had money." "I made her put everything in Jake's name, in a trust because I didn't want them to think I wanted..." "Why don't I just take a few minutes here so I can meet Jacob." "Knock yourself out." "He's right behind you." "Wow, you're a quiet one, aren't you?" " Hello, Jacob." "I'm Clea." " I wouldn't do that, if I were you." "Not unless you wanna spend the next three hours peeling him off the ceiling." "He doesn't let anybody touch him." "Not even me." "Don't take it personally." "Hey, is that a dinosaur puzzle?" "Oh, my God." "The numbers." "The numbers." "Eighty-seven, one, nine, 20, 31, 11." "Mr. Bohm?" "Last night, all these phones went on." "They had numbers on them." "These numbers." "Look." "The winning numbers for the lotto." "How would he know?" "87, one, nine, 20, 31, 11." "If you're lucky enough to be holding on to the ticket, congratulations." "But the question on everyone's mind today is "Where are you?"" "The multimillion-dollar winning lottery ticket  is still remarkably unclaimed." "This is one of the biggest jackpots in New York history." "The previous largest..." "WOMAN Hello?" "Hi, it's me." "Randy?" "I really wanna come home now." " NELL Hello?" " Hi, it's me." " What do you want, Simon?" " I was just checking in." "I'm on my way to Tokyo." "There's a new chain of Italian bakeries opening up." " Could be a huge account for us." " Uh-huh." "Listen, uh I was gonna try and get home for her birthday tomorrow night." "I don't really see the point." "Why bother?" "Nell, please." "Is that everything?" "Because I have to go." "Last summer in Brighton that hotel that we stayed at on the beach did we take any photographs  of Lily  besides the ones on my mobile phone?" "No." "Why?" "Nothing." "Never mind." "Like I said, I'll try and be there, yeah?" "That's okay." "There are strange coincidences around us all the time." "And autistic children often have a heightened..." "Ability with numbers." "You think I don't know?" "I never bought that label." "They've been trying to find something that worked." "Nothing fit Jake." "For all I know, he's got nothing to say." "It's not uncommon for a guardian to feel a lack of human connection." "Unless that's what he's trying to do, connect." "The truth is the state is going to mandate a two-week evaluation to determine if Jacob should be institutionalized." "What if he's trying to communicate?" "Sit down." "Sit." "Look, Jake climbed that tower three times." "Every time, the security cameras caught him at 3:18." "For the last two weeks, he's reset every clock in this house to that exact time." "And then there's this." "He's been trying to say something." "I just didn't realize it." "What you're talking about is just wish fulfillment." "You saying I'm making this up?" "I'm saying that human connection is a powerful need." "We see meaning where there isn't any." "You got it all figured out." "You know it all, right?" "I know enough to recognize someone who's underwater who's lost too much." "Career, wife." "Your life is now dominated by a child that you can no longer control." "Have you ever truly communicated with him?" "Does he even know who you are?" "That's not your fault." "No one is judging you for that." "There's a board-and-care facility 15 blocks from here." "The best in the city." "After his two-week evaluation there, you can make a case for how you're going to provide a safe environment for Jake going forward." "In the end it may be determined that you can't." "I know that sounds harsh now but once he's out of the house, I..." "You may see that you'll both be better off with this arrangement." "TARIK" " Eh." " Eh." "It's only gonna be for two weeks, then you'll come home." "I'm gonna see you every day, I promise." "Okay, we're all set." "We have tons of fun things for you to do here, Jake." "You'll see." "These will keep him busy for a while." "If he gets agitated, try orange soda." "Usually calms him down." "Popcorn too." "He'll wanna count the kernels before he eats them." "You're a very brave man, Mr. Bohm." "Right." "It's gonna be all right." "Give us 24 hours before you come back for the first visit." "Hear that, Jake?" "I'm gonna see you tomorrow." "I love you." "Come on, Jake." "I'll show you the rec room." "Hey, sweetheart." "They, um..." "They say God never gives you more than you can handle." "But I think he has this time." "I swear to you, I've tried to make it work." "I've tried to connect." "I..." "I just can't reach him." "And I've failed you both." "I hope you can forgive me, Sarah, because I can't forgive myself." "'Cause every little thing Gonna be all right" "What do you want?" "I'm looking for the Teller Institute." "Sorry, I think I've got the wrong address." "Let me guess." "Your kid keeps climbing a cell tower." "You