Mrs. Merritt

, first name unknown, is a minor fictional character featured in the Wishmaster film series. Played by actress, she appeared in the first installment of the series, Wishmaster in 1997.

Biography
Mrs. Merritt was an elderly woman and the mother of Regal Auctioneers owner, Nick Merritt. While preparing to taken an airplane flight, she signed out a life insurance policy with an agent at the airport for one million dollars. She named Nick as her sole beneficiary. As luck would have it, the airplane crashed and Mrs. Merritt died. The peculiarity and coincidental timing of her death was linked to the presence of an evil Djinn who used his power to manipulate circumstances in accordance with her son's wish for a million dollars.

Through a related string of events, a woman named Alexandra Amberson was granted three wishes. With her third wish, she undid events from the recent past, preventing the Djinn from escaping confinement in the Stone of the Secret Fire in the first place. As such, the events that led to Mrs. Merritt's death never took place. Presumably, she boarded the airplane and arrived at her destintion safely and her son never received the money from her insurance policy.