Bykov is tired of Alexei's non-ending screwups, and gives him the last chance — either he saves his patient, or Bykov would kick him out. Unfortunately, he just doesn't know what to do with said patient, being more familiar with manual work like fixing broken beds than with anatomy. The locksmith, whom Lyosha had helped earlier with a broken bed, asks him to help with another task, clearly seeing that Alexei's more skilled at that than him. And then with another one. And another. And another... On the last one, Bykov busts them and orders Lyosha to take off the coat, as it "obstructs his real self, that of a locksmith instead of a doctor". Now dressed as a locksmith, Alexei asks Bykov to give him another chance, and says that while he knows what to do with broken things on almost instinctive level, he struggles with living people. When he demonstrates his "diagnostics" skills on a broken teapot and provides a "treatment", Bykov comes up with an idea; he forces Alexei to imagine that he deals not with patients, but with "broken people", who have "machine parts" instead of organs, which actually provides some results. But even after realising how to deal with the patients, Alexei still fails the final task, as the "treatment" he suggests would only kill the patient quicker. But Bykov is in good mood, due to Alexei finally starting thinking (him not doing so was the real reason for his anger), and decides to let him stay anyway, as well as explains where he did a mistake with the patient.
Maxim's uncle Vladimir is in Moscow, and wants to visit his nephew — and see how he works here. The problem is, Max can't allow him to meet Bykov, so he asks Kupitman to impersonate him. Max would impress his uncle, Kupitman would receive his cognac — what a beneficial alliance! When Vladimir arrives, Max lies that the room which Bykov provided interns with is his "personal office". Then Kupitman starts complimenting Maxim's "great talents". Unfortunately, rather than leave to Maxim's apartment, Vladimir decides to stay for a little longer and see his nephew in action. When Bykov yells at Max for his stupidity, and then starts ordering around (still at high volume), Maxim lies that it's their "local lunatic", who's kept around due to being Chief Doctor's husband, whom she's afraid to leave at home, and that everyone plays along with his antics to avoid troubles. Later, Bykov meets Vladimir in "Maxim's office", and asks him what he's doing here. Vladimir tries to "explain" in a way which, as he thinks, would be understandable for "lunatic", but weird speech manner only makes himself look like one, and Bykov tries to catch him. Ultimately, all four — Bykov, Vladimir, Kupitman and Maxim — meets in the same place, and Max gets forced to reveal the truth. And then it turns out that Vladimir knows his nephew well enough, and arrived here specifically to check whether he has someone who may keep him under control; with Bykov being Max's mentor, he knows that he has.
Sophia must work with Gleb... who was ordered by Kupitman to never, ever speak with her, unless absolutely necessary and work-related. Since she still can't remember anything about that night (and Gleb refuses to remind her), she thinks that something bad has happened. She starts speculating just what she did to make Gleb hating her. She comes up with several versions, each worse than the previous one — her raping Gleb right in taxi; her throwing up right in taxi; her pissing herself right in taxi... Gleb refuses to confirm any of them. Lyuba forces Gleb to tell the real reason at least to her, and he reveals that actual story was a combo of all three of Sophias's versions, taking a little from each. Since Lyuba doesn't believe that it was enough to boycott Sophia, Gleb reveals how he and Sophia accidentally disturbed Kupitman by banging his door late at night while drunkly making out. When Lyuba still doesn't think that it was bad enough, Gleb tells her about Kupitman's order to never talk with Sophia again. When asked why he didn't just tell Sophia so, Gleb explains that he thinks that she would try to violate this order just to spite her uncle, with which Lyuba agrees, but suggests to try and find a workaround. Gleb then goes to Sophia and lies that the reason for him boycotting her was her refusing his drunk advances, which makes her hate him — but prevents her from trying to get close to him again; Kupitman would be pleased.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Amongst Sophia's speculations just what she could have done to deserve Gleb's ire are her raping him right in taxi; her throwing up right in taxi; and, worst of all, her pissing herself right in taxi. Actual events were the mix of all three (she tried, but failed to seduce Gleb; threw up in the window of taxi; and they stopped on the bridge (despite it being illegal), so she may pee, outside of taxi).
- Break Her Heart to Save Her: Gleb for a full episode acts like a jerk to Sophia in hope that she would leave him alone out of disgust. In the end, when it doesn't work (and she starts trying to guess just what really happened), he just lies to her that she simply rejected his attempts to have sex with her, ensuring that she would never bother him again, thus fulfilling Kupitman's orders, who wants Gleb nowhere near Sophia as he believes that Gleb has bad influence on her.
- That Came Out Wrong: Alexei asks whether his patient has a heartburn, and, when receives a negative response, replies with "what a pity" (meaning that he just lost his only clue for patient's diagnosis). He tries to hastily correct himself... which he only does successfully after a second try.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Maxim tries to impress his uncle Vladimir by hiring Kupitman to impersonate Bykov (while passing real Bykov as "just some lunatic"). Plan utterly fails when Bykov contacts Vladimir by himself, and soon after that Max gets forced to admit everything. Bykov also forces him to serve as their officiant as a punishment (including for Vladimir), to which Vladimir doesn't even try to object, finding it funny.
- Digging Yourself Deeper:
- After accidentally saying that it's a "pity" that the patient doesn't have a heartburn, Alexei tries to apologise... badly:Alexei: Do you have a heartburn? [negative response] What a pity... I mean, it's bad that you don't... I mean, good... Okay, let's just wait for tests' results".
- When Bykov punishes Alexei for wasting time helping locksmith with repairing things (instead of doing his actual task — which, by the way, is his last chance to even stay in internship, and Alexei knows this), locksmith tries to "defend" Alexei by stating that he has "golden hands". Bykov counters it by stating that Lyosha has a "wooden head", and forces Lyosha to take off his coat, dressing as a locksmith instead.
- After accidentally saying that it's a "pity" that the patient doesn't have a heartburn, Alexei tries to apologise... badly:
- "Eureka!" Moment: After Alexei explains that he understands how broken tech works almost instinctively, while struggles with actual live patients, Bykov forces him to demonstrate it on their broken teapot. When Alexei tells him both a "diagnosis" and a "treatment", Bykov forces him to imagine that he works not with patients, but with "broken people" (replacing organs with machine parts in his speech, to support illusion). It helps with Alexei's lack of confidence, and even though he never comes up with diagnosis for his patient, Bykov still spares him, while previously it was stated that it's his last chance.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Maxim's punishment (acting like an officiant, even for his own uncle) is direct result of his attempt to pass Kupitman for Bykov in order to impress his uncle Vladimir. Not even Vladimir objects, as the punishment is well-deserved.
- Mr. Fixit: Alexei again confirms that he can fix pretty much everything, from a broken bed to broken conditioner or door lock. It also gives Bykov an idea how to apply Lyosha's skills to medicine.
- Smug Snake: Turns out that Vladimir is aware of his nephew being a sleazy cheater; he actually arrived to check whether he has someone to control him, and is happy to see that under Bykov, none of Maxim's tricks ever works.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Lyuba suggests a possibility that Gleb refuses to speak with Sophia due to them having drunk sex, and then immediately adds that it's just the speculation and never, ever happened with her.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: Fortunately, the camera cuts away just when Sophia throws up, so we can only hear the sounds.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Sophia can't remember what she did that night she went into a club with Gleb, but considering that Gleb refuses to speak with her since then, she expects the worst.
