Bucket finds that Fagin uses Croucher's Warehouse as a depot for urchins and waifs before shipping them overseas as mine slaves. En route to the brewery shareholders' meeting, Arthur and Compeyson are suddenly waylaid by Compeyson's wife, whom he assures that he shall soon make them a fortune and pay off their debts. But he arrives as the meeting ends, with Amelia applauded for her business savvy. Bucket finds a little boy who saw a man, resembling Marley, arguing with Fagin at the warehouse on Christmas Eve. Peter Cratchit gives his money for Nell's present to his distraught mother for Tiny Tim's medicine. Fagin tells Bucket that the business at the warehouse was his partner Marley's idea. Honoria boxes up James's photograph and letters to her. Bucket sees that the boy is taken into the Bumbles' workhouse. Silas Wegg kicks Mrs Gamp out of his tavern after discovering his gin stock is missing. Compeyson proposes to Amelia, proffering her the ring that he slipped off his sleeping wife's finger.
—KGF Vissers