Olga is concerned with Semyon's lack of joy over her pregnancy, and thinks that this is due to him not wanting children; in truth, he's concerned with the fact that she may be pregnant from Phil. Varya has some argument in favour to this: not long ago, Phil had told her that he thinks that Olga is interested in, as he called it, "bonus night" (or simply "sex with an ex"), which happened around that one-night stand Semyon had with her. Varya is unaware whether he had any success with this, but Semyon needs no more confirmation than this, and rushes to Phil. After talking to him, Semyon learns that Phil had no sex with Olga that night: he misinterpreted her words as her wanting to sleep with him, made a fool out of himself, and lied to Varya in order to keep it hidden. Lobanov runs to Olga and apologises, after which she accepts him as a future father of her child, as well as confirms that it's indeed his.
David tells Varya that she must confront Bykov and tell him to stop mistreating her, otherwise he would never stop. She tries... and utterly fails, after which she tells Bykov that this was due to her promise to David. She asks him whether she may lied to David that she succeed and pretend that this never happened, but Bykov refuses: if she promised David to confront Bykov, she must do so, and he would "help" her, by increasing the level of his abuse even further until she finds a courage to call him out on it. It goes without any success, but at some point Varya accidentally hits a shelve, dropping several glass jars on Bykov and knocking him out — just in time for David to appear; Varya uses the opportunity to claim the credit, knowing that there would be no other chance.
Today, Kupitman must be as sober as never before: he must attend at least one important summit without being wasted. Meanwhile, his patient gifts him a hookah... stuffed with some weed from Kazakhstan. Gleb (who helped him with installing and explained how it works) realises its real nature when he speaks with the patient, but decides to not warn Kupitman (who acted very rudely and ungrateful to him), and instead asks Kisegach to allow him be presented on the summit; he can't miss the show. Kupitman gets high and starts acting like a complete lunatic, culminating in his speech about one thing their hospital needs the most: a hymn. Only then Kisegach realises what's wrong with him, and stops the summit. Since Gleb had an opportunity to save Kupitman, but chose to let him embarrass himself, Kisegach allows (still intoxicated) Kupitman to choose a fitting punishment by himself; he forces Gleb to cover the whole foyer's floor with paper... only to then remove it entirely. Kupitman finds it amusing, Gleb not so much.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch:
- After several seasons, Varya finally finds a courage to confront Bykov about his abuse? Nope, it was her Imagine Spot and she didn't tell him anything. She then tries this for real, only to lose courage mid-speech, which actually enrages him even more. Same situation occurs later several times more.
- When Semyon offers to become a father for Olga's baby, whether it's from him or not, she calls him mad (in rather angry voice)... then tells him that this is exactly what she needs from him, and assures him that this is his baby.
- Contemplating Your Hands: Towards the end of the episode, while Kisegach chews Gleb out for causing the whole mess, Kupitman, still intoxicated, stares at his palms, concerned with how he can enlarge them.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Kupitman's punishment for Gleb? To force him to cover entire foyer's floor with paper... and then to remove it all. Gleb breaks into hysterical laugh when he hears the last one.
- Double Entendre: Actually, Phil did not sleep with Olga when Semyon thought he did; he misinterpreted Olga's words as a sign that she wants to sleep with him (like the words "I'm bored" or "I go to sleep"), and came to her... only to realise that she meant exactly that. He lied to Varya about his success to not look like a complete fool, but unfortunately she told to Semyon, which resurrected his conflict with Phil. Semyon tells him that this makes him not a fool, but a jerk.
- Epic Fail: Varya wasted a whole week with her patient whom she was supposed to discharge long time ago, resulting in her falling ill again. This causes Varya's latest conflict with Bykov and kickstarts her whole plot for this episode.
- Extreme Doormat: David tells Varya that Bykov keeps mistreating her because she can't confront him and tell to stop. If she would demand the fair treatment while looking confidently enough, he would respect her more. Unfortunately, she completely botches an attempt to do so, which enrages Bykov even more; he decides to press her further until she finds the courage to confront him for real (he objects to idea to just lie to David that she did). She never does, but due to lucky circumstances manages to exploit the trauma Bykov received by accident to brag to David that she did face Bykov.
- Give the Baby a Father: After dealing with Phil, Semyon tells Olga that wnether her kid is his or Phil's, he would accept him as his own. She at first calls him mad, because for him, accepting the child from the other guy is easier than to accept his own, but then tells that she likes him for it, and assures him that this child is his.
