Cyclist Jeff Forster collapses mid-race in front of his fans
A family wheezes through the crowd to cheer Jeff Forster at a charity race, and the leader goes down as he passes.
S2E6 · Spin
19 moments · 29 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
Stacy buries House in paperwork; he complains to Cuddy
Stacy hits House with credential renewals and dictations; he flees to a cycling case, asks Cuddy to fire her and predicts the drug-denial plot.
Jeff Forster cheerfully confesses to blood doping
House expects the cyclist to deny drugs; instead Jeff lists everything he takes, from doping to a hyperbaric chamber, and defends it as doing his job.
Air is keeping him from breathing air
The team runs through every doping trick as a cause; all tests are normal until House spots an air bubble from a slipped needle.
House's theory of Stacy's moods, then a run-in with Mark
At lunch House explains to Wilson why Stacy is pissy; she and Mark appear, the two men trade barbs, and House is suspiciously gracious about Mark's therapy.
Chase angles for a signed jersey, then Jeff starts drooling
Chase pulls the bubble and hints at a signed jersey for eBay, but Jeff suddenly can't swallow.
House crashes Mark's disability therapy group
House announces he has come for the healing; the therapist and Mark get cornered into letting him join.
House mocks Cameron's rules about cheating
House needles Cameron over her contempt for doping and her crush on rule-breakers, then dares her to report Jeff herself.
In group, House plays on Mark's fears, and Mark snaps
House sympathizes with Mark about wives who wait, until Mark explodes over how Stacy could have loved him and House asks what she saw in him.
Jeff's manager offers Cuddy a donation for faster tests
Moira pushes Cuddy to move up the lumbar puncture and dangles money for a department.
Jeff on worship, before his lungs fail again
Asked if he feels responsible to kids, Jeff tells Foreman and Cameron about a fan letter and what worship means; then he stops breathing.
Clinic gum case while Stacy and House fight it out
A flight attendant blames quitting smoking for diarrhea; Stacy storms in about Mark's group and they argue in front of her until House blames sorbitol gum.
Wilson catches Cameron leaking to the press
Wilson learns Cameron called the Times about Jeff and argues that exposing cheaters punishes the people who love them, admitting he's cheated too.
Cancer that isn't; Cuddy hunts the leak
Bleeds ruled out, the biopsy shows red cell aplasia; Cuddy arrives about a press leak and threatens to sit in, and House wonders who would leak cancer.
House stages an audition, catches the manager, and Jeff fires her
House directs Jeff's EPO denials like a casting call, has the team hit redial on Moira's phone to find the leak, and Jeff fires her.
House's 50-dollar bet pays off with a thymoma
House bets the team they will find something; a neck scan shows a thymoma and he explains how doping masked chronic anemia.
House plays faith healer with a Tensilon shot
House tells Jeff to rise and walk, explains myasthenia gravis and the clean-manager twist, suggests Jeff keep it quiet, then the drug wears off.
Stacy and House: hate and love
House comes to apologize; Stacy asks whether he hates or loves her, and they agree to keep dealing with each other.
Cameron and Wilson trade confessions about cheating
After watching Jeff thank the hospital on TV, Cameron confesses falling for her husband's best friend and Wilson admits why he strayed.
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