Dalton

Dalton was a bespectacled vampire on Buffy the Vampire Slayer during season two. He was portrayed by Eric Saiet. He helped Spike and Drusilla by trying to find a mystical cure to heal Dru. He instigates a robbery to steal the Du Lac cross eavading the slayer, Buffy Summers in the process. He tries to comprehend the Du Lac manuscript and is struck on the head with a dictionary however when he struggles with the translation. Later Spike is preparing to dust him for his failure to translate the book, and find a cure for Drusilla. Dru stops Spike short of such violence when she explains the book is in code and requires a key. Dalton and vampires steal the key from a crypt, and Dalton once again evades Buffy. He returns to Spike and Dru and cracks the code, translating a cure for Drusilla.

Several weeks later he brings a package to Spike and Dru, pieces of the Judge, a powerful and immortal demonic being who can reform if all his pieces are brought together. Bringing a further piece, an arm of the Judge, he loses it to the Scooby Gang. Drusilla plans to kill him but Spike saves his life providing he returns all the pieces of the Judge. He does so. When the Judge, (who kills living things by absorbing the humanity within them), is finally re-formed he points to Dalton, "This one - is full of feeling. He reads!". This is apparently a "taint" of humanity. The Judge burns Dalton to dust.

Trivia

 * He appears only in Season 2; "What's My Line, Part One", and "Surprise"
 * The shooting script of "What's My Line, Part One" describes him as "sort of an anti-Giles".
 * At various points Spike refers to hims as "big brains", "smart guy", and "a wanker"