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During the lead-up to [_Avengers: Infinity War_](http://time.com/5252727/avengers-infinity-war-review/), Ruffalo [spoiled](http://time.com/5262938/mark-ruffalo-spoiled-avengers-infinity-war/) the film’s dramatic [ending](http://time.com/5255759/avengers-infinity-war-ending-explained/) months before the movie was in theaters. Fallon wanted him to do it again, apparently, so when Ruffalo stopped by _The Tonight Show_ on Wednesday night, the host hooked the Marvel star up to a lie detector to force secrets out of him. “I don’t want to get fired again,” Ruffalo said, as Fallon attached lie detector pads to his temples and started to grill him on all the secrets that he knows about the film. “Is the Hulk secretly a shape-shifting alien known as a Skrull?” Fallon asked, referencing the extraterrestrial spies infiltrating earth introduced in [_Captain Marvel_.](http://time.com/4870052/captain-marvel-movie-timeline-comic-con-2017/) When Ruffalo said he couldn’t answer that, the needle on the lie detector went crazy. In fact, the needle seemed to go crazy a lot. 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