History Recap / TheInternsS11E18

Phil's friend provides him with opportunity to spend a whole month in Spain, in his personal house, and all he needs is to ask Kupitman. He isn't sure that this is a good idea, but Lyuba convinces him to try anyway, and that Kupitman would understand that this is once-per-life opportunity one can't miss. But Kupitman refuses, in rather rude way. Lyuba suggests to make him drunk (drunk Kupitman is a nice Kupitman), but Phil fears that this would just result in Kupitman forgetting all his drunk promises once he sobers up. Lyuba has a solution for this, too: use a dictaphone; Kupitman wouldn't ignore such evidence, cause if he actually gave his word, he would follow it. Phil tries that plan, and convinces Kupitman to drink with him. Unfortunately, Kupitman has way better alcohol tolerance than Phil, so Phil falls drunk first. Lyuba, being the only one capable to "match" Kupitman in this regard, offers to "prepare" Kupitman for Phil's next attempt, asking only for a souvenirs from Spain in return. The plan goes well at first, but then Kupitman decides to leave to visit his girlfriend. But Lyuba has another plan left: Phil must "overdrink" Kupitman (who's not exactly sober already), which would be made easier by Phil taking certain preparations (certain food, special pills, etc) to increase his alcohol tolerance.

Alexei's patient rejects him; she bases her motivation on... [[WesternZodiac horoscope]], stating that, being a Taurus, Lyosha has a "major probability to make fatal mistake today". Alexei asks Sophia (Scorpio) to help... and patient rejects her, too, because her horoscope suggests her (Capricorn) to "avoid Sagittarius and (especially) Scorpios". Why? Apparently, just because. Too afraid to tell Bykov about their failure, the interns lie to him that everything is fine. They tries to demonstrate to the patient that horoscopes never actually works, by bringing several different ones, which blatantly contradicts each other. Unfortunately, she doesn't care what other horoscopes says, as she only trusts her own, as it was prepared by "expert with great experience" whom she knows. Ultimately, Bykov still finds out (as they wasted two days without results), and reacts just as they've expected. Then he decides to face the patient himself. Bykov sides with interns, and explains to the patient, in details, what would happen with her if she continues reusing treatment; the perspectives described scares her so much, she not only complies, but also throws away her horoscope. Interns still gets punished, however, as Bykov just in one short speech resolve what took them more than two days without results.

Semyon has problems with Olga, partially because of their now non-existent sex life, and partially because they rarely even talks with each other now, and asks Gleb for help. Because Olga keeps justifying her refusals with her "being tired" (despite seemingly nothing changing), Semyon starts suspecting that she cheats on him. Semyon then learns that Olga would work late today, and decides to spy on her -- only to get caught immediately and angrily ordered to leave, as he was supposed to stay with their daughter. Semyon "explains" it as him playing hide-and-seek with Gleb. Lobanov then recruits Gleb to distract Olga, while Semyon would check her PC and learn wether it contains any evidences of her infidelity. Unfortunately for him, Gleb fails to buy enough time, and Semyon finds nothing useful in so little time; worse, he fails to completely turn off everything, and gets forced to just shut PC down entirely by ejecting the plug, then tries to hide under table, where he predictably gets caught. He again uses the "hide-and-seek" excuse and leaves. This results in Olga losing all her work, and forcing to spend a night in the office to redo it -- which Lobanov takes as a possible excuse to meet her lover right in the hospital. Lobanov confronts Olga directly, who tells him that she ''didn't'' cheat on him -- and that she has too little time to properly rest, being busy with both their daughter and her work. She was already tired of all this and from Semyon's inability to see this, despite being told multiple times, but these accusations is the last straw; she wants nothing to do with him ever again.

When Semyon visits Phil to drink with him, Phil, in his alcohol-induced idiocy, overwrites his recording of Kupitman allowing him a vacation... with himself "gifting" this vacation to Semyon. He realises this only when he plays it in front of Kupitman. Accidentally, this is what saves Semyon't marriage after all: long sea vacation is just what Olga needs.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Phil was ''very'' close to actually trick Kupitman into giving him permission to go on a month-long vacation... but overwrites the evidence of Kupitman's drunk promise with himself gifting this vacation to Semyon. Interestingly, this is what saves Semyon's marriage in the end.

