Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, Mulder tries to get a soda from a vending machine that seems to be fully operational with the front panel lit up and everything, but when the machine doesn't work, he looks behind it to see that it is unplugged. If the machine was unplugged then the panel light would not be lit.
Chimera
28th Oct 2003
Correction: It's plausible that the machine was lit up via battery operation. If the machine has been tampered with to include a bomb, then it could have had a battery circuit installed to give the impression that it was fully operational without actually having plugged it in. Kind of the point.
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