The Dentist: Episode 3

Limelight

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.4 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Darkly comic crime thriller by D.C. Jackson.

When Kerry makes the snap decision to assume her dead sister’s identity, she doesn’t think through the consequences of posing as a dentist.

And those consequences turn out to be pretty fatal...

Cast: Leanne … Gabriel Quigley Kasia … Leah Byrne Bob and Toby… Grant O’Rourke Stewart … Jonathan Watson DI Hickman … David Ireland Jaconelli … Gavin Mitchell

Studio Production: Andy Hay and Gav Murchie Production Coordinator: Ellie Marsh

Original music and sound design: Fraser Jackson Additional keyboards: Tony Graham A BBC Audio Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:06.7	A group of men ran in with machetes.
0:09.8	I'm Livy Haydock, and from BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 5 live, this is gangster.
0:16.7	The story of Georgie Pye.
0:19.2	The scene of the killing near a Chinese bookshop is being flooded with detectives.
0:23.1	Welcome to the world of the triads.
0:25.6	If the triads are coming out of you, you're done.
0:27.5	Where loyalty is sworn in blood.
0:30.9	Gangster, the story of Georgie Pye.
0:33.6	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.3	Welcome to Limelight.
0:39.4	You're about to listen to The Dentist.
0:42.4	Episodes are released weekly wherever you get your podcasts,
0:46.9	but if you're in the UK, you can listen to the whole series right now on BBC Sounds.
0:51.1	The Dentist by DC Jackson.
0:52.5	Part 3. didn't do anything wrong
1:08.7	We're dropping up a body with a dental suck as I think we did we did something wrong. Took some kind of wrong term somewhere. Right? Do you want to try her with the kitchen knife and the scissors again? No! Let's just get on with it. Okay. No, we're just... No, don't stop. Don't stop. Keep going on. Hey! Do you want to maybe go and have a breather? No, no, no, I'm fine. This is the worst thing we'll ever have to do. Oh, you hope so! Don't even think about it. He wasn't a man. I didn't even mean to kill him, it was a mistake. What did we do? Uh, go and get a sack. Three sacks. Three sacks. No, get four sacks. Sacks? The ones for clinical waste. They're there. Over there. No, no, no, no. There. In that drawer. Yes. That's them. What do we do with them once we put them in these bin bags? You take them to the place. What place?
2:01.1	The place, the place.
2:02.6	What place?
2:03.2	The medical waste place.
2:04.4	The incinerator.
2:06.8	Oh, I do. Do it?
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