That flashback is indeed astonishingly lacking in context! And without that context, it makes so little sense.
As you say, why was Nick there, and why was he calling out aloud to see whether others were there? Why does the bounty hunter not just let the other man kill Nick, when a dead Nick is what the bounty hunter is after? (Does the bounty hunter know Nick is a vampire, and know about curare? Or does he poison all his targets?)
The wanted poster shows all three of them, but says nothing that we can see about which one committed the murder and which are accomplices, or how the murder was committed ... if indeed there was a murder at all (with Lacroix and Janette around, I presume there was) and the wanted poster isn't a frame-up for some other plot.
In this flashback, Nick is all but absent in his presence, if that makes any sense. Where is he inside his head? I can only guess.
Re: Flashback
As you say, why was Nick there, and why was he calling out aloud to see whether others were there? Why does the bounty hunter not just let the other man kill Nick, when a dead Nick is what the bounty hunter is after? (Does the bounty hunter know Nick is a vampire, and know about curare? Or does he poison all his targets?)
The wanted poster shows all three of them, but says nothing that we can see about which one committed the murder and which are accomplices, or how the murder was committed ... if indeed there was a murder at all (with Lacroix and Janette around, I presume there was) and the wanted poster isn't a frame-up for some other plot.
In this flashback, Nick is all but absent in his presence, if that makes any sense. Where is he inside his head? I can only guess.