There are clearly unanswered questions at play here, which the showrunners say will be addressed as the season goes on, particularly concerning what Ennis did to Nick that earned him the brutal death-by-antlers.
It was a truly interesting way for Fear the Walking Dead to handle a big death, but it doesn’t feel complete just yet.
And he was then shot by the young Charlie, who was the subject of some debating between Madison and Nick earlier in the episode, over whether the girl was fully with the villains or not.
In “Good Out Here,” Nick chased down and eventually murdered the Vulture Ennis in the present day, clearly shouldering a major grudge for some presumably disturbing events that went down at a point in the timeline that’s still a mystery to us.