Gleb goes into full-blown self-destruct mode, going from one drunk party to another drunk party, the more and more often ending up so wasted that his mother and Bykov are forced to go for him in whatever club or bar he is currently in — always in the middle of the night, to their irritation. After yet another call, at 5.30 a.m., from one of the bars where Gleb somehow accumulated a debt of 25K roubles with literally zero money on his credit card (barman called from his phone on Kisegach's number, who is marked as "mommy"), Bykov (who answers the call instead of still sleeping Kisegach) tells him that he wouldn't pay anything and Gleb isn't his son (if he needs Gleb's relatives, better call a zoo), and hangs up. At the morning, when asked by Kisegach what happened, Bykov tells her that it was yet another call about Gleb, but he ignored it: he's tired of cleaning up the mess after this moron; he must learn some responsibility! They should just wait and see, Gleb should arrive by himself later. But he doesn't. Just to be sure, Bykov sends Alexei to check up. Meanwhile, Gleb, stripped down to his undies, awakes in unknown place, after someone turned on the light and then poured cold water on him. He is in an empty pool, chained to the wall. He hears the voice: "Did you awake, animal? I'm talking to you, pig!"
Alexei, obviously, finds nothing; Gleb never showed up at home (in fact, his landlady waited for him, too, since he owes her money). Kisegach asks Bykov whether he remembers from which bar they received that call. Bykov does, so they arrives there, only to learn that the shift has changed and the guy who called them has leaved already. However, they also learns that someone paid up Gleb's debt, and it was certainly not Gleb himself. From the guard who worked here on a night shift, barman learns that Gleb was taken away by some unknown man, the same one who paid up the debt. That's the only thing they knows. Bykov immediately jumps to conclusion that it was Lobanov: Semyon is both stupid enough to drink with Gleb, and strong enough to take him away afterwards. They rushes back into the hospital. Meanwhile, Gleb's abductor makes the light painfully bright. He not only refuses to tone it down, but threatens to make it even brighter. He also warns Gleb to not make attempts to escape, since, barring attempt to cut off his hand, it wouldn't work. He helpfully offers to give him hacksaw in case he's willing to actually try.
After interrogating Semyon, Kisegach and Bykov learns that while Semyon was with Gleb, he abandoned him after Gleb informed him that he has not enough money to pay for all that booze; he was ready to return with money, but Olga didn't allow him to go. However, they organised for Phil to bring everything instead. Kisegach is relieved: Phil is even better option than Semyon, because he isn't dumbass and is highly pedantic. Unfortunately, Phil knows nothing about Gleb at all, because Gleb enraged him so much, Phil has leaved him alone: Gleb called him during night, asking for help... but when Phil, taking with himself a traumatic pistol for self-defence (just in case), arrived there, turned out that the "help" was needed with dealing with excessive alcohol Gleb can't drink all by himself. Phil got angry and returned home, but Gleb had stole his pistol, and who knows what he did with it afterwards... Also, Phil must work for two, because Kupitman decided to blatantly skip the work.
Speaking about Kupitman... what if Gleb is with him? It wouldn't be the first time they're drinking together, and Kupitman is an alcoholic with even bigger experience. They asks Lyuba for Kupitman's whereabouts, but unfortunately, even she doesn't know where's he, because they had a quarrel (yet another one involving Kupitman being jealous due to Lyuba being too friendly with Levin) right before Kupitman leaved after receiving a call from Gleb; Kupitman didn't tell why or where he goes. Since Kupitman never showed up in neither Lyuba's house nor in the hospital, he is likely at his house. But when they finds Kupitman, he turns out to be so drunk, he can't remember anything about previous night, not even how he arrived back home; and now he suffers from heavy hangover. Asking him is pointless... though, he mentions Levin, who was there, too... for some reason.
Just like Phil before, Levin gets angry at even mention of Gleb (or Kupitman): Gleb interrupted his sleep to call him into bar... which resulted in Kupitman almost strangling him. Turns out that Gleb has tried to force them into making peace, but instead, after calming down enough to not go into murderous rage again, Kupitman wasted forty minutes on "explaining" why Lyuba can't and wouldn't belong to Levin, "pathetic youngling"... then snapped into murderous rage again, when Levin reacted to Kupitman's accusation of him "going to Lyuba" with saying that yes, he goes there, because Lyuba certainly doesn't need Kupitman in his current condition. This was the last straw; Kupitman took the gun from Gleb and shot already leaving Levin right into ass; fortunately, it was not a "real" gun, but it was horribly painful nonetheless. Levin already informed police, so right now they must be on the way to take Kupitman. And indeed, when Kupitman, still suffering from hangover, opens the door, instead of Bykov, whom he expected, he meets two cops. Meanwhile, Gleb's abductor continues pouring him in cold water. When Gleb starts asking to let him go, abductor gives him weird, light-yellow drink. After that, Gleb looks him into face, and recognises him.
