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« on: June 20, 2013, 09:43:21 PM »
I was impressed with how quickly Willie gets down to business.... crazy business that is, rushing off to the Evans abode before he has a chance to unpack his stuff and put it in drawers.
Thinking a little about new crazy Willie, I realize that Wyndcliffe and Barnabas made him crazy. Maybe the combination of the two. Willie was sane when we last saw him. The only thing that had happened to his mind was a sort of self-protective memory loss.
What happened then? Okay, presumably he went crazy after we saw him last. Maybe it came with the memory loss. What I'm afraid of is that a simply amnesiac Willie was sent to an institution for the criminally insane (only Wydcliffe isn't...), started to remember, talked about vampires, was pressured to think it was all a fantasy, and snapped because he wasn't even permitted to believe in the experience traumatizing him.
Considering what Willie is thought to have done, keeping Maggie a prisoner for weeks or months, driving her almost out of her mind, Joe should have gone straight to the police, who would have surrounded the Old House and/or nabbed Willie on his way there. Joe's threats are a pretty feeble under-reaction. Her abduction is still recent. The whole town would have heard, and would have come down on Julia and Barnabas, hard, for springing him.
[spoiler]Later, Willie is sent to Collinwood with a written message for Liz. Jeez. Liz would have evicted Barnabas from the estate immediately for that.[/spoiler]