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 he's wasting time and efforts invested into him; not to mention that only a moron would entrust complete newbie with running a business. Victor offers to cooperate: he would accept Gleb, but make this job a living hell, so he would learn that business is just as hard of a job as medicine, and go back to do something he at least knows; for that end, Victor gives him various boring, energy-draining and time-consuming tasks in order to scare him off. Kisegach, meanwhile, has a conflict with Bykov, who's not happy with her asking her ex-husband for help when she has a current one. Comes evening; Gleb is exhausted after a hard day, but Victor doesn't let him sleep and instead forces to read educational literature. Victor himself goes to a restaurant with Kisegach, where he asks whether the plan worked; turns out that nope, Gleb never tried to ask to be accepted back. Victor sees him not giving up as a good trait, but promises to keep pressing until Gleb gives up.
Levin tries to flirt with a patient whom he just discharged, by gifting her two cinema tickets. But she instantly shoots him down, stating that he's absolutely not her type. Levin takes rejection 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 rejects him 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 idea: 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 being 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 an attractive girl (who introduces herself as Lisa), who actually starts flirting with him first. It seems that they're gonna go 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...
This episode provides examples of:
- Analogy Backfire: Victor says that he wants to teach Gleb how to fight to the end, rather than run away like a chick as soon as he sees something easier. Anastasia points that they originally wanted to have a girl.
- Basement-Dweller: Levin still lives with his mother, who still orders him how he should dress. It's states as one of the reason for his consistent failures with women.
- The Bore: One of the things stated to be the reason for Levin's unpopularity is his arrogance and inability to talk about anything but science, regardless of whether the other people are interested or not.
- Brick Joke: 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, to ensure that it wouldn't be forgotten? 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 worth something, no matter who his father is, as it would be harmful to business; he would start with far simpler tasks, like... paper work, or courier job. All of this is part of the lesson which Victor wants Gleb to learn, and, ideally, reconsider and return to medicine.
- Gone Horribly Right: Both of Phil's plans how to help Levin do what he wanted... and both causes more harm than good while doing so.
- Phil hides Levin in a closet, and asks Lyuba, Rita and Polina what they think about him (so Levin may hear them). What they says hurts Levin's confidence so much, that when Phil opens the closet, Levin asks to close it again; him putting off glasses indicates that he was crying.
- Plan "B" involves finding a girl who would hit on Levin by herself, so Levin wouldn't think that he's a loser. It causes his confidence to skyrocket, making him to act like an arrogant jerk again (which, unsurprisingly, later causes Lisa to quit the plan).
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Subverted. 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 thing (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).
- I'm Standing Right Here:
- Lyuba, Rita and Polina describes Levin rather negatively when discussing with Phil why Levin is unpopular with women. It leads Levin (who hid in the cabinet) into even deeper depression.
- 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, and Levin escapes, pursued by angry women.
- Kick the Dog: The way Levin tells Phil about Lyuba, Rita and Polina being just jealous sounds unnecessary rude, not to mention, insulting towards people not involved at all. Lyuba "had found some old alcoholic, out of desperation", Rita "dates a moron from Torzhok", and Polina "was divorced by some Buryat" (Timur is Kazakh, so the last one is also racist).
- Moving the Goalposts: 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 off!).
- Nepotism: Subverted. 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. And when Gleb thinks that he may at least rest after doing it all, he dumps tons of educational literature at him and states that he would wake Gleb up at 7 a.m., while Gleb likely wouldn't even finish reading by that point.
- Non-Action Guy: Levin being weak-willed and just weak in general is listed as one of the reasons why he's so unpopular with women.
- Refuge in Audacity: In the end, Levin calls Lisa and invites her into a restaurant; when she reminds him that she was paid to date him, he says that it just means that she has money. She instead tells him that she would pay him if he deletes her number. He tries to insist on her going with him, but receives the notification that he was blocked.
- Stealth Insult: Lobanov tells Gleb that "big money corrupts the man". Gleb replies that it's exactly why Semyon would always remain good.
- Too Much Information: When Rita starts describing that Levin, when screaming, starts accumulating white foam around his mouth, Phil tells her to stop, as it disgusts him. At that point, he knows more than enough to see why Levin is so unpopular.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Bykov is not happy with Kisegach asking Victor for help with Gleb; he makes it clear that next time, she should warn him first. However, the way he delivers his point only provokes yet another quarrel between them, both because of his rudeness and because of Bykov doing another wacky antic.
