Blomkvist has been talking with Cammy and the two former Social Welfare Agency assassins for well over an hour. The girls have been careful not to get into too much detail over their missions with the Agency over fear that it would somehow become a featured article in Millenium Magazine, and Cammy has been diligently making sure everything they've gone over is entirely off the record. She even went so far as to pat Blomkvist down as the conversation shifted its focus towards the daily life of the Agency. All of a sudden his cell phone rings.
"Blomkvist", he says.
"Mikke it's me." says Erika Berger, his lover and co-owner of Millennium Magazine, "Where are you and when are you coming home?"
"I'm in Gothenberg right now." says Blomvkist, "spending some time with two beautiful young women and Cammy White." Cammy gives him the middle finger. "I'll be home later on tonight."
Cammy grabs both Triela and Claes in a huddle and whispers to them, "and that will be the married woman he's having an affair with."
"I'll never understand the minds of grown-ups." says Triela as she shakes her head, "especially those that weren't involved with the Agency."
"Blomkvist is a womanizer, but he's a respectable womanizer." says Cammy, "you can thank Lisbeth for keeping his dick in his pants."
"I won't even begin to try to understand what that means." says Claes.
Cammy can only smile at that remark. Blomkvist clicks the phone off and turns his attention back to Cammy and the two girls.
"That was my better half." he says to them.
Cammy gives a wink to Triela and Claes.
"Yeah yeah I get it," Blomkvist says with a smirk, "I'm shameless."
"How is Berger doing lately?" says Cammy, "I've always admired her work ethic."
"She's doing good," says Blomkvist with a smile, "there's never a dull moment in our line of work you know. Every other week she's trying to convince me to retire."
"I can't picture you retired," says Cammy, "sitting at home on your fat ass watching a football match. That's just not you, Blomkvist."
"Jeez, Cammy. You couldn't be more condescending if you tried." he says, "retirement is something to cherish; I'm sure you know of Harriet Vanger, right?" Cammy nods her head, "well she told me the family has a vacant house on Hedeby Island that they'd willing to part with if I was interested."
"Scene of the crime; pun intended." says Cammy, "I guess you take what you can get to leave the rat race."
"But the magazine would keep calling my name. Erika and I will be running that gig until we're old and gray. You can put your money on that."
Claes turns to Cammy, "what happened at Hedeby Island?"
"It's a long story." says Blomkvist, "if you like murder mysteries, that one was a doozy. A young woman disappeared from her family's mansion in Hedestad 40 years prior. The family called on me to help them out, and Lisbeth joined in the cause later on."
"So how did it end? Did they find out who murdered her?" asks Triela.
Blomkvist smiles at the question, "believe it or not, she wasn't murdered. I found her alive and well, living abroad under an alias. She had escaped from the persecution of her abusive brother."
"What happened to him? Couldn't he go after her again as an adult?" asks Claes.
"Lisbeth happened." said Blomvkist, "The woman's brother had kidnapped me and held me for torture in a holding cell; the same place he held and murdered young women. Lisbeth had put all the pieces together, and realized the brother was involved. She rescued me, and chased him on the road until his vehicle overturned and blew up in a fireball."
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." says Cammy, "as I've told you before, Lisbeth is a walking timebomb. The death of Martin Vanger left a huge hole in the investigation of what happened there 40 years before. Justice was never served to the perpetrators."
"That's a matter of opinion." says Blomkvist, "Martin Vanger was a disgusting pig with absolutely no respect for women; and his father Gottfried was even worse. Two very deplorable people that this world is better off rid of."
"What's done is done; there's no use dwelling on it." says Cammy.
"On that note, I'm gonna head back home. It was a pleasure meeting you two." Blomkvist says as he shakes the hands of Triela and Claes, "if you're ever in the neighborhood, please stop by the Millennium office. My crew would love to meet you."
"Yeah, I'm sure they would." says Cammy with a sarcastic tone.
"Always off the record. I'm the boss and the buck stops with me." says Blomkvist, "If anyone stuck a recorder in front of you they'd be fired on the spot. I respect your integrity."
"Thank you." says Triela.
"Cammy, keep these girls safe." says Blomkvist, "or I'll expose Interpol to the likes of which you'd never expect."
"I'd like to see you try." says Cammy with a sly smirk, "but you can still rest assured that to hell or high water they'll be under my protection. You've got a good head on your shoulders, Blomkvist." She says as she shakes his hand. "Don't ever let the one in your pants take over."
"Touché" says Blomkvist, as he walks off waving one hand good-bye.