Lance Salisbury

Lance Salisbury was the best friend of Robbo Shaw and a seargant of the AFP.

Storylines
After Robbo is brought in to an AFP base, Lance helps him to recall his memories and identity. Lance explains that Robbo's real name is Ryan Shaw and that he is a federal agent, whose family were killed when he began investigating corruption in the force. Robbo went undercover as Beckett Reid and he was sent to Summer Bay to protect Kat Chapman (Pia Miller). The federal police were unsure whether Robbo's amnesia was real or not, so they did not intervene. Lance drives Robbo back to Summer Bay and tells him that all the charges against him have been dropped. He also returns all of Robbo's belongings, including his birth certificate, passport, driver's licence and credit cards. Lance advises Robbo to think about returning to the AFP before he leaves. Robbo calls Lance, but he remains reluctant to accept his offer to rejoin. Lance and Robbo team up to investigate a smuggling operation, but Robbo has to retrain and Lance informs him that he needs to pass a psych evaluation. Robbo refuses and Lance suggests that he becomes an instructor instead, but Robbo soon realises that he no longer wants to do police work. Robbo later contacts Lance to ask him to run a background check on Ebony Harding (Cariba Heine).

Lance returns to the Bay for Robbo's pre-wedding dinner at Salt, after being invited by Colby Thorne (Tim Franklin). He meets Robbo's fiancée Jasmine Delaney (Sam Frost) and he and Robbo both notice that something is bothering her. On the day of the wedding, Lance receives a call and later tells Robbo that his parents will not make the ceremony due to car trouble. Lance continues to check his phone and later asks Colby Thorne to identify a guest outside the church. After allowing Robbo and Jasmine to enjoy a moment of their wedding reception, Lance and other AFP officers move in to take the couple into protective custody. They, along with Tori Morgan who is carrying Robbo's child, are taken to a safe house, where Lance explains that the people who killed Robbo's family are back. Robbo and Jasmine decide to return to the Bay, and Lance deputises Robbo back into the AFP. Lance stays with Tori at the safe house, until he decides to go back into the field. He assures her that Scott Larkin (Trent Baines) is trustworthy, and that he will do his best to get her home to her family. He then is hesitant to let Robbo look at his case files about his family saying that he did'nt want to before and it revealed the gruesome details about his family's murder. Lance is later informed by Robbo about the "time to talk" note and is told by him to keep her safe and not take his sights of her. Tori later questions Lance about his absence and reassures Tori that the development didn't worry her. Lance is later seen with Robbo in his car talking about the snake symbol note and Robbo tells him to do a background check on the gangs with the symbol. He puts a tracker and Robbo and tells him to always track him.

Months later, Robbo recieves a grim delivery of Lance's bloodied badge with The Ouroboros Gang's symbol and Robbo calls Scott to get Jasmine to the apartment and wonders if they went after Lance to scare them out of testifying. Lance's body is later found and it was revealed he was shot at close range. They question Victor and Des about Lance's death and both refused to talk. Robbo wonders if Lance's killer was someone he trusted. It is later emerged that Scott Larkin had been forced to kill Lance and to kill Robbo due to Scott's family being threatned by the gang.

Trivia

 * Angus McLaren and James Stewart previously worked together on Packed To The Rafters