Timur thinks that Phil acts vaguely gay-like — and not just in general, but specifically towards him. After learning about Phil's parents, he asks Gleb to seriously talk with Phil about this. But when Gleb talks with Phil, turns out that it was simply his ill-fated attempt to sound "politically-correct" (he tried to avoid insulting Timur, a Kazakh). Gleb suggests him to not bother: here, in Russia, there's no such taboos as in USA, and no one would be hurt if he goes more casual and informal, or even makes a joke or two. Unfortunately, Phil misinterprets Gleb's advice as advice to go full-blown vulgar, starting from watching wrestling from his phone (while commenting on it, loudly and aggressively), and ending with inviting Timur to strip club (which he accepts). While Timur is now convinced that Phil isn't gay, he thinks that him being gay would've been the lesser evil than what he truly is — a casual racist and utter jerk. Fortunately, Gleb manages to explain why Phil is acting like this: he has problems with finding golden mean. Timur agrees to give Phil a second chance on condition that he wouldn't do anything like this again. And since Gleb already did a bad situation worse, it's Timur's turn to do the talking. Timur calls Phil out on his behaviour and asks to stop acting like blatant racist — it isn't funny at al. Phil, realising that he actually achieved the opposite outcome than he desired, apologises. And then Bykov shows up and starts insulting them both. Phil (and Timur) tries to call him out on being racist, but gets punished with floor-cleaning duty. When Phil tries to state that "at least he started respecting our nationality... slightly more", Timur tells him to just shut up already.
Bykov confesses to Kupitman that his life became dreadfully boring, to the point where sleep became the funniest part of it. Kupitman warns Kisegach: when Bykov is bored, he starts searching for "fun" elsewhere, and neither of them wants to know what kind of "fun" he would find next (maybe, another bike?), so Kisegach must entertain him somehow; Kupitman suggests to try something sex-related. But Kisegach can't come up with anything worthwhile, as all her ideas are "too vanilla" for Bykov (and balms outright disgusts Bykov with strong smell); eventually, Bykov gets tired and goes to sleep. Kupitman calls Kisegach out on being "outdated", and states that she needs to try something genuinely new, something which they didn't try yet. After trying — and rejecting — several options from Kupitman's catalogue, they stops on roleplay: since in normal life, Bykov is always in dominant position, be it at home or at work, they must turn him upside down, put him into submissive position; they should try BDSM. When Bykov returns home, Kisegach meets him dressed as a cop dominatrix, ready to "interrogate" him. Contrary to what she expected, Bykov... starts laughing. He laughs so hard, he suffers from a heart attack and now needs medical attention. He survives, but asks Kisegach to never try this again.
Sophia's patient plans to move to her son after being discharged from the hospital, so her own (one-room) apartment would be free for rent. Sophia then remembers that Polina desperately needs new place to live (after conflict with her landlord)... The only problem, this woman specifically insists that she would rent it to a couple. Sophia informs Polina about the offer, and suggests her to ask Timur to play along, pretending to be her husband, until she receives the room, after which she can ask him to leave. Polina refuses, so they decides to use Gleb instead. The plan seemingly works, but then the patient sees Gleb with Polina and thinks that he's "cheating" on his "wife". And she's against letting amoral people on her property! But Gleb finds a solution: he tells the patient that he's actually in love with Sophia (that's why he didn't marry Polina), plans to marry her (and have children!), and only lacks the place to live. It actually convinces her that he's trustworthy, but now Gleb must live there with Sophia; Polina would move to Phil instead. While neither Polina nor Phil are happy with such perspective, they agrees that they have little choice.
This episode provides examples of:
- Dramatically Missing the Point: Gleb tells Phil that, for as long as you don't do it maliciously, no one is gonna be hurt by one-two jokes about nationalities; unlike the USA, Russia is much more casual with it. Phil interprets it as advice to go full-blown racist (and act vulgar in general), which does offend Timur.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Kisegach tries to "spice up" Bykov's sex life, but as result nearly kills him (he laughed so hard, he had a heart attack).Bykov: What was that, my kitty?
Kisegach: I tried to cheer you up!
Bykov: "Cheer me up" like that again, and I likely would kick the bucket... - Mistaken for Cheating: Since Sophia passed Gleb as Polina's husband to help her with renting apartment (landlady is only ready to accept a couple, and Polina is divorced), when patient sees Gleb kissing Sophia, she naturally mistakes it for adultery. Considering that patient has "no amoral people on my property" attitude, this causes them serious troubles.
- Mistaken for Gay: Timur misinterprets Phil's weird behaviour for flirting attempts. Phil, following Gleb's advice (which he misinterpreted), tries to switch Timur's attention from it, only to cause completely different problem to rise...
- Mistaken for Racist: First time, Gleb just messed with Phil, jokingly accusing him of being racist after he tried to explain his weird behaviour with "political correctness". But then Phil, in attempt to follow Gleb's advice (which he completely misinterpreted: Gleb meant "stop worrying about this", not "go to another extreme"), at first starts with "simply" acting very vulgar, and then descends into full-blown racism towards Timur (Kazakh). Timur actually likes it much less than if Phil really was gay as he initially thought.
- Out of Focus: Alexei is entirely absent from this episode.
- Powerful People Are Subs: After learning that Bykov is heavily bored, Kupitman suggests Kisegach to try BDSM — after all, this is a known fact that people who're dominant in everyday life, would want to do something different in their sex life. The plan heavily backfires, because when Bykov sees Kisegach in dominatrix cop outfit... he laughs so hard, he has a heart attack. Fortunately, he survives.
- Verbal Backspace: Kupitman states that he "just knows" that in bed, people prefers something opposite from how they act in everyday life, before hastily correcting himself that he merely "read about it".
- Xanatos Speed Chess: So, Sophia's patient now thinks that Gleb cheats on Polina (with Sophia), and their plan to pass Gleb and Polina for a couple (so they may rent a room together) wouldn't work? No problem, Gleb improvises another plan: he tells the woman that he and Sophia are in love for a long time (hence why he never actually married Polina), and plan to marry and have many children, only lacking place to live. She falls for it and allows Gleb and Sophia to rent that room, meaning that they would go here, while Polina would live with Phil instead.
