Initially, Frank succeeds at his reform efforts — accepting a job at a home supply store, lecturing others on the importance of workplace safety, earning employee of the month, and buying a car on which he makes regular payments until he gets laid off. Disillusioned, Frank decides to collect social security benefits using stolen IDs he's acquired over the years, but he has no luck until he uses his own information. According to his six-week work history, he's entitled to $3.42 per month. The injustice of what Frank describes as a broken American system sends him crawling back to the Alibi where he witnesses the deportation of an undocumented immigrant, attempting to flee the US to Canada. This inspires Frank to use his new car to shuttle cheap pharmaceuticals and people across the northern border. Of course, Frank almost immediately gets caught in the woods by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and returns home defeated.
Meanwhile, the one person Frank has successfully helped is Liam. Not only has Frank gotten the young Gallagher into a private school, but he's also given his son permission to go to the Caribbean with Dylan, one of the school's rich kids. But now that Frank has failed at all of his other endeavours, he takes advantage of Liam and suggests they conspire to rob Dylan. "We have a moral duty to rip this a–hole off," argues Frank, who considers himself Robin Hood, even though he's the only poor person in this equation. All Liam has to do is supply the alarm code. Naturally, Liam has second thoughts about betraying his friend and leaves his father high and not so dry when Frank is forced to hide in a portable toilet to avoid the police.