This is also why I think Drew and Jesse will never be a threat. Someone once said Danny and Michelle are so perfect because, he is like hard candy and she is like cotton candy! That goes to the good-natured thing which I say pushes this whole thing. It comes down to the complex nature of Danny's personality, a very bad boy who is actually good at the core -- and why I think Michelle is driving him to a near nervous breakdown.

For example, note the complex irony re the Bauers vs the Santos. First, note the Bauers have a very ordered ethical code of behavior and strong family ethos -- but so do the Santos'. Note the Bauers, and I love 'em, want to believe they are the mighty, with their high S.A.T. scores, upper middle class Martha Stewartness, and Stanford scholarships -- but the Santos' equal or trump them in the intelligence area. It's obvious the Santos' have it upstairs. Danny was not from the doh-doh-doh street crowd like Jesse was!

That is why I think Michelle was so thrown with Danny, initially. Danny was like a threat, so confusing to the neat categories her past boyfriends like socially acceptable Bill or street guy Jesse neatly fit; and he was also a wall to Michelle's Bauer notions that they are the smart ones who always control the situation. Danny didn't need her help, like Jesse. He challenged and sparred her intellectually. He is her equal. Note also, Meta praised Danny's well-manneredness, his well-spokenness, etc. It's like an irony for Michelle's Bauerness. Danny sparks her and is unlike anything she ever or will meet.

On the other hand, that is part of what drives Danny crazy, and why Drew is no threat. Remember how when Danny first showed up, he observed to Jesse that "That Michelle Bauer is a class act?" See, it takes one to know and appreciate one. Danny is a class act himself, very intelligent and thoughtful, and that in Michelle appeals to him. Note his reaction when Rick lectured him about Michelle's great deeds. It was what Danny already instinctively knew about Michelle, one of the things that makes him respect her so ... because it's in him. But, there's more ....

Again, that goodness/light/darkness stuff represented by the Bauers/Santos. Note Rick's wedding comments, that Michelle, "lights up this room." Note Danny, when Michelle was packing for the Bauers, hugging her and saying, "It was so good having you around here." Again, to me Danny is a genuine bad boy, but there is that core of goodness there, for sure ... and this is also what appeals to him in Michelle.

Remember when Danny accosted poor Michelle re Mick's homicide? This was another sign to me that Danny was deep! He was raging, but note, at one point he said, "Michelle, how could you do such a thing?" I didn't think he just meant kill my brother, but was scolding Michelle's morals -- here was a bad boy henchman expressing disappointment that she, the wonderful Michelle Bauer, could do such a dirty thing -- because he sees her as above it all. He so respects and admires Michelle's goodness, believes she is better than himself in that way, that he managed to get that in while, ironically, actually accosting the poor girl!

In conclusion, I still argue that when Danny saw Michelle with his wallet in the hall ... he wasn't just expressing guilt as an adulterer, which I don't think he exactly saw himself as, although he may have been beginning to. Note the tone in Danny's voice in that scene, that same tone when he's relaxed and being good-Danny. I felt he felt ashamed in the sense that Michelle, again who he so respects and admires, would know he can be that way, about his darker side.