
Ironically, she tells him that she's his number one fan. She holds him captive in her home and subjects him to a series of physical and psychological tortures. She tells him she has not called a hospital or told anybody about him and makes a veiled threat on his life. A disturbed Wilkes finds fault with Sheldon’s literary choices, especially when it comes to Misery’s Child, and holds him captive and tortures him. Wilkes is furious when she discovers Sheldon killed off Misery at the end of his latest novel. While sitting with his agent in a restaurant, he pictures Annie as a waitress with a knife, but this is nothing but a hallucination. In the 1987 psycho-thriller novel, best-selling Victorian romance author Paul Sheldon finds himself in a car wreck and is rescued by Wilkes, a nurse and his number one fan. Eventually, except a small limp, Paul is healthy again. As Annie charges him from the back, Paul grabs a heavy statue and slams it on Annie's head, thus killing her.


A bloody fight ensues between Annie and Paul. Annie gets panicked, trying to stop the flames with her hand as Paul bashes her hand with the typewriter. When Paul finishes the last page, in which the ending is written, he burns it and throws it to the ground.

But as Buster discovers Paul in the basement, he is blasted by Annie's shotgun she plans to kill Paul and then commit suicide, but Paul urges her that he should finish the last chapter of his book before the time comes. When Chief Buster, the town's policeman, arrives at the Wilkes Farm, Annie injects Paul with a sedative and throws him into the basement. While writing, Paul is planning to kill Annie, but the plan is discovered and Paul's ankles are smashed by a hammer by Annie. At the end, Annie Wilkes forces her wounded victim, writer Paul Sheldon, to write another installment in the Misery franchise.
