Girl With The Dragon Taroo, The Page #3

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Oh, the cold air feels good, doesn't it?

Freshens you up...

to say the least.

Since you would prefer not to stay

in the main house, I put you in here.

I hope you'll be comfortable.

If it gets much colder,

the pipes are likely to freeze.

You can get water

at the main house.

- Yes?

- The boxes, sir.

Ah, good.

Put them over there.

The boxes contain already some

of the information...

I've gatherd on Harriet,

through the years.

You'll find photographs,

police reports. Everything you'll need.

There are also press-clippings.

And you'll find, I even organized

Harriet's personal effects.

Anyway, it should be good

for a start.

You were a great babysitter.

What happened to you?

The Vanger group.

Keep Sweden pure!

We are the Swedish

National Socialists -

- and the Aryan race

can't do without us!

For all intensive purposes...

the Vanger family was made up

of a thoroughly unpleasant bunch.

There was a mutual

hatred among us,

but we tolerated each other

for the good of the corporatin.

That house belonged

to my brother Harald.

To say that we're not exacty close,

is an understatement.

So your two brothers Richard and Harald,

had ties with the fascist group in the 30's.

Yes, I can see,

that you've done your homework.

Then there was Gottfried,

he was a member of the Hitler Youth.

Let's not mens words, shall we?

All three were Nazis.

Yes. Fanatics, all of them.

Richard was killed

in Finnish Winter War.

Harald became an embitter old man.

He rarely leaves his house.

Harald's daughter Cecilia,

is in Scotland presently.

Cecilia and Harald

are no longer at speaking terms.

That house up there

belongs to Martin, Harriets' brother.

He replaced me as head

of the Vanger companies.

Hello.

And so. You must be

the famous Kalle Blomkvist.

It's Mikael, call me Mikael,

then I know who you're talking to.

I'm anxious to find out,

why is that...

you're prepared to spend 6 months,

in this godforsaken place.

Martin's and Harriet's father,

Gottfried,

lived a life of misery and alcoholism,

with his wife Isabella.

I've never seen a woman less adapted being

a mother, then Isabella was with Harriet.

I intervened and became involved

in Martin and Harriets' lifes.

Later on every Vanger

who lived here.

Most of the time, there were

considerably more of us.

Cecilias' sister Anita died

from cancer, years ago.

- Greger Vanger, Ulrika Vanger.

- Stop, just a minute.

Who is it, you suspect?

None of 'em.

All of them.

That's where you come in.

Dear Diary. Today I got this diary

from my dear uncle Henrik.

A kind, but busy, man.

He's finally home from his travels

and brought me this diary.

I'm by myself in my dad's cottage.

Anita will be here soon.

So you're the one

sniffing around in family matters?

Hell, you scared me.

Cecilia Vanger.

Henrik said you'd be here.

- Mikael Blomkvist.

- I recognize you from the papers.

- What have you found?

- Harriet's Bible.

She was often up here

with my sister.

- Anita?

- Yes.

The summer before she disappeared.

- Odd, seeing that her father died here.

- Gottfried died here?

He was drunk and fell into the lake.

They found him the next morning.

Just down there.

It happened the year before

Harriet disappeared.

Henrik said you were traveling.

I had to come home

in order to hide Harriet's body.

We weren't allowed to be here

when we were kids. It was off-limits.

Thanks.

Dear Diary. It's fall now.

The weather's getting colder.

Magda 30112.

Sara 32016.

BJ 32027.

LJ 31208.

Mari 32018.

I don't understand

why Henrik hired you.

To be honest, neither do I.

With all respect,

there's nothing to find.

It's been nearly 40 years.

You found Harriet's diary

in her dad's cottage.

- The diary didn't help us one bit.

- What about the phone numbers?

- They were a complete mystery to us.

- But 32 is...

But the names

and the numbers don't match.

- Did you call them up?

- We did. We even tried backwards.

We switched them, removed numbers.

We tried everything.

In the report, she's described as

withdrawn and religiously inclined.

Was that your impression?

Who isn't withdrawn at that age?

But, yes. She kept to herself.

Anita, her cousin, knew her the best.

Anita is Cecilia Vanger's sister.

And Anita is dead.

She died many years ago.

Harriet was my first case.

I've thought about it

every day for nearly 40 years now.

I'm retiring this summer. It's only

now that I'm able to let it go.

There is no answer.

You'll only breathe life into

Henrik's obsession.

Give it up before you become

obsessed yourself.

What are you working on?

- Who's this week's victim?

- Nobody.

Still that reporter?

I thought you were done with him.

Why do you keep at it?

It's a bit slow.

A new computer?

- Yes, I need 20,000.

- Why do you need a 20,000 kroner PC?

- So I can play, surf the internet.

- You often surf the internet?

Do you chat?

Know what, Lisbeth?

I can't just hand you 20,000.

- Not just like that.

- How hard can it be?

Why can't I

look after my own money?

Hit me. Come on.

That's what you want, isn't it?

Hit me.

If you give me any kind of trouble,

I'll make sure -

- you spend the rest

of your life in a closed ward.

I know all about your mental problems

and your violent background.

Don't get me wrong, Lisbeth...

I'm more than happy

to give you the 20,000.

But, you know,

any business transaction -

- is built on trust.

I have to feel that I can trust you.

Can I trust you, baby?

Can I trust you, Lisbeth?

Can I trust you?

If you're nice to me...

If you're nice to me,

I'll 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 a photographer

from the paper that shot the parade.

Yes, he covered both the parade

and the accident.

The old part of the archive

is a jumble.

We haven't digitized it.

It's still kept in negative folders.

...40, 50, 60...

A photographer uses

between two and ten rolls a day.

Probably closer to ten

on Children's Day.

Here. September 1966.

I only need the hour

of the parade.

- Knock yourself out.

- They're not sorted?

If you're lucky,

they might be chronological.

You don't happen to have

a negative scanner and a light table?

This is the first lead in the case

in 39 years.

It's a start.

It's much more than that.

Look.

Do you see what I see?

What is she looking at?

What is she afraid off?

Her murderer.

He was somewhere here.

Right across the road.

There's Harriets murderer.

- Mikael, coffee?

- So, what did you find?

Anything interesting?

Well, I still have to read...

several thousand pages people have been

studying for the past 40 years.

And to be frank,

I... found a lot

of nothing.

Correct me if I'm wrong

but...

shouldn't you be in Stockholm

preparing for your appeal?

Tia.

- You don't

- Look...

Mikael is an adult,

- he's perfectly capable...

- I was set up.

An old pal and class-mate of mine gave me

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