Today they pass judgment against the journalist
and the responsible publisher from Millennium, Mikael Blomkvist,
who is accused for gross slander...
of the successful financier Hans-Erik Wennerström.
Blomkvist accused of Wennerström Illegal arms trafficking and fraud
over 60 million.
The Swedes have always had divided opinions on Blomkvist.
His supporters believe he is the last idealistic journalist.
But now his long career as journalistic watchdog may be over.
In the case Wennerström Vs. Millennium Is defendants Mikael Blomkvist declared
guilty in six of eight allegations.
The accused is sentenced three months' imprisonment
and a compensation of 150,000 dollars to Hans-Erik Wennerström.
How do you see the ruling?
We must stop people like Kalle Blomkvist
Digging in honest peoples cases simply because do not agree with their views.
- I have no further comment. - There he comes.
How is it to be declared guilty?
Will you continue as a journalist Mikael Blomkvist?
- Cheers, everybody. God Jul. - Cheers. God Jul.
- Cheers. - How do we appeal the ruling?
We're behind you one hundred percent, Micke.
We must do something. The advertisers have lost confidence in us.
- We won’t regain that with an appeal. - An appeal would win us the time.
- We will not appeal. - This is about Millennium's future.
The sooner this is over the better for Millennium.
Not to act as the Devil's advocate...
but it is not an idea if Mikael left Millennium?
Just until the storm is over?
Merry Christmas
Wait Micke.
- They are in shock. - Only Janne dare speak the truth.
- I am a liability for the magazine. - It's about finding a way out.
There are empty here.
I have not written a word for several months.
Do you?
Wennerström Delivers a knockout to Blomkvist
Jail!
God damn!.
It is rare that we show our research for our clients.
But we have a special relationship with your client,
so we make an exception in this case.
- That we appreciate. - I must warn you.
- Lisbeth is a special little girl. - What do you mean by special?
But make no mistake. She is our very best researcher.
Good morning, Lisbeth.
Good morning.
Dirch Frode.
Prints of SMS.
E-mail. Bank account overview.
How do I get access to it?
You order the product. I will deliver it.
What can you tell me About Blomkvist?
- Everything is in the report. - The short version.
Blomkvist got the nickname Kalle Blomkvist...
when he solved a bank robbery in the 80s.
A public person with no major secrets. Read the newspaper articles.
- But then he does have secrets? - Everyone has secrets.
How hard is he affected by the crisis on Millennium?
- Financially? - Maybe you should read the report.
Miss Salander, Do you have anything to add?
Do you have any thoughts of your own?
There is something odd about the Wennerström case.
How so? Is there more in the case?
I must examine him, not do his job.
I would like to hear your personal opinion.
Blomkvist is clean. Not one single speeding ticket. I found nothing on him.
I do not think he has fabricated false evidence.
Someone caught him in a trap.
Why did you not ask me?
- No lawyer could save me. - I know. I have read the ruling.
I did not want to get you involved.
But you could have asked me. I am your sister.
I know.
I'm stuck in the shit. Why drag the family down with me?
And now you’re going to jail. That is far out.
The secret of good meatballs is that you have to moisten your fingers.
And then rub your hands against each other.
Shit. could you take this for me?
- Hello, this is Micke Blomkvist. - Hey hey, your little terrorist.
- It's Mikael. - Mikael Blomkvist?
- Yes. Who I am talking too? - My name is Dirch Frode.
I am a lawyer. My client would like to speak with you.
- It is Christmas! Is it important? - My client do not want to wait.
- Call Millennium after the New Year. - My client does not want to wait.
- Who is your client? - Henrik Vanger.
From The Vanger Concern?
My client would appreciate it if you came.
It is Christmas Eve. It has been a horrible week.
I promise you will find it interesting.
Blomkvist!
Henrik lives on the island Hedeby, A few kilometers from Hedestad.
The bridge here is the only connection to the mainland.
Once everyone came from the top of Swedish business community to this estate.
Now, it’s only Henrik and the housekeeper Anna, who lives here.
