Panel 4, it looks to me as if Marcus has just spotted something which really alarmed him. Those eyes are not directed at Dick despite the questioning. He saw his killer coming but didn’t say anything, like deer in the headlights.
I like the drawing style too. It feels like a throwback to classic things like the old Dick Tracy TV cartoon series. I wouldn’t want it as the normal style, but it makes a pleasant change for a while.
In some countries like the UK we don’t have deputising, however any civilian acting in good faith to assist a police officer is generally covered like this without having to be “commanded”. I’ve been assisted by a member of the public in making an arrest myself (he was an off-duty prison officer). The idiot crim pleaded guilty on that one, so there was no dispute about it.
As a historical note, the medieval law on the English/Scottish borders was such that the penalty for refusing to aid in the lawful pursuit of a criminal was harsher than the one for the original crime!
Back in the early 90s I was at a conference in Chicago. While I was speaking in an underground room, a tornado came through the city and when I emerged it was total chaos with roads flooded and traffic at a standstill. I eventually got a taxi back to my hotel, but the driver had to divert through a rough neighbourhood where he (and very big a tough-looking gentleman of colour) was clearly pretty nervous himself, checking all the windows were secure and not hanging about at red lights.
Not a hurricane for sure, but quite enough for me.
Panel 4, it looks to me as if Marcus has just spotted something which really alarmed him. Those eyes are not directed at Dick despite the questioning. He saw his killer coming but didn’t say anything, like deer in the headlights.