When his father, Franklin, asks how he broke his arm, Kevin covers for his mother with a lie, using this incident later to subtly blackmail her into giving in to demands, such as skipping her errands to take him straight home after school.
Kevin covers for his mother with a lie. Kevin is using this incident later to subtly blackmail her into giving in to demands. This is such as skipping her errands to take him straight home after school. How he broke his arm. This is what his father asks. Franklin is his father.