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After Lobanov tells him about his friend (who accidentally impregnated his girlfriend and now must marry her), Levin now fears that he may be forced to marry Lyuba. He thinks that they must break up, but lacks the courage to tell her so. He tries to gather some, but every time he gets a chance to tell her, something interrupts him. In the end, when they finally stays alone, she shuts him up with a kiss... and he realises that he doesn't want to break with her.

Gleb took Varya to the cinema, where she accidentally grabbed his groin. Varya insists that it was an accident, but Gleb doesn't believe her, and tries to make her admit so. Ultimately, Varya, tired of being constantly bothered by him, accepts his claims... and gives him a kiss. She also accepts another invitation to cinema.

Lobanov's patient needs a woman, and he would pay Lobanov for it. Lobanov painfully needs money, as he doesn't want to go to his friend's wedding empty-handed, so he reluctantly accepts. Now he must somehow smuggle a prostitute into the hospital without Bykov busting him. He has a "brilliant" idea to disguise her as his wife... but everyone can see who she really is, and Kupitman knows her as his former patient. Fortunately for him, both Bykov and Kupitman falls for it, but the patient rejects her for being "crocodile-ugly", so he must find a new one. Kupitman questions if that prostitute really was Lobanov's wife, and he and Bykov moves to Lobanov's patient, just in time to ruin his "fun" with another prostitute. Meanwhile, Lobanov's real wife, Olga, shows up to check on him, but Bykov mistakes her for yet another prostitute, to her anger. Now, Semyone not only has a well-deserved nigh shift, but also has to somehow explain this situation to Olga...


This episode provide examples of:

