Plot summary
On the drive home from the water park, Hal causes another car to crash, followed by a traffic jam. Lois tries to help clear the accident so they can drive again but cannot accept that it is beyond her control. Hal has an existential crisis when he realizes how easily the accident could have happened to them. Their son Reese and several kids harass a man in an ice cream truck who refuses to sell to them. Genius middle child Malcolm spends the time with a girl, Jessica ( Hallee Hirsh ), and is devastated to learn she lives in Canada.
She tries to give him her phone number, but a dog that Lois freed takes it. At the military academy, eldest son Francis tries to eat 100 candy quacks to settle an argument and succeeds. Meanwhile, youngest Dewey finds himself lost after deserting his dead babysitter, and is escorted home by a variety of people, arriving just before the family returns.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Malcolm in the Middle season 2. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.