Phil accidentally grabs Polina's breast while they're watching the movie, and she instinctively slaps his hand. Both apologises, as they are now in relationship, and Polina tries to salvage the situation by putting Phil's hand on her breast by herself, but the moment is killed already; she says "maybe next time". At work, Phil asks Lyuba how long it took her until she started dating Kupitman; when she fails to understand his hints, he asks directly: how she and Kupitman stopped being just friends, and started actually dating each other? Because he and Polina can't; it's just too awkward for them. She tells him that they got drunk, and it happened by itself. Phil tries Lyuba's plan, and both gets wasted; the next morning, Phil awakes with heavy hangover, while Polina tries to avoid him, without explaining why. When asked by Lyuba, he tells her that he can't remember anything, and fears that he did something nasty; Lyuba believes that it's not possible, and goes to Polina to ask her directly. Polina tells that Phil did nothing wrong — it was her who screwed up; she got drunk, and called Phil "Timur" in bed. But Lyuba reveals to her that Phil can't remember anything at all, and certainly doesn't know about that incident. Lyuba then goes to Phil to tell that the conflict is resolved — and finds him drinking; when asked, Phil says that he "remembered" and that "it's not just the name". Turns out that he's talking about himself: he accidentally said Katia's name. Lyuba, realising that it's up to her to save their relationship, just lies to him that Polina can't remember anything, and is running away for the same reason as Phil — out of shame. Phil and Polina finally talks about it and decides to just pretend this night never happened, and try again, this time doing it right.
Levin tries to forbid Lobanov from gambling with patients, but gets unceremoniously kicked out from the ward. Levin goes to Gleb and reports on Lobanov. Gleb actually sides with Levin, and, when Semyon reacts negatively, says that it's an official complaint, and he can't just let it slide, as it's the actual rule violation. Lobanov considers this a betrayal; however, he has an idea how his gambler patients can continue playing... Soon, Gleb receives five complaints, all five — on Levin (all five blatantly absurd). Both instantly realises who's behind this, and don't fall for them. But instead of laying low, Levin destroys the complaints by tearing them apart and burning, and then confronts Lobanov about it...which results in five more complaints — this time, on Gleb, for not fulfilling his duty. When Levin suggests to just destroy those, too, Gleb points that the next time, they would complain to someone higher, like ministry. No, they must deal with it on the local level. They can't just fire Lobanov, so they must actually go and talk to him. They goes to Lobanov and apologises, but he says that while he's ready to forgive them, they actually should beg the patients whom they've forbidden from gambling. The patients agrees to take away their complaints after hearing apologises. Gleb decides to no ban gambling completely — they would throw a poker tournament tonight; it's not a crime if you don't get caugth. Even Levin adheres it.
Bykov returns home (the fishing went badly), and finds Victor at his house (who was there all this time, helping Anastasia with Ilya, who just got better). When Victor leaves, Bykov tries to complain, but Kisegach points out that he has no right for it, as he wasn't there when she needed help — while Victor was. At work, Victor confronts Bykov, and tells him that he's gonna take Anastasia away from him: Bykov doesn't deserve her, being a terrible husband and equally terrible father. Bykov doesn't take him seriously, and goes to Kisegach, whom he wraps in a gift wrap, saying that he's "preparing" her for Victor, who's gonna "take her away". When Kisegach asks what the hell was that, Bykov tells her to clarify it with Victor. Bykov goes to on-call room — and sees Victor already sitting there, waiting for him. Victor accuses Bykov of being unable to accept defeat, and running to Kisegach like a coward. He then accuses him of being unable to think, only running on instincts, like a lizard; when Bykov says that his main instinct is to preserve his family, Victor points that he already lost it — the only thing left that's from it is the seal in his passport. Even their apartment is registered on Victor's name, so Bykov can't even forbid him from going there. Bykov, rather than taking any hints and changing his ways, orders Kisegach to follow him and move to his house; they can't stay in this "ghoul den" any longer. She refuses to follow, so he leaves alone. When Bykov leaves, Victor arrives, and says that he was supposed to tell her right away, but tried to resolve it with Bykov; he then tells her the same he'd told Bykov — that she would be happier without such "husband"; Kisegach just tells him to leave, saying that she doesn't want to see neither of them two. At night, Bykov hears someone calling into door, and presumes that it's Kisegach. But when he opens the door, he sees... Kupitman.
This episode provides examples of:
- Blatant Lies: Gleb doesn't believe in complaints on Levin, as the things of which he's accused are blatantly made-up and absurd; and they both know the author — Lobanov.
- Never My Fault:
- Bykov fails to see anything wrong with him being absent for three days and refusing to answer to calls, yet he blames Anastasia for accepting Victor's help. His only reaction to learning that Kisegach's apartment actually belongs to Victor is to force her to move into Bykov's old house rather than change anything wrong with his behaviour.
- Rather than admitting that he did break the rules and Gleb was right in accepting Levin's report, Lobanov tries to blackmail them both by falsifying the complaints from the patients, firstly on Levin (blatantly made up), and secondly on Gleb himself for disregarding his duty (that one is actually serious and can get him into troubles if Semyon sends them somewhere else).
- Out of Focus: There's no plot for Alexei in this episode.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Subverted. Lobanov expects that Gleb would disregard Levin complaining about him, because they're friends, but Gleb actually does as Levin wants, and forbids the patients from gambling, and tells Semyon to stop playing with them. Rules are rules, and they can't close their eyes on that sort of behaviour. Gleb does let Levin to destroy the official complaints later sent by Lobanov's patients, but more because they both knows that those are complete fakes. He does bend the rules at night, but only as a compromise when the conflict gets resolved.
- Secret-Keeper: Lyuba is the only one who knows about both Phil and Polina saying the names of their exes in bed, but agrees to keep it secret; both Phil and Polina thinks that it were only themselves who screwed up, and the other one was innocent.
- Skewed Priorities: Kisegach calls Bykov out on being more concerned with her asking her ex-husband for help than, you know, his son being sick and needing help.
- Take a Third Option: Doing as Semyon wanted means blatant rules violation. Not doing means continuing conflict. Gleb comes up with another plan: set up a poker tournament at night, when no one who may snitch on them would be around.
- Their First Time: Phil's plot for the episode gets kickstarted by him and Polina having sex for the first time... but messing it up due to being too drunk, and now both suspecting that something nasty happened.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Following Lyuba's advice, Phil gets so wasted, he can't remember anything, and only knows that Polina for whatever reason avoids him now. Phil suspects the worst, but Lyuba tells him that there's no way he could've been that bad. She ends up being right, and Polina's avoiding him for having similar suspicions about herself.
- Wrong-Name Outburst: The real reason why Polina avoids Phil is because she accidentally called him "Timur" in bed. Unknowingly to her, Phil can't remember anything about the past night, and certainly doesn't know about this. Unknowingly to both (though Phil later remembers), Phil also called Polina "Katia". In the end, thanks to Lyuba, neither of them learns about the other one.
- Let Us Never Speak of This Again: Phil and Polina (with Lyuba's help) now both believes that it was them who screwed up last night, and the other one was innocent; they agrees to pretend that it never happened.
