Sophia's new patient, Yaroslav Galitsin, is so attractive, she barely can think straight near him. He's... perfect. Lyuba doesn't believe her and asks Phil to check whether Yaroslav has problems there, but it achieves the opposite effect. But Lyuba refuses to give up on proving to Sophia that no one is "perfect", and suggests to send Bykov next — he is a master of disproving such claims. And indeed, Bykov, being opposed to the whole concept of "perfection", jumps at an opportunity to disprove it. To his shock, Bykov fails to find any issue with Yaroslav! Bykov actually snaps first, and orders Sophia and Lyuba to go elsewhere, so they would stop wasting his time — which they interprets as a confirmation of Yaroslav's "perfection". But Bykov refuses to give up, and forces Sophia to move Yaroslav out of the ward for ten minutes, so Bykov can examine his laptop: there should be something wrong with this guy, should! And yet, he finds nothing which can diminish his charm. When Yaroslav busts them checking his media accounts, he reveals that weird phone numbers are for charities: he's helping orphans. Bykov's attempt to at least provoke conflict fails, too: the patient trusts him havinng a good reason for snooping in his laptop. Sophia and Lyuba now think that Yaroslav is a saint. Then they all learn that the guy is... a thief; he just stole a TV from his wad and ultrasound machine. The detective who arrives to investigate confirms that Yaroslav is known under nickname "The Prince" — and makes it clear that Yaroslav is donating all that he steals to orphanages, so no one is motivated to actually hunt for him.
Alexei is happy to have an opportunity to work under Phil, because Phil is the only one who never plays pranks on others, or mocks them. In other words, Phil is nice. Phil takes this as a stealth insult, and decides to ask Kupitman to help him with organising a prank on Lyosha. Kupitman suggests a good old prank he once used on Lobanov when he examined a patient with chickenpox without gloves — that one which involved fake illness and pepper-stuffed rectal suppository. Phil's prank actually works well — in fact, too well, since now Alexei suffers from extreme pain. However, Alexei, who asked a patient (thinking that he has the same "illness") about his condition, greatly diminished his suffering to not look like a whiner: if patient can tolerate it, so should he. Phil questions effectiveness of the prank, and Kupitman, to prove that his plan works, suggests Phil to give Lyosha another dosage. Alexei tries to refuse, but Phil presses him into compliance. Phil takes suppository's lack of effect as a sign that Kupitman has pranked him, but Kupitman insists on visiting Alexei again — but before they could enter his ward, Alexei rushed out, yelling "it burns!" and running around erratically, forcing Phil to try and catch him. Alexei is less than amused when he learns that this was just a prank, feeling that such cruelty was completely unwarranted.
Olga plans to take a bank loan, but, as it turns out, Semyon paid little attention to her warnings beforehand, and now if something would go wrong, it would be because Semyon forgot something important, like his documents. What Semyon never said to Olga is that he already has unpaid loan (he took it to pay for booze to celebrate the birth of his daughter). Knowing how Olga would react, Gleb suggests to hide Semyon's passport for some time; event that would be better than telling the truth; it also would buy Semyon some time to deal with the first loan. But Olga returns too early, and Lobanov just throws the passport into a window in panic. Naturally, they fails to find it afterwards. But when Olga tells Semyon to go to police, Gennadiy finds his passport with a local hobo; now, Olga would keep it with herself, just in case. When attempt to just waste time with needless scandals fails, and banker tells that they have an unpaid loan, Lobanov puts the blame... on Gleb; he lies that Gleb has asked him to take that loan, and now refuses to pay it. Gleb reluctantly plays along.
This episode provides examples of:
- Awesome McCoolname: Yaroslav Vladimirovich Galitsin — as pointed by Bykov, it sounds like a name for some Russian aristocrat! As it turns out, Yaroslav (if this name is even real to begin with) is an infamous thief whom police knows as, you guess it, "The Prince".
- Bait-and-Switch: At first it seems like Lyuba suggested her friend to drop her husband in nursing room ("it wouldn't survive for long anyway"). Viewers (and Sophia) can mistake it for her being heartless... but in reality, she means not man, but old monochrome TV.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Turns out that Bykov was right about Yaroslav having some dirty secret, though not even him was able to guess that he is an infamous Phantom Thief called "The Prince", and just stole TV from his ward and ultrasound machine.
- Call-Back: Kupitman suggests Phil (who desperately needs to prove to Alexei that he is no less of a prankster than everyone else around here) to try on Lyosha that same prank Kupitman once used on Lobanov back in season 1. Yes, that one with pepper-stuffed rectal suppository, as a "cure" from "deadly illness" (actually chickenpox).
- Distracted by the Sexy: Sophia's patient, Yaroslav Galitsin, has this effect on many people, in one way or another.
- Yaroslav is so attractive, just looking at him has hypnotising effect on Sophia. And on Lyuba.
- When it turns out that Yaroslav is a thief, a detective reveals that the police is hunting for him (they know him under nickname "The Prince") for a long time, and that he once charmed a whole shift, allowing him to go away after being caught.
- Epic Fail: Losing lots of money on booze? Stupid, but not unique. Becoming victim of loan sharks? Bad, but can happen to anyone. Being in huge debt because you took enormous loan and wasted it on booze, and now requiring to somehow hide it from your wife for unknown amount of time because you only managed to pay off the half of it after so much time? That's the Semyon's level of stupidity. Gleb suggests Semyon to "lose" his passport (he would need to obtain a new one, which would buy him time), but Olga returns too early, and Semyon panics and just throws it out of the window (extremely moronic action by itself); naturally, they fails to find it afterwards, which results in a local hobo finding it instead. While Semyon manages to take it back at the last moment, now Olga would keep it with herself, just in case. And then Olga finds out about the debt anyway, right in the bank!
