>>97096248Actually, I guess I should say it *seems like they were asking that.
To make up for my context blunder, a few other things Moore, Gibbons and Higgins did to point out are Fine saying they should go ignore red lights, as in running by traffic lights due to the police authority their siren yields them, in the last panel and throughout this page he's ignoring the red blinking light of the phone, perhaps for the best in retrospect, the poster he's holding is also a red wash version of the Gratful dead album Aoxomoxoa, serving as an irony in that Fine begins to put together the pattern of the recent murders and incidents while looking at it but then ignores it to answer the phone and discuss a matter to distract him, an palindrome to tie into the theme of Fearful Symmetry the chapter is titled and uses for a match cut transition to the next scene.
Fine while literally being reflected, reflects on a feeling there's something in the air where we see an advertisement Blimp for the Gunga Diner, a reference to the Gunga Din poem in which one man only comes to regrettably realize the virtue of another he'd taken for granted once the latter is too abused and dead to receive the recognition.
The first person most minds might jump to as Gunga Din is Rorschach given the abuse he takes and his fate despite trying to stop a worse fate for others, but consider that in this chapter it is Jacobi who despite being tolerant towards Edward Blake and Rorschach, even attending the funeral of the former, was threatened and abused by both for things beyond him and not his fault, and then mercilessly killed.
Lastly and most obviously Blake's case file is mirrored. 801:108, another thing the two detectives ignored. I think that should be it.
