More than a year after retreating from public life amid accusations of sexual misconduct, Kevin Spacey has reemerged via what looks like a tongue-in-cheek piece of House of Cards fan fiction. The video appeared the same afternoon that the Boston Globe reported that Spacey is due to be arraigned in January on a felony charge for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenager in Nantucket in 2016.

On December 24, the two-time Oscar winner posted a video to YouTube: a three-minute monologue called “Let Me Be Frank,” in which Spacey apparently reinhabits House of Cards’s nefarious Frank Underwood. Spacey played the character for five seasons on Netflix’s celebrated drama, until a sexual misconduct scandal drove the streaming service to suspend production on the series before firing Spacey and filming its sixth (and final) season without its former star.

“I know what you want,” Spacey-as-Underwood begins. “Oh sure, they may have tried to separate us—but what we have is too strong, is too powerful. . . I shocked you with my honesty, but mostly, I challenged you and made you think. And you trusted me, even though you knew you shouldn’t. So we’re not done, no matter what anyone says. And besides, I know what you want. You want me back.”

In the video, Spacey obviously apes the fourth-wall-breaking, direct-camera addresses that Underwood famously employed on the series. He also refers directly to events that occurred on House of Cards—his character being impeached without a trial after stealing the presidency, for example, and eventually being killed offscreen after Spacey was fired.

But it does not take a great leap to imagine that in this clip, Spacey is also consciously drawing parallels between the scandals that brought down Underwood and the accusations that led to his dismissal from House of Cards and All the Money in the World, the Ridley Scott movie that famously replaced Spacey with Christopher Plummer in a series of breakneck reshoots after the allegations broke last fall.

“If you and I have learned nothing else these past years, it’s that in life and art, nothing should be off the table,” Spacey says at one point in the video. “We weren’t afraid, not of what we said and not of what we did, and we’re still not afraid. Because I can promise you this: if I didn’t pay the price for the things we both know I did do, I’m certainly not going to pay the price for the things that I didn’t do.”