Phil wants to skip work today, due to needing good sleep, bad, but Kupitman would never allow him, and he knows it. Since Phil can't lie to save his life, Gleb offers to provide a cover story for him — like Phil being sick. But Phil goes into paranoia: what if Kupitman wouldn't believe Gleb? What if he's already aware of him skipping his work — and lying about it? Gleb assures him that Kupitman believed, and didn't show much interest, as it's too common to bother. Phil still can't calm down, and tries to make the cover story more believable, in case Kupitman would arrive to check on his friend: he puts on a scarf, heats up thermometer to make it look like he has real heat, and so on. This still fails to make him stop worrying, and he calls Gleb. Gleb repeats his previous words, but Phil insists on hearing what exactly was said: any small detail can reveal the crucial information. Gleb then says that Kupitman isn't that caring towards his friends to dig that deep, and Phil decides to call Kupitman himself — only for Kupitman to yell at him, as Gleb already warned him, twice, and he's very busy right now. Suspecting that Kupitman just doesn't care about him and his health at all, Phil decides to confront him about it. Phil arrives in the hospital and accuses Kupitman of being indifferent to his fate... and accidentally reveals that his illness was fake. Oops...
Kisegach can't leave Ilya with babysitter, but she can't take him with herself either — today would be important meeting, so she gives him to Bykov. Bykov instead just drops him on Sophia — who knows nothing about babies. Ilya keeps crying and crying, loudly, and Sophia can't shut him up. Then she realises that Ilya just soiled himself, but when she tries to change diapers, he pisses on her. When she rushes to change the coat, Kisegach comes on to check on Ilya, and, when finds him alone, takes him with herself. When Sophia returns and doesn't find Ilya, she panics. She asks Kupitman for help with finding Ilya; Kupitman assumes that it was Bykov who took Ilya away without a warning, and angrily goes to confront him — only to learn that Bykov is just as surprised by Ilya's disappearance; someone else has took him away! They calls police, and while waiting for their arrival, Bykov starts trying to press Sophia for more information, over Kupitman's objections. Then Kisegach calls them, but instead of just admitting that he screwed up, Bykov lies that everything is under control. Angry, Kisegach leaves Ilya with Vera and goes to confront Bykov. That's when the police arrives. Their commander goes to talk with Bykov, while his subordinates starts asking people around. Kisegach enters on-call room to explain that she took Ilya away to teach Bykov a lesson: he should've dealt with the task himself, rather than drop on Sophia, who's too inexperienced. They gets interrupted by two cops entering, leading handcuffed Vera, who was arrested when trying to leave with Ilya (they went on a walk). But if Vera's here, then where's Ilya?! Turns out, he's with another cop, sergeant Paramonov, who gave him a pistol to play with; at least, he ejected the clip before that...
Maxim offers Alexei to switch patients: his one, a woman called Kuznetsova, keeps harassing him and he fears what would happen if Bykov finds out. Alexei agrees to take her... only to learn that Kuznetsova is an old granny. Alexei angrily demands that Max must take his patient back, and says that this prank wasn't funny at all. Maxim, in turn, explains that he was just as shocked as him when sixty years-old granny started harassing him out of a blue, and simply rejecting her — or informing Alexei upfront — was too awkward. Alexei accepts that explanation, but when he leaves, Max tells Lyuba that he just lied, and it indeed was a prank. When Alexei goes back, the patient starts acting just like Maxim has described her: like a weirdo and pervert. He asks Gleb to take her instead, using the same method as Maxim before. But Gleb realises that Lyosha is trying to drop hard case on him (while making him look like an idiot in process), and punishes both Lyosha and Max with night shifts. Only when Maxim calls Alexei out on "plagiarism" (to which he attributes their failure), Alexei realises that he was indeed pranked — while Max realises that the granny is indeed somewhat crazy.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch: Alexei (and viewers) initially thinks that Kuznetsova is that pretty young woman. Nope. She is that old granny from the same ward. Considering that it was Maxim who offered him that patient, Lyosha should've really seen that coming.
- Bad Liar: Phil reminds Gleb that he is a terrible liar, so if they want to fool Kupitman to give Phil a day off, Gleb must provide a cover story for him.
- Dirty Old Woman: Maxim lies about his patient trying to harass him, in order to trick Alexei into taking her from him. Then it turns out that said patient is sixty years old. Even after we learn that Maxim completely made this story up in order to Lyosha into awkward situation, she acts in rather weird (and somewhat perversive) manner, which gives her "elderly pervert" vibe nonetheless.
- Dude, Not Funny!:
- Alexei reacts very badly to Maxim's attempt to pass his elderly patient as his pervert admirer, thinking that the joke was silly and tasteless. He accepts her anyway when Alexei "explains" everything to him. Later Alexei tries to dump her on Gleb, who reacts even worse and outright punish him.
- When Ilya suddenly disappears when Sophia leaves for a minute (actually he was taken away by Kisegach, who thought that Bykov's acting irresponsibly), Kupitman assures her that Bykov did this just to "teach Sophia a lesson". They both considers this to be completely cruel and tasteless prank, but Kupitman knows no one else who may do this. Kupitman suggests to just call Bykov out on this.
- Gilligan Cut: When Kisegach asks Bykov whether he would try to drop their son on interns, Bykov reacts like he was insulted by this accusation. Cut to him giving Ilya to Sophia.
- Imagine Spot: Phil has two during the course of the episode, as part of his paranoia over his cover story possibly not working:
- The first one occurs when he imagins Kupitman deciding to check up his condition (presuming that Phil is on the brink of death). When Kupitman realises that Phil is perfectly healthy, he reacts on this like if he was betrayed.
