La chica de las bragas transparentes (The Girl In the Transparent Panties) is also known as Pick-Up Girls. It’s yet another detective tale for director and writer Jess Franco as private eye Al Crosby (Antonio Mayans) has been hired by a wealthy man named Harry Feldman to take his place at a meeting with a crime figure named Emilio (Miguel Ángel Aristu).

Nothing goes right. He’s drugged and photographed with two sex workers, Suzy (Lina Romay) and Bijou (Doris Regina), then nearly murdered by his client’s wife, all before he’s beaten up by even more women and ends up getting his rich patron killed. Maybe Mrs. Carla Feldman (Rosa Valenty) isn’t all that innocent. That means that Al will team up with the dead man’s mistress, Coco (Mari Carmen Segura), and Suzy and Bijou, who have been sent to prison, to get them out of the way to learn the truth.

So many questions. Is Al Crosby another name for Al Pereira? Why are there no diamonds being taken in this, like in every other Jess Franco plot? With their spy experience, are Suzy and Bijuo related to the Red Lips? And how many detectives find out that they’re looking for the missing penis of their actual client?

As always, I feel the urge to look deeper into a Jess Franco movie than anything else. Why does he do that to us? Was it intended? Or are we compelled to find something where there may be nothing?