"Alexander Zalachenko is Lisbeth Salander's father." "She attacked him with an incendiary device in 1993." "There was a police investigation." "By the security police." "It's the little Salander bitch." "What did he look like?" "" " A blond, armour-piercing missile." "We have developed a sketch based on witness reports." "She dropped them." "Lisbeth?" "Was it a coincidence that Bjurman became her manager?" "I'd done it long ago." "" " It is Björck's report from 1993" "If you make some copies?" "" " I do not know if I like it here." "I will stand by her side." "I owe her that." "Where did you find that freak?" "" " Do you not know who Niedermann is?" "He is your brother." "I've thought of you over the years." "Approximately every time I see myself in the mirror." "I hate you." "You have made too many mistakes." "The police will identify you." "From 80." "He should be considered extremely dangerous." "81-20." "Can you hear me?" "Come in." "Eight." "One." "Two." "Zero." "Can you hear me, come in." "In Ekonyheter, a policeman was killed and another was badly injured" "When a violent assault on County Road 46 at six o'clock in the morning occurred." "The perpetrator disappeared in the police car." "According to the police there is no description of the offender." "But the incident has been linked to events in Goss Berga" "When the wanted woman Lisbeth Salander was arrested after a shooting incident." "She was treated at Sahlgrenska Hospital and her condition is critical." "The police are expected to convene a press conference later today." "We have removed a bullet from her head." "It is a serious injury." "And she has gunshot wounds in the left hip and right shoulder." "Can she?" "" " She is stable now." "Without complications, she will recover." "May I visit her?" "" " Not now." "I am a close friend." "You can wait." "But I can't promise anything." "I will." "Lisbeth Salander is innocent?" "" " I don't know." "Read for yourself." "Rights violations have been committed against her." "Everything is documented here." "There is a police investigation from 93." "It is classified top secret." "" " Where did you get it from?" "From Micke Blomkvist at Millennium." "" " Where did he get them from?" "You will have to ask him." "Hello." "Can you open your eyes?" "Anders Jonasson is my name and I am a doctor here." "You are at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg." "Can you count to ten?" "One, two, three." "That's good." "Thanks, hello." "Do we have any names?" "" " Yes, Holm and Jonathan." "Oh, shit." "" " You can go into see her for three minutes." "You have to get through this Lisbeth." "I would like to report a crime." "My daughter has tried to murder me." "We will get to that, but first we want to know about Ronald Niedermann." "We believe that he murdered a police officer and wounded another this afternoon." "I don't know what he's doing." "However, it's true that my daughter tried murdering me tonight." "Ronald Niedermann is wanted." "Do you know where he might be?" "No, but between us" "I'm getting a bit scared of him." "I'm just an old injured man." "An invalid." "We know who you are." "" " We have read your SAPO file." "We want to hear from you about three murders in Stockholm of the journalist Dag Svensson and his girlfriend Mia Bergman and about the lawyer Nils Bjurman." "I know nothing about it." "Nothing." "Damn it, next time we talk to him we must have much more on him." "I am going to Goss Berga now." "My colleagues promised to pick me up." "See ya." "" " All right, bye." "Hello." "" " Hi, have you met Lisbeth Salander?" "They said she was sedated." "" " She is." "Have you spoken to Zalachenko?" "What did he say?" "What happens now?" "" " I'll talk with the doctor." "After that I'll take the train back to Stockholm." "You can ride back with me." "Dr.Jonasson will be here shortly." "" " Thanks." "I intend to write a story about Lisbeth and publish it in Millennium." "I intend to expose it all." "The Security Service Police and a psychiatrist got her locked up in a madhouse." "It would be a fucking miserable life." "" " Yes, I am convinced of of that." "Until you catch Niedermann." "The evidence is pretty thin." "He is not the type to turn himself in." "I need someone on the inside that I can trust." "I need to know what happens with the indictment against Lisbeth." "It sounds like a good way to get fired." "Place her in room seven and put on a dressing." "I will look in on it later." "I was wondering when you would show up." "We have discussed how we can help you." "We will develop a strategy, but we need to hear your version, too." "And what would that strategy be?" "There we come to the point." "It will probably be hard to avoid a prison sentence." "Oh, is that so?" "We will assist with a lawyer and all that is needed." "You must cooperate and give us some guarantees." "Niedermann." "Niedermann's the scapegoat." "It was he who shot