1923
Warning : SPOILERS for 1923 Season 2 ’s Finale - " A Dream and a Memory"1923 ’s epical time of year 2 finale broughtSpencer Dutton ( Brandon Sklenar)home , at last , to fight back for the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch . After a long and arduous journey to Montana , Spencer by chance reunite with his wife , Alexandra Dutton ( Julia Schlaepfer ) , who was stranded and freezing to death in the cruel Montana winter as Spencer ’s train roll out by . Meanwhile , Jacob Dutton ( Harrison Ford ) wait Spencer in Livingston , as did the military man Donald Whitfield ( Timothy Dalton ) send to kill Spencer .
On the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch , wave of Whitfield ’s hired guns come to kill everyone . Cara Dutton ( Helen Mirren ) , Zane Davis ( Brian Geraghty ) , andElizabeth Strafford ( Michelle Randolph)took a stall and defended the Dutton lodge alongside Yellowstone ’s cowhand . G of miles aside in Oklahoma , Teonna Rainwater ( Aminah Nieves)faced justness as Marshal Mamie Fossett ( Jennifer Carpenter ) investigated the deaths of Marshal Kent ( Jamie McShane ) andFather Renaud ( Sebastian Roche ) .
1923 ’s seven - episode time of year 2concluded with a two - hour finale that was fundamentally a TV movie . With eminent stakes , mellow emotion , on-key love , heartbreaking tragedy , and numerous connections to the greaterYellowstonefranchise revealed , here is every major issue in the thrilling and emotionally resonant finis of 1923 .
Spencer Dutton Wins The War For Yellowstone & Kills Donald Whitfield
Spencer Inherits The Yellowstone Ranch
Spencer Dutton was , indeed , the difference manufacturing business that his uncle Jacob and aunt Cara hoped he would be in the war to save the Yellowstone from Donald Whitfield . When Spencer ’s train rolled into Livingston , Montana , he , Jacob , and Sheriff William McDowell ( Robert Patrick ) were immediately attacked by Whitfield ’s hired hired gun . With the surprising help of Banner Creighton ( Jerome Flynn),the Dutton boys drink down their foeman . Though Jacob and McDowell were bruise in the crossfire , neither pass away in the fight .
A closer aspect at 1923 season 2 ’s subtle details sustain the 2d chapter of Taylor Sheridan ’s Yellowstone prequel actually takes place in 1924 .
After Jacob keep company Alex to the infirmary in Bozeman , Spencer took bid of Yellowstone ’s cowboys and saved the Dutton cattle ranch . Spencer in person necessitate out Whitfield ’s car - grease-gun - toting thug and stormed the lodge , blast the balance of their enemies that Cara ’s rifle sharpshooting , and Zane and Elizabeth ’s shotguns did n’t pour down . Thanks to Spencer , the Yellowstone was secure . And Spencer render for good , as he took over run for the Yellowstone from his aunt and uncle , with his days as a lion Orion in Africa behind him .
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Alex Tragically Dies After Giving Birth To John Dutton II
The Mystery of Kevin Costner’s Yellowstone Grandfather Is Solved
Alexandra Dutton spent about two days campaign freezing to death like herfriends , Paul ( Augustus Prew ) and Hillary(Janet Montgomery ) . When Spencer rescued Alex and got her on the train , her hands and feet were hopelessly frostbitten . At the Bozeman infirmary , Alex was have to give nativity to her Word , who she named John . This is the nascence of John Dutton II , who will be played in old historic period by Dabney Coleman inYellowstoneand is the father of John Dutton III ( Kevin Costner ) .
John Dutton II ’s nascence confirms Spencer Dutton as the granddad John Dutton III spoke about inYellowstoneseason 4 .
Alex refused surgery to cut off her hired man and metrical foot , choosing alternatively to breastfeed baby John and give him a chance at life . Spencer was at his wife ’s side all night asAlex die in her sleep from frostbite . Despiteevery awful thing Alex endure in1923,she could n’t survive the Montana wintertime ’s cleanup time of year , but Alex was satisfied with reunite with Spencer one last time . Alex gave up her own living for her infant Logos like a mother would . After Alex go by , Cara take on on caring for baby John as Spencer and Jacob finished their state of war against the"man who bolt down [ Spencer ’s ] married woman . "
Spencer & Jacob Put An End To Donald Whitfield
Lindy Also Gets Her Just Desserts
Donald Whitfield ’s dying was pure Old West vigilante justice . While Donald was boom with his sociopathic protégé , Lindy ( Madison Elise Rogers ) , and theirnew dupe , Mabel ( Virginia Gardner ) , Spencer and Jacob collapse into Whitfield ’s mansion and shot him . The Duttons also film Lindy drained . Despite Whitfield ’s threats that they would n’t get away with straight-out execution , Spencer execute Donald with a headshot . After liberating Mabel , Spencer and Jacob burned Whitfield ’s mansion down .
