History Recap / TheInternsS13E9

Lyuba is happy with no longer needing to keep her relationship with Kupitman in secret, but Kupitman (who's still recovering from heart attack) thinks that under all those smiles, everyone secretly mocks them. ''Especially'' Bykov. When Bykov actually visits him, Kupitman assumes that it's the start of a war, not realising that Bykov was there to ''congratulate'' him on sticking up with Lyuba, in his delusions seeing hidden poison in his every word -- which he immediately reveals to Lyuba: in his current condition, he's too pity to even mock, so their "enemies" would concentrate on Lyuba alone. Meanwhile, Kisegach, after what happened with Kupitman, starts worrying that the same may happen to Bykov (who is about the same age), and tries to force him into complex examination: she wants to be absolutely sure that he is perfectly healthy and has no risks. Bykov doesn't consider Kupitman's example to be "an example" -- after all, he is alcoholic, who nearly killed himself by viagra, and this is ''certainly'' not something which may happen to Bykov. When she insists, the laboratory assistants mistakes Alexei giving them Kisegach's request as a prank, and puts in every single disease they can think of, making it impossible to tell the truth from lies. Alexei just throws the list away, but misses the bucket, resulting in Lyuba finding it and giving to Kisegach, who goes to confront Bykov about it. And Bykov, after explaining everything, uses intercom to to mock them all for their stupidity -- only for Kupitman to hear it and go out of his ward, thinking that they're laughing at him and Lyuba, and start calling him out on it. He ''knows'' that they're weird and funny couple, but this is ''their'' decision, so show at least some respect! Lyuba gets offended by that "weird couple" comment, and now doubts wether they even should stay together at all.

Polina's patient shows attraction to Timur. She feels slightly awkward after learning that Polina is Timur's ex, but Polina assures her that there's nothing wrong with it and she doesn't care whom Timur would date, so go ahead. Timur uses "I'm married" excuse to get rid of the girl who tries to hit on him, only to learn from her that Polina isn't against him dating other people; but exact wording tells Timur the ''real'' meaning: Polina no longer cares about him, at all. Gleb tries to assure him that Polina acts this way because she knows that Timur is always nearby and under her control, so she never risks losing him permanently. Timur has to pretend that ''he'' started losing attraction to ''her'', and she would soon start panicking. Timur apologises before his patient (who introduces herself as Masha), and invites her on a date. Polina allows Masha to leave, without any questions, and now Timur doubts wether plan actually works, but Gleb assures him that this is only the beginning: he didn't do anything yet, that's why Polina isn't jealous yet. He should start by going on that date. On a date, Timur tries to call Gleb (who should answer loudly enough to provoke Polina's jealousy); this fails to produce any results, but Timur insists on continuing. He invites Masha to his house, and asks Masha to inform Polina that she would be absent for a whole night; if this wouldn't provide any reaction -- nothing would. But, to Timur's disappointment, Polina doesn't react to it, either. Only at the very last moment before leaving, Gleb notices that she's nearly wasted: instead of showing her jealousy, she tried to suppress it with alcohol; now, she hates Timur even more, as, after all the claims that he still loves her, he just jumped at another chick. Gleb, realising what's going on, calls Timur and warns him that this is his only chance: he must rush to Polina, and try to improve relationship with her. When Timur arrives, Polina still looks angry, but Timur manages to act like a gentleman -- covering her with blanket, giving her some medicine to compensate for alcohol's side effects, and just act like he cares about her -- which seemingly serves as the first step on the path to improve their soiled relationship: Polina falls asleep with the smile on her face.

Alexei's new patient is... Bykov, A.E. This is not ''that'' Bykov, just the guy with same surname and initials, which Lyosha considers to be funny -- but Doctor Bykov feels annoyed by this, and kicks him out of on-call room. Then Alexei notices that his patient shares not only surname and initials of his boss, but also his speech manner, which he immediately tells to the patient. The patient then asks wether his boss is called Andrey. When answered, the patient reveals that he is Bykov's ''cousin'', Anatoly; he knows that he a has cousin in Moscow, a doctor, and arrived there to meet him. He asks him to tell Andrey certain words, which should remind him about their first meeting. But Bykov refuses to believe that this guy may be his cousin; he's not the first and not even the second smartass to try that tactic to get free VIP conditions. When Alexei returns to take Anatoly for blood test, Anatoly starts mentioning exactly those things which Andrey expected him to want -- like VIP ward. Alexei realises that his boss was right, and accuses Anatoly of lying. As another attempt, Anatoly offers to tell him a couple of stories from his childhood, and ask his "cousin" wether those really happened. But every such "story" is too generic, being rather typical to the time period when they were children: ''everyone'' were like this back then. But then he tells the last story, which actually convinces Andrey to visit his alleged "cousin" -- only which involves huge she-cook from a pioneer camp. After seeing Anatoly, Andrey admits that they are really cousins. Two Bykovs drinks together, discussing their past... but then Andrey notices inconsistence between their memories: while both stories involved female cook, Andrey put a pan of hot sauce on her (he mistakingly thought that it was cold), while Anatoly lost virginity with her. They quickly notices more problems like this, and then Anatoly's aunt calls and reveals that his "doctor cousin" is indeed called Andrey... but he's not a doctor at all, he's a former orderly, now taxi driver.

