Jack Dalton

Jack Dalton (born February 3, 1967) is a character in the new reboot television series MacGyver. Dalton is an old friend and partner of Angus MacGyver. He is former Delta Force and CIA agent.

Background
Jack Dalton has formerly worked for the CIA and has served with the Delta Force.

He is from Texas.

Personality
Jack Dalton is shown as an affable man. He's kind and protective of his friends. There is quite the contrast between Jack's good-natured personality and the brute way he handles his job.

When it comes to his job for the Phoenix Foundation, Jack can be quite the 'shoot-first,-questions-later' kinda guy. And he LOVES punching people, mainly bad-guys.

He's known for being the muscle of the operation and often downplays how smart he might be.

And he abuses his right to make nicknames for everyone else on a regular basis.

Appearance
Jack has short-cut dark hair with sprinkles of silver in it. And he usually has some stubbles.

Physically fit. He keeps up with people a lot younger than him when he has to chase them down by foot, or in hand to hand altercations.

He is usually wearing dark-colored fabrics He wears a leather wrist cuff around his right wrist, and has some dog tags hanging around his neck (we usually just see the chain).

Skills
Expert in hand-to-hand Jack has picked up some serious fighting skills after all of his years in the army, Delta Force, CIA and DXS/Phoenix Foundation.

Expert marksman He can handle anything from a pistol to a sniper rifle with deadly accuracy.

Expert observer  Able to identify undercover mercenaries by subtle cues like that they are not wearing civilian accessories, like shoes, watches etc.

Multilingual  We know for a fact that Jack atleast understands French, Dutch and Spanish. (He might speak more languages)

When confronted with the fact that he knows French AND Dutch, Jack answered that he speaks 'Supermodel'.

He often mixes in a few Spanish phrases or words in to his dialogue, and corrected Riley on her Spanish.

Aviator  He knows how to handle both helicopters and airplanes. He is probably quite skilled.

Quotes
Bozer: "Really nothing someone is embarrassed about, bro..." JD: *turns to Mac and Jack* "And what are you two? -Wannabe cops?" Jack: " No, I wanna be punching people, that's my thing..." Jack: "I'm not tense, you're tense!"
 * Yeah!...That is one of the craziest plans I’ve ever heard, and I love it!... How are we expected to make this happen?
 * JD: "Hey, I remember you... The Michael Bay wannabe who didn't know the difference between a CPU and a GPU"
 * Mac: "You alright man? You look tense..."
 * "No one, I mean no one, likes a barfight better than me. But you just blew up half the bar with us in it!"