S1, E1: Having endured a miserable and brutal childhood, Oliver is sold to a local undertaker where his mistreatment forces him to escape to London. Once in the capital, he is welcomed into the seductive world of pick-pocketing by the criminal underworld and, before long, is in deep trouble with the Law. On arrival in London, Oliver meets The Artful Dodger and is welcomed into the colourful and seductive world of Fagin and his gang. He meets the terrifying Bill Sikes and the beautiful Nancy, and before long Dodger is teaching Oliver 'the graft'. Oliver is horrified when he realises what this means and, when Dodger picks the pocket of an elderly gentleman (Mr Brownlow), Oliver runs and is wrongly arrested. In Court, he is sentenced to hang, but Brownlow gets there just in time to exonerate him.