* InternalReveal: The exact moment when Kupitman and Lyuba's SecretRelationship stops being secret, since, thanks to Bykov, now literally everyone are aware (and if someone is not, Kupitman then [[ItMakesSenseInContext announces this over intercom anyway]]). Their main plot shifts to how everyone ''reacts'' to this reveal.

* OperationJealousy: Timur's plot in nutshell; he tries to awake Polina's "sense of the ownership" by starting dating other woman. Instead of intended result, this nearly causes her to hate him ''more'', and he barely manages to salvage the situation when he stops acting like an asshole.
* TheParanoiac: Kupitman. While still recovering from his heart attack, Kupitman sees lies under any smile, hidden insults under any compliment (wether related to his relationship with Lyuba or not), and is deadly sure that everyone are conspiring against him and Lyuba. He doesn't believe Lyuba, either, when she insists that everything is fine. And he doesn't even try to hide this from anyone, rudely accusing them of conspiring against him. In fact, even Bykov was entirely sincere on congratulating him, not to mention everyone else whom he accused of treachery. In his final attempt to "defend" Lyuba, he [[OpenMouthInsertFoot only insults her]]. By the end, he never owns his mistakes.
* ShamingTheMob: Kupitman tries to shame everyone into treating him and Lyuba seriously (he thought that they're laughing at him, while they discussed something entirely unrelated). This [[OpenMouthInsertFoot backfires spectacularly, due to his choice of words]].

Their relationship is no longer a secret, but only Lyuba is happy: Kupitman (who's till recovers after heart attack) thinks what under these smiles, everyone secretly mocks them. ''Especially'' Bykov.

Kisegach, after what happened with Kupitman, starts worrying what the same may happen to Bykov (who is about the same age), and tries to force him into complex examination: she wants to be absolutely sure he is perfectly healthy and has no risks. Bykov doesn't consider Kupitman's example to be "example" -- after all, he is alcoholic who nearly killed himself by viagra, and this is ''certainly'' not something which may happen to Bykov. Question is closed.

Polina's patient shows attraction to Timur. She felt slightly awkward after learning what Polina is Timur's ex, but Polina assured her what there's no anything wrong with it and she doesn't care whom Timur would date, so go ahead.

Alexei's new patient is... Bykov, A.E. This is not ''that'' Bykov, just the guy with same name and initials, which Lyosha considers to be funny (but this only annoyed dr. Bykov, who kicked him out of on-call room).

After Timur used "I'm married" excuse to get rid of the girl who flirted with him (that one, Polina's patient), he learned from her what Polina isn't against him dating anyone; normally not a problem, but exact wording points out ''real'' meaning: Polina no longer cares about him, at all. Gleb tried to assure him what Polina acts this way because she knows: Timur always nearby and always under her control, so she can't lose him permanently. Just pretend what he started losing attraction to her, and she would start panicking.

Alexei noticed what his patient shares not only surname and initials of his boss, but also his speech manner, which he immediately said to patient. Patient then asked wether his boss is called Andrey. When answered, patient revealed what he is Bykov's ''cousin'', Anatoly; he knows he has cousin-doctor in Moscow, and arrived here to meet him. He asked to tell Andrey certain words, which should remind him about their first meeting.

Kupitman, after being visited by Bykov, now thinks what their war just started. Bykov actually ''congratulated'' his on sticking up with Lyuba, but Kupitman, in his delusion, sees hidden poison in his every word -- which he immediately revealed to Lyuba. Since Kupitman is currently out of condition, he is too pity to even mock, so their "enemies" would concentrate their fire on Lyuba.

Andrey Bykov didn't believe what this guy is really his cousin; ''several'' people before him tried that tactic in order to trick him into providing free VIP conditions for his "cousin". What makes this one different? When Alexei returned to take Anatoly for blood test, Anatoly started mentioning exactly those things Andrey expected him to want -- like VIP ward. Alexei realised what his boss was right, and accused Anatoly of lying. As another attempt, Anatoly offered to tell him couple of stories from their childhood, and ask his "cousin" wether it really happened.

Timur apologised before his patient (girl called Masha), and invited her on a date. Polina allowed Masha to leave, without any questions, and now Timur doubts wether plan actually works, but Gleb assured him this is only beginning: he did nothing yet, so there's no reason for being jealous. Timur should ''really'' go on that date.

