Misha pretends to be sick with a cold in order to prevent Boris and Lena's sex, and Boris treats Misha using folk methods. Slava is looking for money to return her mother's silverware from the pawnshop. He exchanges them for Misha's rare typewriter, which Nadya gave him in the morning. Roma and Zhenya are trying to get into the author's song contest, which is held by Vera. Gudkov learns that together with Vera this competition will be conducted by a young student.