Fiona Dourif has a bone to pick with Noah Wyle.

The actress, 44, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that she suspects Wyle was responsible for a line about her character’s “witch’s cackle” in The Pitt season 2.

In the third episode of the season, titled “9:00 A.M.,” a patient flirts with Dourif’s resident Dr. Cassie McKay and compliments her “pretty bird laugh.” Coyly, the doctor responds, “Oh god, my witch’s cackle.”

The actress says that the line was based on her own laugh and notes that Wyle, who plays Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, wrote the episode.

“That’s my real laugh. I have a really loud laugh that I actually find quite embarrassing,” Dourif says. “Noah Wyle wrote that episode and I remember reading it and being like, ‘Oh my god.’”

“People say this to me all the time. They’re like, ‘Oh, I can always figure out where you are because I can hear your laugh from doors down.’ And so they wrote it into the script,” she continues.

Regardless, in the next episode, McKay ends up nabbing a date with the patient after he’s discharged.

PEOPLE previously shared that Dourif was “really happy” to portray her character’s bashful side in the scenes with her flirtatious patient after her rough go-around in the first season.

“There are a lot of women who are focused on work and then you get to middle age, like in your 40s, and you want to fill your life out a little bit. It’s vulnerable and harder to do than when you’re in your 20s,” she said.

“I felt very bashful myself in a lot of these scenes. But it was sweet to take that twirl. I was happy the show explored that with me.”

As for Wyle, he told PEOPLE about the multiple roles he balances on set in an interview ahead of the season 2 premiere. The ER alum executive produces the series with showrunners R. Scott Gemmill and John Wells. He has written two episodes each season. He also directed his first episode in season 2.

“There wasn’t a lot of time for analysis,” he said of the time between seasons. “We shot the first season and it started airing just as we were pretty much done with it. Then I was back in the writing room two weeks and four days after we wrapped.”

Wyle said the success of the first season gave the production team “validation and proof of concept.”

“We went back to season 2 with a little bit more confidence that our instincts were good and that we should lean into them,” he said.

The Pitt season 2 finale will air Thursday, April 16 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO Max.