Lisbeth." "There are serious allegations against you that can be hard to dismiss." "That is your problem." "That is your problem." "And if you do not solve it." "I will have to contact the media." "I have names, dates, events." "Everything." "I can destroy you all completely." "I am a survivor." "You should know that by now." "Zalachenko, you do not understand." "" " It is you who does not understand!" "This talk is finished." "The time is eleven, this is Echo." "After the police murder in Goss Berga, the search for the offender has intensified." "The police have identified him as a 35-year-old named Ronald Niedermann." "He has short blonde hair, is 205 cm tall and powerfully built." "He is armed and considered by the police as extremely dangerous." "No, no, no!" "(Woman crying)" "Hello, Lisbeth." "How are you?" "Do you remember me?" "Anders Jonasson is my name." "I understand if you are tired." "You had a bullet wound to the head." "We managed to remove the bullet." "So far as we can see it has not damaged any vital parts." "You also had gunshot wounds to the right shoulder and left hip." "They will heal nicely." "Brain damage?" "Brain damage is complex and sometimes difficult to see." "Do not worry." "The police wanted to talk to you." "I said no because of your condition." "They will surely return." "Zalachenko is alive?" "Karl Axel Bodin?" "He is in a room down the corridor." "He is badly injured, patched up and is stable." "Damn." "My text is between 40, 50 pages." "I want to have parts of the Björck investigation within it." "To make it stronger, better looking." "What do we have in the way of artwork?" "" " Not much." "We can get pictures of Gunnar Björck, Teleborian and Zalachenko." "Some from St. Stephen's Hospital." "" " Yes, and Lisbeth." "It sounds like at least 75 pages." "" " There may be more, that'll be good." "Can we get more names?" "" " No, no, no we must focus on what we have." "We can hope that the publication will force others into the light." "That one thing leads to another and another." "Now we work." "How are you anyway?" "You look completely tired." "I am completely drained." "" " You want to talk?" "No, not now." "I gotta go home and sleep." "Then I think you should do it." "Go home and sleep now, okay?" "Her name is Lisbeth Salander." "Sweden has come to know her through press conferences and headlines." "She is 27 years old and 150 cm tall." "She has been described as a psychopathic murderer and a lesbian satanist." "In this issue of Millenium we will reveal how government officials have conspired against Lisbeth Salander to protect a pathologically ill killer." "Alexander Zalachenko." "A defected GRU agent from the Soviet Union." "In Sweden, he is guilty of the serious crimes of arms trafficking, drugs, trafficking and the abuse of women." "Alexander Zalachenko is Lisbeth Salander's father." "Mr Bodin,come here." "Let's go back, this is not your room." "This way." "Go ahead, it's all right." "" " Thanks." "I am looking for Frederick Clinton." "" " Who should I say is here?" "An old colleague of his." "" " Dad is resting, but I'll get him." "Zalachenko does what is best for himself regardless of consequences." "Those are my thoughts as well." "If he starts talking, he must have proof." "The evidence is only available in the archive." "It's locked up tight." "No, he couldn't have anything." "We can not risk it if he starts talking." "We need to get him to shut up at any price." "We agree." "That we tend to always do." "You see I can't do anything." "Fred, we need you." "One last time." "I can not." "I spend five hours every other day in the hospital on a dialysis machine." "I'll die soon." "I can't get a new kidney." "So it is, my friend." "Thank you. my dear." "" " It's fresh." "I didn't know you had a daughter." "No." "We do not know too much about each other's private lives." "Yet we have worked together for oh, over 35 years." "Lisbeth Salander then?" "The indictment is already in motion." "The prosecutor wants Lisbeth arrested for the attempted murder of Zalachenko, her father." "But the trial will be about equally important things than the assassination attempt." "What happened in Goss Berga has a long history." "It's about violence and the exploitation of Lisbeth and her mother." "That's what you should build your defense on, there you will have strong evidence." "This is classified." "" " Don't worry about it." "You got it from a journalist who did not say where it came from." "SJ's X2000 No. 429 from Stockholm is on track number 6." "I do not need a defender." "You will be charged with the attempted murder your father." "Micke thinks they are trying to force you back there again." "You need a defender." "But you can choose another." "If you do not want me the Court will appoint a public defender for you." "Should I interpret your silence to mean that you want me to leave?" "It's your choice." "Do you have a cigarette?" "Do you