 She is introduced in the first "Max Payne" game as the "evil twin" of her younger sister Lisa, the abused wife of the Mafia boss Angelo Punchinello.Mona is captured by Punchinello's assassins before she could kill him, but manages to escape.It is revealed that she was employed by Nicole Horne, the renegade member of the secret society calling themselves the Inner Circle who has left the organization and manages the Aesir Industries, a mysterious corporation that is behind the drug Valkyr.