Martin Vanger's Death

When chaos breaks loose and Mikael finds himself about to die and in the hands of Martin Vanger, Lisbeth comes to the rescue. As Martin takes off to escape, I found it a metaphor as well. Here is a scene where he is driving away from what he has done, his past, his problems, and Lisbeth is following him. The metaphor I saw was that no matter where you go to your past will always find you and follow where you go. As Martin crashes off the bridge and Lisbeth stands to watch I found this symbolic. As Lisbeth was watching the death of a terrible man I feel she felt empowered by all the men that were bad in the world, she got to watch one of them suffer. And this wasn't her doing, he crashed all on his own and she stood to watch and let him have his day. It was hard for her, but she knew if she helped him out of the car she would regret letting a man such as this live. His death brought peace to the family after they were confronted with the news from Mikael. Since Martin wasn't suspecting that his death would be near he leaked key information to Mikael right before he planned on killing Blomkvist. This lead to the final lead and the finding of Harriet.