 Fagin tries to act as an intermediary ("It's A Fine Life [Reprise]").Left alone, Fagin wonders what his life might be like if he left London and began an honest life ("Reviewing the Situation"); however, after thinking of various excuses, he elects to remain a thief.Back at the workhouse, Mr. Bumble and the Widow Corney, now unhappily married, meet the dying pauper Old Sally and another old lady, who tell them that Oliver's mother, Agnes, left a gold locket when she died in childbirth.