1923 season 2 claim another opportunity to poke some fun at Timothy Dalton ’s past function as James Bond and one of Donald Whitfield ’s bad criminal offence .
The terror of Donald Whitfield was ended directly with the Duttons ' accelerator pedal , but1923prophetically warn thatWhitfield was"just the first"wealthy villain who would seek to take over the Duttons ' land . Indeed , John Dutton III look several such foe inYellowstone . Donald Whitfield , who design to construct and gain from resorts in Paradise Valley , set the precedent that would haunt the Duttons for another century . Whitfield also discoveredYellowstone ’s infamous ' Train Station,‘which the Duttons have yet to learn about in1923 .
Elizabeth Strafford Buries Jack Dutton & Leaves Yellowstone
There’s No Future For Elizabeth In Montana
Elizabeth Strafford was keenly aware that her husband , Jack Dutton ( Darren Mann ) , was missing , and she come across Jack was n’t with Spencer and his men when they arrive at the Yellowstone lodge . After Cara ordered her men to follow Jack ’s tracks to Livingston , they see the late vernal Dutton where Donald Whitfield ’s soldier of fortune had leftJack ’s dead body . Jack was brought home and buried at the Duttons ' family graveyard along with Alex Duttonat a funeral attended by the family and their allies .
A Yellowstone fan theory about 1923 ’s character was pretty convincing until 1923 time of year 2 , episode 6 , when a annihilating development flipped it .
As she planned all along throughout the unforgiving Montana winter she lose through , Elizabeth left Montana and regress to Bostonat the ending of1923.When Elizabeth said she would always love Jack , Cara short replied,“No , you won’t,“and explained that Elizabeth would move on past her lost lifetime at the Yellowstone . However , Elizabeth is fraught with Jack ’s sister , so she will always be connected to the Duttons and the Yellowstone .
Banner Creighton Dies After Turning Against Whitfield
Creighton Earned Jacob Dutton’s Respect
Banner Creighton look late inside his soul and had a change of heart . acknowledge the terrible thing he ’s done , Banner saw on-key iniquity in Donald Whitfield and decided he could no longer work for such a manand be a theatrical role model to his own Logos . Banner decided to tamp down up his family and take the train to Portland . However , Jacob Dutton did n’t believe Banner , who originate the violence against the Yellowstone in1923season 1 , was sincere .
Banner died a better man than he started as in 1923 .
finally , Creighton proved himself by redeem Jacob ’s lifeduring the gunfight that erupted at the gearing depot . Although Banner was fatally shot , he examine himself to Jacob and died redeemed . In return , Jacob devote Creighton his watchword that he would ensure Banner ’s wife and son would get on the train to Portland . Creighton ’s death was his comeupance , but Banner died a better world than he started as in1923 .
Teonna Rainwater Ends 1923 Free Of Murder Charges
What Is Teonna’s Future Now?
After stress to escape Marshal Mamie Fossett and killing one of her deputies , Teonna Rainwater was finally comprehend . But after get word Teonna ’s tragical level of rape and revilement by priests and nuns at the American Indian embarkment school in North Dakota , Fossett decided to verbalise on Rainwater ’s behalfat her hearing in Oklahoma . Luckily for Teonna , the justice did n’t see why Teonna was being tried in his state alternatively of North Dakota , and he brush off Rainwater ’s charges .
Teonna Rainwater ends1923a free woman , although her fight to bunk Father Renaud"cost [ her ] everything . “Marshal Fossett and her sympathetic Native lieutenant gave Teonna a horse and advised her to leave behind and start a new life , suggesting California . Teonna Rainwater’s1923saga was a separate story - within - a - story thatnever link to the Duttons in Montana . Teonna ’s exact relation to Thomas Rainwater ( Gil Birmingham ) inYellowstonestill remains to be established .
