Levin makes another attempt to break up with Lyuba, but now, instead of telling her so, he wants to force her to dump him. He asks Kupitman for help (not telling him who his girl is), who suggests to start acting like a jerk. This causes Lyuba to ask Kupitman for help as well, fearing that her man is getting colder to her (without telling who her man is); he suggests to compliment her man's every action, even when he screws up, to soften up her boyfriend. When Kupitman's plan doesn't work, Levin asks for another advice, and gets told to offer his girl sex: just plain sex, without dating, without romantics; no woman would agree to it, finding it degrading. Then Lyuba comes in as well, and Kupitman, realising that all this time, they were telling about each other, gives her same advice, already foretasting the fun. However, when the two talks, they realise that they have been manipulated, and confronts Kupitman together, telling him to quit intervening into their lives. All seems to end fine, but then Levin makes a careless comment that enrages Lyuba enough to dump him on the spot.
Lobanov's patient turns out to be a medic himself (and of course he is much more competent than Semyon). The patient agrees to do all the work for Semyon, but Bykov doesn't believe in Lobanov's sudden competence and compares Lobanov's handwriting with handwriting in the patient's clinical history. They match, but Bykov still suspects something fishy, and gives Semyon another patient. Fortunately, Lobanov's first patient lies in same ward, which lets him to just consult with him... but then Bykov meets this patient in person, and learns the truth. Instead of just punishing Lobanov outright, Bykov decides to use this patient for more interesting game; he offers Lobanov a bet: whoever would be first to guess diagnosis, would earn 1K roubles from another. Lobanov tries to cheat again, by asking his first patient (who demands 500 roubles in return for helping yet again), but ultimately it's Bykov who wins. When Bykov sees that Semyon indeed cheated (as the patient returns him his money), he decides to let Lobanov keep the money, suggesting him to spend it on some medical books.
Gleb's patient's back is covered with scratches after one-night sex on a corporate party, and now he must somehow get rid of them before his wife finds out. When Varya learns about this, she insist that Gleb must tell the patient's wife about her husband's infidelity, while Gleb sides with the patient, believing that everyone cheats (husbands and wives alike), but keeps going back for as long as the secret stays unrevealed. Romanenko tries to hide the scratches behind bandage (which must not be removed without medic's supervision), but when the patient's wife leaves the ward, Varya instantly suggests her to break Gleb's instructions. She instantly regrets this, as the wife's reaction to finding the truth is to hit her husband strong enough to cause concussion. Varya and Gleb, separately, tries to whitewash the patient to give his marriage another chance, but fails miserably, not only because of their stories being insane, but also because those stories blatantly contradicts each other.
This episode provides examples of:
- Asshole Victim: Gleb's patient, once his infidelity gets revealed, gets hit so hard, he receives concussion. Only Varya feels even remotely sorry for him, mainly because she indirectly caused it by breaking his cover story.
- Blatant Lies:
- Lobanov wastes time, failing to see anything during examination. His patient, a medic himself, loses patience and tells him that he even without equipment can see the symptoms. Lobanov says that he can see them too... and proceeds to write them down, saying them aloud.
- While Gleb's patient's original cover story was at least marginally believable (and revealed solely because of Varya's intervention), Varya's attempt to whitewash him by telling his wife about him "heroically helping a woman to give birth" is pure absurd. Gleb's idea for second cover story is not better (it involves panicked cat jumping on the patient's back and scratching it); even the patient himself says that it wouldn't work.
- Boring Insult: Kupitman tells Levin that to provoke his girl into dumping him, he has to act like a jerk, and suggests to try and insult him as practice. Levin calls him "jerk", and instinctively apologises for it. Kupitman says that it's not even offensive: to truly hurt someone, have to hit their weak point. He then proceeds to call Levin a beatdown spineless wimp. Levin makes another attempt, this time actually hitting Kupitman's weak points and provoking a reaction (alcoholism, corruption and affairs with female janitors), but it still sounds weird and awkward. Kupitman, once calms down, counts it as improvement.
- The Bro Code: Gleb agrees to cover for cheating husband, as it's "what the man should do for another man".
