Oliver's true half-brother (whose real name is Edward Leeford), born from his father's legitimate but unloved wife. To ensure that the entirety of his father's inheritance remains his, he tracks down the orphaned Oliver—born to the woman his father truly loved—and collaborates with Fagin to ruin the boy's honor and ensure he dies in disgrace or is hanged. He keeps his mysterious obsessions fueled by selling secrets for money.
Following an unhappy marriage, his father fell in love with the young and innocent Agnes (Oliver's mother), but upon the father's sudden death, Monks and his mother set all their fraudulent inheritance schemes in motion and violated the will.
A sullen man with scars, a body worn down by nervous breakdowns, and eyes that are constantly shifty and restless.
Fagin
A hired master of evil whom he pays to bury the child who is an obstacle to his inheritance.
Bay Branlo
An intellectual enemy who protects his past.
Oliver Twist
His innocent and unaware stepbrother; the target of his torment.