question:  What is the most likely reason why Tremaine confides in Jess about the case?
context: In his room at the Elsby Commercial Hotel, Tremaine opened his luggage and took out a small tool kit, used a screwdriver to remove the bottom cover plate from the telephone. Now I want answers, not questions! I'm warning you, Tremaine. Tremaine left the hotel, walked two blocks west along Commerce Street and turned in at a yellow brick building with the words ELSBY MUNICIPAL POLICE cut in the stone lintel above the door. In a back room Tremaine said, "To everybody but you this is just a visit to the old home town. Between us, there's more." Tremaine covered the discovery of the powerful unidentified interference on the high-security hyperwave band, the discovery that each transmission produced not one but a pattern of "fixes" on the point of origin. It showed a set of concentric circles, overlapped by a similar group of rings. "I think what we're getting is an echo effect from each of these points of intersection. "The point is this, Jess: we think we've got it narrowed down to this section. "Course," said Jess, "there's always Mr. Bram ..." "Mr. Bram," repeated Tremaine. "I've never seen any harm in Bram," said Jess. You remember old Aunt Tress, used to know all about ancestors and such as that? They used to raise cain in the other drug store...." Him and a bunch of his pals went out to Bram's place one night and set it on fire." I used to think she was some kind of princess...." "What about her and Bram? Now, you know Bram was funny about any kind of socializing; never would go any place at night. Just before sundown they went off together in that fancy shay. "After dark. Ten yards along the dim corridor, a hand-lettered cardboard sign over a black-varnished door said "MUNICIPAL OFFICE OF RECORD."
output:  He trusts Jess to an extent, and he knows that Jess might have information that could help.
options:  He knows that Jess is already two steps ahead of him and he wants to catch up.  He trusts Jess to an extent, and he knows that Jess might have information that could help.  He knows that Jess might compete with him even more if he doesn't try to work together.  He's friends with Jess and cares about his well being because he's staying in the town with all of this crime.