History Recap / TheInternsS14E14

* MovingTheGoalposts: Whenever Gleb starts to show that he's capable of dealing with the hard work put on him by Victor, Victor just adds more work; the purpose, of course, is to see how far Gleb can go (to learn limits of his endurance and willpower), and convince him to return to the hospital, as Victor actually wishes for him to build a career in the medicine (if he invested so much time and efforts into it, it ''should'' pay up!).

Gleb tells his mother that he's gonna quit medicine; it's not an attempt to blackmail, he indeed plans to quit -- and start working under his father, who straight-up told him that he's not gonna achieve anything as a doctor, and much better career awaits him in business. Kisegach confronts Victor about blatantly trying to recruit Gleb, wasting five years of education and two of internship. But Victor reveals that it was ''Gleb'' who asked to take him, not the other way around. And Victor has the same view on it as Anastasia: that's he's wasting time and efforts invested into him; not to mention that while he knows at least something about the medicine, if he goes to business, he would doom it. Victor offers to cooperate and teach Gleb a lesson, by showing him that business is not all about fun and profit, it's and job, and not an easy one; he must learn to pick a goal, and fight for it to the end, rather than give up as soon as he finds something "easier". Meanwhile, Gleb tells his friends that he's gonna move to another job, and that he's gonna get rich soon. When Bykov enters Kisegach's office and offers to "celebrate" Gleb quitting with a bottle of champagne (which he stole from Kupitman), Kisegach refuses and tells him that she has too much work to do; Bykov goes to Kupitman, to discuss what's going on, and together they comes to conclusion that Kisegach is worrying about Gleb leaving, and they must somehow make Gleb change his mind, as Anastasia is too proud to ask Victor. Meanwhile, Victor shows Gleb who's boss here, and gives him his first task -- to do paper work, then deliver the papers to Victor's business partners, and ''then'' stay on phone in case they would call, while preparing a report about investors; he also dumps him into office, which he's gonna share with other workers.

Levin tries to flirt with a patient whom he just discharged, by gifting her two cinema tickets. But she instantly shuts him down, stating that he's ''absolutely'' not her type. Levin takes it rather badly, and now is extremely sad. He can't even understand what he's doing wrong, as ''everyone'' with whom he tries to flirt just shuts him down without explaining! Phil comforts him, and suggests to just go and ask the women in the hospital what they think about him -- his good, and his bad sides. Levin disagrees with this plan: firstly, it's way too many people (and opinions) to meaningfully analyse the data; secondly, they wouldn't give him direct answers; and thirdly, it's like publicly admitting that he's a loser! Phil suggests a plan: he would carefully gather opinion why Levin is so unpopular with women, while Levin has to act on that information. They learns that the women dislikes Levin's arrogance, his inability to talk about anything but science, him living with his mother (and allowing her to dress him up like first grader), and beak a lean, weak-willed weakling... and those are just the most obvious things. Unfortunately, all it does is to hurt Levin's confidence even more. After that, Phil tells about the plan to the girls themselves (who reacts badly), and asks for help, before Levin does anything bad to himself. Later, Levin meets attractive girl (who introduces herself as Lisa), who actually starts flirting with him first. It seems that they're gonna god on a date! Levin rather arrogantly tells to Lyuba, Rita and Polina that he just met the woman who ''can'' see the "true man" when she sees him, unlike them. Unknowingly to him, Lisa was actually ''paid'' to date Levin, to help with his self-confidence; and it seems that the plan has worked a bit too well. But it doesn't take much for Lisa to snap, and confront her hirers: Levin is ''insane'', and she's gonna change her phone number to prevent him from contacting her ever again, as he set her ''96 messages'', and those are just about preparation to a date! They goes to Phil to inform him about this, only for Levin to rush in to gloat, forcing Phil to hide the women; but when Levin starts badmouthing Lyuba, Rita and Polina, they accidentally reveals themselves and Lisa, after which Lisa just tells everything to Levin's face. Now, Levin has to run...

When confronted by Bykov, Victor explains that he's trying to break Gleb's own delusions about business, by showing him the ugly routine behind it. Victor keeps Gleb constantly busy, leaving him no time to rest. Whenever Gleb starts showing that he's adapting, Victor just increases pressure on him. Meanwhile, Kisegach gets visited by Levin, Lobanov and Lyosha, who all are asking her to sign up their resignations. When asked, they readily reveals that it was Bykov who forced them to (under threat that he would blame them for all medical errors in the Therapy); Kisegach instantly recognises that it's Bykov's attempt to manipulate her. When she goes to Bykov, she quickly realises that he's angry at her -- for her not telling him right away, instead of scheming behind his back with her ex-husband. If she would need something from Victor again, she ''should'' warn Bykov next time. Comes evening. Gleb finishes his work and falls asleep, but Victor awakes him and gives him business literature, which he must read to learn how to do his job with less energy wasted; he must read it until tomorrow, and wake up in 7 a.m. Victor, who knows it all already, is free to go. Victor invites Kisegach into a restaurant, where he asks her how it goes: did Gleb beg her to be accepted back? Kisegach tells that he didn't; he insists that everything is fine -- which Victor takes as a good sign, as it means that Gleb does have some willpower after all; though he would continue pressing on him until he decides to go back.

* AnalogyBackfire: Victor says that he wants to teach Gleb how to fight to the end, rather than run away like chick as soon as he sees something easier. Anastasia points that they originally wanted to have a girl.

* TheBore: One of the things stated to be the reason for Levin's unpopularity is his [[InsufferableGenius arrogance]] and inability to talk about anything but science, regardless of wether the other people are interested or not.
* BrickJoke: The jar with a fly (whom Bykov calls Victor, after "another annoying buzzing creature who refuses to leave", initially confusing Kisegach), which shows up in every scene involving Bykov, [[ChekhovsGun to ensure that it wouldn't be forgiven]]? In the end, Bykov releases it in the house and tries to kill (with Kisegach again mistaking Bykov for referring to real Victor).
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the idea that business is all about making money and showing how cool you are; business is a job, too, and the job hard and ''boring'', as it involves a lot of paper work, strict deadlines and, of course, a lot of stress. Also, no one is gonna give Gleb the important position right away, until he proves that he's worth something, no matter who his father is, as it would be harmful to business; he would start with far simpler task, like... paper work. All of this is [[InvokedTrope part of the lesson]] which Victor wants Gleb to learn, and, ideally, reconsider and return to medicine.
* GoneHorriblyRight:

* GoneHorriblyWrong: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Gleb, despite spending entire day doing hard work which was put on him by Victor, still denies that something is wrong. While Kisegach worries that it may actually lead to Gleb quitting the medicine and going into business for real, Victor (who actually saw in what condition Gleb currently is) thinks that him denying having problems and fighting to the end is actually a good sign (it means that he has at least ''some'' willpower), so the plan continues until he does break and admit defeat (by which point, he would learn to value what he had before).

** When Levin gloats to Phil about his success with Lisa (who was actually hired to try and date him), while insulting Lyuba, Rita and Polina, along with their partners, current or ex (Kupitman, Lyosha, Timur). Then the curtain falls out, and Levin learns that the girls are here and can hear him; and Lisa is here, too. And they are all angry at Levin. Phil just tells him to run.

* {{Nepotism}}: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Gleb expected that his father would put him as his right-hand man and they would make a lot of money together; Victor kicks him out of his chair and orders to do the tasks reserved for low-rank workers: paper work, courier job, sitting on phone, etc. He also puts him in the same office with the other workers, saying that he has no time to explain, so if something goes wrong, he has to ask his new coworkers.