Alex, who Spencer Dutton meets and falls in love with in Africa, does not die in the first part of season one, despite having some close calls.
1923 takes place between WWI and the Depression era and it follows some of the earlier members of the Dutton family on the ranch.
This includes Spencer Dutton, who meets Alex during his time in Africa, and even though they both have some close calls in the first season of the show, Alex does not die in this season.
What is 1923 about?
1923 is the most recent Taylor Sheridan spin-off show from the hit series, Yellowstone, which acts as the prequel to Yellowstone and the sequel to another spin-off called 1883.
This version of the show follows some members of an earlier generation of the Dutton family, as they struggle with issues of land ownership and family values in a time between wars and the Depression era.
Does Alex die in 1923?
When Spencer Dutton is first introduced in 1923, he is working as a hunter for hire in Africa. From the very beginning, it is evident that Spencer is willing to put himself in the path of danger for his work.
It is also clear that he is struggling with his own demons from his time serving in WWI.
However, his time in Africa is not all hunting, and it is revealed throughout the first few episodes of the season that he is in love with a British woman called Alexandra.
Fortunately for Spencer, Alexandra, or as he calls her “Alex”, is not the same British woman that is killed by the two leopards in the European camp. So the two love birds spend much of this first season so far frolicking on beaches and railroad camps.
In episode three of this first season, Spencer and Alex spend the day tracking a hyena that has been attacking the workers of a nearby camp.
The pair is so wrapped up in each other on the drive home that they do not even notice the charging elephant heading straight for them.
Spencer’s training kicks in and he manages to shoot the elephant after their vehicle is knocked over he kills a hoard of other predators that come through the night to feast on the carcass until help arrives from the railroad camp.
As a result, Spencer and Alex both make it through this night and the first part of the first season without dying and Alex even convinces Spencer to read his letters from Cara.
Why is the relationship between Spencer and Alex significant on the show?
Spencer may seem removed from the rest of the Dutton family for this first part of the show and this confused many viewers about why they are seeing so much of him and Alex in 1923.
However, by the end of the fourth episode, Alex is actually the one who convinces Spencer to read the growing stack of letters that Cara has been sending him for years.
This helps to put the timeline of the show into perspective, but it also reconnects Spencer with the ranch emotionally.