- Gone Horribly Right: Phil re-uses a prank which Kupitman once used on Semyon (unsuccessfully) — that one which involved a pepper-stuffed suppository. Unfortunately, Alexei actually falls for it — and now is in extreme agony because of all the pepper. And then Phil increases dosage because Alexei managed to hide his real condition. Phil wanted to show that he's just as funny prankster as everyone else, but showed himself to be needlessly cruel.
- Impossible Theft: Yaroslav somehow managed to steal not only TV, but also ultrasound machine, which weights no less than 200 kg. According to the detective, he once stole a tower crane, which weights 60 times more.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Yaroslav is happy, yet neither a junkie nor alcoholic (just one glass of red wine once a week). He has an awesome name — Yaroslav Vladimirovich Galitsin — which better suits a Russian aristocrat. He is an architect and sculptor. He is neither gay nor gigolo, having happy relationship with his girlfriend. Later we learn that he's a thief... who donates everything he steals to the orphanages. Not even police has any motivation to hunt for him, and makes only token efforts, with detective outright calling him "saint". At one point, Sophia and Lyuba sees him as an angel (with wings and halo), while Bykov makes mocking comment that they should call into Vatican.
- Jerkass Ball: Phil normally is a resident Nice Guy, but this time, in misguided belief that being called "nice" was a stealth insult, tries to pull a prank on Alexei — with disastrous consequences. Now, Alexei (who sincerely called him being nicer than the rest), whom Phil provided with a pepper-stuffed suppository, just wonders what he did to deserve all this:Alexei: Why?.. I have just one question: why?
- Kick the Dog: How Semyon defuses the whole situation with loan when Olga finally busts him? By lying that he took loan for Gleb — making Gleb look like a jerk for not repaying "his" debt. Gleb reluctantly plays along.
- The Load: According to Olga, Semyon pays little attention to what she says, and is even worse at actually remembering it. As result, she can't trust him with anything. This time, she plans to take a bank loan to pay for a car... and Semyon not only learns about it at the last moment because she was forced to remind him, but also botches it because he forgot to take his passport with him. Then we learn that he already has unpaid loan on him since the time he paid for all the booze after Olga gave birth; he wasted 100K on booze, and only managed to repay half of it back.
- Lovable Rogue: Despite Yaroslav "The Prince" Galitsin being his direct opponent, the detective and his subordinates seems to admire him and his skills. Why? Because he donates everything he steals to orphanages. And this is before we even mention hypnotic effect just looking on him has on women (and at least some men). In fact, Bykov could be the only one to being immune to his charm (and even he failed to find something incriminating him before his thievery was revealed).Detective: He is almost saint...
- Never My Fault:
- Semyon complains about Olga never discussing with him any important decisions (like taking a bank loan or choosing which car they should buy). This is after he paid little attention to what she says, forcing her to remind him at the last moment. According to Olga, he is always like this.
- Kupitman refuses to admit his fault in what happened with Alexei, stating that he did this prank on Semyon to teach him a lesson (after he blatantly disregarded safety rules, which in other circumstances could have killed him), while Phil just wanted to play a prank on Alexei for no good reason. While he is right about Phil, it was Kupitman who suggested this specific prank in the first place, and never tried to talk Phil out of it, even asked him to record this on video for his amusement.
- Pain to the Ass: Deconstructed; Phil reuses Kupitman's old trick from the first season, this time on Alexei; but this time, it's not played for laughs — it causes Lyosha horrible pain, which lasts for a whole day, especially since Phil keeps increasing the dosage due to thinking that it doesn't work, due to Alexei denying feeling anything.
- Phantom Thief: No one can ever catch Yaroslav "The Prince" Galitsin; one time the police actually did this, he somehow tricked them into letting him go.
- The Prankster: Alexei is happy to have an opportunity to work under Phil, because Phil is the only one who wouldn't play pranks on you or otherwise mock you. In other words, he is nice. Phil takes it as a stealth insult, and asks Kupitman to help him with organising a prank. Kupitman suggests him a good old prank he once used on Semyon, which involved fake "deadly illness" (actually chickenpox) and fake "cure" (actually pepper-stuffed rectal suppository). Unfortunately, this time prank actually works... and it turns out that it isn't funny at all.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Remember how funny a pepper-stuffed rectal suppository prank was back in season 1 ("doctor, my ass's on fire!" and all)? Now, we can see how it would work in reality. Poor Alexei actually follows Phil's advice and uses it on himself... and now suffers from extreme pain you guess where. His suffering is shown (almost) entirely seriously, and he requires medical attention to deal with consequences of Phil's prank (which is shown as cruel and undeserved).
- Teeny Weenie: Lyuba was initially unimpressed by Sophia's claims that her patient is "perfect", stating that such "perfect" guys are normally perfect in all but one thing — their manhood, and that she has experience with a lot of such cases. When Sophia disagrees, she suggests to just find an excuse to check out. How? By sending Phil, a venereologist. He reveals that nope, he is "perfect" there as well (and now Phil would have complexes about his own size...).
- Too Dumb to Live: Semyon, when told that he should try to hide his passport from Olga, panics and throws it in the window; Gleb deservedly calls him an idiot. He's lucky that the passport gets found by some drunk hobo who then gets delivered straight to the hospital, instead of someone malevolent.
