Levin is still not forgiven by Lyuba after their breakup, and now she treats Levin extremely rudely. He asks Kupitman for advice, and he suggests Levin to act romantically to motivate Lyuba for one, last "break-up sex": their relationship must end on a good note. He manages to convince her to try, but Levin worries too much and fails to satisfy her, making situation even worse. Levin asks Kupitman for help again, and he gives Levin viagra... only for Lyuba to refuse Levin, after he already took the pill. Levin tries to defeat his boner (which is just painful at this point) by reading the science books, but this makes things worse when Lyuba busts him doing it, and thinking that he finds the books sexier than her. Levin decides to just be more persistent and dominant; it indeed makes her forgive him — and makes her want to restart their relationship...
Lobanov must somehow escape from work earlier, so he can drink with his friends. He decides to trick Bykov into giving him a sick leave, by simulating being sick. Unfortunately for him, Bykov overhears his plan, and forces him to stay in the hospital, as "a patient". When Bykov gets bored with just keeping him in the ward, he lets him go, but gives him some "antibiotic" which would destroy his liver if Lobanov would drink any alcohol. Sad Lobanov tells his friends that he can't attend the party... only for Bykov to admit that "antibiotic" was fake, and let Semyon go to his friend after all... just before warning him that he's punished with entire week of night shifts after that.
Gleb enrages Varya, by accidentally splashing her with water and insulting her. Gleb tries to apologise to Varya in progressively more ridiculous ways, only to make situation worse each time. This culminates in him offering Varya to just splash him, like he did her before... only for Varya to splash Bykov instead, and get punished.
This episode provides examples of:
- Blatant Lies: Gleb tries to pretend that he was forced to play part in Bykov's plan (even sending Semyon a fake photo from party which Lobanov can't attend), and demands "compensation" for cruelly pranking his friend. Bykov points out that Gleb joined in voluntarily, and was actively making suggestions.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Lobanov tries to fool Bykov yet again. This time, it fails right from the start, because Bykov overhears his whole plan, and uses it against him.
- Digging Yourself Deeper:
- Gleb accidentally splashed Varya with water, which made her very angry at him. Gleb's attempts to apologise always makes the situation worse:
- Gleb tries to apologise, saying that he just didn't notice her, being busy talking via phone. Varya reminds that he was talking with her about how he "splashed some cow". When she rejects his apologies, Gleb makes a silly joke about PMS. Unsurprisingly, she gets angrier.
- Gleb tries to send other people to apologise in his regard, in hope that Varya would at least listen to them first, but accidentally ends up hurting them. The patient with "Varya, please forgive me!" written with iodine on his back makes Varya write "no" in response, only to get busted by Bykov with predictable results. The little girl whom Gleb bribed with chocolate turned out being allergic. And the patient asked to perform improvised striptease accidentally injures himself.
- Gleb comes up with an idea: just let Varya splash him to get even. But she misses Gleb and splashes Bykov instead, who predictably punishes her. Varya thinks that Gleb did this deliberately.
- Lyuba is still angry at Levin after their breakup. Levin doesn't get the hint to get lost, and bothers her some more, asking whether it's because they broke up. When she says that "there wasn't anything", he says that logically speaking, if there "wasn't anything", she should treat him normally. He only leaves when she threatens him with physical violence unless he shuts up.
- When Levin attempts to explain why his and Lyuba's "break-up sex" failed (Levin has worried too much, and his "little friend" failed to rise), he says that he was "scared". Lyuba, who already thinks that it was an attempt to humiliate her, interprets this as if Levin considers her to be ugly. He asks Kupitman for help, who gives Levin viagra, but this eventually leads to Lyuba thinking that Levin finds her to be so ugly that even the science books are more attractive to him.
- Gleb accidentally splashed Varya with water, which made her very angry at him. Gleb's attempts to apologise always makes the situation worse:
- Get Out!: Levin takes viagra as suggested by Kupitman, and asks when it would work; he gets response that "you would feel it". When he says that he already feels it, Kupitman tells that he's glad, and orders him to leave the office and stay as far away as possible.