have a nicotine patch?" "" " Yes, one moment." "We need a crash cart in room three." "I got this copy from Micke." "You know what it contains, right?" "We will need to talk with each other a lot." "I want you to be completely honest with me." "Mike told me most of it and some things he wants you to decide whether you want to tell me." "I guess you know what he means." "There is something about computers and a DVD." "After all we have done for you during all these years." "Now you are threatening us." "It is a bit rich." "I am a survivor." "I do what I need to survive." "No, you do it because you are an evil man without honor and" "Without morality." "I came here to give you our answer." "We will not help you this time." "Period." "You have no choice." "Do you not understand that?" "Life has taught me that there is always a choice." "Idiots." "Idiots." "I will crush you." "" " You will not do anything." "No, stay put." "I'll see what it is." "Get out!" "He has a gun!" "Quick!" "Wait, I'll help." "Hold me tight." "Hold me." "No." "We are monitoring the airports and ferry terminals and it would be wise to continue." "What are the chances Niedermann has left the country?" "I think he is still in Sweden." "He is wanted in all of Europe." "He will not go anywhere." "No girlfriends?" "" " He has lived like a hermit." "He has only had contact with Zalachenko and he just lies about it." "Talk to Zalachenko again anyway." "You've read the investigation." "Gunnar Björck." "I've browsed it a bit." "Zalachenko might think that he protected." "That's why he won't say anything." "Yes." "That may be so." "We must keep it out of this." "We need to." "The public prosecutor has withdrawn the investigation, so it is no more." "What the hell are you saying?" "The Björck investigation is useless because it is classified." "Zalachenko has been shot." "He is dead." "Someone entered Sahlgrenska and shot him." "Why didn't the police give him better coverage?" "Completely incomprehensible, you wouldn't think that could happen here." "Going armed into a hospital and killing a patient is incredible." "He jerked on the door but couldn't get in." "It was so unreal." "An old man with a gun." "Then I heard the shot when he killed himself." "Are you sure he was trying get into Lisbeth's room?" "Yes, it was terrible!" "I have never been so scared." "Should I come there?" "" " No." "It's not necessary." "I'll sleep with my friend Vera Akerlund in Kålltorp." "There's press conference at police headquarters at 3:00." "" " I have to go." "Take care of yourself." "" " Okay, I will." "All right, bye." "Name, Fred?" "What in the world?" "Come in, come in." "We are trying to get information about it now." "At what time was it?" "" " I'll find out now." "What the hell?" "You know what has happened?" "" " Zalachenko is dead." "It seems Evert Gullberg was the one who shot him." "It's chaos down there." "We have not had anything confirmed." "Then I will confirm it." "It was Evert who shot him." "It was entirely planned." "Should I arrange for coffee or something?" "" " No, not now, not now." "What the hell are you saying?" "What plans?" "Gullberg had only a few months to live." "He had liver cancer." "He chose to make one last effort for us." "He joined the honored." "You knew he would kill him?" "" " Of course." "His mission was to silence Zalachenko and Salander, it was thought." "Are you as fucking crazy as Gullberg?" "Choose your words carefully, Hallberg." "It was the right decision." "We did what was necessary." "" " Necessary?" "290 00:33:46,920 -- 00:33:51,869 You and Gullberg had no mandate to make this damn decision at all!" "Whatever happened has Zalachenko's death not related to us." "Not Evert Gullberg either." "Our task is to make the decisions that no one else dares to." "Least of all politicians, it's that simple." "One more thing," "I will return to service." "I will lead the operational activities until the crisis is over." "The man who fired the lethal shots and then took his own life is identified as a 78-year-old pensioner." "He has previously worked as an accountant and tax lawyer." "What's his name?" "" " We do not want to give it out now." "Is there a connection to Lisbeth Salander?" "Any association with Lisbeth Salander we can firmly deny." "It seems to be about a lone offender who has acted based on a full-fledged paranoid imagination." "He has sent many letters to famous politicians and to the media where there were death threats against Karl Axel Bodin." "Why?" "Security Service is analyzing it, but it appears he was probably mentally ill." "What does this have to do with the case against Lisbeth Salander?" "Currently nothing." "Karl Axel Bodin did of course give his testimony." "And we have good forensic evidence against Salander." "He tried to enter Lisbeth Salander's room, but you do not see any affiliation with Salander." "Why would he try getting into her room?" "No