When last we left our diminutive — but formidable — heroine, at the end of The Girl Who Played with Fire, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) had proven herself remarkably hard to kill. She’d been shot three times — including once in the head — and been buried alive, but managed to summon enough strength to claw her way out and deliver an axe blow to the head of the man who had put her in the ground to begin with: her no-good dad, Zalachenko.