Allan A Dale is an expert robber with a sarcastic and funny nature. Allan's traits can be used to avoid capture, get food to the poor, and make useful contacts. But—as we find out—if skills like that were to fall into the wrong hands, there would be big trouble. Allan first joined the gang when Robin saved him from hanging at the behest of the Sheriff of Nottingham. But after a year in the forest, when he felt they were just scraping by, Allan began to want more than this earnest existence could offer. The temptation of power and money led him astray. Eventually, he rediscovered his values and earned back the respect of the gang. At one point, he admits (at the same time as Will Scarlett, rather awkwardly) that he "likes" Djaq, the Saracen girl in the gang. Near the end of the first season