comment." "We have strengthened monitoring of Sahlgrenska." "(Cell phone bleeps to)" "He claims that Bodin was behind the Palme murder and would poison the people with chlorine." "Sick and sad." "How did he came into contact with Zalachenko?" "They must have known each other." "He shoots Zalachenko and moves on to Lisbeth and it is a coincidence?" "I do not know." "What if he knew Karl Axel Bodin was Zalachenko and his daughter was Lisbeth." "A handful of people knew Zalachenko's identity, not Gullberg." "But think again." "This is about something else, huh?" "We won't exclude it but everything is pointing to that he was a confused old man from Gnesta who went crazy." "The Prosecutor has blocked the Björck investigation." "" " What?" "The content is classified." "It must go together." "Hello, Vera." "Hey." "Hey!" "Give me my bag?" "Give me my bag!" "What the hell!" "Someone on a moped snatched my bag." "Huh?" "How are you then, okay?" "I am okay." "But in my bag was a copy of the Björck investigation." "It's okay, I have copies." "Annie, I'll call you." "Annie." "" " It's me." "They have stolen my copy too." "I went home to check." "It is catastrophic." "" " It's the least you can say." "The most powerful evidence we have for the next issue of Millennium." "" " It all fits." "No, damn it." "Damn, damn!" "What will you do?" "" " I don't know." "What can we do?" "" " I do not know." "We have no evidence against Teleborian and Bjorck." "That's the worst part." "Sonny, when the hell did you get out?" "" " This morning." "Magge too?" "" " No, he will be there for a while." "Good to see you." "Do you know what happened?" "The police raided here on the day you were arrested." "They found nothing." "Then that blonde bastard came here and wanted a place to hide." "Your friend and Magge's." "He is not my fucking friend." "He is wanted throughout Sweden." "He said he needed a hideout." "I sent him to Viktor's house." "Damn." "Sonny!" "Sonny!" "What the hell?" "Jenny." "Jenny!" "Jenny, it's me, Sonny." "Who was it?" "Nieder." "Niedermann." "Victor." "Victor." "Niedermann." "He will fucking die for this." "He'll die for this." "Decent of you to come here." "We don't meet so frequently nowadays." "No, we don't do that." "Do you live out here permanently now?" "" " Yes." "Was that Evert Gullberg at Sahlgrenska?" "Yes." "I had no fucking clue." "He and Clinton planned it all." "" " I thought Clinton was dead." "Not entirely." "Was he looking for Salander, too?" "It sounded almost as if so on the news." "Yes, both were to be silenced, and the trial prevented." "So, it was thought." "Will he go after Salander again?" "" " No, it's probably too risky." "Clinton will try lock to her up in the psyche hospital again." "It was possible before." "It feels like all hell began when I gave Nils Bjurman the guardianship." "That could be a link." "But you couldn't predict it." "No, I think about it all the time." "It bothers me." "Don't worry about it." "The investigation and files are all blocked." "So at this point, the danger is over." "What happens now?" "I don't know." "I think Clinton is capable of doing anything." "Yes, this is Peter Teleborian." "This is Fred Clinton." "I'm assuming that Annika's and my phone are bugged." "We also assume the editorial phones and your phones are bugged." "We shouldn't talk about this on the work phones." "We shall use these pre-paid phones." "We only use them when we talk about Zalachenko and Lisbeth." "Everything else we talk about normally." "Is email safe?" "No, we need to think about what we write and it is important that we encrypt." "Do you not know?" "This could mean that the entire office is bugged." "No, there is always someone there." "We will stay on the safe side and have one of us sleep there." "We will make a schedule for the trial." "" " And get backaches." "The Björck investigation was stolen twice the same day." "It can't be a coincidence." "And the Zalachenko murder, too." "Now they are trying to cover their tracks." "The killer at Sahlgrenska was a mental case." "" " That's what they want us believe." "I don't think so anymore." "Then those who protected Zalachenko started it." "SAPO?" "Yes, it might be SAPO but we don't know that." "Whoever it is has great resources and they are pointing them at us." "The good thing is that they are listening to Michael and Annika phones." "They don't believe we have access to the Björck investigation anymore." "That should keep us safe." "The indictment against Lisbeth Salander isn't complicated." "" " No." "Even if the plaintiff Alexander Zalachenko is dead." "Unless all of the Zalachenko info gets out and complicates the trial." "It's about human lives." "About our relationship with a foreign powers and the security police and our secret contacts." "I read the investigation mostly as a background." "In the indictment against Lisbeth Salander, it has no great relevance." "It cannot be dragged