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Recap / The Interns S 7 E 3

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Varya needs a gynaecologist (just a standard examination, nothing unusual), but because her regular one is on maternity leave, she must ask somebody from the hospital. All goes fine, but then the gynecologist Vladlen Nikolaevich, who was supposed to examine her, has to leave, and Kupitman replaces him, not knowing that he's gonna check Varya (who panics and screams on him). They tries again, but Varya still panics and accidentally kicks him in the face. Galya tells her that Kupitman thoroughly deserved it, because "examination" is just his excuse for harassment (he'd tried that trick on her once). Meanwhile, Vladlen returns, and Varya seemingly can attend the "normal" gynecologist... but when she goes there, Vladlen leaves again and she still runs into Kupitman, on whom she immediately yells as soon as she sees him (again, without him even knowing that his patient is gonna be Varya).

Lobanov finds some lost USB flash drive and decides that "if it just lies on the floor without owner in sight, it's not stealing", so he takes it for himself. He leaves it in on-call room until later. Meanwhile, Phil gets tasked with protecting Bykov's new bike, "Isolde" (which he brought into the hospital), from vandals and people like Gleb (who wants to touch something they are forbidden to). It turns out to be so horribly boring, he proceeds to read anything he could find... including Lobanov's flash drive, where he finds some suicide-related poetry. He rushes to Olga, leaving Gleb to watch over "Isolde". Now they must watch over Semyon to prevent him from trying anything... but Phil can't do it himself, or Semyon wouldn't react well, so Phil asks Gleb for help. Gleb, knowing that Semyon and poetry are mutually exclusive, tells everything to Lobanov, and they decides to play a prank on Phil by playing along with his fears. Phil is so scared of Lobanov possibly killing himself, he suggests Olga to temporarily stop their relationship, so Lobanov would have time to calm down. Olga instead suggests to speak with Semyon by herself... and quickly tricks Lobanov into proving that he is unrelated to that poetry, when he she asks him to remind her the last line in a rhyme, and he botches it, despite claiming to be the author. Lobanov then just tells her that he feels bad without her and wants her back, but Olga only orders him to leave her and Phil alone.

Now, when Bykov has that bike, Kisegach can't stop thinking that he may end up injured or killed (or injured so hard, he would wish he was killed), and sees nightmares about it. She tasks Gleb with breaking the bike to the point it would cease to work, in hope that Bykov would throw it out in rage and forget about it. Gleb does get the chance when Phil leaves him alone with the bike. Comes the evening, and Bykov invites Kisegach to ride with him, and she fails to find a reason to refuse... and it turns out that Gleb accidentally ruined the bike's brakes, and only thanks to Bykov's skill they manages to survive (without even breaking the bike), by hitting a flowerbed; she's now very angry at Gleb... but he reveals to her that he never touched the bike at all, and told everything to Bykov instead, who did this on purpose to show her that he knows what he's doing (while she clearly does not, because her plan was actually very dangerous). After that, Kisegach finally stops fearing and starts trusting Bykov.


This episode provides examples of:

  • Badass Biker: Kisegach's second dream shows her becoming a cool and self-confident biker herself, just like Bykov, showing that she's no longer afraid of Bykov becoming a biker again.
  • Bluff the Impostor: Olga knows that Semyon never wrote a poem... or even read one, in his life, so him to suddenly start writing rhymes is something extremely unusual (let alone, something suicide-related). She asks Phil (who's scared) to leave home, so she may speak with Semyon by herself... and then she tricks him into revealing that he simply claimed somebody else's rhymes to win some attention — by asking him to finish the last line of one rhyme, which he fails to do (with his response both ruining the rhyme and being too bland, in contrast with the rest of poetry which actually has some artistic value).
  • Bookend: The episode starts with Kisegach's nightmare about Bykov being injured thanks to his bike. The episode ends with her dream where she becomes a cool biker herself, which she actually likes.
  • Catapult Nightmare: The episode opens with Kisegach awakening from a nightmare about Bykov ending up crippled after crashing on his bike.
  • Dirty Old Man: When Varya tells about the incident with Kupitman to Galya, Galya tells her that Kupitman already tricked her with the same words about being "just a doctor", while in truth he was driven by his lust. It's unknown whether it's what really happened, or how she perceived it: on the one hand, it's Kupitman (a known womaniser), on another hand, Galya's arguments are entirely based on him "looking on her suspiciously", not even his actual actions.
  • I Call It "Vera": Bykov calls his new bike "Isolde". He brings it into the hospital, partly to brag and partly to protect it from vandals.
  • Lethally Stupid: Kisegach asks Gleb to "cut something" in Bykov's bike, hoping that if it wouldn't start, Bykov would give up on it. Gleb actually tells about this to Bykov, who pretends that Gleb proceeded with the plan and blindly cut some wire which turns out to be the brakes, so Bykov can "save" himself and Anastasia through his skill. When Kisegach realises what just nearly happened, Bykov explains to her that he did this on purpose, to show that he knows what he's doing, while she clearly does not. She stops trying to meddle with Bykov's bike after that — as stops fearing it.
  • Sophisticated as Hell: Suicide-related rhymes Phil finds on "Lobanov's" flash drive consists of a mix of artistic descriptions and profanities.
  • Troll: When Gleb and Semyon finds out about the story with suicide-related poetry, they decide to play along with Phil's fears (Phil thinks that it belongs to Lobanov, while in truth he just scavenged somebody else's flash drive with them), just to mess with him.
  • Unprovoked Pervert Payback: Kupitman temporarily replaces an actual gynecologist on his request, not knowing that his patient is gonna be Varya; Varya panics twice on the first attempt (accidentally hitting him in the face), and outright attacks him on the second, believing Galya, who claimed that Kupitman would try to harass her. However, Kupitman does nothing that an actual gynecologist wouldn't do, and Galya's assumption that Kupitman is gonna harass Varya (and harassed Galya herself in the past) is based entirely on Kupitman "having weird spark in his eyes" — not even his actions.

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