- Hypocrite: Pointed out by Varya when David fails to object to anything Bykov tells them during chewing them out in the end (because David's suggestion for Varya to face Bykov kickstarted this whole mess). David tries (unsuccessfully) to claim that he does not fear Bykov, but then they both just laughs over it.
- Hot-Blooded: All it takes for Semyon to rush to Phil with unknown (possibly violent) intentions is for Varya mentioning that Phil had slept with Olga several days ago, and maybe Olga is pregnant from him, not Lobanov. When Semyon actually goes to Phil, he barely constrains himself from grabbing and destroying Olga's phone, especially when she reacts negatively to his behaviour and tells him that yes, Phil may be the father of her child.
- Intoxication Ensues: Gleb' plot gets kickstarted when Kupitman receives a marijuana-stuffed hookah as a gift; Gleb realises what is in it, but decides to not warn him due to Kupitman's jerk behaviour, instead sticking around to watch the show. And indeed, Kupitman gets high and starts acting like crazy.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- Whether he was sincere in his attempts to help her grow courage or not, Bykov's mistreatment of Varya was very mean even by his usual standards (and the sole reason she even needs those "lessons" is because of Bykov's obnoxious behaviour). His latest act of abuse results in her accidentally hitting a shelve, causing several glass jars to fall on Bykov's head and knock him out.
- Instead of just leaving Kupitman to suffer on his own, Gleb attends the meeting to watch his marijuana-induced craziness; him being unable to hold his laugh makes him the obvious suspect. Kisegach punishes Gleb for not helping Kupitman by forcing him into working for Kupitman until he sobers up — and high Kupitman has rather creative punishments in mind...
- Marijuana Is LSD: The topic of Kupitman being The Load due to his alcoholism gets brought up again, this time by Kisegach, who asks him to be sober for at least one summit. Unfortunately, he was just gifted with a hookah which his patient imported from Kazakhstan, and, as Gleb quickly learns, it was stuffed with the weed which "you are not supposed to import from Kazakhstan". Gleb decides to not warn him, and then now-high Kupitman attends the summit; Gleb volunteers to attend, too, to watch the show. Hilarity ensues:
- While high, Kupitman interprets many words in a funny ways, due to them sounding similar to something silly and/or obscene.
- Another major part of his marijuana-induced humour is to laugh over potentially double-meaning sentences, like one which sounds like one of (male) doctors may be pregnant.
- When Kupitman's turn to talk comes, he suddenly starts insisting that their hospital needs... a hymn.Kupitman: Colleagues. A hymn would help us to pull together, to unite. It would help us to finish long-awaited renovation. Who're doing the renovation? Workers. We have too few workers! Because workers do no fall ill! Ergo, to not fall ill, you must work, but we're sitting here, and aren't working! Are we wanting to fall ill? So, let's just stand up and go to work! All as one! Each one on their place! On their workplace! With hymn!!!
- Pay Evil unto Evil: After helping Kupitman with installing his new hookah, Gleb gets rather rudely ordered to shut up and leave. Of course, after that he doesn't warn Kupitman about the true content of his hookah, allowing him to get high and embarrass himself — and it's hard to feel sorry for Kupitman, given his mean behaviour in general and this episode in particular. Gleb still gets punished for it, however, as he fails to stop at just that, and attends the meeting to laugh over Kupitman's craziness, which gets him busted.
- Poor Communication Kills: Kupitman's patient gifts him a marijuana-stuffed hookah due to misinterpreting his words about wanting something to "calm down, and let mind free". Kupitman, of course, meant cognac. Patient actually considers to warn Kupitman, but Gleb (who was just rudely kicked out by Kupitman) tells him that Kupitman actually liked this gift even more.
- Pregnancy Makes You Crazy: Kisegach, for whatever reason, smells red ants all over her apartment. She doesn't even know how red ants are supposed to smell like, but for whatever reason just knows that this is their smell. She spends a whole day trying to get rid of the "smell". Now, she warns Olga that she would soon follow.
- Teach Him Anger: When Bykov learns about Varya's promise to David (to finally confront Bykov about his rude behaviour), he tells her that he would "help" with this, by increasing the level of his abuse even further, until she finally finds the courage to tell him to stop. No, he would not allow her to just lie to him that she did, she must do so legitimately.