coming in or not?" "The whole cosmic wheel of humanity comes down to just electromagnetic energy and connections." "There are those among us, mostly kids whose sole purpose is to act as air-traffic controllers for that interconnectivity." "My son doesn't even talk." "Unnecessary, outdated, an evolutionary speed bump." "Like your pinkie toe." "He had any formal math training?" " No." "Why?" " Mr. Bohm, your son is one of those kids." "He discovered the Fibonacci sequence on his own." " The what?" " Here." "A mathematical sequence discovered by a 12th-century mathematician named Fibonacci." "The pattern's found in nature over and over again." "The curve of a wave, the spiral of a shell the segments of a pineapple." "The universe is made up of precise ratios and patterns." "All around us." "You and I, we don't see them." "But if we could life would be magical beyond our wildest dreams." "A quantum entanglement of cause and effect where everything and everyone reflects on each other." "Every action, every breath every conscious thought connected." "Imagine the unspeakable beauty of the universe he sees." "No wonder he doesn't talk." "My son sees all that?" "Mr. Bohm your son sees everything." "The past, the present, the future." "He sees how it's all connected." " You're telling me he predicts the future?" " No, I'm telling you it's a road map." "And yourjob now, your purpose, is to follow it for him." "It's your fate, Mr. Bohm." "It's your destiny." "I see you're arranging them into little rows there." "Can I count those with you?" "There's two in that one and one in that one." "Two there." "Nine." "Two, six, nine, two, two." "212-920-6922." "Heh." "That's my mother's phone number." "Haven't thought of that number in years." "Mom?" "Mom, you there?" "Hi, I'm Julie, your automated Amtrak reservation assistant." "Say the name of the destination you're traveling to." "Lynchburg, Virginia." "Lynchburg, Virginia." "Okay." "Now, please say the location of your departure." "New York City." "New York City." "Okay." "Please hold while I check for departure times." "It's a phone number." "Three-eighteen." "It's today's date." "March 18th." "I told you, he's trying to tell us about something." "But what?" "Why?" "I don't know." "To stop it from happening." "To make it happen." "I don't know." "But the time, the date, somehow it's all connected." "And whatever it is, it's supposed to happen today at 3:18." "Oh, my God." "At Grand Central Station." "In 22 minutes." "Come on, let's go." " If we find the phone, what then?" " I don't know." "Wait for a call, maybe." "There's gotta be 50 phones in this building." "Businesses, offices..." "You go that way, I'll go this way." "No." "No!" "Sorry, I'm really sorry, but I need to use that phone." "I'm waiting for a call." "Listen, I..." "Sir, I really need to use that phone." "I don't think you understand." "I have to have that phone." "It's an emergency." " You." " You son of a bitch!" "That's for the gas station." "COP 1:" "Hey!" "COP 2:" "Break it up!" "Break it up!" "I told him I was waiting for a phone call." "It's an emergency." "He started it." "Look, I gotta get to Penn Station." "I gotta catch a train." "Shh." "MAN 1" "KAYLA Singin'sweet song..." "Tarik!" "Tsk, tsk, tsk." "So far, and as much as three inches of rain  expected to pound New York and New Jersey in the next hour." "The storm is expected to last through tomorrow, tapering off by tomorrow night." "So watch out on your morning and your evening..." "RANDALL Mr. Bohm, my name is Randall Meade." "I was a fireman with Ladder Company 318." "On September 11, 2001  I was on the 87th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center." "I found a woman alive, barely conscious." "She was bleeding pretty bad." "It was your wife, Sarah." "I carried her down 31 flights of stairs." "I just couldn't carry her any farther." "I set her down, checked her pulse  and told myself she was already dead." "The truth is, I don't really know if she was." "I've been thinking about her for 10 years." "I've played the same lotto numbers every week for 10 years." "9/11, 2001 87th floor, 31 flights of stairs." "I was just trying to make the numbers come out right." "I have some money now, and it's because of her." " Sir, I really need to use that phone." " She'd want me to give it all away." " So that's what I'm gonna do." " I don't think you understand." "I have to have that phone." "MAN... owe their lives to one man." "A retired New York fireman, Randall Meade  pulled the children from a burning bus  that rolled into a ravine off the Jersey Turnpike." "This was the scene last night as our own Sofia Martinez spoke with the hero himself." "As you can see, these are the smoldering remains of the school bus  that earlier today