Switching views away from hero

I tried the force flee thing but it doesn't work. On turn 1 I have it so they start talking and after they talk the bandit is supposed to flee. What is messing up on it?

...I just changed the hero sprite to a boat and made a copied map but with walk-onable water for my first problem...I'll have to check out the pan camera later. I've never seen that anywhere...is it an event?