* CantHoldHisLiquor: Whenever Phil tries to drink with either Kupitman or Lyuba, he becomes drunk and falls asleep ''very'' quickly. This is a problem, because in order to achieve his goal (being allowed to go on a month-long vacancy in Spain) he must "overdrink" Kupitman (he wouldn't allow it while sober... normally) and remain sane enough to record him giving his promise. After multiple failed attempts, Lyuba starts "preparing" him by taking several preemptive measurements which are supposed to raise his alcohol tolerance.

** Judging by one of her horoscopes, she rejected Alexei, because he is a Taurus and has a "major probability to make fatal mistake today". Seems at least somewhat plausible? Then he asks Sophia (Scorpio) to help... and patient rejects Sophia because her horoscope suggests the Capricorns (like herself) to avoid Sagittarius and "especially" Scorpio (without any explanation whatsoever).

* INeedAFreakingDrink: After he realises just how close he is to losing Olga permanently, Semyon can only ask Phil for some cognac.
* MistakenForCheating: Semyon starts suspecting that Olga cheats on him (otherwise, why she suddenly started refusing sleeping with him, always stating "being tired", despite nothing seemingly changing?). After failing to spy on her by himself, he hires Gleb to act as distraction, so Semyon may check Olga's PC. This fails, too, and he just confronts her directly... and learns that not only she didn't cheat on him, but that her condition is caused by severe stress due to being overloaded with both her work and their child, while Semyon is indifferent and provides no support. Accusations proves themselves to be the last straw, and she decides to end her relationship with Semyon. Fortunately, Lobanov later manages to salvage the situation.
* NeverMyFault: Semyon suspects that Olga is cheating on him, basing on her denying him sex and just rarely talking with him in general... completely refusing to see that this is because she's very busy with both the work and their child, and has little time to even rest.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Semyon directly asks Olga wether she's cheating on him, she asks him just ''when'' he expects her to find a new lover if she spends so much time on her job ''and'' on their child that she has little left to even rest properly, which then proceeds into calling Semyon himself out on his selfishness and inability to own his mistakes. In fact, this almost leads to their second divorce.
-->'''Olga''': Wow, how emotional we are... New lover, you say? Just ''when''? Maybe, during the whole year I spent sitting with our baby twenty four hours per day? Or when I resumed working there from morning till evening, with little time left to rest? When?\\
'''Semyon''': Well, I don't know; you're one to know!\\

* ToThePain: Bykov provides Alexei and Sophia's patient with his own "horoscope"; it involves her suffering from highly unpleasant symptoms (amongst them heavy heartburn and violent diarrhea), caused by her stubborn refusal to accept the treatment of her digestive system -- and this is just for today; in the long run, she may expect a "family trip to one beautiful, quiet place, where she would spend the rest of eternity in peace". It works so well, she not only doesn't object to him, but throws away her horoscope once Bykov leaves.

Phil's friend provided him with opportunity to spend whole month in Spain, in his personal house, and all he needs is to ask Kupitman. He isn't sure this is the good idea, but Lyuba convinced him to try anyway, and what Kupitman would understand what this is once-per-life opportunity one can't miss.

Alexei's patient rejects him; she bases her motivation on... horoscope, stating what, being a [[WesternZodiac Taurus]], Lyosha has "major probability to make fatal mistake today". Alexei asks Sophia (Scorpio) to help... and patient rejects her, too, because her horoscope suggests her (Capricorn) to "avoid Sagittarius and (especially) Scorpios". Why? Apparently, just because.

Semyon has problems with Olga, partially because of their now non-existent sex life, and partially because they rarely even talk with each other now, and asks Gleb for help. Because Olga keeps justifying her refusals with her "being tired" (despite seemingly nothing changing), Semyon starts suspecting what she cheats on him.

