Will He Learn His Lesson?

CJ is the younger of our two cats; he's ten and one year younger than McGee. He has a bit of an attitude sometimes because he figures he should be top cat. He's not, and both we and McGee have let him know that, several times.  He's also bonded to me and turned into a devoted smuggler. 

CJ

Recently, he's developed a habit of closing the bedroom door when I get up in the morning. Usually he's out in the hall the last part of the night (either because he likes the tower or we've kicked him out for jumpning on us) but slips into the bedroom when I open the door. Then he pushes the bedroom door closed, hopefully not waking Nancy. 

Last night we had come upstairs from an evening of watching TV and heard piteous mewing. Some nights he comes downstairs with us; sometimes he doesn't, so we hadn't missed him. He'd been locked in our room for four hours. There's water but no litter box; we were lucky, this time.

I wonder if he's learned his lesson and will stay away from the door in the future. My experience with McGee, our other cat, makes me doubt it. 

McGee

McGee likes to go outside, whenever we open the patio door, and whether  or not we want to let him out. The backyard is safe enough during the day (it's separated from the neighbours' yards and the park at the back by a hedge and fences.) But there have been reports of coyotes prowling the neighbourhood at night.

A couple of months ago he managed to get out around 2:00 a.m. when I let our dog out to pee. I have terrible night vision and didn't see him get out or in the yard. I closed the patio door when the dog was done and went back to bed. Sometime around 5:00 Nancy woke up and heard a cat crying outside. She checked and there was a cold, somewhat wet and very unhappy McGee sitting on the patio by the door. 

He still tries to get out into the backyard every time we open the patio door.

So will CJ keep locking himself in the bedroom? I wouldn't bet against it.