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posted 14 years ago by andycfd
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Just to see if i got it all straight
Zala (Alexander Zalachenko), wanted to get his police report from 1993 back from Bjurman with all the investigative reporting going on from Millenium and other etc.
He asks Bjurman, who offers the deal of getting his sex tape back from Lisbeth in exchange for file, but he let slip that the file was in his country home, so zala has neiderman kill bjurman to silence him, and theyll take the file from his house
They use Bjurmans gun to kill Deg and his fiance(for investigating their illegal sex trade) cuz it would frame Bjurman but they didnt know Lisbeths prints were on the gun

What I dont get is why Zala was having Neiderman look for Lisbeth, they didnt mean to frame her, and no one knew he was her father, if anything itd take the heat off them (having her be accused of murder)

Can someone tell me if Im missing something

[–] Malgorzata64 14 years ago

SPOILERS

Not exactly, it was the other way around. Bjurman hired Zala to get rid of Lisabeth and find the recording of the rape. It's explained at then end when Lisabeth talks to her father. Zala tells her that he would let her go, that he forgave her, to which Lisabeth answers, "Bull...t. Bjurman hired you to kill me." Zala explains that this was something completely different, a business transaction.

The question about the 1993 investigation comes up little later after Lisabeth asks Zala if Niederman killed Bjurman and why. Zala explains that Bjurman had "some papers that belonged to me", that he knew too much about him, and that Bjurman could not be trusted to keep quiet.

Now, Zala says that the papers belonged to him, but it was not really true. The investigation was about Zala, but didn't really belong to Zala - Bjurman got it from Gunnar Björk. It's explained in the third movie, at least in the TV cut, I'm not sure if it made it to the cinema version. And of course it's there in much more detail - and with some differences - in the books.

[–] realbullet 14 years ago

I think it is even more complex than that. Zala is definitely interested in Lisbeth's death. She did try to kill him.

A lot of this is explained in the third movie. If you understand that Bjurman was not randomly selected as Lisbeth's guardian, then the pieces all fit into place.

As always, things fall out a little differently in the book than the movie. I do think in this movie you are shortchanged. Dag is investigating Zala -- he gets a lead on Bjurman (through Lisbeth of course -- she is trying to find Zala for her own reasons and stumbles across his name while exploring Mikael's computer.) He calls Bjurman while Neidermann is at Bjurman's apartment. Bjurman begins to panic & Neidermann makes the unplanned decision to kill him (with Bjurman's own gun which is handy.) He then follows up with Dag & Mia.

[–] Malgorzata64 14 years ago

I think it is even more complex than that. Zala is definitely interested in Lisbeth's death. She did try to kill him.

I agree with you to a degree, but still... Consider this: for years Zala wasn't interested enough to go out of his way to kill Lisabeth. It became an issue only when Bjurman hired him for the purpose. If Bjurman wouldn't do it, then chances are that Zala would not spent time looking for her and would let her be - as he tells her.

Of course the situation changes dramatically after Dag, Mia and Bjurman got killed and Lisabeth got framed for the murders. Now getting rid of Lisabeth became an issue for Zala in order to "help" the police to "solve" the murders and make sure that they never looked any further - the suspected murderer disappeared, probably run abroad.