  • Bait-and-Switch: Levin confessed to Lyuba that their relationship is mistake and he wants to break up so early in the episode? Nope, it was a repetition before a comatose patient.
  • The Big Damn Kiss: Levin and Lyuba kisses in the end of the episode, signalling that their relationship starts for real.
  • Big "NO!": During his Imagine Spot, Levin panics and screams, scaring Lobanov (who misinterprets it as Levin's overreaction when Lobanov asks him to lend him money (Lobanov needs them for flowers for his friend's wedding).
  • "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: It's not Lobanov being bribed to smuggle a prostitute; he's saving his patient who's in dire need of "help"!
  • Blatant Lies: Lobanov almost botches his plan right at the start, as he makes very bad job at passing a prostitute as his wife: not knowing her name, he introduces her as just "wife"; fortunately for him, prostitute introduces herself instead.
  • Book Ends: Gleb and Varya's plot starts with conflict over Varya "accidentally" groping Gleb when they were at cinema together. At the end, they go to cinema again, and Gleb "accidentally" gropes Varya.
  • Brick Joke: Levin tries to prepare his "we must break up" speech before a comatose patient. Later, that patient wakes up, and tells that he had a weird dream how some dumbass tried to tell him that he's gonna dump him, while insisting on calling him "Lyuba".
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Levin spends the whole episode trying to break up with Lyuba, only to never gather enough courage to talk with Lyuba about it:
    • Levin can't tell Lyuba that they need to break up (he fears that if he takes too long with it, eventually he would be forced to marry her, and this certainly would ruin his reputation). When he finally gathers enough courage, Lobanov gives him flowers to hold, and now it would be too awkward to break with Lyuba, as she believes that those flowers were for her.
    • When Levin's patient suggests him to just tell Lyuba as is and face the consequences, Levin finds Lyuba in tears (because Lobanov took back the flowers which Levin previously "gifted" to her), and now it would be too cruel to break with her.
    • When he tries to break with her again, she gives him no chance to tell so. Now, he simply doesn't want to break with her.
  • Dude, Not Funny!: Gleb makes a joke that, since Varya "accidentally" groped him, he now feels obligated to grope her in turn. She feels grossed out by this joke and angrily leaves. Gleb fails to see what's wrong with the joke: he finds it funny.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Lobanov introduces the first prostitute he tries to smuggle in as just "wife", as he doesn't even know the name (she introduces herself, salvaging the situation). Somehow, it doesn't alert anyone.
  • Foreshadowing: When smuggling the first prostitute, Lobanov has a phone talk with his wife, calling her by name for the first time (Olga); they're arguing over yet another of Semyon's screwups. In the end of Lobanov's plot, Olga shows up in person... which causes awkwardness when she gets mistaken for yet another prostitute.
  • Groin Attack: When Gleb continues to bothering Varya about the "incident" in the cinema (when she "accidentally" grabbed his groin) while she checks the patient's reflexes, she "accidentally" causes the patient to kick Gleb right into balls.
  • Head-Turning Beauty: Lobanov finally dressing up properly shocks Lyuba so much, she can't stop looking at him, to the point she misses that her patient (who's attached to dropper) walked into an elevator and pushed the button for it to start moving, closing the doors... with dropper staying at Lyuba's side.
  • Imagine Spot: Lobanov's friend is gonna marry some nurse with whom he has fifteen years of age gap (she's 40, he's less than 25) after impregnating her. Levin immediately imagines how same would happen with him and Lyuba if he doesn't break up with her, with them having a wedding right in the hospital, with Bykov as a priest. He doesn't like such a prospect.
  • I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: Levin yet again complains that he's not a nurse, he's a doctor, and shouldn't be bothered with menial work. He accepts it once he realises that it's the easiest way he can get near Lyuba, so he can break with her in private.
  • Jerkass:
    • Gleb doesn't stop harassing Varya over her (allegedly by accident) groping his groin, insisting that it wasn't an accident and trying to force her into admitting that she does feel attraction to him. Somehow, it achieves results at the end instead of alienating her (though at first it seems that it would).
    • Not only Lobanov's patient is rude (to both Semyon and other people), we learn (from his own words) that he tried to harass the nurses in attempts to have sex with them; he's annoyed by being unable to just bribe them into sleeping with him.
  • Mistaken for Prostitute: When Lobanov's real wife shows up in the end, Bykov mistakes her for another attempt to smuggle a prostitute into the hospital. Olga doesn't take it well. And then Bykov leaves Semyone to explain what's going on by himself.
  • No Accounting for Taste: Both Bykov and Kupitman believes Lobanov's story about a prostitute being his wife; they only questions why she chose him as a husband. Kupitman even recognises her as his former patient.
    Bykov: That Lobanov has a prostitute for wife, I can believe; but prostitute having Lobanov for a husband?..
  • Perpetual Poverty: Gleb jokingly asks why Lobanov stole that suit, as he generally lacks the money to afford such clothes. Lobanov feels insulted, and states that it's indeed his suit: it costed 4K... five years ago.
  • Ship Tease: In the end, Varya shuts Gleb up by kissing him. Gleb sees it as a good sign and invites her into cinema again; she accepts.
  • "Shut Up" Kiss:
    • Before Levin has a chance to break with Lyuba, she shuts him up by kissing him. This also makes him reconsider and decide to stay with her after all.
    • In the end, tired of Gleb constantly bothering her, Varya finally kisses him, right in the middle of him asking if she wants to kick him again.
  • Spotting the Thread: Bykov doesn't see anything unusual with Lobanov marrying a prostitute; but why a prostitute would chose Lobanov? Kupitman suggest that Lobanov could have simply lied to Bykov.
  • Tattooed Crook: Levin's comatose patient (who later wakes up) is implied to be a gangster: he has tattoos (which in Russia, are highly stigmatised due to associations with The Mafiya), crude speech pattern, and the reason why he was comatose in the first place is due to gun wound.
  • Tranquil Fury: When Levin (who is wasting time instead of treating his patient) angers him once again by asking a stupid question, Bykov (after counting to ten in his head) calmly threatens to kill him, after which Levin decides to not test his luck further, and runs.
    Bykov: Levin, I really want to kill you, and with each second, it's harder and harder to control myself. Run, Levin. Run.

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