Defiance Schneiderman tells Patrick that she has a psychic named Cleo. In the late 1990s to early 2000s, the Psychic Friends Network had a pay-per-call psychic named Miss Cleo who was famous for her Jamaican patois. At their peak they pulled in over 125 million USD per year, with many people calling in because of the Miss Cleo advertisements.
In her final years, Youree Dell Harris revealed she was hired to play the part by the PFN and adopt that accent (she was born and raised in Florida, not Jamaica). PFN was revealed as a fraud by several former employees (who had been hired to pretend to be psychics) and it went bankrupt in 1998.
In her final years, Youree Dell Harris revealed she was hired to play the part by the PFN and adopt that accent (she was born and raised in Florida, not Jamaica). PFN was revealed as a fraud by several former employees (who had been hired to pretend to be psychics) and it went bankrupt in 1998.
Jane mentions "Skymall" while flying on the commercial jetliner. That was a shopping catalog, now defunct (2023) that sold things to bored airline passengers leafing through reading material in the seat pocket.
Patrick says that "Defiance is a gypsy name..." and uses the term "gypsy" many times. Except "gypsy" is a pejorative term that's considered wildly offensive and out-of-date; the correct term for Eastern European migrants is "Romani", "Romany", or even "Roma people", and for Western Europeans the term is Travellers, e.g. Irish Travellers (with both Ls).
When Jane's history is given in Cackle-Bladder Blood (2010) and Red John's Rules (2013), it's revealed that Patrick's ancestors came over from Ireland and that they're Travellers. As the descendant of Travellers, he would know that "gypsy" is a taboo and offensive term, so he never should have used it to describe anyone, Romani or otherwise.
At one point he asks her, "Are you a Romani gypsy?" which is redundant and offensive.
When Jane's history is given in Cackle-Bladder Blood (2010) and Red John's Rules (2013), it's revealed that Patrick's ancestors came over from Ireland and that they're Travellers. As the descendant of Travellers, he would know that "gypsy" is a taboo and offensive term, so he never should have used it to describe anyone, Romani or otherwise.
At one point he asks her, "Are you a Romani gypsy?" which is redundant and offensive.