The cane tricks that are seen throughout the series are created by Laurie himself.

So one of the seniors just came up to me, and she pushed me up to the corner and she said, When you think it's time to go, just stick the cane out there.

Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child has not awakened.

And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

Then the angel of Yahweh stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight.

Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.