Maveric is given cash return from selling his TV. Its an automatic-pawn shop. Then Otis's attempt at stabalizing the reaction was carried out to fast. The heat created created a melt down, and the plutonium melted down into radioactive slag which melted through the side of the container and buckled all of the side walks in a 400 foot radius. The steam from water instantly vaporizing scorched Maveric's body into a charred pile of ash. Then the electro-magnetic pulse knocked out electronics in a 10 mile radius.
In another galaxy, far far away...
* Wedge inserts 100 credits into a vending machine and gets...