in." "Some parts of it are useful." "Especially when Lisbeth Salander attempted to murder her father earlier." "I'll see that you have access to that part." "Yes, it could perhaps be useful." "Then I will be sure you get it." "Who is your boss?" "My instructions come from the highest level." "That means you can not speak with anyone other than me about this." "I will be extremely discreet." "Gunnar Björck." "" " Jan Bublanski, from the Stockholm Police." "I would like to have a meeting." "" " Oh, why?" "I am engaged in an investigation that you probably can help me with." "The murder case of Zalachenko, do you know anything about him." "I left that thing ten years ago." "I thought a friendly conversation between colleagues." "At home with you, maybe?" "" " I don't think so." "Of course I could send someone to bring you in." "All right." "Come tomorrow after 11." "How can he be so stupid as to agree to a meeting?" "What is he thinking?" "Was it not Björck who lent the Salander investigation to Bjurman?" "Yes, unfortunately." "Meal time?" "" " That's right, hamburger." "Here you are." "" " Thanks." "Lisbeth?" "Lisbeth?" "Need help?" "" " No, thanks." "Eat well, okay." "I have a suggestion." "I am not driving home and I've made a reservation." "Will you sleep over with me?" "I am exhausted." "I slept like crap at the office." "We will just sleep." "That's the fourth time that car's been here." "Are you sure?" "" " Yes." "Anders Jonasson?" "" " Yes." "My name is Peter Teleborian." "I am the senior at St. Stephen's Psychiatric Clinic in Uppsala." "I need to talk to you." "It's abouts one of your patients." "Lisbeth Salander." "Well?" "" " Yes, all right." "I have been dealing with her since she was twelve years old and have a very good understanding of her illness." "How does it look?" "" " Lisbeth is seriously mentally disturbed." "She has obvious delusions with paranoid and schizophrenic tendencies." "And like all sociopaths she completely lacks empathy." "Simply put." "I perceive her as a shy person and not as paranoid sociopath." "She is extremely manipulative." "It is part of the disease." "She shows you what she thinks you want to see." "As you can imagine I have great concern for her mental condition." "Yes, I understand." "I must see her to determine her condition before the trial." "I can not help you with that." "I have responsibility for Lisbeth." "She is not strong enough to meet with anyone other than her lawyer." "I have the prosecutions permission to see her." "I was hoping not to be formal." "May I now be able to see her." "As a doctor you should know my assessment overrules the prosecution decisions." "So you must be patient and wait for me to change my assessment." "Well." "I had hoped for a more professional approach." "Björck?" "Björck?" "Björck?" "Hell." "Hello." "Are you all right?" "Follow the pen." "How am I?" "" " You are definitely getting better." "I will see that you get help and get started with rehab." "I haven't got any problems." "" " I think not, do not fiddle with the scab." "You should eat a little better." "You should do something about the food." "The food?" "" " Get some pizza." "Pizza." "I don't think that is on the County dietician's menu." "A Dr. Peter Teleborian wanted to meet with you." "He said that you've had contact before." "I sent him away." "Good." "It has been very hard in our business." "We have worked together sometimes for decades without knowing each other privately." "We have worked long with Gunnar." "We knew him as a strong and reliable employee." "That he chose to end his life by his own hand seems hard to accept." "It was his choice and it is worth our respect." "Can we rule out that the government has known about it?" "They must have known that a Russian spy defected to Sweden." "We had a conservative government in 1976 when Zalachenko defected." "30 years and nothing has leaked out." "It could not have been kept secret by politicians if they knew about it." "All of them write memoirs now." "It's the same with SAPO." "It would be leaked sooner or later." "There must be a small secret group acting on their own." "With vast resources and influence." "If nobody has leaked about the group in 30 years." "Where do we start digging?" "The best lead we have is Evert Gullberg." "If we get more on him maybe it will lead to more." "It might take time, so Millennium is trapped." "The newspaper must be out during the trial." "Suicide by hanging?" "Gunnar Björck hung himself with his own belt." "That's it." "How many more knew that Bublanski contacted Björk?" "None, that I know." "He knew a lot about Zalachenko and Lisbeth." "You have read the investigation." "Björck and Zalachenko are dead." "Gullberg tried to quiet Lisbeth." "Don't you think that fits together?" "" " We know nothing about Evert Gullberg." "Conspiracies are almost never true." "" " No, but it's true for me." "They are trying to access Lisbeth and quiet her