History Recap / TheInternsS13E14

Since Phil went to USA, all his patients went to Kupitman -- and there're many of them! Kupitman isn't happy with prospect of actually ''working'', so he goes to Bykov, to ask for some of his subordinates to do this work for him. Their discussion gets overheard by Kisegach, who isn't happy with him just dumping all the work on someone yet still receiving salary for whatever reason, so she insists that this time, he should do anything by himself. Kupitman can't force himself to actually go through all these patients, so he pretends that he can't find the correct the key, and goes to cafeteria, likely waiting for Bykov. Unfortunately, Kisegach comes first, and actually escorts him to his office, where he finally "finds" his key and gets forces to do what's ordered. Kupitman ''still'' can't force himself to start working, while the patients are starting losing patience. But Kupitman has an idea; he gathers everyone in the same auditory, writes all symptoms on a chalkboard, and forces the patients to write down the matching ones in their blanks, to cut up time on interrogating each one individually; then he sends them to do tests. Meanwhile, Kisegach visits Kupitman's office, only to find it locked. Realising that he likely tried to run away again, she angrily starts searching for him. She finds him just when he gets done with his patients. She's not happy with him subverting standard procedure, but he lies that it was actually prophylactic lecture. She falls for it and compliments on good initiative. Then the patients actually goes to complain to Kisegach, resulting in him receiving nineteen complaints at once. Now, unless he somehow makes them forgive him, Kisegach would start fining him over each of those complaints; with one complaints costing 5K from his salary, it's not hard to see where it goes. Kupitman succeeds, but now Kisegach would force him to do regular, ''unpaid'' lectures each Thursday, as that idea is just too good to throw out; and she wouldn't take "no" as an answer.

Polina, Lyuba and Rita each works on different patients (who shares the same ward) -- three extremely friendly and cheerful old men. Happiness is the best medicine, right? Now they can't agree on only one thing -- who would be discharged first; each one thinks that her patient is closer to that. Polina suggests to bet on it; everyone agrees. But just when Lyuba brags that the patient "would be gone in a blink of an eye" (with others saying similar things), one of the patients accidentally overhears them, and interprets it as them betting who would ''die'' first, and warns the others. Together, they goes to Bykov to tell him about the "killing attempt". He promises to "increase security", while they may relax and continue their treatment. But patients actually bothers to check what Bykov would do, and busts him lying on sofa, reading a magazine. They decides to do everything by themselves, and intentionally sabotages any treatment attempts, thinking that their doctors are trying to kill them. Then they decides to run away, as Bykov is apparently part of the scheme. But they gets busted when trying to escape; when asked just what they're doing, they panics... and suffers a heart attack, all three. They survives, but now Bykov is ''very'' angry, and now Polina, Lyuba and Rita each would receive fight night shifts as punishment.

Gleb tries another of his pranks on Alexei, but Sophia, who isn't part of the plan, botches everything by disproving everything Gleb trieds to tell Lyosha. Gleb calls her out on this, and, when she tries to defend herself by mentioning that she was not warned, Gleb points that ''good'' pranks always involves some improvisation, you can't plan everything ahead, so she should watch and recognise the moment when she needs to play along. Sophia tries to play her own "funny prank" on Alexei, but when Gleb learns that her idea was to ''lie to Alexei that his uncle is dying'', he reacts with utter disgust, and tries to warn Alexei... only to realise that Lyosha forgot his phone. Now, Gleb must rush to stop him, while Sophia would stay to cover for him. And that's when it turns out that Alexei never leaved -- it was Sophia's prank on ''Gleb''. So who's a "bad prankster" now? Gleb, meanwhile, gets called by Bykov, who's searching for him; when Gleb learns that Alexei actually never leaved, Gleb realises that he was pranked, and feels betrayed. Gleb admits his defeat to Sophia, and says that she's indeed a good prankster, whom he underestimated at his peril. Now, when they're even, they should unite to play a prank on Timur -- the last person whom Gleb never managed to trick. He even has a plan already -- the same joke which Gleb earlier failed on Alexei due to Sophia not cooperating. It involves Sophia tricking Timur into morgue, so Gleb would rush out and scare him when he would get distracted, searching for Bykov (who allegedly called him). Plan fails, because Sophia invites Timur too early (or maybe because the prank was just that lame and childish)... and then the ''real'' prank occurs when one of the bodies near Timur suddenly awakes, screaming, revealing to be Pasha. ''This one'' actually works -- on Sophia (and a bit on Timur), just as Gleb wanted. Neither of them are happy with it. Now, Sophia is paranoidal and expects Gleb's pranks on every step, despite him insisting that he's tired for today. After seeing a nightmare about Gleb playing a prank on her right on their wedding, Sophia awakes Gleb and asks him to never, ever prank her again.

* BrickJoke: Gleb's plot starts with some failed prank which involved tricking Alexei into going to the morgue for Bykov. Much later Gleb actually organises a prank here, but for completely different people.
* CatapultNightmare: Sophia sees a nightmare about Gleb saying "no" to her before altar, only for it ending up being a prank. Then she awakes, fling, and realises that it was a dream.

* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: It was not attempt to circumvent standard procedure of examining people one by one; it was prophylactic lecture! Since it was an actual auditory, with chalkboard (with symptoms written on them), Kisegach considers it to be believable.

Since Phil went to USA, all his patients went to Kupitman -- and there're many of them! Kupitman isn't happy with prospect of actually ''working'', so he went to Bykov, to ask for some of his subordinates to do this work for him. Their discussion was overheard by Kisegach, who isn't happy with him just dumping all the work on someone yet still receive salary for whatever reason, so she insists what this time, he should do anything by himself.

Polina, Lyuba and Rita each work on different patients (who share same ward) -- three extremely friendly and cheerful old men. Happiness is the best medicine, right? Now they can't agree on only one thing -- who would be discharged first; each one thinks what her patient is closer.

Gleb tried another of his pranks on Alexei, but Sophia, who isn't part of the plan, botched everything by disproving everything Gleb tried to tell Lyosha. Gleb called her out on this, and, when she tried to defend herself by mentioning what she was not warned, Gleb pointed what ''good'' pranks are always involve some improvisation, you can't plan everything ahead, so she should watch and recognise the moment when she needs to play along.

Kupitman couldn't force himself to actually go through all these patients, so pretended to miss the "correct" key, and sit in cafeteria, likely waiting for Bykov. Unfortunately, Kisegach came first, and actually escorted him to his office, where he finally "found" the key and was forced to finally do what he was ordered.

Polina suggested the bet about their patients. Everyone agreed. Just when Lyuba bragged what he patient "would be gone in a blink of an eye" (and Polina with Rita saying something in same way too), one of the patients came by, and overheard this -- interpreting it as them betting on who would die first. He warned other two.

Sophia's idea of "funny prank" involved lying to Lyosha what his uncle is dying. Gleb is utterly disgusted by this "joke", and told her so. Gleb tried to call Alexei (who rushed to train station) to call him off... only to realise what Alexei just forgot his phone. Things just go better and better... Now, Gleb must go for him himself, while Sophia should cover for him. And then it turns out what Alexei never leaved -- Sophia made whole story up just to prank ''Gleb''. Who is "bad prankster" now?

Paranoid patients warned Bykov about "killing attempt" against them. He promised to "increase security", while they may relax and continue their treatment. But patients actually bothered to check what Bykov would do -- and busted him lying on sofa, reading magazine.

Kupitman ''still'' can't force himself to start working. Unfortunately, patients are out of patience, so he can't run away any more. But Kupitman has bright idea; he collected everyone in same auditory, wrote all symptoms on the chalkboard, and forced patients to write down the ones they have on their blanks, so he may cut up time on interrogating each one individually.

Bykov searches for Gleb, and was rather surprised to learn what Gleb rides to train station... to find Alexei, who's standing near Bykov. Only then Gleb realised what he was pranked -- and now feels betrayed.

Patients still believe what Lyuba, Rita and Polina are trying to kill them; doctors' suspicious behaviour doesn't help. In attempt to prevent "assassination attempts", they intentionally sabotage any treatment attempts. Since Bykov is apparently part of the deal, they should run away.

Kisegach visits Kupitman -- and finds his office locked. She realised he tried to run away again, and angrily went to search for him. Kupitman, meanwhile, finished collecting symptoms from his patients (though one of them tried to complain about this practice -- Kupitman never examined anyone -- he was completely ignored), and sent them to make tests. Kisegach found Kupitman just when he finished, and was not happy with him trying to subvert usual procedure, but he lied what this was actually prophylactic lecture. She fell for it and complimented him on good initiative.

Gleb admits his defeat to Sophia, and what she's indeed a great prankster, whom he underestimated -- at his peril. Now, when they are even, they should unite to play prank on Timur -- last person whom Gleb never managed to trick. He even already has a plan... which involved same joke Gleb earlier tried on Alexei (and failed due to Sophia's non-cooperation). It involved Sophia tricking Timur into morgue, so Gleb would rush out and scare him when he would be distracted, searching for Bykov (who allegedly called him). Plan failed because Sophia invited Timur too early (or maybe because prank was just lame and childish)... and then ''real'' prank happened when one of the bodies hear Timur suddenly arise, screaming, revealing to be Pasha. ''This one'' actually worked... on Sophia (though on Timur too), just as Gleb wanted. Neither one of them actually liked it.

Kupitman's patients actually went to Kisegach to complain about him -- in fact, he received nineteen complaints at once! Now, if Kupitman somehow wouldn't make all those patients to forgive him, Kisegach would start fining him over each complaint -- one complaint, minus 5K roubles from his salary; with there being ninety such complaints... it's not hard to see where it goes.

