"That night I had a dream. I dreamt that I was as light as the ether. A floating spirit visiting things to come. The shades and shadows of people in my life wrestled their way into my slumber. I dreamt that Gale & Evelle had decided to return to prison… Probably that’s just as well, I don’t meant to sound superior and they’re a swell couple of guys but maybe they weren’t ready yet to come out into the world. And then I dreamed on, into the future to a Christmas morn in the Arizona home where Nathan Jr. was opening a present from a kindly couple who prefer to remain unknown. I saw Glen a few years later, still having no luck getting the cops to listen to his wild tales about me and Ed… But maybe he threw in one Pollack joke too many…I dunno. But still I dreamed on, further into the future than I’d ever dreamed before. Watching Nathan Jr.’s progress from afar, taking pride in his accomplishments as if he were our own; wondering if he ever thought of us? And hoping that maybe we’d broadened his horizons just a little. Even if he couldn’t remember just how they got broadened. But still I hadn’t dreamt nothing about me and Ed… Until the end. And this was cloudier, ‘cause it was years - years away. But I saw a old couple being visited by their children and all their grandchildren too. And the old couple, they weren’t screwed up and neither were their kids or their grandkids. And I dunno, you tell me this ole dream was wishful thinking. Was I just fleeing reality like I know I’m liable to do? But me and Ed, we can be good too and it seemed real, it seemed like us and it seemed like, well, our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all the children are happy and beloved. I dunno… Maybe it was Utah."
-Raising Arizona, ending monologue.