His parents, Troy and Andrea, had planned their baby for this time of year but their goal wasn't to have a millennium baby. Andrea says it was to line up her maternity leave with the summer holidays. Long before Noah or Celina were even a twinkle in their mother's eyes, Banks says the hospital was preparing for their arrival in the wake of Y2K. Just in the event that there possibly could be something that went wrong, so we have been preparing.
Our stock has been increased to a certain degree, we have extra staff in for that night. And even though only Mother Nature can decide which baby will wear the Y2K crown, the hospital won't be playing favourites. It will be giving all babies born in the first 24 hours of the New Year a millennium keepsake.
And even though Celina and Noah won't be able to say they were one of the first babies of the year They will be able to say they were one of the last to born the century before.
Palmgren, went from being her trustee to her guardian. Their relationship grew to be one of the most importance for Salander. At the beginning of Dragon Tattoo , Salander is hired by Milton Security to do a background investigation of disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist , on Henrik Vanger 's behalf. Vanger's attorney, Dirch Frode , demands to speak with the person who wrote the investigation to get their personal beliefs on the matter and he is surprised when he meets Salander.
Salander learns she has a new guardian, Nils Bjurman , since her previous guardian, Holger Palmgren , had a stroke and cannot continue with his duties A guardian is someone appointed to protect individuals unable to take care of themselves. They oversee their finances and personal life. Their role is similar to a parole officer but they have complete control and can send them back to a mental institution at will. On the other hand, she felt uncomfortable with this new guardian. His predecessor, Advokat Holger Palmgren, had been of an entirely different ilk: courteous and kind.
Previously, Palmgren had allowed Lisbeth to manage her own finances and served as more of a support system, but Bjurman wants complete control over Salander's life. At the time Bjurman had no idea he was dealing with Zalachenko's daughter. Bjurman had dealt with Zalanchenko in the past. Their first few meetings are copacetic, without problems, but when Lisbeth's laptop is destroyed she is forced to go to Bjurman to ask for her money.
He uses the opportunity to teach Salander how their guardianship will go, forcing her to perform oral sex. Salander, not being the sort to go to the police on any matter comes up with her own plan to take care of the situation. She sets up a hidden camera in her bag, hoping to catch Bjurman in the act. She visited his home to receive money for food; only to be tied down and raped by Bjurman.
However, she captures the assault on camera. Salander comes up with another plan, she asks for more money to pay her rent and is able to subdue Bjurman by tasering him.
She then strips him naked except for his socks, ties him to the floor and demands he give her access to her money; she uses the recording of him assaulting her to blackmail him and also tortures him.
When Bjurman agrees, Salander releases him, though not before tattooing the words "I am a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist. Not long after her return to Sweden, Salander is falsely implicated in the murder of three people — Bjurman and two of Blomkvist's colleagues. Zalachenko had his son, Salander's half-brother Ronald Neidermann, kill both of Blomkvist's colleagues investigating Zalachenko's prostitution business, and also Bjurman, intentionally implicating Salander.
The Section hides its complicity in the concealment of Zalachenko's crimes by falsely incriminating Salander as well. Blomkvist tries to help Salander, even though she wants nothing to do with him. By the end of the novel, Blomkvist follows her to Zalachenko's farm, where he finds her seriously injured after a confrontation with both Zalachenko and Neidermann.
Blomkvist calls an ambulance, saving her life by having her air-lifted to a hospital. The novel also expands upon Salander's childhood. She is portrayed as having been an extremely bright but anti-social child, violently lashing out at anyone who threatened or bullied her. This was in large part the result of an abusive and troubled home life: repeatedly abusing her mother, Zalachenko escaped punishment because the Section perceived his value to the Swedish State as being more important than her mother's civil rights.
Zalanchenko was also responsible for destroying Salander's relationship with her younger sister, Camilla, who, having repressed her own memories of their abuse, perceived her father as gentle and loving.
When Salander was 12, Zalachenko beat their mother so severely that she sustained permanent brain damage. In retaliation, Salander set her father on fire, leaving him permanently disfigured and in chronic pain. Ultimately, the Section, fearing repercussions from Zalanchenko's behaviour would lead to its exposure, dealt with Salander by having her sent to Children's Psychiatric Hospital in Uppsala.
While there, she was placed under the direct surveillance of pedeophilic psychologist Dr. Peter Teleborian, who had earlier conspired with the Section to have her declared insane. During her stay at the hospital, Teleborian physically abused 12 year old Salander, indulging his pedophilia, repeatedly placing defensless Salander in physical restraints for trivial infractions.
Conspiring with the Section, Teleborian declared her legally incompetent, thereby invalidating her accounts of what had happened. The Section ensured control of Salander by appointing Bjurman, a lawyer in its employ, her guardian after Palmgren's stroke. Zalachenko, who is a patient in the same hospital, is murdered by one of the Section, who then tries to kill Salander; fortunately, her lawyer Annika Giannini, Blomkvist's sister had barred the door upon hearing a disturbance.
Due to her deep-seated mistrust of authority, Salander refuses at first to cooperate in any way with her defence, relying instead on her friends in Sweden's hacker community. They eventually help Blomkvist discover the full scope of the Section's conspiracy, which he strives to publish at the risk of his own life. Salander eventually writes, and passes to Giannini, an exact description of the sexual abuse she suffered at Bjurman's hands, but written in such a way as to make it sound astounding so as to mislead the prosecution.
At her trial, Salander is defiant and uncooperative with the prosecution. The prosecuting counsel uses testimony from Teleborian, appearing as their principal witness, to depict her as insane and in need of long-term care; in particular, Teleborian dismisses Salander's account of Bjurman's abuse as a fantasy.
Annika then destroys Teleborian's credibility by introducing the recording of Salander's rape, and adduces extensive evidence of the Section's plot, published in Millennium that morning by Blomkvist. At the same time as Annika starts questioning Teleborian, the 10 members of the Section are arrested and charged with a long list of crimes.
Salander's trial is briefly interrupted to permit the arrest of Teleborian for possession of child pornography, which was uncovered by Salander's fellow hackers. Salander is set free the same day, her name cleared. After she is cleared of the charges, Salander receives word that, as Zalachenko's daughter, she is entitled to a small inheritance and one of his properties.
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