Angelo Rosetta
Luke Jacobz
Episodes: 4677 - Present
Angelo was Jack's replacement at the Police Station when he took time off to deal with Martha's cancer diagnosis. We first saw him flirt with Charlie when he was assigned to a shift with her and promptly asked him out but Charlie turned him down. Then in The Diner he flirted with Belle, asking her out on a date. Belle initially refused but after Aden treated her badly she accepted and they went on a date to Noah's but it quickly became clear that Belle's heart wasn't in it and when Aden apologised, she reunited with him.
With Charlie feeling abandoned by Roman, Angelo asked her out again and took her for a romantic beach picnic to show her how she should be treated but Charlie could not stop thinking of Roman so Angelo abandoned the date to give her advice. Charlie followed his instructions and she and Roman reunited, leaving Angelo to remark to Belle that he was excellent at driving girls back into the arms of their exes.
When Belle was being held hostage by Aden she called the police and Angelo was the one to rescue her. He took her home where she broke down in his arms and a tentative friendship was formed. She started up a book club and Angelo was the only one to attend and he persisted with asking her out until Belle eventually relented and agreed to go out with him. They shared a kiss in the kitchen at Irene's but were seen by a devastated Aden. With him angrily turning Belle away, she returned to Angelo and finally became intimate with him.
With things heating up at the development site, Angelo was forced to arrest Belle after she protested at the site but he later got Charlie to drop the charges. He also investigated Murray for Belle but she nearly landed him i it with Charlie who informed him that she would be watching him from now on.
Belle received threats from the Developers saying they'd harm her boyfriend and Belle thought they meant Aden and secretly got back together with him, only for Angelo to turn up having been attacked. His attacker was revealed to be a kid he had arrested but a guilty Belle failed to tell him she was back with Aden.
With Belle in hospital after her car was forced off the road Angelo became suspicious of Aden hanging around and found Belle listening to his ipod. He later saw them hugging from his car ad when her camera went missing he suggested the police should stake out Irene's but Belle refused. She later let Aden stay over and Angelo saw them. The next day Belle finally broke up with Angelo and he confronted her about Aden but she lied that it was a one off.
At the town meeting Aden challenges Angelo and the police for being useless causing Angelo to retaliate that he wasn't so useless he couldn't trace the fact that Aden and Belle were having an affair. He stormed out, leaving Belle humiliated. Turning to the bottle he gave Aden a hard time at his community service and after Belle had a go at him for it he threatened her again in public.
When Belle reported him to the police for harassment he was furious and went round to her house threatening her and losing his temper, angrily smashing the house up. Belle was later attacked and left for dead and suspicion fell on Angelo. He had a drunken one night stand with a depressed Charlie but she refused to talk about it the next day, passing it off as a mistake. With the whole town turning on him and nobody willing to talk to him Angelo turned to developer Tim Coleman for help. In exchange for clearing his name Angelo switched the soil samples to get the investigation against the developers dropped.
True to his word Nobby was arrested and admitted to stealing from Belle and attacking her, letting Angelo off the hook. Angelo used his cousin to pay Nobby's bail and tried to use him as bait to trap Tim by fitting him up with a wire. He was interrupted by Belle, wanting to clear the air with him and missed Tim realising that Nobby was wearing a wire. The line went dead and Angelo later received a phone call threatening him to back off and explaining that Nobby was dead.
Jack found out that Angelo had posted the bail money and began to suspect him so Angelo came clean to Charlie about his suspected sting operation. Having been shaken by Tim's threats Angelo made plans to leave town but was waylaid by Belle, wanting to talk. As they talked a rock was thrown though his window and Angelo made Belle hide out in the bedroom. As a gunman burst in he and Angelo struggled and Angelo raced to the bedroom to try and get Belle out.
A shaken Belle refused to leave though and as the gunman burst in Angelo protected Belle with his own body but Jack arrived in time to stop the gunman doing any damage. Grilled by Fitzy and Jack at the station, Charlie saved him by finding evidence to link Tim to the shooter, meaning the development investigation was back on. Charlie that night offered him a bed to stay in, hers and the two began sleeping together.
Jack though remained suspicious about the soil samples and warned Angelo that he was watching him. Shaken Angelo called Tim Coleman to arrange a meeting but a suspicious Jack followed and as Angelo waited two shots rang out. Hearing rustling behind him, Angelo discharged his own gun and went to see who was there only to find Jack, lying lifeless on the ground with a bullet wound to the heart.
In the aftermath of the shooting Angelo tried to cover his tracks, turning up late at the formal fire and looking increasingly distracted. He saved Martha from the fire and was hailed a hero but his guilt at Jack's death continued to haunt him and Charlie began to get suspicious. Sending a text from Tim Coleman's phone she was devastated to realise that her suspicions were correct and began compiling evidence against Angelo.
Angelo meanwhile was called on to comfort Martha and broke down in her arms, leaving her grateful to him. She asked him to do a reading at Jack's funeral but he refused. Meanwhile the net was closing in for Angelo and he was blackmailed by who he thought was Tim but it was actually Charlie setting him up. He was called by Tony to talk to Martha on the morning of Jack's funeral and asked to read the police bendictory but what he didn't know was that Martha was onto him.
After the failed sting in the aftermath of the funeral he returned to the wake leaving a disgusted Martha unable to cope. Pushed by Tony she broke down and revealed that Angelo had killed Jack. Confronted by a furious Tony, in full view of everyone Angelo admitted to killing Jack and was arrested.
In prison he awaited the results of ballistics and helped the police with his inquiries. When the report came back that it was his bullet that had killed Jack he was taken away to jail in the city with the parting words from Charlie that she had really wanted it not to be him. We later heard off screen that the charges against him were dropped.