- Cannot Tell a Joke: Levin tries to tell Gleb and Varya a joke, about a nurse who was ordered to inject the patient with B12 vitamin, but injected him with B6 twice instead, as it was out of stock. Both just silently turns away, as if he said something dumb, and Levin just accepts that joke was lame.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Lobanov attempts to cheat by asking his (much more competent) patient for his symptoms, and later diagnoses for the other patient. It works at first, but then Bykov meets this patient in person when he writes the missing info into clinical history (Lobanov failed to do that) and decides to recruit him, so he may play a "funny game" with Lobanov.Bykov: Go buy some brains, or a smart book. Better buy a book! I fear, your organism would reject a brain...
- Frying Pan of Doom: When Gleb's patient's wife learns about him cheating on her, she reacts by hitting his head with a frying pan, leaving him with a (this time real) head trauma.
- I'm Standing Right Here: Lobanov rushes in, breathing heavily, and, when he sees that Bykov isn't here, calls him an asshole for punishing the others for being minutes late, yet not bothering to arrive in time himself. Cue Bykov, who was hiding nearby, standing up and saying that he just knew that it's Lobanov who would be first to insult him. Fortunately, he's not interested in punishing him right now.
- In-Series Nickname: When he gets called "poodle" trice over the course of the episode, Kupitman worries that this nickname may stick.
- Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Lyuba tolerates Levin's obnoxious behaviour for the whole episode. At the end of the episode, she asks him why the hell he even asked Kupitman in the first place. When he (rudely) asks whether she was there to get an advice how to make Levin marry her, she gets so angry, she dumps him on the spot.
- Moving the Goalposts:
- Bykov promised Lobanov that he can go home after dealing with one patient. Lobanov does deal with that patient... by cheating (said patient is a medic himself, so Semyon just wrote down all symptoms listed by him). However, Bykov (correctly) suspects a foul play in dumbest of his interns doing his job so quickly, and gives him other patient.
- Lobanov gets a diagnosis from his first patient, and shows it to Bykov. Bykov points an error in it, and sends him back. Semyon gets more info from the patient, and goes back... only to learn about another error. It repeats several times until Bykov just refuses to give him more tries, and Semyon insists on consulting the patient directly for "unbiased opinion"... which confirms that it's indeed Bykov who's right.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Varya sees consequences of her telling the patient's wife the truth (said wife hits his head with a frying pan, causing him concussion), she thinks that telling the truth wasn't that good idea after all (she clearly not expected that wife would outright injure the patient, and finds it excessive) and that Romanenko was right (Gleb thinks that whatever relationship they had before is still better than wife finding out and divorcing the guy).
- Pet the Dog: When he wins in his bet in the end, Bykov decides to not take Lobanov's money, probably considering him being punished enough. He still makes a joke at his expense, though.
- Playing Both Sides: Kupitman, unwillingly, "helps" both Levin and Lyuba, not realising that by "the woman" and "the man" they meant each other. He suggests Levin to act like a jerk, and Lyuba to constantly complement her "man's" every action, no matter what he does. He later realises the truth by himself, but decides to continue this "game", since it amuses him, and gives Lyuba the same advice as the one he previously gave to Levin: suggest plain sex with with zero romantics, preludes, etc. It backfires when Lyuba realises that they are manipulated, and unites with Levin to strike back.
- Please Dump Me: Levin needs a way to break up with Lyuba, but it must look like it was her who dumped him. Kupitman suggests to act like a jerk, and when this still doesn't provide results (due to Lyuba, separately, asking Kupitman for help, and him suggesting to just keep tolerating Levin no matter what), to just offer her plain sex (no romantic, no foreplay). It still fails... but then Levin makes a careless comment which does offend Lyuba enough to dump him.
- Poor Communication Kills: Gleb and Varya are trying (separately) to whitewash Gleb's cheating patient, by telling the "true" story how he got his scratches. Their stories are already totally insane (one is about helping a pregnant woman, and the second is about scared cat), but they makes this worse by telling his wife both of them, not bothering to discuss the situation before doing so.Patient's wife: So, which version it's gonna be? With a cat, or with pregnant woman? The version with birthing is heroic, and cat version is funny. Make your pick. Or maybe there was a pregnant cat, and this is why you are so confused?
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: All attempts by Gleb's patient to hide his infidelity from his wife ends in a failure, and no one knows how it's gonna end once he comes out of the hospital, after recovering from concussion he received when said wife found out and hit him with a frying pan.
- Verbal Backspace: Bykov starts his announcement with calling interns "my friends", before "correcting" himself to call them "my dumbass pupils".
