With And Just Like That season 3 hitting the halfway mark, fans are finally getting answers about whose funeral was filmed last summer.
During the Thursday, July 3, episode of the Max series, Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Harry (Evan Handler) navigate their next steps after his prostate cancer diagnosis, which is still being kept secret from family and friends. Charlotte joins her husband at an appointment to discuss the benefits of undergoing either radiation or surgery. She tries to remain positive — and discreet — while reminding Harry that his odds are optimistic no matter which treatment path he chooses.
Elsewhere, Charlotte’s pal Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker) is hard at work on her documentary with her “work crush,” Marion (Mehcad Brooks). She declines multiple calls from her husband’s campaign manager in the editing room before turning her phone on silent. Herbert (Chris Jackson) shows up to the office with bad news: Her father had a stroke and died.
When LTW gets home, she calls Charlotte, revealing that she didn’t get to say goodbye to her dad because she was too focused on work. An email then hits LTW’s inbox from Lucille, the manager of her father’s theater, with an invitation to his funeral. The women meet to discuss their very different visions for the service, and Lucille (Jenifer Lewis) chastises LTW for not being there for her dad in his final moments.
The gang all rallies behind LTW at the funeral in New Jersey, including Aidan (John Corbett), who came from Virginia to surprise Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) — more on that later.
Despite LTW’s requests otherwise, Lucille puts a theatrical spin on the memorial, which begins with a song from Pippin. LTW was afforded just three minutes to speak in her father’s honor, bringing Herbert up on stage with her for support.
“I’d like to thank everyone for being here for my father today. … It seems as if my father was always there for this theater that he loved so much, and all of you. He was always there for my family, for me,” she says. “And I just wasn’t there for him in the end. He left before I got there. I wasn’t there.”
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Outside of the theater, Herbert’s mother offers some words of wisdom to LTW, noting, “If you’re not by your loved one’s side when they pass, it means that their spirit doesn’t want you there. They want you to remember them the way that they were, not in their final hour.”
Back to Carrie and Aidan. In the aftermath of Carrie’s disastrous visit to Virginia, Aidan makes good on his promise to use the key she gave him to their Gramercy Park home — sort of. Attempting a romantic gesture, Aidan tosses pebbles at Carrie’s window but accidentally smashes it. He vows to get it fixed, but Carrie explains that the historic glass is irreplaceable.
“Why is nothing going my way?” Aidan wonders before telling Carrie about the latest struggle with Wyatt, his youngest son. “Wyatt wouldn’t get on the f***ing airplane [for his wilderness program]. He changed his mind at the gate. We were like, ‘It’s only a week. You’re going.’ And then the whole way home, Kathy’s just sitting in the car in silence and we pull up to the farm and she looks at me right in my face and says, ‘What did we do that was so bad we had to send our kid to the Grand Tetons?’ And she’s crying.”
Aidan tries to get the perfect pane of glass to replace the broken window, but nothing measures up. He bemoans that he “ruined” everything before dropping an even bigger bombshell: He slept with his ex-wife.
“After the airport, she was just so upset, I mean, we both were. I guess we were just trying to comfort each other. It just happened. And it was a mistake, we both said so. It will never, ever happen again,” he tells Carrie.
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Even more surprising than the revelation was Carrie’s reaction to it. “I kind of understand. Or I don’t know, maybe I’m in shock,” she says. “No, I do. I understand how that could happen.”
Aidan apologizes for betraying Carrie. “We agreed to wait for each other and I slept with someone else,” he explains, confused by her response.
“Well, I didn’t agree to that,” Carrie replies. “[I agreed] that I would be here waiting until you could be with me. … You expected me not to sleep with anyone else for five years? That’s what you agreed to and even you couldn’t do it.”
Aidan breaks down, but Carrie remains calm. “Oh, my God, this is so male. Or medieval, I don’t know. My mind is just racing,” she says. “Sleeping with Kathy because you were upset, I understand. I’m just having a harder time understanding why we have not had this discussion until now. … I don’t want to sleep with other people. I want to sleep with you. And I still want that.”
The couple attempts to move forward, but tension surfaces once again when Aidan meets Carrie’s neighbor, Duncan (Jonathan Cake), who stops by to drop off a chapter of his next biography. Aidan leaves, putting the manuscript on the table for Carrie.
And Just Like That airs on Max Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET.