in order to manipulate the trial." "This is not Belarus." "We don't manipulate trials in Sweden." "What are you talking about?" "I don't know." "However, the threat to Lisbeth is increasing." "She is exposed to new legal abuse or something far worse." "Someone ordered for you." "Dr. Jonasson has responsibility for Lisbeth Salander." "It overrules my decision." "Yes indeed, but I had not counted on that he would be so rude and be so formal." "In addition, he refers to Salander's lawyer and requires her approval." "Is that really correct?" "Should a lawyer be allowed to impede a psychiatric examination?" "Of course not." "However Dr. Jonasson is right." "We have to respect his medical assessment." "Lisbeth Salander gets healthier every day." "You will soon get to see her." "A study like this can take time." "Salander is a complicated case." "Goodbye." "This is part of Björck investigation that I promised you." "There is one more thing." "There have been comments from above about the appropriateness of Jan Bublanski's investigation efforts." "Well?" "Should someone else take over the investigation?" "" " It's not his decision." "Who then?" "" " Someone who thinks the case is right." "I refuse to give it to that idiot." "The fucking man is a pig and hates Salander." "It's probably his merits, Sonya." "I heard that we should split up." "" " How long have you known?" "Late in the afternoon." "Do you think I conspired with Ekstrom?" "Can I get all the material in my room as soon as possible?" "How are things going with Niedermann?" "" " Yes, that is finished." "I think the bastard left the country." "I do not like this, damn it." "I don't like what's happening here." "Hello, I was at the hospital the same night Lisbeth Salander came in." "I remember you." "" " I would like to talk to you about something." "I will not disclose information about Lisbeth Salander." "Forget it." "No, I want to give you information about Lisbeth." "Important information." "What a conspiracy." "Excuse me but it sounds completely implausible." "I understand that you find it hard to believe, but I assure you everything is true." "Everything can be documented and I'll publish the whole story." "I want to build up Lisbeth's defense before trial, that's why I'm here." "I'm going to ask you for one thing." "" " What?" "Lisbeth has secrets." "Private." "That she may need for her defense." "To access this evidence she needs this." "The prosecutor has put on restrictions." "" " That's why I came to you." "We have never faced a more serious threat." "We need to close ranks and fight back." "Or would you prefer something else?" "I just want to know how Gunnar Björck died." "I knew him." "He would never kill himself." "These things you never know." "I met Gunnar two weeks ago." "He indicated nothing like that." "" " You met with him?" "Where?" "" " At his house in the country." "He just wanted to know what happened when Gullberg shot Zalachenko." "And you told him?" "" " Yes." "Why shouldn't he know that?" "Now, I want to know how Gunnar died." "He hung himself with his belt." "Hello, how does it feel?" "" " Okay." "Can I examine you for a bit?" "" " Yes." "Then we'll see..." "Are you in pain?" "" " No." "How's the headaches?" "" " Okay." "They disappear more and more." "" " Good." "Police from Stockholm called again." "Faste was his name." "Introduced himself as the team leader." "He wanted to come and question you." "Can you bend your head back a bit?" "Not too far." "I was a little annoyed that they are so pushy." "I cannot defer to your condition for much longer." "You're getting too healthy, do you understand?" "" " Yes." "But I said you need a few weeks of rehabilitation." "After that, you will be moved to a detention center in Stockholm." "I have seen the tattoo on your back." "It is pretty big." "Why did you get it?" "" " Why do you ask?" "Out of curiosity." "" " For personal reasons I don't want to discuss." "All right, sorry." "Oh, wow." "It must have hurt and taken some time." "Yes." "It hurt and took time." "Sorry." "Hello, Lisbeth." "With this you can tell your version of what has happened." "Your autobiography." "Annie does not know you have your PDA so don't tell her." "So this is the man in the black Saab?" "Göran Mårtensson?" "Coast Hunters." "Then the police academy." "Worked as a policeman from 1991-96." "Then he disappeared from external services." "" " SAPO?" "He is employed by the security police but is on loan to counter espionage." "They have never heard of him." "Does that mean they're lying?" "" " No." "Then someone is trying to hide what they are doing." "Unfortunately, our contact had nothing more than that." "Where do we go then?" "I can ask an old friend, however I will have to tell him everything." "Who is it?" "" " He is working on the protection of the Constitution." "He can move on it if he wants." "" " Is he reliable?" "He is an old friend, Michael." "Well." "Yes, do