Though “Assassination Run” was the original title of The Boys’ newest episode (which dropped today), it is now listed as “Season Four Finale” and opens with a warning explaining that the episode “contains scenes of fictional political violence” whose similarities to recent real-world events “are completely coincidental and unintentional.”

Given The Boys’ track record of presenting many of its characters as analogues for actual political figures, Amazon’s move to suddenly insist that the show’s obvious parallels to our reality just happened by chance is hard to take at face value. Understandably, the company doesn’t want one of its buzzier shows to become embroiled in the drama that’s shaping the US’s presidential election cycle or be accused of encouraging people to take up arms.

You can read a longer statement from The Boys’ creative team and Sony below.