Bykov would be away from the hospital today, so Lyuba must temporarily replace him, otherwise something bad would happen. Except... no, everything goes right. Now Bykov is certain that she hides something from him. How he would prove it? By leaving them alone again, and hiding in Kupitman's office, waiting until they call him for help. Unknowingly to him, they are aware about his intentions, and intentionally tries to avoid calling him, to prove that they can deal with problems by themselves... but Bykov misinterprets this as him no longer being useful, and falls into depression. Fortunately, Kupitman finds interns in time and forces them to fix the situation, by telling Bykov about their screwups. Bykov is so happy with the fact that he's still needed, he even forgets to punish them.
Gleb's parents, fed up with him leeching on their money (while lying to them), decides to cut his money support, forcing him to live on his salary. He doesn't want to accept it, and has a plan how to "force" Kisegach into resuming money support, by exaggerating how he was affected by this, so she would take pity on him. But she suspects that something is wrong and sends Kupitman to check how Gleb and Semyon really lives. Kupitman's report only confirms: they are trying to fool Kisegach to give them money. Now she wants to punish them, by exaggerating their poverty even further, so everyone in the hospital now thinks that they are beggars.
Phil, after his breakup with Jessica, feels that he may be gay, like his fathers. Varya agrees to help him with "testing" it, but every time she tries something (getting results which disproves Phil's suspicions), he finds an excuse to claim that he's still gay, they just failed to find "right" men. When she grows tired of him, she just kisses him — and he feels disgust... due to imagining kissing a guy. He's not gay, now it's certain.
This episode provides examples of:
- Ambiguously Gay: Phil is uncertain whether he may be gay himself, like his dads (one of them had become a gay after a breakup with a girl). And there're some evidences that it may be true. Varya volunteers to help him with finding out wether it's true or not. In the end, after several failed attempts to find a man to whom he may feel attraction, Varya just kisses him — and Phil feels disgust... because he imagined kissing a man. After that, he just accepts that he's not gay.
- Blatant Lies: Gleb's attempts to convince his mother that he and Lobanov are poor fails because they exaggerates their poverty to the point that it becomes clear that they're doing it on purpose.
- Camp Straight: Phil considers some of his habits (like love to Elton John's music or Brokeback Mountain movie) to be the evidences of his "gayness", cause why a straight guy would like those? In fact, he is not a gay, and in the end of the episode he realises this, too.
- Gone Horribly Right: Bykov's subordinates decides to not call him when they have a problem, to prove that they may deal with it by themselves. Now Bykov is certain that he is old and useless, and fell into depression. Oh, and they fail to deal with the situation by themselves anyway. Fortunately, Kupitman finds them in time and forces them to fix the situation, by telling Bykov about their screwups.
- Laser-Guided Karma: How Kisegach punishes Gleb and Semyon for their attempt to fake their poverty? By exaggerating it even further, so anyone now starts donating them money, like to beggars.
- Last Het Romance: After his ugly breakup with Jessica, Phil is uncertain if he even still may like girls after that. But everyone he tries (with Varya's help), he considered to be unattractive, including the male strippers. He finally realises that he is not a gay when he kisses Varya while imagining kissing a man — and feels disgust.
- The Load: Bykov fears that he's becoming useless, since everyone can deal with problems without him, and falls into depression. Fortunately, Kupitman learns in time that interns intentionally refused to call him to prove that they can work by themselves (they can't), and forces them to ask Bykov for help, which snaps him out of this condition.
- Manipulative Bastard: Gleb tries to be one, by vastly exaggerating severity of his poverty, in hope that his mother would resume supplying him with money out of pity. But he does this so blatantly, he fools no one.
- Riches to Rags: Both Gleb's parents, tired of him leeching on them while constantly lying (for example, he didn't warn his father about Varya's pregnancy not being real) cuts his access to their money, demoting him from a rich careless guy to a normal Russian medic. Gleb is not happy with this and wants to restore the status quo (he already has a plan how to manipulate Kisegach into this). Despite all his attempts to deceive his mother, ultimately he fails (and enrages her even further, just to be sure).