Kupitman refused to let Phil go on vacation, in rather rude terms. Lyuba suggests to just make him drunk (drunk Kupitman is nice Kupitman), but Phil fears this would just result in Kupitman forgetting any and all his promise when he sobers up. However, Lyuba has a solution to this problem, too: by using dictaphone, Phil may record undeniable evidence, which Kupitman wouldn't ignore afterwards (if he actually gave his word, he would follow it).

Both Alexei and Sophia are too afraid of Bykov to inform him of their failure, so they lied to him what everything goes fine. Meanwhile, Semyon learns what Olga would work late, and tries to spy on her -- only to being caught immediately and angrily being ordered to leave, since he was supposed to stay with their child. Semyon "explained" it as him playing "hide-and-seek" with Gleb.

Phil proceeds with Lyuba's plan, and convinced Kupitman to start drinking with him. Unfortunately, Kupitman has better tolerance for alcohol than him, and Phil fell drunk much earlier, failing entire plan. Fortunately, Lyuba (only one to match him in this regard) agreed to "prepare" Kupitman herself, on condition what Phil would bring her souvenirs from Spain.

Semyon recruits Gleb to act like distraction for Olga; while Gleb would buy him some time, Semyon would check Olga's PC and learn whether it contains any evidences of her infidelity. Unfortunately for him, Gleb bought him not nearly enough time, and Semyon failed to find anything useful in time available; worse, he failed to completely turn off everything, and was forced to just shut it down entirely by ejecting the plug, then tried to hide under the table where he predictably was caught. He once again used "hide-and-seek" excuse and leaved.

Alexei and Sophia tried to demonstrate to their patient what horoscopes never actually work, by bringing her several different ones, each one contradicting the rest. Unfortunately for them, she believes only ''her own'' horoscope, because it was prepared by "expert" she knows, with "great experience".

Because Semyon turned Olga's computer off, she lost all her work, and must spend night in the office to redo it. What if this was just an excuse to meet her lover here?

Lyuba proceed with her plan. Unfortunately, despite it seemingly going well, Kupitman suddenly decided to leave to visit his latest girlfriend, meaning it was all for nothing. Phil decided to leave, too, but Lyuba forced him to stay and drink with her.

Bykov learns about Alexei and Sophia's inability to deal with their patient for so long (this is her ''third'' day in the hospital, and they still yet to fill ''any'' information on her!), and reacted just as they expected. Now, he would face their patient himself.

Predictably, Lyuba survived unscarred, while Phil now suffers from extreme hangover. But it's not the end of her plan; they must try again, and this time they would ''for certain'' cause Kupitman to give Phil his promise. He just needs to overdrink (already not so sober) Kupitman. To increase his chances at success, Lyuba "prepared" him, by taking several measurements which were supposed to increase his alcohol tolerance (certain food, special pills, etc).

Fortunately, Bykov sided with interns, and explained to their patient, in details, what would happen with her if she continues refusing treatment; perspective described scared her so much, she not only complied, but also threw away her horoscope. He still punished interns, though, because they wasted two days on what he resolved in one short speech.

Semyon decided to just confront Olga directly... and learned what non only she not cheated on him, but she acted this way because she had too little time to properly rest, being too busy with both their daughter and her work. She was already tired of all of this and from Semyon't inability to see this, despite being told multiple times, but these accusations were the last straw; she wants nothing to do with Semyon ever again.