it." "If I were to summarize what you said we have a number of security officers who are hidden and have commited a number of serious crimes against this Swedish woman?" "Falsely incarcerated her in a mental hospital when she was young in order to give a free pass to a defecting Russian spy and his crimes?" "Yes, that is a good summary." "In addition, the burglary of the journalist Mikael Blomkvist and an assault on Annie Giannini, Lisbeth Salander's lawyer." "The murder of Zalachenko should now also fit in with this." "Constitutional protection is set up to defend democracy against internal threats." "Usually, nazis, anarchists." "Now you say that the threat seems to be from our own organization?" "Torsten." "Read it yourself." "See ya." "You are disconnected from everything else." "Your only job is to investigate the truth of this." "If it's only half true." "We face a constitutional crisis to manage." "I'll study it and find out who Göran Mårtensson works for." "Then you'll examine Evan Gullburg's background." "I have never heard of him, but he must have access to the subject." "Report only to me." "" " Absolutely." "Plague, are you there?" "" " Ciao Wasp, how are you?" "I'm alive and I need your help." "" " Finally, you ask." "Peter Teleborian the psychiatrist." "I need access to his computer." "Send the content to Mikael Blomkvist's hotmail address." "I need your help at the trial, too." "I will pay 30,000." "Do you have cash?" "" " Yes." "Mårtensson lives in Vällingby." "Lars Falu's son is an old offender who has training as a the locksmith." "A popular craft apparently." "Then they waited for Blomkvist to go out?" "" " Yes, exactly." "How long were they there?" " 40 Minutes." "Mårtensson snooped around a lot." "Blomkvist doesn't know?" "I don't think so." "Then as I was about to leave I saw her filming Mårtensson and Falu's son." "She works for Milton Securlty." "" " Susan Linder." "She was a cop until 98." "Has Blomkvist hired Milton?" "" " It seems so." "The camera is between the lamp and the ceiling in a narrow column." "We can fast forward if you don't want to watch him picking his nose." "You can probably count on it that your apartment has been bugged, Michael." "We can remove it, if you want." "Then we'll reveal that you know that you are being watched." "No, leave it behind." "I can stay someplace else." "Okay to give the DVD to Annika, I will write about the rape myself." "Have contacted Plague about Teleborian." "He will contact you if he can find anything." "We took the old photo out." "The color made it look like something from 1910." "That's right." "It does not look like it's current." "Do we have a better picture of Zalachenko?" "Hello, hello." "I have links to the government." "Guess who visited the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office on October 5, 1976?" "No, guess?" "Evert Gullberg and somebody who called himself Hans von Rottinger." "They were there three weeks after Zalachenko defected." "How did you find out?" "" " I checked the register and admissions." "There was a single visit on October 5, 1976." "Good job by you, Chris." "Now we must prove that they were there to provide information on Zalachenko." "Were there any notes?" "" " No, just names and dates." "Where do we go now?" "" " We drive to the State Secretaries." "Two people who worked there can know." "" " Do we have any names?" "One is dead and the other is a retired ambassador." "His name is Bengt Janeryd and lives outside Grisslehamn." "One should have a snack with him." "" " Good, I'll take it." "I can be better at being more dangerous to him." "It's just what I say to him." "" " Well, all right." "The address?" "Yes." "You." "Great job." "(Phone rings)" "Yes, Ekstrom." "Prosecutor Ekstrom just called." "Can we take it later?" "" " No, it's serious." "Ekstrom was called anonymously by someone who wanted to talk about Zalachenko." "He wanted to talk about serious crimes committed during the preliminary investigation." "What crimes?" "Ekstrom asked him to come back in the afternoon and then phoned me." "The caller knows about the investigation and Zalachenko." "If he calls again, make sure Ekstrom says yes to meeting him." "Explain that we are taking over now." "Underlined to the national security." "Choose an appropriate meeting place." "Ekström." "" " I called before about Zalachenko." "Of course I would like to hear what you have to say." "I am at work, how about later this evening?" "" " When?" "Nine o'clock would be good." "" " Nine o'clock is fine." "You must have heard that Gullberg shot Zalachenko, right?" "You read the newspapers?" "" " Yes." "Why did you not call the police?" "" " I was waiting for them to call me." "That sounds a bit convenient." "" " I had no idea she was his daughter." "What she suffered is terrible." "The prime minister did not know about it." "Neither did I." "You might be able to convince me and Millennium's readers