- Gone Horribly Right: Levin makes one last attempt to make Lyuba forgive him via "last break-up sex". She likes it so much, it she decides to restart their relationship, something Levin didn't want.
- Here We Go Again!: In the end, Lyuba decides to resurrect her and Levin's relationship — something Levin has tried to avoid couple of episodes ago.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Bykov uses Lobanov's "cover" about sinusitis against him and forces Semyon to stay in the hospital as a "patient" instead of escaping to his friends.
- I'm Standing Right Here:
- In the opening dialogue we learn that Gleb accidentally splashed Varya with water... and then told her about how he "splashed some cow with water" via phone, not aware that this "cow" was her.
- Lobanov insults Bykov while talking with his friend via phone, unaware that Bykov is in the same room and can hear everything, from his insults to his plan.
- Kick the Dog: Not only Gleb agreed to take part in Bykov's prank on Lobanov willingly, but he's the one who suggested to torment Semyon further, by sending him fake photo allegedly from the party. He hoped to get some reward from Bykov, but gets none, as Bykov doesn't like blatantly false attempt at flattery.
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: Levin (following Kupitman's suggestion) offers Lyuba "break-up sex", but fails to perform due to worrying too much. Lyuba takes this as attempt to humiliate her further, and now Levin must find another way to defuse the situation. Kupitman gives him viagra, but this leads to another problem — and further issues with Lyuba...
- Long List: Bykov busts Varya writing "no" on the patient's back with iodine, replying to Gleb's apologise letter written the same way. When she fails to explain "what the hell is that", Bykov goes on a rant, giving her a long list of things banned in his department; amongst other things, it's forbidden to: write love letters on the patient's back; use stilts; shoot from assault riffle; drink patients' tests material; shove Bykov's joystick into butt; dry cats in microwaves; skip paying taxes; lick power sockets; drink toilet water...
- Not What It Looks Like: Levin attempts to defeat his painful, uncontrollable boner by reading the science books. Suddenly, Bykov comes in and sees this. Bykov is so shocked by what he sees, he can't even comment on it, and just quietly leaves. When Lyuba learns of this, she thinks that Levin finds her to be so ugly, she is even less attractive than the books for him.
- Playing Sick: Lobanov tries to fool Bykov into letting him go early by pretend that he has sinusitis. Unfortunately for Lobanov, Bykov already knows about this plan due to being in same room when he voiced it. Instead of just destroying his "cover" right here and now, Bykov forces Lobanov to go full way, puts him in the ward and forces to undergo "treatment", that is allegedly incompatible with alcohol.
- Raging Stiffie: After taking viagra pill that Kupitman gave him, Levin suffers from a painful, uncontrollable boner. It is strong enough to hold a stake of books. Large stake. Unfortunately, Lyuba is too angry at him to give him another chance, while Kupitman refuses to help him any further, so Levin must find another way to deal with it.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Bykov sees Levin, with a huge boner, reading scientific books, he is so shocked that he decides to just silently leave. He later tells Lyuba that he's now slightly afraid of Levin.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Levin (himself just an intern with a list of screwups just as long as Semyon's) tells to Lobanov's face (when some offscreen scheme got foiled) that "it's silly that the dumbest doctor of the hospital is trying to fool the smartest". Semyon tells him that he's about to become the deadest doctor, and asks what's so hard in just playing along and telling him sinusitis symptoms.
- Think Unsexy Thoughts: When Kupitman refuses to help with Levin's uncontrollable boner, Levin tries to distract himself by reading scientific books. Not only he fails (it doesn't help that book is full of words like "accumulation", "potency" or "stimulation"), it worsens his original problem with Lyuba when she sees him like this and interprets it as him having hard on for books but not her.
- Woman Scorned: Levin is still not forgiven by Lyuba, and she acts extremely hostile towards him. He tries to ask Kupitman for help, and even receives adequate advices this time, but botches everything by himself and makes bad situation worse, multiple times, making Lyuba think that he finds her ugly.
