Identification of 3 main steps in merozoite egress. (A) Snapshots of the whole release process: pressure driven ejection of the first parasite (up to 148 milliseconds); curling of the RBC membrane (192-324 milliseconds) and final buckling of the membrane (324-368 milliseconds) pushing the remaining merozoites forwards, far from their initial position. (B) Velocities as a function of time for the first merozoite (T; blue line), the parasite pigment (H; black line), the deepest merozoite at the bottom (B; green line), and the lowest point of the RBC membrane (M; red line).