How did plaques form in Salvador Luria's Bacteriophage experiment (discovery of restriction enzymes)?
This indeed a very interesting experiment. In the lecture, you can see that the obvious explanation for the initial inhability to grow in strain B indicates that the bacteria is resistant to the virus. However, ocassionally, a virus is able to form a plaque in strain B, which initially seems to indicate that it mutated. However, in a second passage from Strain A to Strain B of this initial "mutant", we observe that there are no plaques in Strain B. This indicated that something beyond the DNA (unlike a mutation) was at play, and eventually led to the discovery of these epigenetic markers (methylation) that are made by the machinery of the bacteria (thus, Strain A lacked such machinery, so it maintained the viral DNA but did not mark it as 'viral'). 

Because these experiments occurr in Petri dishes, where there are millions of cells (billions, in fact), there is always some probability that the restriction machinery does not work. This probability (small, but detectable) of no detection is what is observed in the "original" plaque formed in Strain B. In addtion, when the virus is just added, it is still not marked, so it needs some time to be marked (more cell replication cycles), and during this time the virus can be infective. Either of these possibilities will produce a small fraction of plaques in Strain B.