Paranoidal patients tried to run away, only to being busted in act. When asked just what they're doing, they panicked... and have a heart attack. They survived, but now Bykov is ''very'' angry and each one received five night shifts as punishment.

Gleb is tired, and thinks there're enough pranks for today, but Sophia now expects ones on every step, and refuses to believe him what there ''are'' none.

Kupitman managed to convince patients to take back their complaints (even that one who was most vocal about disliking his behaviour), so there would be no fining... but there would be regular (unpaid) lectures each Thursday, because Kisegach actually likes this idea. And she wouldn't accept "no" as an answer.

Later that night, Sophia had a nightmare about Gleb playing another prank at her... right at their wedding! After awakening from it, she awoke Gleb and asked him to never, ever again pranking her.

** Sophia tricked Alexei with the lie about his uncle dying, so he would rush to Torzhok, and now Gleb must fix her mistake... Seems like another plot about Gleb (or someone else) fixing Sophia's terrible mistake? Except it isn't; actual prank was to make Gleb into believing what she pranked Lyosha, and trying to "fix" it.
** Gleb's "great plan" for his prank on Timur seemingly turns out to be the same one he tried earlier on Alexei, and involved sudden JumpScare in the morgue. It failed because it was neither sudden not scary, Timur even joked what it was his fault for not playing along... and then ''real'' JumpScare happened, with one of the bodies which were presumably just the props suddenly awaking and screaming loudly. ''This'' scared Timur... and Sophia, who was ''actual'' target.
* TheBet: Polina suggested one to Rita and Lyuba: who of their patients would finish treatment first? While bet by itself isn't important to the plot (and neither one of them actually won it), it kickstarted ''actual'' plot when one of the patients overheard it out of context.
* BrickJoke: Gleb's plot started with some failed prank which involved tricking Alexei into going to morgue for Bykov. Much later Gleb actually organised prank here, but for completely different people.
* CatapultNightmare: Wait, another of Gleb's pranks... which involves him saying "no" to Sophia right at the altar? Nope, it was Sophia's nightmare, from which she just awoke, fling and realised it was merely a dream.

** Sophia's idea of "prank"? Lie to Lyosha what his uncle back in Torzhok is dying. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Gleb]] called her out on this: ''no one'' jokes like this!
** Bykov was completely unimpressed with Polina's idea of "bet" (which Lyuba and Rita happily accepted): you ''never'', ever should bet on anything involving wellbeing of your patients, not even as joke (which it wasn't)! There's
* EveryoneHasStandards: Gleb has a history of cruel pranks, but even he thinks what lying to Lyosha what his uncle is dying was [[DudeNotFunny too much]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: While lie about "lectures" saved Kupitman's ass when Kisegach nearly found out what he tried to cheat in order to avoid doing manual work, Kisegach liked idea so much, she forced Kupitman to do more of such lectures in the future, ''for real''.
* JumpScare: Just after one fake (neither sudden nor scary), when Gleb "tried" to scare Timur, ''real'' jump scare occur when one of the bodies near Timur suddenly awake and ''screamed''; turns out, Pasha was also in the plan. It worked much better on the intended target... Sophia. And right after that [[RuleOfThree third one happened]], with Pasha, but it was neither loud nor sudden, and Timur actually called Gleb out on repeating himself here.
* LazyBum: Kisegach actually feds up with Kupitman dropping all the work on Phil (or someone else, if Phil isn't available), so he may sit, drink cognac and sometimes accept bribes, yet still receiving salary, for whatever reason. Nope, this time, he ''would'' work out all the money she pays him!
* NeverMyFault: Sophia refused to acknowledge what lying to Lyosha what his uncle is dying was [[DudeNotFunny completely cruel and unfunny one]], even after [[EveryoneHasStandards Gleb angrily told her so]]. When Gleb, realising what Lyosha misplaced his phone and already on the way to nearby train station (and this if they're lucky), rushed to warn him in person, Sophia called him out on "ruining good prank". {{Subverted|Trope}} in what entire reason she acted like this was to ensure what Gleb would believe in this; there never was a prank on Lyosha -- this prank is on ''Gleb''.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Due to the mix of weird choice of words and great timing, one of patients interpreted discussion Lyuba had with Rita and Polina as being about ''who of their patients would die first''. This resulted in them becoming extremely paranoidal... right until they finally receiving heart attack, each one of them.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Had Bykov ever bothered to transfer what patient said to him to Polina, Rita and Lyuba, he likely would have learn about bet much earlier, and forced them to explain everything to patients (also avoiding ''that'' severe punishment and patients' heart attacks). Alternatively, had patients bothered to ask Kisegach after Bykov showed no interest, she (being much more serious and bureaucratic) would have confronted either Bykov or directly Polina, Rita and Lyuba, with same results. Instead, they tried to secretly run away, resulting in heart attack when they were caught.
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: It was not attempt to circumvent normal procedure of examining people one by one; it was prophylactic lecture! Since it was actual auditory, with chalkboard (with symptoms written on them), Kisegach considered it to be believable.