Thank you for coming, Mikael.
Frodes call was somewhat unusual.
Are you hungry? There is lunch.
Otherwise, thank you. Let's get down to business.
- I go home this afternoon. - Then we skip lunch.
Do you remember her?
That is Harriet Vanger, my brother Gottfrieds daughter.
You have met her.
The girl here?
Your father worked for me in summer 1965.
He was a mechanical engineer in the workshop and lived in one of our cabins.
You and your mother came to visit
at weekends.
Harriet liked you. You often played out there by the water.
I remember her.
- Harriet. - I never got any children himself.
Harriet was my precious. She was an incredibly smart girl.
I looked at her like my own daughter.
What happened to her?
- I think she was murdered. - Murdered?
This is family Vanger, Mikael. My family.
22. September 1966. That day the whole family gathered in this house
to the annual meeting.
30 petty and greedy people
who fought over who would have the largest piece of the cake.
One of these people...
...murdered Harriet.
Harriet was 16 years. It was Children's Day.
She had been inside the Herdestad to see the parade on the main street.
That image was printed in the local newspaper.
Around two she came back to the island.
She wanted to talk to me about something, but...
...I was busy with a board meeting.
How was she murdered?
Nobody knows. She just disappeared.
You are well prepared.
I have thought of that day in 40 years.
That you can call preparation.
Quarter past two, there was a serious traffic accidents down on Hedeby Bridge.
A tanker full of gasoline collided with a car.
Truck was across the bridge.
Tank leaked gasoline All over the place.
Nobody could get past. All had to stay on the island.
By accident the photographer captured it here.
See up there at the curtain.
It is the last picture made by Harriet.
Commissioner Morell from Hot Hedeby led the investigation.
He took the film here and had made Enlargements of this image.
Since then, no-one have seen her.
We waited for her at dinner, but she never showed up.
- Hello? - Lisbeth Salander?
- Who is it? - Svensson from the state administration.
- You have a new guardian. Bjurman. - I already have a guardian.
Your previous guardian was hospitalized with a stroke,
so I had to find you a new one.
Good we could meet, though it's Christmas, Sit down.
It is a bit unfortunate...
that Palmgren has had such a lax approach to guardianship law.
I see you've managed your own economy.
- It has not been a problem. - No, it probably is not.
But as your guardian I am legally and financially responsible.
That means I get the blame if you suddenly cannot pay rent.
I have work. I earn my own money.
Yes, you work for Milton Security, I see...
- What are you there? - I make coffee and photocopies.
We do it this way:
From now on, your salary goes into a new account, which I dispose over.
You get some pocket money every month for personal expenses,
but all other expenses I will have to accept. Okay?
How do you manage your personal hygiene?
What do you mean?
With all those rings. Don't you get inflammation in the holes?
Do you have a girlfriend?
No.
Have you ever had sexual intercourse?
I am 24 years.
I can choose to write that you are cooperating,
or that you create problems and is being troublesome.
And then your life quickly become very problematic.
So how many have you had sex with?
- Two. - Two?
200. No, 2000.
- 200,000. Are we finished? - What kind of sex do you have?
Any special preferences?
Have you considered That might just have left?
No, because of the accident. The bridge was blocked for 24 hours.
And it was the only way off the island.
Harriet disappeared, while no one could leave the island.
The day after we thought that it could be a crime.
But then the bridge was open, and the killer could have gotten rid of the body.
She may have drowned have committed suicide.
We searched after her. We put dogs out and divers in the water.
Even today, when I take a walk,
I find myself looking for her.
When Harriet was eight, She gave me a birthday present.
A bluebell from 1958.
Then she gave me a new flower every year.
1966. The year when Harriet disappeared.
We have to go to the attic.
Incredible.
Every damn year, I get a flower on my birthday
from a new spot on the world map.
- Who do you think you send them? - Harriets murderer.
You do not know my family. You do not know what they are capable of.
I favored Harriet. It did her an obvious victim for them
Those who wanted more power in The Vanger Concern.
