When Fagin and the boys decide that Oliver is ready to pick his first pocket they take him by a bookstore to pick an old man named Mr. Brownlow's pocket. When Oliver realizes what they are doing he gets confused and worried about the said Mr. Brownlow the observers on the street only see him with the boys and assume he helped pick the mans pocket, there is a chase scene and Oliver gets caught and thrown into jail to await his trial. At the trial a man proves his innocence and Mr. Brownlow ends up taking Oliver home with him. A few weeks later Oliver is Kidnapped back into the band of robbers.