
Spencer is also at Rachel's party where the glee club members and alumni celebrate the last days of her now-sold house. However, he refuses to let them confront Vocal Adrenaline and tells them that it has already been handled and tells them to leave it alone, saying how he had been through this his whole life. This act from Spencer flatters Beiste to no end, because that makes him not just a star player but truly part of the team. After hearing about Vocal Adrenaline vandalizing his car, Spencer and Sam willingly decide to defend Beiste. Spencer is, along with Sam, concerned about Coach Beiste and his transition from female to male.

He is also recruited along with the rest of the glee club to back up Santana's performance in front of her grandmother. Mercedes recruits the Glee Club alumni and current members to put together a performance that would encourage Rachel to audition for a role in a new Broadway production, Spencer included. Their efforts earn them first place in the contest. He joins just in time to perform at the Invitational against Vocal Adrenaline and the Warblers. Afraid of rejection by the team, Spencer refuses to join Glee Club, but Sam encourages him to follow in Finn Hudson's footsteps by striking out. Sam walks in and tells him that he had noticed Spencer's hidden interest in Glee Club: he was always standing outside the choir room during rehearsal. With Coach Beiste temporarily absent and Sam substituting as coach of the football team, Spencer is preparing to get the spot he wanted. Spencer says that he does not want her to get fired, but if she were, he wants Sam to take over because he knows Sam will give him the quarterback spot. Sue says that is no reason to fire Beiste but Spencer tells that he spied on Beiste when she was locking up the locker rooms and saw her taking a lot if pills. Sue asks how so and he says that first Sam has been running practice a lot because of her absence, and she has been yelling all the time about the stupidest things. He says that Beiste has been acting really weird. Sue thinks he wants her to fire Shannon but it's not what he wants her to do. Later he tells Sue about how worried he is about Coach Beiste and felt like he had to come talk to her. Sam comes up to him telling he is tough break and telling him that he is like "a majestic knight riding a horse" and if it was up to him he would give him a shot. Beiste says that he is her best receiver but even when he tells her that he's been taking snaps in practice for weeks and came in the last four minutes of the game against Central scoring four points, Beiste still says no and ends the conversation. When walking in to the locker rooms he asks to her if she posted the starters for Friday to which she says "I'll post it Friday morning, same as always" and then Spencer tells her that he wants a shot at the quarterback position.

Spencer is seen saying "Hi, coach" to Sam when he is not the coach of the team thinking Beiste is not there.

Towards the end of the episode, he is approached by Sue to help her by joining the New Directions and destroying it from the inside. He makes it very clear that he has an antipathy towards performing, which is making him decline. Spencer rejects and reacts appalled about being asked to join the Glee Club simply for being openly gay. He first appears when approached by Kurt about joining the New Directions. He comes off as a bully to Rachel because of how he told another football player to "stop being such a whiny homo" which Rachel is surprised by this because of how hard they worked to stop bullying at McKinley, but Sam tells her that Spencer is totally gay and Spencer says that he is "kind of a post-modern gay teen because we see positive representations of gays in the media" and that gave him the confidence that he needed to be himself, which is an arrogant jerk. Spencer is first introduced when Rachel is at the football practice.
