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Recap / The Interns S 2 E 10

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This time, to make things more interesting, Bykov decides to divide interns into two teams (Varya and Levin versus Semyon and Gleb), give them the patients with similar symptoms and test who would come with correct diagnosis first. Those who fails, would stay on a night shift. In attempt to win, interns starts conspiring against each other, with progressively more complex and despicable schemes.

In the end, Romanenko and Lobanov seemingly wins... only for Levin to appear and tell that Bykov's original diagnosis was incorrect all along, which leads to Bykov abandoning his and Kupitman's bet altogether and rush to the patients. Working together, they finally deduces correct diagnosis, and, for the first time, interns can go home together, with no one being punished.


This episode provides examples of:

  • The Bet: Bykov and Kupitman have a bet: which team would finish their task fist. Kupitman bets on Lobanov/Romanenko team, while Bykov on Varya/Levin.
  • Blatant Lies: The fake diagnosis Levin and Varya comes up with to fool Gleb and Semyon is blatantly made up and silly-sounding; the two still falls for it. Bykov outright mocks them when they tries to present it.
  • Bluff the Eavesdropper: Lobanov tries to eavesdrop on Levin and Varya, but they makes up a fake disease just to fool him and Gleb. They even repeats this several times, slowly, to be sure that even Semyon can remember it. This works.
  • Enemy Mine: When it turns out that Bykov's diagnosis was incorrect, the bet gets cancelled, and the two teams unites to (with Bykov's help) find what's wrong with the patients and prescribe a treatment.
  • The Klutz: Varya manages to break an ampule with patient's blood before she even leaves her ward.
  • Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Levin, as usually, uses too many medical terms, which only confuses his patient when he tries to interrogate her.
  • Skewed Priorities:
    • Lobanov, instead of learning any meaningful information, wastes time on questioning the patient about his vacation.
    • When he learns about Bykov's original diagnosis being incorrect, meaning that the whole competition was for nothing, Kupitman asks if the bet still in effect... while Bykov is more concerned with the fact that two of his patients have not been diagnosed for the whole day.
  • Twist Ending: Instead of one of the two teams "winning" by guessing the correct diagnosis first, it turns out that Bykov's original diagnosis was incorrect all along! This renders the whole conflict moot.

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