When Semyon visited Phil to drink with him, Phil, in his alcohol-induced idiocy, overwritten his recording of Kupitman allowing him vacation... with himself "gifting" this vacation to Semyon. He realised this only when he played it in front of Kupitman. Accidentally, this was what saved Semyon't marriage after all: long sea vacation was just what Olga needed.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Phil was ''very'' close to actually trick Kupitman into giving him permission to go on month-long vacation... but overwritten evidence of Kupitman's drunk promise to gift this vacation to Semyon instead. Interestingly, this was what saved Semyon's marriage in the end.
* BlatantLies: When Semyon used "we just playing 'hide-and-seek' with Gleb" excuse for the first time (when he was caught in the lobby by Olga), he looked immature, but it was at least plausible. He tried it again even after he was caught in her office, under her table (despite Olga ''knowing'' what Gleb is currently in dinner room). What looked silly the first time, when tried the second one looks either as very blatant lie or very childish behaviour; fortunately for Semyon, Olga took it as the second.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Phil, as usually; whenever he tries to drink with either Kupitman or Lyuba, he becomes drunk and falls asleep ''very'' quickly. This is a problem, because in order to achieve his goal (being allowed to go on month-long vacancy in Spain) he must "overdrink" Kupitman (he wouldn't allow it while sober... normally) and remain sane enough to record him giving his promise. After multiple failed attempts, Lyuba started "preparing" him by taking several preemptive measurements which are supposed to raise his alcohol tolerance.
* {{Horrorscope}}: Alexei and Sophia's patient is die-hard fan of horoscopes, who applies them to everything, no matter how little sense they make -- and uses them to justify refusing following their orders. Unfortunately, they can't just admit their defeat to Bykov, and must find a workaround.
** Judging by one of her horoscopes, she rejected Alexei, because he is Taurus and has "major probability to make fatal mistake today". Seems at least somewhat plausible? Then he asked Sophia (Scorpio) to help... and she rejected because her horoscope suggests Capricorns (like herself) to avoid Sagittarius and "especially" Scorpio (without any explanation whatsoever).
** After wasting entire day because of her stubborn refusals, they tried again on the next day. Unfortunately, while this time horoscopes tell nothing bad about Tauruses and Scorpios... they warn Capricorns to not "make any important decisions today". Patient [[InsaneTrollLogic promptly ignored]] Sophia's point what she makes ''no'' decisions, and just trusts ''them'' in doing their job.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: After he realised just how close he is to losing Olga permanently, Semyon could only ask Phil for some cognac.
* MistakenForCheating: Semyon starts suspecting what Olga cheats on him (otherwise, why she suddenly started refusing sleeping with him, always stating "being tired", despite nothing seemingly changing?). After he failed to spy on her by himself, he hired Gleb to act as distraction, so Semyon may check Olga's PC. This failed, too, and he just confronted her directly... and learned what not only she not cheated on him, but what her condition is caused by severe stress due to being overloaded with both her work and their child, while Semyon is indifferent and provides no support. Accusations proved themselves to be the last straw, and she decided to end her relationship with Semyon.
* NeverMyFault: Semyon suspects what Olga cheats on him, basing on her denying him sex and just rarely talking with him in general... completely refusing to see what this is because she's very busy with both the work and their child, and has little time to even rest.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Semyon directly asked Olga wether she cheats on him, she asked him just ''when'' he expects her to find new lover if she spends so much time on her job ''and'' on their child what she has little left to even rest properly, which then proceed into calling Semyon himself out on his selfishness and inability to own his mistakes. In fact, this almost led to their second divorce.
-->'''Olga''': ''"Wow, how emotional we are... New lover, you said? Just ''when''? Maybe, during whole year I spent sitting with our baby twenty four hours per day? Or when I resumed working here from morning to evening, with little time left to rest? When?"''\\
'''Semyon''': ''"Well, I don't know; you're one to know!"''\\
'''Olga''': ''"Of course, you don't know! You don't want to! You don't care about anything! You don't care how tired I get at this job; you con't care how tired I get at home; you don't care how tired I am of all of this! I keep telling you this, but you never listen and never see this, because you're [[ItMakesSenseInContext busy playing 'hide and seek' with Gleb!]] Because you're 'busy'!"''\\
'''Semyon''': ''"Olya, wait..."''\\
'''Olga''': ''"[[WhamLine Lobanov, go screw yourself. I don't want to see you. I don't want to live with you]]"''.
* ToThePain: Bykov provided Alexei and Sophia's patient with his own "horoscope"; it involved her suffering from highly unpleasant symptoms (amongst them heavy heartburn and violent diarrhea), caused by her stubborn refusal to accept treatment of her digestive system -- and this is just for today; in the long run, she may expect "family trip to one beautiful, quiet place, where she would spend the rest of eternity in peace". It worked so well, she not only not objected to him, but threw away her horoscope once Bykov leaved.