What Happens To Spencer, Jacob, Cara & John Dutton II When 1923 Ends
Alex Is A Dream & A Memory For Spencer
As Jacob and Cara always hope , Spencer Dutton took over running the Yellowstone cattle ranch . This provide Jacob , who is 80 years old , to"retire"and tending for babe John alongside Cara . Elsa Dutton ’s ( Isabel May ) omniscient narrationexplainedwhat happened to Spencer over the next 45 years :
Spencer never remarry . aim the ease of a widow woman and made another boy , refused to marry her . And one mean solar day , the widow woman was gone . For Spencer , her retention did n’t fade , did n’t fray at the edges , and did n’t dim . Not one . Alexandra Dutton was born on April Fool ’s mean solar day , 1901 , in Oxfordshire , England , and laid to rest March 29 , 1924 . When sure-enough historic period rob him of his memory , he simply fold his eyes and dreamed up fresh ones . And 45 year later , my young buddy conjoin her .
1923 ’s final moments admit a clip jump to 1969 , where 80 - year - old Spencer ( limping with a prosthetic leg ) , dies beside Alex ’s grave.1923then givesAlex and Spencer ’s storyaTitanicending , where the untested twosome reunite in the grand dance hall of the ocean lining ; their own Shangri-la where the fell luck never split them . Alex even chide Spencer,“What took you so long?“In demise , Spencer and Alex get the happy ending denied to them in life . Alex , Spencer ’s unfeigned beloved , was always his pipe dream and memory .
How 1923’s Ending Sets Up Taylor Sheridan’s 1944 Yellowstone Prequel
World War II’s Greatest Generation Of Duttons
Taylor Sheridan ’s nextYellowstoneprequel is reportedly1944,which will continue the Dutton kinsfolk ’s saga in the World War II era.1923 ’s conclusion put several man in place for 1944 , including the birth of John Dutton II . Spencer and Alex ’s miracle baby will be 20 years quondam in 1944 . John could crusade in World War II and return home to the Yellowstone . Additionally , the next rich man of affairs enemy to covet the Duttons ' nation will for certain follow in Donald Whitfield ’s backwash .
Upcoming announcedYellowstonefranchise projects include1944 , The Madisonstarring Michelle Pfeiffer , Beth ( Kelly Reilly ) & Rip ’s ( Cole Hauser)Yellowstonespinoff , and a procedural about Kayce Dutton ( Luke Grimes ) .
In addition , Elizabeth Strafford ’s baby with Jack Dutton will be just a little younger than John in1944.Perhaps the spinoff could see Elizabeth ’s kid return to Montana and their late father ’s cattle farm . While Harrison Ford ’s Jacob and Helen Mirren ’s Cara belike would n’t survive to see1944,it ’s unclear whether Brandon Sklenar would repay to playact Spencer Dutton 20 years older , or if Spencer will be recast . The World War II earned run average is ordinarily come to to as ' The Greatest multiplication , ' and1944could introduce the ' greatest generation ' of Duttons .
Did 1923’s Finale Redeem Season 2’s Controversy?
1923 Saved The Best For Last
1923 ’s two - 60 minutes serial finish , " A Dream and a Memory , " bear the guns - blazing war for the Yellowstone that audience need - and wait all along from1923season 2 . Instead,1923season 2 took its meter and told a unlike story about the separate , turbulent journeys to Montana by Spencer and Alex as Cara , Jacob , Jack , and Elizabeth look for the spendthrift Dutton throughoutMontana ’s barbarous wintertime . disappointed viewers feel that1923season 2 was a false bill of salefrom the exciting action1923season 1 ’s ending call .
1923 time of year 2 ’s finale delivered what audiences hoped the entire season would be about .
It ’s open Taylor Sheridan did not conceive the war for the Yellowstone could affirm all of1923season 2 , and , indeed , the wildness and bloodbath only lasted the duration of the finale ’s terminal hour . Sheridan ’s plan for1923season 2 was about star - cut across lovers Spencer and Alex , who were not destined for a happy life together , with Alex ’s decease echoing the catastrophe of Elsa ’s death at the ending of1883.1923season 2 ’s finale delivered what audiences go for the entire season would be about , but at least Taylor Sheridan saved the best for last .
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