held 25 children." "Mr. Meade, please tell us in your own words what happened." "I was on my way back to my apartment." "I was just in the right place at the right time." "And I saw the bus." "I started pulling the kids out  one by one." "Mr. Meade?" "You made me miss my train." "I'm sorry?" "Oh, I'm just saying, if I hadn't have missed my train, I wouldn't have been here." "It's amazing how things work out." " I need to see my son now." " Visiting hours are from 9 to 5." " Jake!" "Jake!" " You can't be in here, sir." " Jake!" " Oh, thank God you're here." "It's okay." "The numbers, they were right." " I tried to call." " He predicted everything." " The bus, the kids, 318, lottery, everything." " He's gone." " What?" " I went to check on him and he was gone." " I thought maybe he tried to go back home." " He's not going home." " What?" "How do you know?" " I just do." "Simon Plimpton." "44-077-0090-0488." "Please hold while we transfer you to a representative." "How may I help you?" "Yeah, I've been trying to find my phone for three days." "And now I'm getting a recorded message about an invalid territory." "Certain territories are blocked to our customers, for security reasons." "So if your phone is in any one of these areas, I won't be able to help you." " Perhaps it's time to get a new phone." " Yeah, I got a new phone but I need what's in that phone." "Can't you just GPS it orjust call the number for me?" "We're not supposed to do that, sir." "Listen, I am 6000 miles from my home in London." "On the road." "I sell restaurant supplies and..." "Look, I know that it's a long shot  but there's some photos in the phone and I need to see them." "There's someone in them that I'm not ever gonna see again." "My daughter." "She died a year ago today." "March 18th." "Okay." "I'm gonna have to put you on hold." "Yeah, fine." "KAYLA Hello, is anyone there?" " Hello?" " Who is this?" "You're using a phone that doesn't belong to you." "They just put it on me." "I don't know." " Sir?" " To explode the bomb." " I'm sorry, did you just say...?" " A bomb in one minute and 34 seconds." " The phone, it's the timer." " This is ajoke, right?" "I'm not a bad person." " Sir, where are you?" " When you hear this on the news you will tell people I was not a bad person, yes?" "No." "No, you can't do this." "Listen to me, you have to take the battery out of the phone right now." "No, I can't." "I have no choice." "We always have a choice." "Think of the people, and if you can't think about that then think about yourself." "You must have a life you dream about, a future." "I have no dreams." "I'm a fool." "I wanted to be a comedian like Chris Rock." "I love Chris Rock." "We're all fools for our dreams." "Maybe there's someone who can help you reach yours." " No one can." " How can I help you?" "What would make you not want to do this?" "An oven." "An oven for my family." "An oven." "Restaurant supplies." "I know someone who can get you an oven." "Can you hear me?" "I know someone who can get you an oven." "So here's what we're gonna do." "I'm gonna disconnect your phone at my end." "But you have to take the battery out of the phone right now." "Then call this number back when it's safe." "Understand?" "Please." " Are you sure you can get me an oven?" " Yes." "Okay, I'll do it." "God, what's he doing up there?" "Come on down, Jake!" "Come on down!" "Can you hear me?" "Jake, look, I got a phone for you, see?" "The ratio is always the same." "One to 1.618 over and over and over again." "The patterns, mathematical in design  are hidden in plain sight." "You just have to know where to look." "7,080,360,000 people." "And only a few of us can see the connections." "Today we'll send over 300 billion e-mails." "Nineteen billion text messages." "Yet we'll still feel alone." "The average person will say 2250 words  to 7.4 other individuals." "Will these words be used to hurt  or to heal?" "There's an ancient Chinese myth about the red thread of fate." "Don't look down." "Don't look down." "It says that the gods have tied a red thread around every one of our ankles  and attached it to all of the people whose lives we are destined to touch." "This thread may stretch or tangle." "You can do this." "But it will never break." "Jake, listen to me." "I did what you wanted." "I followed the numbers." "The kids on that bus, they were saved because of you." "Jake." "I don't know if you understand a single word that I'm saying." "I don't even know if you hear me." "But I can hear you, Jake." "Do you understand that?" "I can hear you now." "I don't understand." "What is it?" "It's a road map." " ARNIE Hello, this is Arnie." " Hello, my name is Martin Bohm." "Look, I know this is gonna sound crazy but I think we're supposed to find each other."