
Bjurman makes it clear to Lisbeth that unless she does what he tells her, he will make her life very difficult and even threatens her with incarceration in a mental hospital. Salander, who was ruled mentally incompetent as a child, is placed in the custody of a new legal guardian, Nils Bjurman, after her previous guardian suffers a stroke. Henrik believes that Harriet's killer is sending them to taunt him. The first ones were gifts from Harriet, and since her disappearance, a flower has arrived each year from different places around the world. Henrik also shows Blomkvist a room whose walls are covered with pressed flowers. Harald is a recluse who still clings to his strong Nazi views and is a suspect for the murder, as is Harriet's mother and all the other family members who were present on that day.

After his death, since Harriet’s mother seemed incapable of/uninterested in taking care of her children (Harriet and her older brother Martin), Henrik took responsibility for raising the two. Her father, Gottfried, who is described as a heavy drinker, womanizer and wife beater, accidentally drowned in a lake a year prior to Harriet’s disappearance, so he is not a suspect either. As Richard died in 1940, he is not a suspect. Henrik explains that his brothers-Richard, Gottfried and Harald-are supporters of the Nazi regime. Vanger believes that Harriet was murdered by a family member.

Vanger subsequently hires Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance of his niece, Harriet, who vanished on Children's Day decades earlier in 1966. Lisbeth Salander, a freelance surveillance agent and hacker, is hired by Henrik Vanger, the patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family, to conduct a background check on Blomkvist.

In December 2002, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of independent magazine Millennium, loses a libel case involving unproven allegations that he published about billionaire financier Hans-Erik Wennerström, and is sentenced to three months in prison. ( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker.
