Lyuba is tired of all this secrecy; she wants at least some freedom to show feelings outside of Kupitman's house (Sophia finally moved in with Gleb). He promises to do something, this very evening. To free some time for Lyuba, Kupitman forces Phil to stay on a night shift today (screw the schedule). Phil, naturally, dislikes this idea and tries to refuse, but Kupitman plays the "I'm your boss" card, leaving him no chance. When Phil's patients turns out to be a member of some swinger club, Phil comes up with an idea: to give Kupitman the address of that club (without explaining what it is), and wait for the fallout. Kupitman takes the bait, and invites Lyuba on a date to the new club he just found, stating that he has a VIP pass. When the two arrives in the club, everything seemingly goes fine at first; they're partying, and already have some new friends. Then they separates — and only then Kupitman and Lyuba learns what kind of club this is. Kupitman barely manages to take violently angry Lyuba away before the situation becomes even worse than it already is (she just broke the nose of the guy who tried to have sex with her). Kupitman realises that it was Phil's prank on them, and tells Lyuba to pretend that they actually liked it, to deny Phil the satisfaction of victory: making him think that he actually pleased his boss would make Phil miserable and envious, which is the best vengeance they can do.
Kisegach fell asleep on her workplace (she couldn't sleep properly last night), and started seeing nightmares about Sophia (who, for whatever reason, turns out to be a vampire) "stealing" Gleb away, who quietly begs his mother to save him, only for her to fail every time. Meanwhile, Sophia isn't particularly happy with Gleb warning his mother about their marriage, but he insists that they can't hide it forever, so why not tell her now? She is sane woman, and only wishes his son good. He suggests to finally go and discuss it properly. But Sophia tries to avoid it, becoming progressively more nervous; when she leaves, Bykov (who overheard the whole discussion) suggests Gleb to just give Sophia light sedatives, like he did with Kisegach, who's extremely nervous over Gleb. Soon afterwards, Kisegach (who continues falling asleep at random and seeing nightmares) talks to Bykov and tells him about her worries: maybe they should cancel the wedding? Bykov assures her that she's just nervous due to wanting the best for her son, and that nothing bad would happen... only for it to end up being another nightmare. Bykov tells her to just go home and take some sleep, but before either she or Sophia can leave, Gleb forces them to finally talk to each other — and that's when sedatives finally hits in, with the same results as with Kisegach.
Bykov, angry at Polina for "trying to kill him" (by putting slightly more sugar than required in his tea), gives her whopping five patients. But she already knows how to drop them on Timur. Timur, meanwhile, brought non-alcoholic bear in the hospital: he prepares for a night shift, where he would watch (in recording) a hockey match between his favourite club and its rival. Bykov, rather disappointed at not finding any excuse to punish him, lets him go. Polina, who is aware about this hockey match and why it's so important for Timur (she knows that he can't watch it live and would watch it later, and thus would rather avoid spoilers), starts blackmailing him with the threat of spoiling results prematurely, unless he takes her patients. But when Timur deals with the patients, Polina decides to exploit him further, and forces him to bring her food — and then complains about it being the wrong food, because she's allegedly on a diet... which she instantly contradicts by forcing him to order her meat pizza. Polina doesn't stop at just that, either, demanding more and more each time. When Polina sends Timur to buy a cake, Lyuba suggests to invite him to their tea party as well — after doing all the work, he deserves this — but Polina refuses, insisting that this is "only for them, the girls". Rita also suggests to stop abusing Timur before he snaps. But both of them seemingly drops any objections when Polina forces Timur to dance for them (he suggested it purely sarcastically, but Polina decided to go along with it). Just as Rita warned, Timur soon snaps, and complains to Bykov — who's not happy with Polina distracting Timur from his patients for completely insignificant things like bringing her food; not only he punishes her with a night shift, but he forces her to take all Timur's patients. He also tells her to not spoil the match: that would be just too low, even for her.