- The second one, which Phil has after he gets finally convinced that Kupitman really thinks nothing of him missing the work due to being ill, involves Kupitman being so indifferent that, when Phil dies, he is the only one not to feel anything about it. After this, Phil decides to just confront Kupitman about his indifference.
- It Only Works Once: Maxim makes up the whole "horny patient is trying to harass me" story in order to trick Lyosha into taking the hard case from him. But when it turns out that said patient is sixty years old woman... she indeed starts harassing Alexei (or at least he interprets her behaviour like this), so Lyosha tries to drop this case on Gleb. Gleb reacts even worse than Alexei initially, and just punishes both interns with night shift. Maxim attributes this punishment to Alexei "plagiarising" his pranks and trying to use so dumb tricks on someone as experienced as Gleb.
- The Millstone: Gleb provides Phil with perfectly fine cover story, and the sole reason why he gets revealed is because Phil, in his paranoia, keeps calling Kupitman "just to make sure", and then arrives himself when his paranoia shifts towards Kupitman not caring about him at all.
- Never My Fault: When Kisegach calls him out on dropping Ilya on Sophia instead of just doing what he was asked (just after he "joked" by pretending to forget Ilya in the office when they leaved), pointing out that Sophia herself needs someone to watch over her, considering that she always gets into troubles, Bykov points out that unlike Vera (on whom Kisegach herself dropped Ilya later), Sophia knows something besides how to prepare coffee, and that it was Vera who was arrested by the cops. What Bykov ignores is that, had he just followed instructions, nothing would've happened. Then, when Kisegach says that they are "bad parents", Bykov says that of them two, she's "worse", because with Bykov, Ilya at least didn't play with a pistol.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Sophia reacts with utter panic when she realises that Ilya (whom Bykov entrusted her with) is gone.
- When Sophia (and Kupitman, whom she asked for help) confronts Bykov about his cruel prank (they thought that he "stole" Ilya just to "teach them a lesson"), Bykov reveals that he never did this. Cue all three realising that Ilya'd disappeared for real.
- Poor Communication Kills: Entirety of the events surrounding Ilya in this episode. This story is a long mess, where something stupid happens on the every step.
- All starts when Kisegach tasks Bykov to babysit Ilya (since their actual babysitter isn't available right now). Bykov (blatantly breaking his promise to do it himself) re-assigns Ilya to Sophia (who has no knowledge what to do with babies, at all), and never bothers to warn Kisegach. As result, when Sophia leaves to change a coat pissed by Ilya, Kisegach arrives, sees that Ilya is alone, and takes him away — also without warning anyone.
- When Sophia returns, she panics and asks Kupitman for help. Together, they confronts Bykov (whom they presumed to take Ilya away as a part of his cruel "tech you some responsibility" prank), only to find out that Ilya was taken by someone else, and call police. While waiting for cops summoned by Kupitman, Bykov, instead of trying to ask people around (or warn Kisegach), starts pressing Sophia into revealing more information, despite Kupitman's objections that this is useless. Then Kisegach calls and asks "how's Ilya?". Instead of just admitting his screwup, Bykov lies that all is perfect (while Kisegach has Ilya by her side). Kisegach goes to confront Bykov (without revealing that it was she who took away Ilya), leaving her son with Vera — who gets mistaken for abductor when the cops arrives, and gets arrested. Kisegach barely intercepts Vera before she gets taken away, while Ilya ends up with some dumb cop who lets him play with a gun (fortunately, he at least discharged it first).
- Reckless Gun Usage: Sergeant Paramonov allows Ilya (a little baby) to play with the freaking pistol.Paramonov: Calm down, I ejected the clip. You think I'm a moron?
- Saying Too Much: When confronting Kupitman, Phil accidentally reveals that his illness was fake, because when he accuses him of indifference, he uses the words "what if I'm ill for real?" Good job, Phil.
- Schmuck Bait: Lyosha starts realising that any and all offers from Maxim must be treated as possible traps, and when Max offers him free coffee "just like he likes", he demands that Max states what he want first, and maybe then Alexei would accept it. Maxim congratulates Alexei on "developing some caution", and then reveals his plan: he needs to switch patients, since Maxim's one keeps harassing him, and he fears what Bykov would do if he finds out. Seems innocent enough? Wrong. Max omitted one small, but crucial detail: his patient is an elderly woman. And now she tries to harass Lyosha. To add insult into injury, Alexei doesn't even receive the promised coffee!
- Stay in the Kitchen: Bykov's "justification" why Sophia, of all interns, must babysit Ilya: "doctor must heal people; woman must babysit children". He doesn't care that she has zero knowledge what even do with babies.
- Troll:
- Maxim fools Alexei into accepting Max's old pervert patient (Maxim's description was vague enough for Alexei to believe that she is much younger). When Alexei predictably reacts very badly (especially since Max previously claimed that she harassed him), Max lies to him that it was just too awkward to admit, in which Lyosha believes. When Lyosha leaves, Max reveals to Lyuba that he indeed lied to drop his patient on Alexei. Lyuba decides that it would be too funny to just stop now, and that she wants to see how it would end.
- When some people repeatedly calls her instead of a food delivery service, Lyuba decides to play along and "accept" their order before hanging up (which means that they would spend a long time waiting for food which would never arrive); she thinks that if people are so dumb to miscall their food delivery service five times in a row (calling the same address all five times, no less), they deserve this.
