"We're really putting Erika on the spot. She'll have to choose between selling her share of Millennium and leaving our board … or in the worst case, she could get fired by S.M.P. Either way she would have a fearful conflict of interest. Honestly, Henry … I agree with Mikael that we should publish the story, but we may have to postpone it for a month." "Because we're facing a conflict of loyalties too," Blomkvist said. "Should I call hera" "No, Christer," Blomkvist said. "I'll call her and arrange to meet. Say for tonight." Figuerola gave a summary of the circus that had sprung up around Blomkvist's building on Bellmansgatan. Edklinth felt the floor sway slightly beneath his chair. "An employee of S.I.S. goes into Blomkvist's building with an ex-safebreaker, now retrained as a locksmith." "Correct." "What do you think they did in the stairwella" "I don't know. But they were in there for forty-nine minutes.
My guess is that Faulsson opened the door and Martensson spent the time in Blomkvist's apartment." "And what did they do therea" "It couldn't have been to plant bugs, because that takes only a minute or so. Martensson must have been looking through Blomkvist's papers or whatever else he keeps at his place." "But Blomkvist has already been warned … they stole Bjarck's report from there." "Quite right. He knows he's being watched, and he's watching the ones who are watching him. He's calculating." "Calculating whata" "I mean, he Buy Tea. He's gathering information and is going to expose Martensson. That's the only reasonable explanation." "And then this Linder womana" "Susanne Linder, former police officer." "Police officera" "She graduated from the police academy and worked for six years on the Sadermalm crime team. She resigned abruptly. There's nothing in her file that says why. She was out of a job for several months before she was hired by Milton Security." "Armansky," Edklinth said thoughtfully. "How long was she in the buildinga" "Nine minutes." "Doing whata"
"I'm guessing - since she was filming Martensson and Faulsson on the street - that she's documenting their activities. That means that Milton Security is working with Blomkvist and has placed surveillance cameras in his apartment or in the stairwell. She probably went in to collect the film." Edklinth sighed. The Zalachenko story was beginning to get tremendously complicated. "Thank you. You go home. I have to think about this." Figuerola went to the gym at St Eriksplan. Blomkvist used his second mobile when he punched in Berger's number at S.M.P. He interrupted a discussion she was having with her editors about what angle to give an article on international terrorism. "Oh, hello, it's you … wait a second." Berger put her hand over the mouthpiece.
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