He is subsequently sold to work with an undertaker, Mr. Sowerberry but runs away following harsh treatment from another apprentice named Noah Claypole.

Meanwhile, Mr. Bumble and his assistant, the Widow Corney are visited by a mysterious man named Mr. Monks, who seems interested in learning about Oliver.

Oliver also earns the affections of Nancy, a former pupil of Fagin's and also meets her brutal lover, Bill Sikes.

He steals a wallet from a gentleman named Mr. Brownlow, however, a crowd start chasing Oliver, believing him to be the thief.

Monks meanwhile visits Brownlow, who addresses him as Edward and is revealed to be his grandfather, feigning sympathy for the missing Oliver.

He soon returns to Mudfog in order to obtain proof of Oliver's identity from Bumble and the Widow Corney - a locket.

Sikes brings Oliver into a wooded area but suddenly starts being haunted by Nancy's ghost and decides to run back to London.

Rose Maylie is living with Mr Brownlow, and she addresses him as "uncle", but explains that he is in fact her guardian who took her and her sister, Agnes, in when her mother died.

As in the book, Monks becomes aware that Oliver is his half-brother, born to the missing Agnes who had a relationship with his father, and seeks to end his life so that there is no competition to his inheritance.

As a result, Oliver is ultimately revealed to be Mr Brownlow's grandchild, in addition to being Rose's nephew and Monks' half-brother, as in the novel.

Unlike the book, however, Monks is not an unattractive, nervous and cowardly epileptic, but a scheming, manipulative and attractive cad seeking engagement to Rose, who clearly doesn't like him.

In the 2007 version, she is seen constantly looking after him and tending to his needs (she even kisses him tenderly at one point, stopping just short of telling the boy that she loves him).

It is Nancy's informing Rose, and a highly skeptical Mr Brownlow, of Oliver's whereabouts that results in her demise at the hands of Sikes.