Many fans are wondering what happened to Elizabeth’s baby at the end of 1923 since she left Montana before giving birth.

After getting pregnant and then suffering a miscarriage in 1923 Season 1, Elizabeth Dutton became pregnant again in the show’s second and final season.

 

 

A lot of viewers who were also familiar with Yellowstone believed that Elizabeth could have given birth to John Dutton II (Kevin Costner’s John Dutton’s father), but those theories were muddled when Alexandra Dutton also became pregnant in Season 2.

After a gunfight ensued on the Dutton Ranch in the 1923 Season 2 and series finale, it was unclear if Elizabeth and her baby would make it out of the situation alive.

 

 

However, she luckily survived (and so did the baby), but at the end of the episode, she decided not to stay in Montana. After speaking with Helen Mirren’s Cara, Elizabeth and the baby traveled east to Boston, where Elizabeth is from.

While it was confirmed that Alexandra and Spencer’s son was named John and hinted that he would be the one to carry on the Dutton legacy in Montana, many still wondered what would come of Elizabeth’s baby in the Yellowstone timeline.

In an interview with People, Elizabeth actress Michelle Randolph talked about Elizabeth and the baby’s future, saying that she “[does not know]” what happens to the baby or where it goes, and that she didn’t “feel like [she had] a full sense of closure” for her character.

Because of Elizabeth’s open-ended departure in 1923, Randolph admitted that she had to “create [her] own storyline” for her character:

In a separate interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Randolph talked more about the 1923 ending and alluded that the mystery of who John Dutton III’s father is may not actually be resolved.

According to Randolph, “it’s not verified” that Alexandra and Spencer’s baby is truly John Dutton III’s father, indicating that Elizabeth’s husband, Jack, could still be the grandfather: