Long wall of text below... the parts above the dashed line are related to the reply, the rest is related to variables and tracking what's going on within the game code.
Keep in mind the timeline jumps around from the prologue to what we are actually playing:
- The prologue appears to takes places after the events in which we control... In the prologue Nicole is either missing or presumed dead based on what Luke (policeman at the door) says to Mr X.
- Luke asks Mr X if he is Detective Nicole's husband, to which he never answers, just "sternly looks" at Luke.
- The game in which we have control, therefore appears to be before the events of the prologue.
I went through and searched the game code, and there was only the one prologue (above) reference to "husband". There were zero other references to "husband" or "married" in the current game code.
In addition, Nicole appears to be able to actually start official relationships with two LIs (I presume) in the game, in the current code.
- Ryan based on the variables: If 'block_ryan_romance' is FALSE and 'v050_nic_ryan_romance' is TRUE then they talk about starting a relationship.
- Jack presumably based on the variable: v050_nicole_jack_romance_1 is TRUE and the fact they use terms like 'hottie' to refer to each other if set.
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The vast majority of in-game variables are only defined when a decision is seen and needs to be made. Most are not predefined from starting the game. So URM is a lot more limiting in it's use if you want to see what's there. Variables related to... say the Mayor, for example, will exist in a save where you spend time with her. So you "remember" them in URM for convenience. Then load a save that spent no time with the Mayor and URM will show all the remembered Mayor variables as undefined... as they don't exist unless you've spent time with the mayor. I hope that makes sense as it's not like most games that bulk define their used variables that exist in all saves?
