After seeing the first three episodes of the Fox hit’s second season, we’re (drip) dropping some hints about what’s to come from Cookie and co. this fall.

The season premiere taps into the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

The show picks up three months after Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) was arrested, and it opens with a #FreeLucious concert in the park. Real-life hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz emcees the show and talks about the 1.68 million black men who are incarcerated in the U.S. Fans want Lucious to be released, and the event is peppered with activists holding up signs calling for his freedom. It’s Empire’s way of channeling the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

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And Bill and Hillary Clinton are some of those Lucious Lyon fans.

We actually don’t see former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the crowd of the #FreeLucious concert, but he’s there. Mostly, Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) smartly surmises, to stump for his wife and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. “He needs to be if he wants his wife to get elected," she says.

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