They wanted to crush me.
I am 82 years. The police have since long given up.
I end up going to the grave without knowing.
Help me to make one last attempt.
- Why just me? - I have followed you.
You are a good journalist. Stubborn.
I do not ask you to solve the puzzle. Just make an attempt.
There are half a year to you must serve your sentence.
You have devoted 40 years...
I will pay you a good fee.
You will be wealthy. You have nothing to lose.
You have nothing to return to in Stockholm.
"Blomkvist resigns from the Board and works no longer for Millennium."
Have you written the press release without talking to me first?
It is me who must take the decision.
What happens now?
I will work for Henrik Vanger in Hedeby.
Aha. So now you work for large capitalists.
It is not for The Vanger Concern.
Are you going to live there?
In Hedeby?
Good trip.
CONNECTING BLOMKVIST
CONNECTION ACHIEVED FULL ACCESS
NO NEW ACTIVITIES
I'll crush you.
What are you looking at?
What the fuck are you doing, you pussy?
The whore need to lie down.
- Cunt! - Down with her!
- The bitch is crazy. - Come again, pig!
Come on.
Shit.
What did you say?
- I can save the hard disk. - Good.
And the rest?
You need to go on sales hunting.
- How did that happen? - never mind.
- You stink of beer. - And you just showered?
You can borrow the desktop pc.
I use it for backup, so it needs to stay here.
Welcome to Hedeby.
Very refreshing with this cold weather.
You did not want to live in the main building, so I hope you'll like it here.
If it gets colder, The water pipes freeze.
Then you must come up to me and get water.
Yes? Well, it is good. Just put them here.
It is part of the material I've collected over the years.
There are pictures. Police Reports.
Newspaper. In addition some of Harriets possessions.
It is a start.
You were a beautiful nanny.
What did you experience?
Defending Swedens purity:
We are the Swedish national socialists.
Which the Arian race can not do without:
Family Vanger is a pretty unpleasant bunch.
Most of us detest each other, but are forced together by the company.
In there lives my brother Harald.
To put it mildly we do not get along together.
Your brothers Richard and Harald was in a Nazi group in the 30s.
Well, you know that already.
Gottfried was in the Hitler Jugend.
They were all three Nazis.
Yes. Fanatical.
Richard fell in The Finnish Winter War.
Harald has been a bitter, old man. He never goes outside of a door.
Harald's daughter Cecilia Is in Scotland at the moment.
Cecilia and Harald are not on speaking terms.
In there lives Martin, Harriet's brother.
He took over The Vanger Concern after me.
Hello.
There you are. It is the famous Kalle Blomkvist.
Just call me Mikael.
I am curious to hear why you want to...
spend six months in this godforsaken town.
Martin and Harriet's father, Gottfried,
lived a miserable and alcoholized life with his Isabella.
I have never seen a woman be as bad a mother as Isabella.
I intervened and took care of Harriet and Martin.
That was all the family members who live here.
On the day itself there was even more.
Cecilia's sister Anita, who died of cancer.
- Greger Vanger and Ulrika Vanger. - Stop just a moment.
Who do you suspect?
None.
And everyone. That is where you come in..
Dear diary. Today I got this book by my dear uncle Henrik.
a nice, but busy man.
He has finally come home from his trip and gave me this book.
I sit alone in my father's summer house and write. Anita is coming soon.
So that is you who pry into the families history?
Shit you scared me!
Cecilia Vanger. Henrik said you were here.
- Mikael Blomkvist. - I know you from the newspapers.
- What have you there? - Harriets bible.
She was often here with my sister.
- Anita? - Yes.
The last summer before she disappeared.
- Strange, since her father died here. - Gottfried died here?
He got really drunk and fell in the lake. They found him the next morning.
Down at by the bridge.
This happened years before Harriet disappeared.
Henrik said you were abroad.
I had to come home to hide Harriets body.
We were not allowed to go here when we were small. It was forbidden.
Thank you.
