#it's interesting that Willie has become loyal enough to not want to see Barnabas destroyed

[sammysdewysensitiveeyes]

Willie, I love you, but you never fail to make a bad situation worse, especially post-Windcliff. Willie "Bad Decisions" Loomis.

It's interesting that Willie runs back to Barnabas when Maggie starts to remember everything, looking to him for a solution. In the past, Willie would have assumed that Barnabas would kill him for the shit he pulled, and in the past Willie would have been right. Now that the whole dynamic has been re-arranged, with Barnabas as Our Morally Ambiguous Hero, and Willie as a Chaotic Screw-Up Servant, Willie assumes that Barnabas will not hurt him, and he is again right. At worst Barnabas just gives him a stern talking-to and makes condescending remarks. He and Julia aren't even threatening to send Willie back to Windcliff anymore. I know "no longer threatening to murder someone or have them committed against their will" is a pretty low bar, but I'll call it character development.