Turns out what Katia isn't even a prostitute; she is a journalist. She hides this because her profession has almost as bad reputation as actual prostitutes (and many don't see much difference between the two), and only reveals this now because she trusts Phil. Phil tells Timur and Polina that he knows about Katia's profession — which highly surprises them both, as they still believes that she's a hooker. They starts openly insulting Katia in front of Phil, with Polina outright calling her her a prostitute. Phil remembers his morning discussion with Katia, and accuses them of being prejudiced towards journalists. It's when they explains how they originally met her; Phil gets so shocked by sheer idiocy of the situation, it takes him some time to pronounce anything comprehensive in any of the two languages. Now, he wants nothing to do with either of them. It seems that now he would dump Katia, too, but suddenly Phil decides to call her, and learn whether she's actually a hooker or not, to close that topic once and for all. Phil invites everyone involved, to discuss the situation. To everyone's surprise, Katia still insists that she's a journalist, saying that she merely pretended to be a hooker to gather material for a new article; it was literally first time when she received any "order". She actually likes Phil, that's why she had sex with him; as for money, it was required to maintain her cover. Polina is almost ready to believe, but Timur presses further. Katia realises that she's out of arguments, and leaves. Only when she leaves, Phil notices that Katia forgot her documents, and sees that she's indeed a journalist. Fortunately, he manages to catch up with her, and apologise.
Kisegach is still angry after Bykov's last prank — and for him always playing his games instead of paying attention to her. Bykov says that he would do "everything" to earn her forgiveness — and she orders him to attend psychologist together, which he takes as some unfunny joke on him. But Kisegach thinks that this is the only chance to change Bykov for the better, and she would take it. During the psychotherapy session, Kisegach talks about all the problems she has with Bykov not paying any attention to what's going on, and making little efforts to improve the situation, while Bykov... plays his phone. When Kisegach briefly leaves, Bykov reveals that he recognises the psychologist as a fellow gamer, and the two quickly becomes friends. When Kisegach returns, the psychologist tells her that they would need several individual sessions with Bykov — which, unknowingly to her, is just an excuse to give Bykov some privacy to play with his new friend. The first such session is scheduled for today. In the middle of the night, Kisegach realises that Bykov is still not at home, and calls him; he lies about the "therapy"... but forgets to turn off his phone afterwards, resulting in Kisegach hearing him playing.
Both Sophia and Lyuba thinks that their sexual life became much, much better recently; meanwhile, Gleb and Kupitman both feels extremely exhausted after attempts to maintain this temp. Kupitman takes it especially hard, looking clearly unhealthy; and this time, it's not even alcohol-related. Later, Kupitman, still looking not that well, asks Lyuba whether they may skip this day's "night of love", on which she agrees. But when she asks him whether he's "tired", Kupitman suddenly insists that everything would happen anyway. To not let Lyuba down, Kupitman needs viagra, but literally every time he tries to buy it, someone whom he knows shows up; he gives up, and sends Gleb instead, ignoring Gleb's advice to just skip the day and rest. Unfortunately, the combination of bad health, viagra and sex causes Kupitman a heart attack, nearly killing him and forcing Lyuba to call for ambulance. Since Bykov has no idea what caused Kupitman's condition (and neither is Lyuba), Gleb reveals that it was caused by viagra — and why Kupitman took it. Bykov can't resist to go to Lyuba and give her his best smug smile: yes, he now knows their secret!
This episode provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: Katia finally reveals her profession to Phil. She was ashamed of telling him the truth, because not everyone likes... journalists.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Just after angering Phil with revelation that she and Timur have fooled him into dating a prostitute, Polina tries to bring up his gay parents as being "weird, too". Phil just rudely interrupts her and tells her to shut up.
- Dirty Harriet: Katia (a journalist) went undercover as a hooker, so she may learn more about Moscow prostitutes for her new article (they aren't very talkative to outsiders). When asked what was her plan in case someone actually tries to have sex with her, she reveals that she has a shocker, a pepper spray and a switchblade.
- The Dog Bites Back: Kupitman not only ignores Gleb's (rather reasonable) advices, but also insults him. Then he sends him to buy viagra, because he prefers people he meets on everyday basis to not witnessing him doing this. Gleb does that... and then, on question whether he needs something else, replied that "nope, Kupitman asked only for viagra".
- Foreign-Language Tirade: Like it always happens when he is shocked, Phil (after learning about the whole "hire a prostitute" plan) switches to English, angrily asking what the hell is wrong with Timur and Polina so they came up with this "plan".
- Internal Reveal: After Kupitman's viagra-induced heart attack, Bykov learns (from Gleb, who informed him about the reason for this heart attack) about Kupitman's relationship with Lyuba. Since Bykov certainly has no hesitation to reveal this secret, there's no doubt that soon it would be known to literally everyone.
- Is This Thing Still On?: When Kisegach calls him in the middle of the night (asking where he is), Bykov forgets to turn off his phone afterwards, which results in her hearing sounds from his video game and his comments about it, realising that he fooled her into letting him to stay and play instead of going home.
- Last-Second Word Swap: Kupitman tries to buy viagra, but is too shy to do it in presence of the witnesses from their hospital, and all the time switches "viagra" to some other drugs (or vitamins) at the last moment. At one moment he gives up and just tries to send Gleb.
- Mistaken for Prostitute: Despite circumstances under which Timur hired Katia, she isn't a prostitute — she's a journalist (she pretended to be a hooker, so she may collect material about actual prostitutes for her new article). She plays along with Timur and Polina thinking that she's a prostitute because the truth would likely only decrease their trust to her, and only reveals it to Phil. Then Timur and Polina reveals their plan to Phil, which forces Katia to prove her real profession — with no one believing.
- Sherlock Scan: Psychologist's red eyes clearly shows that he sits in his office until late night. He has big monitor, gamer mouse and a box from some strategy game about tanks, clearly showing what he's doing here when he has no patients. As Bykov states, all of this suggests that he often stays here instead of going home, and large number of messages he receives on his phone during their session suggests that his wife isn't exactly happy with this. All of this turns out to be entirely true.
- Therapy Backfire: After analysing several details in psychologist's office, Bykov quickly realises that this guy is too similar to him to try to teach him a lesson without sounding like a hypocrite in process, and so, he may as well not even bother. Then it turns out that they both plays the same game online, and even actually know each other under their respective nicknames, after which they joins sides against Kisegach.
- Too Dumb to Live: Kupitman, despite being in very bad shape due to regular sex (too extreme task for his organism, traumatised by years of alcoholism), with painfully obvious dyspnea, decides to use viagra to have sex with Lyuba no matter what. This predictably results in near fatal heart attack.
- The Unintelligible: Phil gets so shocked by revelation that Polina and Timur have hired a prostitute for him, it takes him several seconds to even manage to pronounce anything intelligible, initially only coming with rapid-fire "wha-wha-wha-wha...". Even then, whatever he says gets mangled (with him jumping to a different phrase mid-saying, all at rapid speed), to the point that only last part is clear enough — and it's in English.Polina: Can you translate this, please?
Timur: Why? Everything is clear already, isn't it? - What the Hell, Hero?: Phil doesn't react well to revelation that Katia was hired by Timur and Polina as a prostitute (that she turns out to be not a prostitute, doesn't excuse them, since they learned this only from Phil himself), and angrily calls them out on this — when he manages to pronounce anything meaningful at all, that is.