Dear diary. It is autumn. The weather has been colder.
Magda 30112.
Sara 32016.
BJ 32027.
LJ 31208.
32018. Mari
I do not understand why Henrik hired you.
Me neither, to be honest.
With all due respect: There is nothing to find. Its almost 40 years ago.
I found Harriets diary in her father's cottage.
- Yes, but the journal did not help us. - What with the five phone numbers?
- The phone numbers was a big mystery. - But 32 is...
32 can be Hedenstad. 30 is Norrbyns area code.
But the names and numbers do not match.
- Did you ring the numbers? - We rang. Tried them backwards.
Swapped them, took numbers out. We tried everything.
The report describes her as introverted and religious.
Was that also your impression?
Who is not introvert as a teenager?
But yes, she stayed for herself. Anita, her cousin, knew her best.
Anita is Cecilia Vangers sister. And Anita is dead.
She died many years ago.
Harriet was my first case.
I have thought about the case every day for almost 40 years.
I retire this summer. It is only now I can let it go.
There is no answer.
You gain nothing but keeping Henriks obsession alive.
Drop the case Before you become obsessed with it.
What are you working on?
plague calling WAsP. Plague calling WAsP.
Hello.
- Who is this week's victim? - No one.
Still that journalist? I thought you were finished with him.
Why do you keep on?
Yes, it is a bit slow.
A new computer?
- Yes, I need 20,000. - Why do you need a PC for 20.000?
- Game, surf the Internet. - Do you surf the Internet a lot?
Do you chat?
You know, Lisbeth?
I can not just give you 20,000.
- Not just like that. - How hard can it be?
Why can I not manage my account?
Hit again. Do it now.
That is what you want, right? Hit me.
If there are problems with you I will arrange for you
are cooped up the rest of your life.
I know all about your mental problems and violent background.
Understand me right, Lisbeth...
I would like to give you the 20.000.
But you know that any trade...
is based on trust. I have to feel that I can trust you.
Can I do that, sweetheart?
Can I trust you, Lisbeth?
Can I trust you?
If you're nice to me...
If you're nice to me I will always be nice to you.
- It's only 7.000. - More than enough for a computer.
What are you looking at?
You said it was the newspaper's photographer,
who took pictures of the children's parade.
Yes, both that and the traffic accident.
The old part of the archive is very messy.
We have not scanned it electronically, so everything is still in negative folders.
20... 30...
...40, 50, 60...
A photographer will take between two and ten rolls in one day.
Closer to ten, when we were talking about childrens Day.
Here. September 1966.
I will only need the hour, of the procession.
- Knock yourself out. - Is it not sorted?
If you are lucky, they are roughly chronological.
Do you have a negative scanner and a light table?
This is the first trace in the case in 39 years.
It is a start.
It is more than that.
See there.
Thinking about the same as I?
What is it that caught her eye? What is she afraid of?
Her murderer.
About here on the other side of the street...
Is Harriets murderer.
- Coffee, Mikael? - What have you found out?
I must have read...
several thousand pages. People have been on the case for 40 years.
To be quite honest,
I have not found anything.
Should you not be in Stockholm and try to appeal your conviction?
- Leave it. - No you leave it.
- Mikael is old enough to... - I was lured into a trap.
One of my old classmates gave me a tip on Wennerströms company.
It was a good story. Good enough to trap him.
You would think.
Yes, for suddenly there was an even better history of fraud
and arms trade for 60 million.
Wennerströms name appeared everywhere. So far so good.
So I wrote the story. The all my sources disappeared.
And all documents and evidence proved to be fabricated.
Counterfeit?
It was too lure you away from the real story?
It was too good to be true.
do you want something, that is really too good to be true?
Single malt. 21 years old.
To hell with the past mischief. Cheers to you.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
You... Should we take one last glass of wine?
I had enough.
- Thank you for a pleasant evening. - Because of the investigation?
My secretive family?
- What do you mean? - It could be me. right?
I am also on your list of suspects.
- Bjurman. - It is Lisbeth.
