Sally Fletcher Tribute
1990
The arrival of a shark hunter in the bay caused more trouble as he became obsessed with Pippa and sexually harassed her, convincing Tom that they were having an affair and causing Pippa and Tom briefly to split. Sally spent several days worrying about the fate of her family before Pippa managed to prove her innocence and The Fletchers were reunited.
After being left momentarily alone by Sophie, Sally accidentally set fire to a pan on the stove. She panicked and poured water over it, only making the fire worse. Tom was able to put the fire out before it did too much damage but Sally was left shaken. Sophie took the blame for the incident because she had left Sally alone. With Sophie having asked Tom and Pippa to foster her, Sally was keen to get them to agree and put them on the spot, angering Sophie. At a family meeting they voted on it and Sally was delighted when a majority vote saw Sophie become one of the family.
Sally complained to Carly that a boy from school Murray 'Mullet' Jensen had been pestering her and that she didn't like him but when he followed her home from school, Carly left them to it. Sally initially wore sunglasses to hide from him and then 'played hard to get' in an attempt to get him to lose interest. After a talk with tom and Pippa she went to talk to him but he told her he really liked her so Sally told him to stop being mushy and stormed off. Sally then decided to be really bossy towards him to put him off but was upset when Mullet asked for her help with his homework as she believed he only liked her because she was clever. After taking advice from Alf Mullet told her that he did like her and Sally began to warm towards him.
Sally was with Mullet taking dancing lessons from Marilyn when Carly and Ben came to collect her and told her that Tom had died. Sally was devastated and angrier when, on returning to The Caravan Park, Pippa seemed not to care. A chat with Ailsa made her see that Pippa did still love Tom and that night Sally crawled into Pippa's bed and asked her if she was sad about Tom. Pippa broke down crying and they sobbed each other to sleep.
After Tom's funeral The Fletchers attempted to get back to normal and Murray's Mum invited Sally for dinner. At the last moment though Murray cancelled on her telling her his Mum had had an accident in the kitchen. Sally went round with food as a present and discovered that Murray had lied to her about the accident and lied to his Mum that she had mumps in order to get out of dinner. Sally was really upset and refused to listen to Mullet's apologies. It later transpired that he didn't want her to come round because he was ashamed of his house.
Sally collected cans for recycling in an attempt to raise money and help the family but was disappointed when Alf didn't give her as much as she had hoped. She got angry when kids at school started teasing her about Fisher being her new Dad after Emma spread spiteful rumours about Pippa and Mr Fisher.
Sophie and Blake left her alone at the cinema and were caught out by Pippa. Sally tried once again to take the blame but Sophie still ended up grounded. At the end of the year Sally was gutted when Bobby miscarried her baby. She had been incredibly excited throughout Bobby's pregnanacy and had been making all sorts of presents for it so for the baby to die so soon after Tom was gutting for her.
