User blog comment:Thomperfan/Some things about two episodes I want to address/@comment-33694397-20180128185749/@comment-31022739-20180128213348

This is what Lincoln says right before he goes to the mall with his sisters:

Lincoln: [gasps] Rip is at the Royal Woods Mall today? I gotta go get my book signed! If I'm home by 5:00, they'll never have to know. [to his younger sisters] Who wants to go to the mall?"

That implies that he knew he wasn’t allowed to go to the mall in the first place.