LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Note: This article contains spoilers for Monday's episode of St. Denis Medical, "A Waste of Time and Marbles."

Monday's episode of St. Denis Medical, the midseason finale before the holidays, concluded with a surprise for Joyce, the administrator played by Wendi McLendon-Covey. No one was more surprised than McLendon-Covey, even while she was performing it.

The episode featured the return of Joyce's ex-boyfriend, Sanderson (Steve Little). Sanderson staged an elaborate marriage proposal, emerging from a body bay on a gurney.

In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, McLendon-Covey said she was as surprised as anyone that Joyce said yes.

"Every take we did, I was always still surprised," McLendon-Covey said. "I can't believe this is happening and someone wrote this, but I think there's no other way for it to have happened with Sanderson."