David Dave Watt is the, as Danielle Atron phrases him, halfwit trucker responsible for the chemical accident (the accident that gave Alex her powers). Although Dave has a reputation as the village idiot throughout the earlier half of the book series and TV show, he is later shown to not be the dumbo that Vince, Lars and Danielle originally thought. He makes it his personal crusade to save Alex from the chemical plant.At first, Dave likes Danielle and Vince and believes that they are just good people who made a mistake and want to help the kid from the accident, but he soon discovers their true colours after listening in on conversations he wasn't meant to hear. Dave has a pet monkey called Oscar (with the same powers as Alex), and lives in a trailer on the outskirts of town. Despite Danielle hating him, Dave convinces her to not fire him because I'm not the dumb guy you thought I was... maybe I just like doing simple things like polishing the company van, and I know you're doing something illegal down here... and you need me to keep quiet about it, or it'd wreck your whole scheme . Dave is a cheerful, optimistic, good-natured truck driver and a good friend to Raymond Alverado after Ray teaches him how to drive.Dave goes to great lengths to secretly protect Alex, at a great cost to his own safety. When the chemical plant explodes in the last episode, Dave goes to the FDA personally and ends up having both Lars and Danielle arrested. Alex, realizing how much he has done to keep her alive and away from a fate worse than death, gratefully hugs him. Later on, George Mack mentions to Alex that Sedgewick Chemical (another local factory) will find a good career for Dave for all her has done to protect the Mack Family. Dave also has a mom, but not much other family to speak of aside from an uncle who was an exterminator. Show less «