This episode provides examples of:
- Analogy Backfire: When Gleb tries to assure Sophia that there would be nothing bad from talking with his mother, and also points that "this is like caries: if you wait for too long, you may lose all your teeth". Then he remembers about him telling about that marriage to Sophia's father (and the problems it caused), and just admits that yes, the analogy was terrible, and he meant entirely different thing.
- Bait-and-Switch: It seems that Polina finally revealed (via text message) the score to Timur, who just started watching the match... nope, she messed with him and that score was fake. She personally arrives to reveal this and laugh.
- Blackmail Backfire: Polina, being Timur's ex-wife, knows that he is hockey fan. She also knows that he can't watch important match now, so he would watch it later in recording, and for now would rather avoid spoilers. Naturally, she exploits it to force him into accepting her five patients, so she may go free. She doesn't stop at that, deciding to exploit him further; this ultimately backfires, as Timur decides to take the risk and complain to Bykov, who sides with him and punishes Polina.
- Daydream Surprise: Kisegach, due to not sleeping properly, keeps falling asleep on her workplace, seeing nightmares about Sophia "stealing" Gleb from her. First one is obviously a dream (even before Sophia suddenly became a vampire), while second one looks like an actual dialogue between Kisegach and Sophia... then Sophia starts threatening her and showing snake-like tongue and eyes, before transforming into an actual white snake. And then the third one occurs even more suddenly, when Bykov starts explaining to her that she has nothing to fear about.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Bykov asks Polina to put two little spoons of sugar in his tea, but she accidentally puts five. His response? Accuse her of murder attempt and give her five patients (interns considers themselves unlucky if they receive more than one). Unknowingly to Bykov, however, Polina already knows how to drop them on Timur: good old blackmail.
- Everyone Has Standards: Bykov finds nothing wrong with blackmail, and actually uses it himself. But Polina forcing Timur to act as her personal slave resulted in him not having time for his patients — and there's nothing more important for the doctor than his patients! This is where the "funny prank" crosses into "dangerous sabotage". Naturally, he punishes Polina for it with both a night shift and taking Timur's patients. He also warns her to not spoil the score to Timur, because this would be just too mean after he did so much for her.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Invoked by Kupitman. After Phil's "swinger club" prank actually succeeds, Kupitman pretends that he actually liked it and thanks Phil. When Lyuba (who was certainly not pleased by experience with this club) asks him why he did this, Kupitman reveals his plan: now Phil wouldn't stop thinking about it — and envying. Had he just yelled at him, this would've only showed to Phil that his plan is successful, but now he would think that he actually lost. Lyuba agrees with this interpretation and even laughs herself.
- Jerkass Ball: Whatever her previous story with Timur was, Polina (usually nicer amongst interns) acts just mean to him. Her dropping all five of her patients on him was harsh, but at least had a practical meaning (she can't deal with them by herself). Her continuing blackmailing him, so he would bring her food, and then complain about it being the "bad" food? And then demanding meat pizza, despite presumably being on a diet (which she used as excuse to reject what he brought up initially)? That's where she stops being "the vengeful victim" and becomes the bully herself, without any provocation from Timur's side. This ultimately backfires on her.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Had Polina stopped at one of the earlier points, she would've got away with blackmailing Timur to do her bidding. But she continues exploiting him, until he snaps and complains to Bykov, who actually takes Timur's side and punishes Polina, since she distracts Timur from his actual duties for things like bringing her food or moving her around.
- Moving the Goalposts: Polina is never satisfied, always demanding more. Timur dealt with Polina's patients? Now, she's hungry! Wait, the food he just brought is bad: she suddenly chose to start diet, bring another! Found the vegetarian food? She now wants meat pizza, just because! And so on. Timur eventually decides to take the risk and complain to Bykov.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Giving any man who wants to go on a date with his Love Interest an address of swinger club would be rather dick move in any other circumstances... but Kupitman acted so mean to Phil, up to and including forcing him on the night shift out of order so he may have a free evening (and this isn't one-time event, either, he makes things like this semi regularly), he thoroughly deserves it.
- Shout-Out: Kisegach's third nightmare references The Snow Queen, with Sophia as the Snow Queen and Gleb as Kai (who tries to make the word "wedding" from ice shards).
