“No matter how much I want to, I can’t go in there with all that,” he says with his sweet, puppy dog eyes. “I’m never going in there again.”
Sarah Jessica Parker: They’re different people, so the things that got in their way in the past might be looked at differently. It doesn’t mean that there’s more promise for them now than there was then. It just means that they’re more mature, and they’re more interested in being thoughtful about one another. But there is an undeniable passion about who they are when they’re together. It’s really fun to explore, and it’s a very pleasant place to be, I think, for Carrie.
Will he stick around for the next four episodes?
It’s a necessary moment for both Aidan and Carrie. He needs to remind her that no matter how much time has passed, he still has a beating heart and a memory. And she needs to recognize that if there’s going to be any future between them, there’s a responsibility she must account for. “I guess time doesn’t heal everything, no matter how much you want it to,” she says, accepting a defeat of sorts.
John Corbett (Aidan) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie) in the HBO television series Sex and the City’s third season episode, “No Ifs, Ands or Butts.”