I can also totally see him lying about the immortality thing, if he was presumably also lying about his job.
Lying about a job would be easy though, especially for a man at that time. But how would he explain not ageing? He'd have to leave her, like he had to leave Estelle. And already planning that, even while standing in front of the altar and promising to stay with her 'till death do us part'... I don't know.
I think the thing with Ianto only happened because Ianto took so many of the decisions out of Jack's hands without Jack really noticing. Ianto observes, and makes a move only when he thinks he can be more or less certain of the outcome, and most of the time he gets it right. TKKS is a perfect example of that, and his only mistake in Fragments was not knowing that Jack hated Torchwood. Gwen, OTOH, is much more straightforward and confrontational; when she wants something, she asks a direct question and expects a direct answer, and that approach just doesn't work very well with Jack.
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Lying about a job would be easy though, especially for a man at that time. But how would he explain not ageing? He'd have to leave her, like he had to leave Estelle. And already planning that, even while standing in front of the altar and promising to stay with her 'till death do us part'... I don't know.
I think the thing with Ianto only happened because Ianto took so many of the decisions out of Jack's hands without Jack really noticing. Ianto observes, and makes a move only when he thinks he can be more or less certain of the outcome, and most of the time he gets it right. TKKS is a perfect example of that, and his only mistake in Fragments was not knowing that Jack hated Torchwood. Gwen, OTOH, is much more straightforward and confrontational; when she wants something, she asks a direct question and expects a direct answer, and that approach just doesn't work very well with Jack.