

He's also given another minor clue from the general store manager, that Annie's been buying the paper Paul uses to write the book. That's when everything clicks, and he starts to suspect Annie. I will be judged by Him." The quote sounds familiar, so he pours through some archived newspaper articles until he notices the exact quote attributed to Annie Wilkes after her trial. At one point in his reading, he comes across a quote that rings a bell: "There is a justice higher than that of man. While he waits for the spring thaw, Buster decides to read the Misery novels. The other is that Paul is alive somewhere. According to Buster, one possibility is that the bodies of both Paul and his savior will be found after the snow melts. After inspecting Paul's wrecked car, he concludes that someone pried open the car door to get him out.

At first, Buster knows only that Paul Sheldon is the author of the Misery novels and has been staying at the Silver Creek Lodge working on a new book.

Paul does think of scenarios where he might be able to kill or wound Annie, one in which he contemplates putting some Novril into a tub of her ice-cream, but he rejects this on the basis that Novril has a very bitter taste that Annie would probably notice.īuster ( Richard Farnsworth) and his charming wife Virginia ( Frances Sternhagen) are characters made up for the movie. As for the book, there's no clue there because the wine-spilling scene never happened. Most viewers conclude that Annie did not notice the missing Novril after Paul's first outing, so she did not think he had laced her wine, concluding that the spill was most likely an accident caused by Annie's quick reaction after she knocked over the burning candle. It wasn't until he got out the second time, looked at her scrapbook, and took the butcher knife that she realized he was plotting against her, so she searched his room and found the knife as well as the hairpin "key". During the dinner, in fact, she seemed to be genuinely under the impression that she was actually making headway with him. It reveals only that, at the time of the dinner, Annie knew Paul had been out of his locked bedroom because the ceramic penguin had been moved, but she doesn't yet know how he got out. The movie does not provide conclusive evidence in either direction.

Viewers are torn on an answer to this question, some saying that she knew and that's why she knocked over the glass of wine, others saying she didn't know and the wine spill was an accident.
