Timur finally slept with Polina... but this isn't what he wanted: he planned to restart the actual relationship, but for her, it was one-time event, just to deal with stress. She doesn't love him: she merely used him. But Alexei (who just resumed "dating" Rita) thinks that it's too early to give up: he must exploit the situation, and provoke her into "using" him more and more often, until she would become "addicted" to this. Timur actually likes this advice and thanks him for a good idea. Timur tries to offer Polina to "help" him the same way he "helped" her, but she gets offended by it... while Rita takes Timur's side, correctly pointing that he suggested exactly the same thing as what he did to Polina before. Polina refuses to accept her arguments, and goes to Timur to call him out on his absolutely moronic idea, stating that there's nothing between them, not even "friendly" sex — just one-time drunk, made-by-mistake sex. But she agrees to do as he asks just so he would leave her alone afterwards. Timur smiles smugly when Polina leaves: everything goes according to his plan. But when the time comes, turns out that while Polina agreed to sleep with Timur, she never promised to be romantic about it. Timur feels uncomfortable about straight-up going to "the most important part", without flirting, talking, etc, and tries to slow things down, and then outright suggests to not do it at all, as he just lost interest. He wants it, sure, but not like this. And, like it often goes with Timur, him showing his good qualities ends up being just a gambit, which works perfectly well. Not-exactly-sober Polina actually sleeps with him, again, this time on her own initiative. Timur is now one step closer to his goal!
Thanks to Timur, Gleb and Sophia have a great restaurant at their disposal for their wedding, but there's one small problem: there's only place for up to fifty people. Whom they should invite, and whom not? While they quickly deals with their friends from outside, their friends from the hospital remains. Kisegach learns about their preparations, and takes the list away, inserting various distant relatives at expense of Gleb's friends, despite Gleb neither knowing nor caring about them. Then Kupitman comes in, and starts making his changes, replacing the relatives with even less familiar (and wanted) vaguely important "potential connections"; to make place for them, he kicks out the rest of Gleb's and Sophia's friends. When literally every of the friends gets rejected, Kisegach and Kupitman starts arguing with each other, to Gleb's annoyance. They gets interrupted by Bykov, who points that the list of guests prepared by them would be boring for him, and when he is bored, everyone else would have so much "fun" that it would be unsafe for life; he proceeds to put in his friends — the bikers. And since there's no place for them... let's kick out Gleb and Sophia as well. He then says that this holiday belongs to Gleb and Sophia, and it's up to them to decide whom to call and whom not, the others shouldn't hijack this right. But Kupitman and Kisegach, giving up on attempt to kick out "useless" friends, tries to "delicately" suggest much more boring, but much bigger restaurant, only to leave when Bykov reacts badly.
Since Alexei spent four nights in a row with her, Rita is now sure: they are in relationship, not merely an affair, which she likes a lot. When Rita sends him to buy some food (and even entrusts the keys, so he may deliver it), Alexei realises that they are dangerously close to actual relationship... something he wants to avoid, not being interested in startign a family. Timur offers him an advice: he must sleep with Rita one last time, after which say that "it's over". Alexei lies in bed, waiting for Rita... only for her father to enter... When Rita returns, she's just as surprised to see her father as Alexei. Fortunately, they seemingly came along quite well (at least, Alexei is still alive), but now Pavel Korolyov believes that Alexei is his future son-in-law.
This episode provides examples of:
- But Liquor Is Quicker: What Timur's plan turns out to be. Sober Polina would only sleep with him because it would help her to get rid of him; drunk Polina would offer herself, making it more hard to pretend that there's nothing between them after that. This worked offscreen before this episode (revealing that this was how their "friendly talk" ended a couple of episodes ago), and this works at this episode's end.
- That Came Out Wrong: Gleb mentions one of his friends, a club owner Yuri, and how the experience "made a man out of him". He then realises how it sounded and specifies that he meant the club, not Yuri himself.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Alexei plans to, following Timur's advice, try to dump Rita after sleeping with her one last time, but instead of Rita, her father arrives, after which proceeding with original plan would be suicidal.
- Greedy Jew: Kupitman only cares how he may exploit the wedding to establish useful contacts and rise even more money than wedding costed. He gets called out on this even by Sophia, his niece.
- It's All About Me: Each one who joins to "help" preparing the list of guests for the Gleb and Sophia's wedding (limit is only 50 people, so they can't invite all of them) has their own standards of whom they would call... absolutely not caring what they think about it. Kisegach kicks most of their friends to make a place for relatives, many of whom Gleb knows nothing about and cares even less. Then Kupitman arrives and does the same, only replacing them with even less wanted "potential connections", whom he wants to befriend through this wedding (obviously not caring at all what Sophia or Gleb wants). After they fails to convince each other, they kicks out the rest of Gleb's and Sophia's friends so they both can invite their people. Then Bykov shows up... and jokingly suggests to invite his biker friends, and kick out both Gleb and Sophia to make place for them; it's very clear that he's mocking Kisegach's and Kupitman's egoism.
- Pet the Dog: Bykov actually sides with Gleb and Sophia in their argument with Kisegach and Kupitman, stating that since it's their wedding, it's up to them to decide who would and who wouldn't be invited, not Kisegach (who wants to place there some distant relatives whom only she knows or cares about) and not Kupitman (who wants to place there some useful contacts, without thinking that not all is about the money).
- "Stop Having Fun" Guys: In-Universe; Kupitman thinks that making profit (both in money and in connections) out of the wedding is more important than making it a great event you would remember for the rest of your life. When Sophia points that money aren't everything, Kupitman angrily tells her that as a Jew herself, she "has no right to say this".
- What the Hell, Hero?: Gleb is not impressed by Kisegach's idea of "great wedding", because it involves inviting countless relatives he doesn't know (and doesn't want to know), at the cost of inviting his friends. Kisegach can't care less. Then Kupitman joins in and replaces the rest with his important contacts (none of them they know, either). When they starts arguing with each other, Gleb finally snaps:Gleb: Stop! It's our wedding! I want to at least know someone here, and remember it for life!
