Bykov was hit with a truck and is now in coma. Everyone is deeply hurt by this, even Semyon and Gleb. Kisegach, Varya and Kupitman are driven to tears. So, what actually happened? When interviewed for TV reportage, each character presented retells what they know about this sad day's events.
Today was supposed to be one doctor's wedding, and Bykov and Kisegach were invited. But Bykov, who feels insecure about possible marriage with Kisegach, acts like a total jerk and almost ruins said wedding at the last moment. It does get saved — and Bykov still gets invited, to everyone's surprise, including Kisegach's. But Bykov has a plan how to avoid this wedding anyway: he tells his interns to call him in specific time, so he would have an excuse to run to the hospital; in return, interns would be freed from the night shifts for a full week. But Kisegach, who predicted this plan, tells them that if they proceed with it, she would kick them out of the hospital under any excuse she could find; it wouldn't be hard, given their (in)competence. Everyone backs out: Varya supports Kisegach as a woman, Gleb supports her as his mother, and Phil supports her as his superior. But Semyon decides to side with Bykov anyway.
Bykov takes his bike, instead of calling taxi as he was asked. At that moment, Lobanov tries to call Bykov, only for Kisegach to intercept the call and warn him to not try this again, or else. Lobanov then tries to engineer the situation for other interns to call with something serious, unsuccessfully. On the wedding, Kisegach manages to catch the flowers thrown, to Bykov's stress (it is an omen: a single woman who catches the flowers, would soon become a bride herself). Meanwhile, Lobanov convinces the other interns into calling Bykov anyway... and when they do this, Bykov rushes to the hospital on a bike... and gets hit with a truck.
This episode provides examples of:
- The Alcoholic: Varya's patient is an alcoholic who jumped out of the window... or, rather, tried to jump; patient/window — 0:1. Lobanov tries to use him to provoke Varya into calling Bykov (by bringing him into the operational room and provide with alcohol), but patient gets busted by David, and Varya learns everything, because the patient rats Semyon out.
- Antagonist in Mourning: Everyone is deeply hurt by what happened with Bykov, including his interns — even Lobanov and Romanenko. Last one now regrets to wishing him death in the past, and joking about something bad happening to him.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Phil tells that Bykov was stubborn like a ram, then tries to correct himself because it was "rude", and comes with "stubborn like a... penguin?..".
- Everyone Has Standards: It's Kupitman, of all people, who calls Bykov out on acting like a jerk when his actions nearly causes their mutual friend to cancel his wedding.
- Failure Is the Only Option: Lobanov's plan to force the other interns into calling Bykov involves screwing with their patients. After he fails with Varya's one (his plan did work at first, but then the patient was busted by David, and immediately told about Lobanov's involvement), he tries with Phil's one... only for Varya to recognise that Semyon tries the same scheme. Just to finish off any credibility his attempts to deny this still have, Phil's patient — a little boy whom Lobanov hid in the tech room with a gaming console — shows up and asks Lobanov for a recharger.
- Flowers of Romance: There's an old tradition in Russia: spouse blindly throws her flowers back, and unmarried girls tries to catch them. Successfully catching the flowers is considered to be a good omen: it means that you would become a bride yourself, and soon. Of course, it was Kisegach who caught the flowers on that wedding, which scared Bykov (whose entire attitude this day was related to his fear of being forced into marriage) to the point that he run away on his bike, only to get hit with a truck.
- Freudian Slip: When Kupitman asks Bykov when he would marry Anastasia (on a day of their friend's wedding), Kupitman accidentally says that situation is "alogical" instead of "analogical". Considering that there's always some weird excuse to not bring the topic of marriage, it makes sense.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In-Universe. During interview, Gleb remembers that before, he almost wished that something would happen to Bykov, even joked about him possibly being injured or killed, but now considers those jokes to be extremely tasteless, and deeply regrets them. He immediately questions aloud wether he's even supposed to bring this topic in the interview at all.
- Jerkass: Bykov acts in a very assholish manner to his friend who has a wedding that day, just because Bykov is afraid of marrying Kisegach, and situation reminds him about it. He actually provokes said friend into cancelling his wedding (which barely gets avoided) and having conflict firstly with Kisegach (to whom he was ratted out by Kupitman, who considered this to be very low on Bykov's side), and then with friend's bride. He still gets invited, for whatever reason. On a wedding, he makes everything he can to spoil it for everyone else.
- Lampshade Hanging: Those parts of the episode which are not flashbacks, consists of a video interviews with the other characters, who recalls those events. In the end, cameraman asks his colleague why they recorded so much when interviewed everyone, when they were only asked for several minutes-long shots.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
- Had Kisegach never tried to catch those flowers, she would've never provoked Bykov into running away.
- Had Lobanov never convinced the other interns into calling Bykov again, Bykov would've probably not run away. Kisegach still thinks that he would've found something else in that case, but what are the odds of him still being hit by that truck had he run earlier or later than he did?
- Whole Episode Flashback: If not counting short parts where characters gets interviewed, episode mostly consist of flashbacks to the events before Bykov was hit with a truck, with the point of view switching between different characters.
