It's about 9am. Blomkvist, Erika Berger, and Krister Malm, Millennium's art director, are at the Millennium offices.
Blomkvist is breaking the news to Erika that he's accepting Henrik's offer and spending a year in Hedeby. She is not pleased, but sees that his mind is made up.
She's afraid he'll never come back. She's afraid of losing him.
Around 1:30pm, Armansky calls Salander and tells her that Dirk Frode has stopped the investigation into Blomkvist and Hans-Erik Wennerström.
She doesn't like stopping investigations before they are finished. What she likes is finding out people's secrets.