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Recap / The Interns S 9 E 11

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Phil's patient is a young attractive woman... who, for some reason, has absolutely no interest to sex. Phil considers this to be weird, and asks Kupitman for help. Kupitman agrees, only to immediately start flirting with a patient. To shut him up, she reveals that she's not asexual, it was just her ill-fated attempt to spark Phil's interest. Kupitman, intrigued by how it may work out, agrees to keep her secret. Unfortunately, Phil misses all the clues and forces her to attend all spectrum of tests. Phil checks the results, and it turns out that she's... pregnant. If she had no sex for six years as she and Kupitman claims, it may only mean one of two things: either she's pregnant from God... or she simply lied. Phil confronts the patient on her behaviour, but as soon as he hears about pregnancy, she loses interest to him, realising that it's from one of her old boyfriends, whom she may now force into marriage.

Gleb's patient rejects him and insists on "more experienced" doctor. Gleb points that the only "more experienced" doctor here is Bykov, and, when patient insists on calling him then, says what Bykov is "too busy". However, the patient then points that they may ask the Chief Doctor instead (which would end bably for Gleb). Not being able to ask the real Bykov, Gleb asks Lobanov to impersonate him — the patient doesn't know how Bykov really looks like, so all he needs is a pair of glasses, clean coat and new badge. Semyon also promises to "personally curate" Gleb's work. Kisegach learns about Lobanov impersonating Bykov, and asks him to play him on important meeting with her investors. But when Lobanov learns that he's about to "agree" to treat VIP patients for free from Bykov's name, he backs out; to Kisegach, he says that she can't even punish him without making Bykov know, which would backfire on her. Then Lobanov gets confronted by the patient on still not being treated (he's about to go complain to Kisegach), and Lobanov defuses the situation by yelling on Gleb, Bykov-style, and ordering him to go to his patient at once. Gleb compliments him on good impersonation... and suggests to return to his old self, since he resembles a real Bykov way too much for comfort.

Bykov plans to play his new video game (some new one about Batman), and wants no interns near him for the rest of the day: they would ruin the fun. But Polina is unaware of this, due to being late to work. Semyon exploits this at first opportunity and sends her to Bykov, as a prank. But Bykov learns who had sent her, and punishes them both with a night shift — which they would serve together. Polina later gets asked for help by Gleb (who doesn't know what to do with his patient), and Polina, thinking that she has nothing left to lose, agrees to ask — only to get a second night shift; then Bykov remembers that she'd asked for different problem the first time, and, after learning about Gleb, punishes him too. Later she tries to send Phil instead, but he refuses, stating that he prefers quiet Bykov to angry Bykov at any time of a day. Polina confronts Bykov herself, and gets punished with two more shifts, plus one for Phil, just because. Polina is now on the verge of becoming an outcast again, due to causing the problems to everyone, but she comes with a solution: if they cooperate to annoy Bykov enough, he would let them go just to stay alone with his game for once. While it nearly costs them fifteen shifts, ultimately the plan works.


This episode provides examples of:

  • Casanova Wannabe: Even without Phil's patient being romantically interested in Phil, Kupitman's flirting attempts with her were so blatant (not to mention age gap), his chance at success was slim at best.
  • Cure Your Gays: Phil's patient's plan in nutshell is to invoke and exploit it; she pretends to be asexual, Phil falls for it and tries to "cure" her, she plays along and voila, they starts dating. Kupitman agrees to keep her plan secret, so he can see how it would end by itself.
  • Digging Yourself Deeper: When Bykov calls Polina out on distracting him, which resulted in him losing a life in his new game, and reminds her that he specifically ordered to not disturb him, she counters it by being late to work and missing this order. Bykov then points out that by this she only makes her situation worse.
  • Dirty Old Man: Phil suspects that something may be wrong with his asexual patient (due to her being very young and beautiful, yet never having sex within six years), and asks Kupitman for help. Kupitman immediately jumps at opportunity to (rather blatantly) flirt with her, despite being twice her age (and looking even older).
  • Dumbass Has a Point: When confronted by Kisegach about his refusal to play along in her plan, Lobanov points out that Bykov would not react kindly if he finds out that Kisegach forced him to treat VIP patient for free, through treachery; and only other option she has is to go to real Bykov, who would chew her out on both being distracted and her plan. Kisegach gets genuinely surprised how reasonable Semyon's logic is.
  • Guilt by Association Gag: Bykov orders to not disturb him, so he may play a video games; Phil, while considering this to be immature at best, still prefers quiet playing Bykov to angry yelling Bykov. Polina tries to confront Bykov anyway (and gets punished even more, and once she mentions Phil considering Bykov's behaviour to be bad as well, Bykov punishes him too, just because.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard:
    • Semyon tries to make fun out of Polina, and sends her to Bykov (who specifically ordered to not disturb him, of which Polina was unaware). When confronted by Bykov, Polina reveals Semyon's involvement, which results in them both being punished (her for being late and disturbing Bykov, and Lobanov for orchestrating all this).
    • Invoked by Polina as her plan how to free herself and other interns from (undeserved) night shifts; since Bykov (unfairly) punished them with night shift, they should do what they are intended to do — stay in on-call room and "work". What is it? It disturbs Bykov? Too bad; had he freed them from night shifts (and apologised), they could have leaved, but otherwise... Bykov reluctantly accepts defeat and lifts their punishment.
  • Honorable Marriage Proposal: Inverted. Phil's patient instantly loses interest in him when she realises that she's pregnant from one of her old boyfriends (she doesn't know yet from whom), intending to marry one of them instead.
  • Improbable Age: Gleb's plot gets kickstarted by his patient refusing to believe that Gleb can be as experienced as he claims at such young age. He is actually right (Gleb is only an intern), but unfortunately, Gleb simply can't ask anyone else (especially Bykov), and must find a workaround.
  • Kick the Dog: Semyon exploits Polina's unawareness about Bykov's order to not disturb him, and sends her to him with her work-related questions (expecting her to become a victim of Bykov's wrath). This backfires because once Bykov learns about Lobanov's involvement, he punishes them both... by forcing them to stay on a night shift together.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Instead of helping Polina, Lobanov sends her to Bykov in attempt to cause her being punished. This results in them both being punished... by being forced to serve a night shift together.
  • Metaphorically True: When Gleb says to his patient that Bykov is "too busy" to treat him, he's not lying; he just omitted the part that Bykov is busy with his new video game.
  • Mystical Pregnancy: When Phil learns that his patient (who maintains six years-long celibacy... or so she claims) is pregnant, Kupitman jokingly suggests that she may be pregnant from God, like in one case two thousand years ago. Phil at first falls for it, but then realises that it was sarcasm.
  • Playing Hard to Get: Phil's patient (a beautiful young woman) introduces herself as asexual; Phil presumes that something must be wrong, and asks Kupitman for help. Except, as Kupitman learns, she is not asexual at all; she likes Phil, and this was her attempt to spark his interest in her.
  • Really Gets Around: Phil's patient is pregnant, and doesn't even know from whom (either from someone called Kolya, or someone called Dima); before she learned this, she tried to hit on Phil.
  • Tempting Fate: Gleb tries to ask Polina for help, but since she has no idea about his situation, they decides to send Polina to Bykov, expecting that the situation can't become worse. Not only Bykov punishes Polina with a second night shift, he also punishes Gleb.

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