Lois: That kid! He thinks he can run away from school like some kind of escaped convict? If he thinks he can just vanish in the night and I won't find him, well, he is sadly mistaken.
Hal: Lois, you just calm down. There's nothing we can do right now.
Lois: Yes, there is. I can call the police.
Hal: No, they're not going to look for anybody unless they've been missing 48 hours.
Lois: Not if I say he has drugs on him.
Hal: Lois, stop it. Now, you're just going to have to accept the fact that, for now, this is beyond your control. Francis is going to have to sink or swim on his own, and frankly, I don't think that's such a bad thing. In the meantime, we just have to leave it up to fate.
Lois: [scoffs] Fate. Fate is just what you call it when you don't know the name of the person screwing you over.