- What do you want? - I need more money.
- That we can talk about. - I need them now.
Welcome.
Come in and take off your jacket.
- I just need my money. - You'll get your money.
Thank you for last time. I hope you also had a nice time.
I will not suck cock every time I need the money.
Oh you will not? What would you want to do then?
Should I call to social services and say
you're breaking into my home and exhibits threatening behaviour?
Then we see how fast you can go back to the psychiatric hospital.
What say you?
That was better.
There you go.
Come here.
Come on.
No!
I have a... rule you need to learn.
If you resist, then...
Are you sweet? Are you sweet now?
NORSJÖ carpentry
My husband died many years ago. There is only me here.
He worked in the carpentry for 24 years.
They did everything from clothes pegs to Wardrobes.
He has done the cupboard there. And the lamp, of course.
More cake?
Do you remember whether you were in Hedeby in September 1966?
Hedeby...
- In 66... - Yes, 66
- That was our honeymoon. - How nice. Do you have pictures from it?
We camped. It was the latest fashion.
It was our best trip together.
Honeymoons often is.
- But you have some pictures? - Yes, I have them.
Who does not store images from their honeymoon?
On the first part of the journey we walked in the mountains.
My husband had always walked a lot. So it was some long walks.
He was not exactly romantic.
Now let's see.
Hedeby...
See there. How beautiful.
Although the image does not do the sunset justice.
Now let's see. Here's something.
- There was a parade. - Did you?
What the hell are you doing here? I was on the way out.
You have misunderstood the rules. You must agree with me when you come.
Do you hear me?
Let me go.
Do you hear me? Let me go!
Do you like being tied?
Or does it turn you on tying others?
Super nice.
Have you chosen that yourself? You did not chose it?
I think it is nice.
Have you seen the program
in which politicians were filmed with a hidden cameras?
We have those cameras at my work. I had one in the bag last time.
Welcome.
I thought I had to blow you.
But you are sicker, than I thought.
The products a couple of hours. Think about what the police and the media would say.
Enjoy.
Thanks for last time. I hope you also had a good time.
I will not suck cock every time I need the money.
Oh you will not? What would you like to do?
Now I will tell you, how we are doing. You nod in response.
I dispose of my own account. You no longer have access.
I dispose of my own money.
Is that understood?
Every month you write in a report I behave myself exemplary.
Better than ever.
In exactly a year you apply for getting my guardianship terminated.
There will be a mail with instructions.
You should never contact me.
If you do, I send copies of the film to the police and all the newspapers.
The same happens If I have an accident...
or you break my rules.
Is that understood?
I have never tried it before. Lie still, otherwise you make a mess.
Lie still.
I am a sadistic PIG AND A rapist
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...the past year or so...
...religious fanaticism.
SEND
This guy in the blue sweater. I can not get him sharper.
I can not do a damn thing. It is crazy blurred.
- Are you sure? - Completely sure. I have tried everything.
Well, thanks for the help. Talk to you later.
WAsP... Harriet phone numbers.
Read it here and you will cringe, Kalle Blomkvist...
Leviticus...
"If a woman comes an animal near..."
"...for them to mate, you must kill both the woman and the animal."
"They must suffer death."
32018. Mari
Magda 30112.
Leviticus, Chapter 1, verse 12
"... she shall take two doves
one for burn victim and the other for a sin sacrifice."
BJ 32027.
"When a man or woman..."
"When a man or woman have a deadcallers spirit in themselves
they shall suffer death. I will stone them."
They must suffer death.
Frode! What happened?
It is Henrik. He suddenly fell down.
We return, when we know more.
It is a heart attack. They operate on him.
- What are the prospects? - They talk about bypass. This is serious.
- Want a coffee? - No.
You must continue the investigation.
- Have you put more on the task? - No, it is only you.
Then there is someone named WAsP who hacking into my computer.
I have received a mail with a copy of one of my own documents.
So he has been on my hard drive.
Do you know anything about it?
No.
No, but I have a guess
whom it can be.