Semyon thinks that his baby can't be anything but a boy; others are trying to convince him not to be so sure: he has no result of ultrasonic scan yet. He also states that he considers anything but a son to be "defect product", which naturally insults Polina. Unfortunately, Olga wants a daughter, and certainly wouldn't react positively if she hears what Semyon just said. And indeed, once results arrives, turns out that it's a girl; but Semyon, still unaware about this, walks around the hospital, telling everyone that he would have a son, and even proceeds to celebrate it — which makes Olga angry at him. Bykov realises that Semyon again endangers his relationship with Olga out of stupidity, and goes to Olga to defend Lobanov, taking all the blame on himself and other interns. At that same moment, Semyon uses intercom to announce about his and Olga's daughter — and his happiness over this — to everyone, just in time for Olga to appear and hear it, and forgive him immediately.
Gleb meets one of his old friends, Anton, as his patient. Anton hasn't change a one bit since then — still a brainless junkie partygoer... while Gleb (somewhat) matured up. Gleb tries to tell him about the wrongs of his lifestyle, but to no avail. Realising that he has no chance to succeed, he tries to ask Bykov for help, but he refuses, stating that there's no chance to save someone who doesn't want to be saved. Gleb asks Phil for help: Phil would pretend to be a Grim Reaper, scaring Anton into rethinking his lifestyle. Plan fails (Anton thinks that it's a "cool" hallucination caused by his medicine), and then Bykov busts them and kicks Phil out (as well as punishes him with a night shift). However, later, Anton finds Gleb and tells him that he agrees to being treated: hallucinations about Grim Reaper didn't stop, and long ceased to be funny. Only when Gleb sees that "Grim Reaper", too, he realises that it's their janitor Zoya Mikhailovna, who had found the "requisite" in her storage and now looks for the owner. Unfortunately, Gleb fails to hide the stuff before being busted by Bykov, and gets punished himself.
Polina desperately needs to avoid staying on a night shift today. Since Phil would not swap places with her, she has only one sure way: to work under Kupitman, who never forces people on night shifts, out of principle (to create a contrast with Bykov's methods, which he dislikes). Kupitman agrees, and even allows her to leave early — it just so happened that he needs to leave for some time, and she can replace him. Polina immediately runs into problems with her patients, and gets forced to call Kupitman. When she fails to explain just what's wrong with her patient clearly enough for Kupitman to understand, she gets a "brilliant" idea: send him a photo of the patient's organ (ignoring the patient's objections). Kupitman is forced to rush into hospital from a beauty salon to finish examining the patient. Predictably, Polina's antics results in patient complaining to Kisegach. She defends her and Kupitman, stating that she simply wanted to consult with her mentor (which convinces him to let them be), but in private, starts chewing them out. Kupitman gets denied his money bonus, while Polina's punishment is up to him. Kupitman remains faithful to his words, and rather than punish Polina himself, he forces her to send the photo of infected penis to Bykov, who promptly gives her a night shift.
This episode provides examples of:
- Accidental Hero: Phil's Grim Reaper's guise, while failing (initially) on intended target, actually saves some other life — Bykov's fatalist patient sees Bykov kicking the "Grim Reaper" out and takes it as an omen that this is not yet her time.
- Exact Words: Kupitman promised to never leave interns on night shift. When he gets forced to punish Polina, he orders her to send that photo of infected penis which caused all the mess in the first place to Bykov, who, predictably, punishes her himself.
- The Fatalist: Bykov's patient thinks that her time has come, because she had seen her late husband in her dream, who "invited" her on the other side, and now tries to convince Bykov not to bother with healing her, since it would be "useless anyway". Bykov barely manages to convince her, but then she sees Phil in Grim Reaper's guise, and snaps back into her delusion. She only changes her mind when she sees how Bykov kicks Phil out, still in that guise, and takes that as a good omen.
- Fratbro: Gleb's patient Anton is his old friend, who, despite being around thirty, still acts as a brainless party-going junkie. He was hospitalised due to it multiple times in the past, and this time, he's here because he broke his arm while trying to use a ski lift while high.
- Gaslighting: Rare positive example. Gleb's plan how to snap his junkie friend out of his stupidity is to cause him thinking that he started seeing signs of his imminent doom (by sending Phil to impersonate Grim Reaper). At first, plan fails, because Anton was more impressed by "cool" hallucination than scared by the fact that it was Grim Reaper. But when he started seeing it again and again (this time for reasons completely unrelated to Phil and Gleb), he started feeling fear; when Gleb visits him later, Anton agrees to quit doing drugs.
- The Grim Reaper:
- Phil uses the guise of Grim Reaper to convince Anton to change his ways, by making him believe that he sees omens of impending doom. While he fails, he accidentally helps the other stubborn patient... when Bykov starts kicking his ass for this.
- Gleb's patient gets finally convinced to change his ways by continuing seeing Grim Reaper. This time, it's completely unrelated to Phil; instead, it was their janitor who did this completely by accident at several occasions.
- Heir Club for Men: Semyon considers female baby to be "defect product", and wants specifically a son, as "true men" are supposed to produce sons! Naturally, Polina, who was presented when he said this, objects; as well as Olga (who actually wanted daughter) when she hears this, too. Ultimately, their baby turns out to be female.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: It takes Olga some time to realise that Kisegach was squicked not by prospect of their children possibly falling in love (this topic was raised by Olga), but because she thought that they both have sons, while, unknowingly to her, Olga has a daughter. Awkward...
- Open Mouth, Insert Foot: Semyon meant nothing bad when he called girls "defect product"; he just didn't think that he just said and how insulting it sounds, and really only tried to assure himself that he would have a son, cause every "true man" should have a son. He later fixes the problem himself by publicly announcing how happy he is with his daughter.
- Pet the Dog: Bykov tries to take the blame for Semyon's words on himself, so Olga would be angry at him instead of Semyon (risking the second divorce).
- Stealth Insult: Olga sarcastically "congratulates" Semyon on having a "real boy" instead o some "useless girl". When she leaves, Semyon states that she would likely dump him for this. Even Gleb calls him a moron, with which Bykov agrees, while Phil asks why Lobanov even stated this in the first place.
- Taking the Heat: Realising that Lobanov just brought his relationship with Olga on the brink of destruction (again), Bykov goes to Olga and takes all blame on himself and other interns, so Olga would be angry at them instead of Semyon. While in this interpretation Semyon started looking like a Dirty Coward for not apologising personally, Bykov states that she expects too much out of him.
- Too Dumb to Live: Anton.
- How he injured his arm in the first place? Because he tried to use a ski lift while being high.
- His lifestyle in general. No matter how hard Gleb tries to explain to him that his life as a junkie partygoer wouldn't end well (he's around thirty, and already was hospitalised many times for drugs-related accidents), he never takes him seriously — despite being here due to his own drugs-induced stupidity.
- Wacky Cravings: On a previous night, Olga had sent Semyon to buy some salted cucumbers... at 4 a.m. Because of this, he couldn't sleep well.