Every "story" Anatoly used as argument was way too common for the time period of their childhood: ''everyone'' acted that way back then, so it proves nothing. But there's one last story, which actually convinced Andrey to visit his alleged "cousin" -- one which involved huge she-cook from pioneer camp. After that, Andrey admitted what they are really cousins.

Laboratory assistants mistook Alexei's request for the prank, and pointed every single disease they can. Now, there's no way to tell truth from lies. So, Alexei threw this list away... only to miss the bucket, resulting in Lyuba finding it, and giving to Kisegach -- who went to confront Bykov about it. And Bykov, after explaining everything, used intercom to mock them all for their stupidity -- only for Kupitman to hear it and go out of his ward, thinking they laugh about him, and started calling them out on, allegedly, mocking him and Lyuba. He ''knows'' they are odd and funny couple -- but this is ''their'' decision, so show at least some respect!

Evening. Timur is on a date with Masha, but he tries to call Gleb (who should answer loudly enough to provoke Polina's jealousy). This failed to provide any results, but Timur insists on continuing. He invited Masha to his house, and asked Masha to inform Polina what she would be absent for the whole night. If this wouldn't provide reaction, nothing would. But, to Timur's disappointment, Polina hadn't reacted in any way whatsoever. Only at the very last moment before leaving Gleb noticed what she's nearly wasted: instead of showing her jealousy, she tried to suppress it with alcohol; now, she considers Timur being even bigger jerk, because after all his claims about still loving her, he just jumped at another chick. Gleb, realising what's going on, called Timur and warned him what this is his only chance: he must rush to Polina and take his best and only chance to at least start improving relationship with her.

Lyuba was offended by Kupitman's "weird couple" comment, and now doubts wether they even should stay together, then.

Two Bykovs drink together, discussing their past... but then Andrey noticed inconsistence between their memories: while both stories involved fat female cook, Andrey put a pan of hot sauce on her (he mistakingly thought it was cold), while Anatoly lost virginity with her. They quickly notice more problems like this, and then Anatoly's aunt called and revealed what his "cousin-doctor" is indeed called Andrey... but he is not a doctor at all -- he is former orderly, now taxi-driver. Oops...

Polina still looks angry, but Timur's attempts to act like a gentleman -- covering her with blanket, giving her some medicine to compensate for alcohol's side effects, and just acting like he cares about her -- seemingly made a first move at defrozing that ice queen: Polina fell asleep with the smile on her face.

* InternalReveal: The exact moment when Kupitman and Lyuba's SecretRelationship stopped being secret, since, thanks to Bykov, now literally everyone are aware (and if someone is not, Kupitman then [[ItMakesSenseInContext announced this over intercom anyway]]). Their main plot shifts to how everyone ''reacted'' to this reveal.
* LongLostRelative: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Anatoly turns out to ''not'' being Bykov's cousin after all, despite initially everything suggesting that. Anatoly's alleged "cousin doctor" turns out to be former orderly, now taxi driver, of which he only learned towards the end of the episode, so when he learned what in this hospital works doctor who shares surname and initials with him, he made a honest mistake what this is his long-lost cousin (as is our Bykov).
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: In his attempt to defend himself and Lyuba, Kupitman accidentally offended Lyuba, not only pointing what they are "weird couple", but also calling her "lone, ageing woman", pressing ''two'' of her weak points at once. She dumped him after that.
* OperationJealousy: Timur's plot in nutshell; he tries to awake Polina's "sense of owner" by starting dating other woman. Instead of intended result, this nearly caused her to hate him ''more'', and he barely managed to salvage situation when he stopped acting like an asshole.
* TheParanoiac: Kupitman. While still recovering from his heart attack, Kupitman sees lies under any smile, hidden insults under any compliment (wether related to his relationship with Lyuba or not), and is deadly sure what everyone are conspiring against him and Lyuba. He doesn't believe Lyuba, either, when she insists what everything is fine. And he doesn't even tries to hide this from anyone, rudely accusing them of conspiring against him. In fact, even Bykov was entirely sincere on congratulating him, not to mention everyone else he accused of treachery. In his final attempt to "defend" Lyuba, he [[OpenMouthInsertFoot only insulted her]].
* ShamingTheMob: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Kupitman tried to shame everyone into treating him and Lyuba seriously (he thought what they laugh at him, while they discussed something entirely unrelated). This [[OpenMouthInsertFoot backfired spectacularly, due to his choice of words]].
* ShipTease: First signs what Timur actually has a chance to mend his relationship with Polina, since when he started actually acting nice to her instead of [[StalkerWithACrush just harassing her all the day]], she liked it.
* TooDumbToLive: When Kisegach tried to use Kupitman's heart attack from previous episode (he still recovers after that) as argument in favour of complex examination (to not repeat his fate), Bykov pointed out what Kupitman is bad example, because his problems were caused only by his own stupidity and absolutely idiotic decision to enchant already barely alive body with viagra.