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Not your call. It can be helpful for you to get a look at it when you're moving into position for YOUR call --- just in case you're asked for help. But this is his call, and the worst thing that can happen is for you to be pointing at the ground when PU yells "FOUL!" or for you to be pointing foul when PU points fair.
Now to your "sly point". I would have said never... until last night.
Ball hit nearly straight up, batter clears, catcher reaches, deflects, and fails to catch the ball. When she touched it, ball was a shade foul. Catcher's mask and bat BOTH hit PU as PU tried to get an angle down the 3Bline - he had no angle on the 1Bline (even if the bat and mask hadn't hit him)
I was in A and saw him look at me with no call. I pointed a finger foul in front of me as unobtrusively as possible, and he yells FOUL! Looked like he'd made the call on his own. So, yeah.... I can see the use of the "sly point" in odd cases - when you see your partner looking to you for information.
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