about that." "I forbid you to use my name in this context." "I won't allow it." "I did not have anything to do with it." "What I read is new to me." "" " Okay." "You have read some of the material we will publish, and we have a lot more." "Everything can be proven." "I do not want to hang you out." "You have a responsibility and a liability." "Either tell me now or you will not be able to hide behind confidentiality." "That's what I call blackmail." "" " Call it what you want." "If you tell me I will not publish your name." "The Prime Minister informed me about that meeting in October 1976." "He thought it was very uncomfortable." "It was the largest military secret in Sweden, I was told." "So he was very nervous." "How many times had they met after the first meeting?" "They did not meet." "He did not want to deal with it." "He saw to it that I was approved as an intermediary between him and the one's who handled Zalachenko." "I had to promise never to discuss it with anyone and I never did." "The prime minister was in contact with both Evert Gullberg and Hans von Rottinger." "Did you also meet with them?" "" " Yes." "There was a man, Clinton." "Like the American president." "Clinton?" "" " Yes." "How often did you meet?" "A dozen times during my time as secretary of state." "I did not know anything." "Just that Zalachenko cooperated and that the information he gave us was invaluable." "Where did you meet?" "Various locations." "Often in apartments around town." "Who took over the connection after the change of government?" "I don't know." "So you did not tell this to anyone?" "" " No." "And you filed no report?" "No." "Everything was very top-secret." "I did not even record the meetings." "So no subsequent government had an idea that there was a Soviet defector in Sweden?" "It sounds strange but it may be so." "Hello, Mikael Blomkvist." "Monica Figuerola, Constitutional Protection." "Well?" "" " I would like to invite to a chat." "It's a friendly invitation." "You risk nothing." "Can I get the mail?" "" " Of course." "And a clean pair of underwear?" "" " Absolutely." "Torsten Edklinth." "Constitutional Protection." "Blomkvist." "" " Please, sit down." "You would like to know why we want to meet you." "So, let's get right to it." "We have confirmed that there is a secret group." "A conspiracy in an exceptionally sensitive area of state administration." "My meeting with the Prime Minister yesterday evening resulted in a full investigation." "Which means?" "A full investigation." "The result will be given to the Attorney-General who will decide whether a prosecution will be started." "We need time to identify who is involved." "I, understand." "Where do I fit in then?" "We want to know when you intend to publish." "If it is done before the investigation is concluded it could jeopardize the entire operation." "When do you think that I can publish?" "We can't of course control that." "It is totally up to you, and I ask you for your cooperation." "I can say this." "I am extremely pissed off that the State Government, SAPO and some other fucking assholes had locked up an innocent 12 year old girl in a mental hospital and made her legally incompetent." "I myself am very upset about what happened to Lisbeth Salander." "And those responsible will be punished." "Before that we must identify who is involved." "I want to." "I also want Lisbeth Salander to be acquitted and the authorities punished." "The outcome of the case is not something we or the government could control." "As long as I am allowed access to all information." "I will tell you what I publish and when." "Information for information." "That can be solved quite easily." "We decide which employees we recruit to the investigation." "We can hire Blomkvist as an external consultant." "Evert Gullberg." "Do have more names?" "Hans von Rottinger and Fred Clinton." "One is dead and the other is retired." "Both active in the group of 70's and 80's." "" " Group?" "Can we give it a working title?" "We can call it the Section." "Section?" "Sure." "How did you get all that?" "I have a good source." "Can we keep this place?" "" " Absolutely, I'm on it." "What the hell!" "Lisbeth tried several times to tell social services and the police about Zalachenko's assaults on her mother." "But no one took the ten-year girl's allegations seriously." "Only when she tried to kill her father in order to save her mother did the government react." "Not by arresting and punishing Alexander Zalachenko." "Instead they punished Lisbeth." "The twelve-year-old was taken away and locked up at St. Stephen's Psychiatric Hospital in Uppsala." "I tried to explain what happened to Peter Teleborian." "He would not listen and said that I imagined it." "I was belted to the bed as punishment." "During the two years I was locked in there," "I was strapped into my bed for 381 days." "(Lisbeth's recorded screams)" "Hello, Lisbeth." "Did I wake you?"