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As much as I like this movie, the motivations and actions of many of the characters are not realistic or intelligent, to say the least. But whatever...

1.) Nick got a hold of Casey after all that time because the script deemed it necessary. Why else would Nick pop in ? The wedding present seems tacked on and I don't think they wanted to reminisce about being racist and shooting pregnant women ...

2.) Dallas and Billy Hill were after Nick because he ran off with the cops' money and someone else's heroin. None of the day's events have anything to do with Ballpeen.

3.) Nick arrived in a cab, presumably because he bailed on his partners. The script would have you believe that Nick needed Casey's BMW to stash the money and the watches for him to find later ... that dosen't seem rational to me, but hey, Nick was snorting a lot of coke, who knows what he was thinking ...

4.) Mickey Rourke's character stupidly brought the car back to Casey. He must have been too busy sawing off Nick's head to think of searching the BMW.

5.) Unexplained. But I'd guess other cops.

As much as I like this movie, there are leaps of logic that I wish were not there ...

"1) Why did Nick decide to contact his old buddy after all this time ?"

I think he was looking for a place to hide out while thinking what to do next.

"2) But then why were Nicks partners in crime (the hot chick and mister moustache) after him ? Did Nick double-cross them somehow ?"

He stole the suitcase full of drugs and money from them. Or maybe they tried to double-cross him and he had the drugs and money stashed somewhere.

"It seemed the money was the same loot from the drug deal with the hammer-toting dealer, which "belonged" to Nick and Casey ergo no double-cross as such."

Not likely. That was several years before. Nick, Dallas, and Billy were running their own drug deals, rip-offs, and scams. Casey and Nick probably split up the money, parted company, and spent their shares.

"3) And why did Nick feel the need to borrow Caseys car (in which he hid the money) ? What exactly did he get up to before he got shot up ?"

He came in a taxi. He had a stand-off with cops or drug dealers, got shot, got away to call Casey, then died shortly thereafter.

"4) How did the beemer with the money in the spare end up back at his house ?"

The cop brought them back. He gave Casey back his keys when he was invited in.

"5) But then how did he leave again ?"

Maybe he called a taxi or had someone follow him. Maybe he had the car towed to Casey's house by a police tow-truck. Not really important.

1) Nick's business got desperate and he needed some stuff that Casey could provide (refuge, car).

2) Yes, Nick double-crossed them. Mister moustache said as much. Something like "This is Nick's fault. If he hadn't run out on us I wouldn't be here .."

3) He needed the car for "some unfinished business" - his words. Casey knows he means some kind of hit. We see Nick readying his gun before finishing the call with Casey. My guess is that he was going to take out Kasarov before Kasarov could do the same to him. It was Kasarov's money they stole. It didn't work, Kasarov prevailed. Also "How did they manage to track him down in another town driving another car?" - They didn't. Nick came to them. It wasn't a different town.

4) Kasarov drove it there. Kasarov hands Casey the car keys as he comes into the house.

5) Unknown. He got a taxi. Or the bus. Or walked (it does happen). Or hitch-hiked. Or teleported. It doesn't matter.

The one thing that I hadn't noticed, which was mentioned by a previous poster, was that Nick (who knew he was close to death) told Casey the car was at the airport. So Kasarov must have got it from there. So then Kasarov must have been close at hand at that point, to have sawn Nick's head off AND get the car. I agree Kasarov should have searched the car.

A point re the spare tyre - when Nick borrows the car Casey mentions where the spare is.

1. Nick wants to retire as Casey does - he wants to get married he says. Ecven if that is a lie, he had to do this job in Houston anyway (stealing drugs from the Rastafarians and money from the police). He may have thought he could do the job, get away and then drop in on Casey for old times' sake.

2. Billy Hill says that Nick tried to double cross him and Dallas. Ie - they had just stolen the money from the cops at the beginning of the film when they go into the petrol station shop. That's when you see the metal case full of money. Presumably after this Nick stole all the money for himself and did a runner. Billy Hill and Dallas therefore pursued him. The money Nick steals and Casey eventually gets was NOT from the Ballpean drugs scene. It's a different lot of money. It was simply simply the metal case Nick has full of Heroin which reminds Casey of the last ever job he did with Nick, the Ballpean job, which also involved a metal case full of drugs.

3. Nick had "a few errands to run". Presumably that meant trying to kill the cops looking for him I suspect. Yous see this when Casey makes a phone call to him about Nick's having heroin, and Nick hangs up the phone and pulls out a gun. However, Nick does kill a few cops according to Detective Kasarov, but the rest of the cops shoot him (you see he's bleeding heavily during his last phone call to Casey) and then later behead him (Kasarov gives Casey Nick's head in a bag).

4/5. This is made pretty obvious. When Kasarov comes into the house, he gives Casey a BMW key - the one to Casey's car that Nick had earlier borrowed. How he got the car there - loads of ways. Maybe he got it there by tow truck. Maybe he drove it there himself. Not really important. How does he leave? Maybe there's another cop car outside that escorted him that he leaves in. Maybe he walks back. Hell, maybe he gets the bus. Again, that's not important.

Regards what Nick did on his final day - it's never clear. Nick had the heroin AND the money ALREADY before he visits casey. We know this because when Billy Hill and Dallas turn up, they tell Casey they want the heroin but he can keep the money. Presumably Nick on his last day tried to kill police searching for him when he, dallas and billy had stolen their money (i suspect they did the same as they did to Ballpean, tried to sell the heroin to the cops, then went back on the deal, killed the cops and ran with the drugs and the cops' money).