What happened to that deleted scene?
The whole movie builds up to a very important moment where Ren states his case in front of Shaw and the city council. But Ren is voted down. Later, Ren and Shaw have a discussion, and Ren changes Shaw's mind.
The only problem is that we, the audience, don't get to witness this discussion. We only know that they had it due to exposition. We come in after the discussion as they are parting ways.
Wasn't this discussion a very ESSENTIAL PLOT POINT? WHERE IS IT?!
Was it in the script? Was it filmed? It's certainly never been in any version that I've seen. Either way, it's very shabby storytelling.