12-10-2018, 12:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2018, 12:47 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
I saw it as the staff pulling Nick into the vortex and Nick resisting, most likely because he thought it was trying to drag him into the Other Place. Because up until that point, every appearance of the vortex had been as a passage to or from there. When Nick lost the tug of war and got pulled in, he probably expected to end up back in the other dimension Black Forest and not in Monroe's living room a day earlier in time.