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| - Dalton is a [[fictional character in the Buffy franchise. He is a scholarly, bespectacled vampire who appears twice in Season Two, played by Eric Saiet. Spike and Drusilla commandeer Dalton's relative expertise to research a mystical cure for Dru. He translates a stolen book with the use of the "Du Lac cross", and discovers the ritual that will cure Drusilla ("What's My Line, Part One"). Several weeks later ("Surprise"), Dalton brings a mysterious package to Spike (now wheelchair-bound) and Dru (now cured and returned to her full power). The box contains a dismembered piece of the Judge, a powerful demon who cannot be killed and who instantly reassembles when all his pieces are brought together. When the Judge (who kills living things by absorbing the humanity within them) is finally re-formed, he points to Dalton and says, "This one -- is full of feeling. He reads!" Apparently, this is enough to constitute a "taint" of humanity, and the Judge burns Dalton to ash.
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