[After the family discovered the boys' at the hotel after running away from home...]
Okay, boys, get your things. We're going home.
No! We're not going back there.
Okay, Well, you can't stay in this hotel room forever. What are you gonna do, live under a bridge and steal food out of dumpsters?
I don't know, but we're not going home! We've had it with the way you treat us, and we've hat it with all the yelling!
You are a terrible influence on us!
All you ever do is scream!
And order us around!
There's something wrong with this family! Families should have some way of communicating besides yelling!
Okay, everybody, calm down. I understand what you're saying, I'm not gonna yell, I'm not going to scream. We are capable of talking about this without raising our voices. Now, boys, I want you to understand I'm sorry about what happened. But you have to understand I get a little emotional when I learned that my oldest son was acting like an idiot and throwing his life away. Now that doesn't mean-- [gets splashed with water. It's revealed that Francis' wife, Piama threw water at her.]
Stop talking about him like that! Francis is my heart!
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