Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

He takes a long drag that dizzies him. A wonderful

feeling. He regards the trash bin. Fishes around it,

finds the pack, puts it in his coat pocket.

EXT. MILLENNIUM OFFICES, STOCKHOLM - DAY - ESTABLISHING

7

INT. MILLENNIUM’S OFFICES - DAY

8

He comes through past Christmas decorations and a mostly-

young staff. They try not to regard him as a dead-man-

walking, but aren’t entirely successful. He enters the

editor’s office.

Dragon Tattoo Final 9/1/11 SZ 4.4.

ERIKA:

Where you been?

Erika Berger is about Blomkvist’s age, and - like the

IKEA furniture - sends a mixed message: a feminist in a

mini-skirt.

BLOMKVIST:

Walking. Thinking.

ERIKA:

Smoking?

BLOMKVIST:

Just one.

He sits, exhausted and depressed, in a cheap Poang chair.

ERIKA:

TV4 called. I told them no

statement until we’ve read the

judgment in its entirety.

BLOMKVIST:

I have. Who else?

ERIKA:

Everyone who’s ever wanted to see

you humiliated.

BLOMKVIST:

You’ve been on the phone all day

then.

ERIKA:

I’m as much to blame for this as you.

BLOMKVIST:

You are? You wrote it?

ERIKA:

I read it. I ran it.

BLOMKVIST:

Not the same.

ERIKA:

Our credibility isn’t dead, Mikael.

BLOMKVIST:

Mine is.

They regard each other in another silence. Then

Dragon Tattoo Final 9/1/11 SZ 5.5.

BLOMKVIST:

I’m tired. I feel like climbing

under a duvet and sleeping for a

week.

ERIKA:

Alone?

He thinks about it ... shakes his head ‘no.’

ERIKA:

I already called Greger and told him

I wouldn’t be home tonight.

EXT. STOCKHOLM - SAME TIME - DAY

9

A motorcycle dives down a driveway that burrows under a

three-story building.

INT. ARMANSKY’S OFFICE - MILTON SECURITY - DAY

10

Dragan Armansky, 40’s, who looks more like a boss of a

New Jersey crime family than CEO of a high-tech security

firm, sits behind his desk, waiting with an older client.

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