It would make Jack glad to hear that, even if they hadn't talked very openly about their relationship yet. He still felt it was somewhat complicated. He had expected her to be in England for months, not to arrive in a strange town with her immediately. It was a conversation that needed to happen at some point.
"It's not even so much the time period. It's that I feel like I have nothing to do. I'm not an Inspector... not anything."
He had been a cop all his life, and to be not working in some capacity was very strange for him.