Bykov, Kisegach, and the rest continues calling people in attempt to find out just who of the bar patrons had abducted Gleb, if it wasn't one of them. Each one remembers somebody else, but Bykov rejects every person for not matching their situation. Semyon remembers one suspicious, ambiguously criminal guy, who sat in the corner, and to whom Gleb acted rudely; but a thug is unlikely to pay Gleb's debts. Phil remembers a weird dude in whom he instantly recognised gay just from his behaviour, whom Gleb then immediately insulted, which causes Kisegach to worry that Gleb was raped or even sold into sexual slavery to some perverts, but Bykov dismisses such scenario as ridiculous. Then Levin remembers about some weird guy, who, as Levin thinks, looks like textbook example of a maniac... quiet guy in glasses. Bykov doesn't believe in it, but Kisegach is now too far gone to being able to calm down, and snaps at him, because it is his fault that this situation even happened: had he just waked her up back then, nothing of this would have happened! She starts attacking him, accusing him of intentionally dooming Gleb out of hatred, and other guys tries to stop it... but then they gets interrupted by Gleb appearing — already sober, and dressed sharply. After him, another man walks in — Victor Romanenko, Gleb's father, who isn't impressed by how Kisegach raises their son.
This episode provides examples of:
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: Kupitman, while drunk, nearly strangles Levin, thrice, and actually shoots him once; fortunately, the gun turns out being merely traumatic one. Unfortunately, Levin refuses to let it slide, and calls police, so Kupitman gets arrested.
- Bait-and-Switch: Gleb calls Phil, saying that he needs his help; when Phil arrives, turns out that "help" is needed with all the booze Gleb can't drink by himself. Phil, who had to go to some bar in the middle of the night for no good reason, is not amused.
- Camp: The guy whom Phil recognises as gay talks in stereotypical "gay" manner, but other than Phil's presumption, we have no confirmation wnether he is indeed gay or just acts weirdly.
- Chekhov's Gun: Phil mentions that when he was asked by Gleb to go to "help" him, he took traumatic gun with himself, expecting something serious. When turned out that Gleb wants him to drink together, Phil leaved, but Gleb took his gun away. When the story comes to Levin's version of events, turns out that the gun ended up in the hands of Kupitman, who tried to shoot Levin from it due to being too wasted to keep his jealousy at bay.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Kupitman's jealousy towards Levin becomes even worse; Kupitman snaps at Lyuba when he starts (without her permission) reading messages in her phone, and finds one from Levin, where he congratulates her with the Medic's Day, and she thanks him, accusing her of "lying" to him, and being "too friendly" with Levin. When he gets drunk, Kupitman admits to Gleb that this is defensive reaction: he actually fears that Lyuba would dump him for Levin, because he is "too old and too drunk" for her.
- Cruel to Be Kind: Victor certainly does the right thing at bringing his son into adequate condition as soon as possible, since they have very little time, but he doesn't even bother to play nice while doing it; he is as disgusted and disappointed with Gleb as he shows.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Gleb continues killing his sorrow over losing Sophia with alcohol. This time, he wastes all his money on alcohol, and then accumulates a debt of 25K roubles. One may wonder, how he even survived all that booze.
- Dude, Not Funny!: Kisegach is on the edge, due to thinking that Gleb may be dead by now... and then Bykov (who's, by the way, the main reason why this even happened, because he refused to warn Kisegach) jokes about Gleb and hypothetical maniac, not in Gleb's favour; this results in Kisegach finally snapping, and trying to attack him.
- Good All Along: The "abductor" turns out to be Gleb's father, who's using drastic measures to sober him up as quickly as possible, so they can go to Kisegach together.
- Henpecked Husband: While it was already established that Semyon has little freedom whenever Olga's opinion goes against his, when she forces him to abandon his drunk friend without money in the situation where he may increase his debt even further, and he agrees, it shows that he can't fight for his opinion even in really important situations.
- In Vino Veritas: When drunk, Kupitman reveals that by his rude behaviour towards Lyuba, he hides his insecurity: he still fears that Levin may steal her from him.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Had Bykov bothered to inform Kisegach when last call about Gleb was done, nothing of it would have happened.
- Out of Focus: Alexei appears only briefly, being the one sent to check at Gleb's house, while Polina is absent outright.
- Pain to the Ass: Kupitman shot Levin right in the ass. fortunately, the gun was traumatic, not combat.
- Unseen No More: Gleb's father Victor appears in person for the first time.
