How did the video player break?
In Knives Out, investigators were trying to watch a video cassette of a security camera. It suddenly (maybe with a little help) caught fire and went out of order.
How was this achieved by Marta or was it just by mistake/luck? Was it tampered with before the investigators came and by who?
Best Answer
While she was holding the Play and Fast-Forward buttons, we are explicitly shown that Marta hits the Eject button. This is when the tape ejects and the player starts smoking, which the security guard blames on the VCR. That act doesn't necessarily damage the tape in any way, but Marta takes the tape out and holds onto it, and we see later that she also takes a fridge magnet from the security room. After Wagner takes the tape from her, we see her put the fridge magnet back into her coat, implying that she used it to wipe the footage (The security guard indicated in the prior scene that a magnet would destroy the tape footage).
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