Daniel Craig credited as playing...
Mikael Blomkvist
- Mikael Blomkvist: What are you doing?
- Lisbeth Salander: Reading your notes.
- Mikael Blomkvist: They're encrypted!
- Lisbeth Salander: [Looks up at him] Please.
- Mikael Blomkvist: I guess I must have alarmed you, turning up like that.
- Lisbeth Salander: [charges taser] If you touch me I'll more than alarm you.
- Mikael Blomkvist: That won't be necessary. Your report. Very detailed. But for me, it wasn't very entertaining.
- Lisbeth Salander: It wasn't meant to be.
- Mikael Blomkvist: When I write about people I try to entertain the reader.
- Lisbeth Salander: Wennerstrom wasn't entertained much.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Your boss, Armansky, he tells me you only do jobs that interest you. So I suppose I should be flattered. You gonna sit down? He also says that you're the one he goes to when the job is sensitive.
- [Lisbeth sits down]
- Mikael Blomkvist: That's the word he used. Sensitive. I'm gonna use illegal. Because that's what it was when you hacked into my computer. I'm not gonna do anything about that. I could, but I won't. What I'm gonna do is tell you a story and if it entertains you maybe you'll decide to help me research further. And if not, I'll do the washing up and you'll never see me again. Here, you should eat that.
- [pushes sandwich to Lisbeth]
- Lisbeth Salander: What kind of research?
- Mikael Blomkvist: Lisbeth. Oh, can I call you Lisbeth? I want you to help me catch a killer of women.
- Lisbeth Salander: [after having slept together the night before] I like working with you.
- Mikael Blomkvist: I like working with you too.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Hi. You and I need to talk. I got us some breakfast.
- [sees a naked woman in Lisbeth's room]
- Mikael Blomkvist: I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had some company.
- Lisbeth Salander: Hey. Hey! Who do you think you are?
- Mikael Blomkvist: I'm the guy you know better than my closest friends do. Why don't you put some clothes on, get rid of your girlfriend. We need to talk.
- Mikael Blomkvist: How come a 23-year-old can be a ward of the state?
- Lisbeth Salander: I'm mentally incompetent and can't manage daily life.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Since when have they said that?
- Lisbeth Salander: Since I was twelve.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Something happened when you were twelve? Uh... I'm sorry, That's none of my business.
- Lisbeth Salander: I tried to kill my father. I burned him alive. Got about 80 percent of him.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Ow...
- Lisbeth Salander: I'll make some coffee.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Rape, torture, fire, animals, religion. Am I missing anything?
- Lisbeth Salander: The names. They're all biblical.
- Pernilla Blomkvist: Don't go too hard on the Catholics!
- Mikael Blomkvist: What's that?
- Pernilla Blomkvist: The article you are writing about.
- Mikael Blomkvist: I'm not writing an article on the Catholics.
- Pernilla Blomkvist: The Bible quotes by your desk!
- Martin Vanger: It might amuse you that while you were upstairs having moose with me and Liv, who, by the way, finds me conventional, I had Irina down there in that cage.
- Martin Vanger: [points to cage and Mikael sees it]
- Martin Vanger: Who's Irina, you might ask? Just another girl. Just another immigrant whore. Who misses them?
- Mikael Blomkvist: Your sister wasn't.
- Martin Vanger: [confused] What?
- Mikael Blomkvist: Your sister Harriet wasn't just another girl.
- Martin Vanger: You found her.
- [grabs Mikael by the neck]
- Martin Vanger: What happened to her?
- Mikael Blomkvist: [suffocating] You... killed her.
- Martin Vanger: [lets go of Mikael's neck] You useless fucking detective.
- Harald Vanger: I'm not a recluse; I don't close my door to anyone. They just don't visit
- Mikael Blomkvist: Perhaps if you redecorated?
- Harald Vanger: Hide the past like they do? under a thin shiny veneer? like an IKEA table? I am the most honest of all of them
- Mikael Blomkvist: The family?
- Harald Vanger: Sweden
- Lisbeth Salander: Nobody is shooting at you now.
- [Lisbeth removes her underwear]
- Mikael Blomkvist: I'm not sure this is a good idea.
- Lisbeth Salander: Why?
- Mikael Blomkvist: Apart from the fact that I'm older and we work together so...
- Lisbeth Salander: You work with "what's her name" and that's worked out for you.
- Mikael Blomkvist: I do have some standards believe it or not.
- Lisbeth Salander: [Lisbeth takes her top off] You need to stop talking.
- Mikael Blomkvist: I may have found something.
- Frode: You're joking! What have you found?
- Mikael Blomkvist: The last time I reported on something without being absolutely sure I lost my life savings.
- Mikael Blomkvist: I can't find any record of her and I'm pretty good at that kind of thing.
- Armansky: She's had a rough life. Can we please not make it any rougher?
- Mikael Blomkvist: We're looking for a serial murderer, but what could that have to do with a teenager living on an island?
- Lisbeth Salander: She was looking for him, too.
- Mikael Blomkvist: You were here that day?
- Martin Vanger: that terrible day. Searching. Not finding. Even worse.
- Lisbeth Salander: Rebecka was the first, just as you thought. The second, M.H., is Mari Holmberg, a prostitute in Kalmar. Murdered in 1954 matching Leviticus 20:18.
- Mikael Blomkvist: If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, he has made naked her fountain and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood.
- Lisbeth Salander: She was raped and stabbed, but the cause of death was suffocation with a sanitary napkin.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Okay.
- Lisbeth Salander: R.L., Rakel Lunde. 1957. A cleaning woman and part-time palm reader. Tied with a clothesline, gagged, raped. Head crushed with a rock. Leviticus 20:27.
- Mikael Blomkvist: A woman who is a medium or sorceress shall be put to death by stoning.
- Lisbeth Salander: Sara Witt, 1964. Daughter of a pastor. Tied to her bed. Raped. Charred in the fire that burned down her house. Leviticus 21:9.
- Mikael Blomkvist: The daughter of a priest who profanes herself by playing the harlot profanes her father and shall be burned with fire.
- Lisbeth Salander: Magda Lovisa Sjoberg, 1960. Found in a barn. Stabbed and raped with farm tools. The cow in the next stall had its throat slit. Its blood was splashed on her and hers on it.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Leviticus 20:16. If a woman lies with any beast You shall kill the woman and the beast. Their blood is upon them.
- Lisbeth Salander: Lea Persson, 1962. Found by her sister in their pet shop. Raped, beaten. The killer uncaged the animals, smashed the aquariums. There was a parakeet inside her. Next, Eva Gustavsson, 1960. A runaway. Raped, strangled. A burnt pigeon tied around her neck. Lena Andersson, 1967. A student. Raped, stabbed, decapitated.
- Mikael Blomkvist: [interrupts] Okay.
- Martin Vanger: I apologize for my mother's behavior.
- Mikael Blomkvist: I'm used to it.
- Martin Vanger: It has nothing to do with you. It's between her and Henrik. She lost it when my father died. And her drinking and her... it got so bad Henrik took me and my sister away from her and left her excommunicated in the old house on the other side of the island. She hasn't forgiven him. You must stay. You're the last chance Henrik has at some kind of resolution. Put this to rest one way or another. I'll keep my mother away. But please, hurry.
- Mikael Blomkvist: Of course.