Blomkvist does not share all of his findings with Bublanski, out of respect for Salander's privacy, but between his testimony, the various character witnesses, and the additional accomplices piling up, the police are forced to admit that their original suspicions of Salander as a psychotic murderer may have been wrong.
Salander enters the farmhouse and is captured as a result of secret cameras and alarms Zalachenko had installed.