What did Ram hear?


so, we see this scene quoted pretty often.

But… when, exactly, did Ram actually hear “the new guy” asking about Tron?

Before this, Flynn had talked to Ram twice. First time, Tron was there too. That conversation consisted of:

-Ram tells him to be careful of the forcefields

-Ram tells him he’s a guest of the MCP and will have to play games

-Flynn says he plays games great & is not worried

Second time, Ram was there alone doing tricks with his disk when Flynn came in.

That conversation consisted of:

-Flynn compliments Ram on the skill with his disk

-Ram tells Flynn his name & previous job

-Flynn tells Ram his name and that he doesn’t remember much

-Ram assures him it’ll come back

No one mentioned Tron in either of these encounters.

In between them, while Flynn is walking in line with a lot of other new conscripts (presumably on the way to training), he does ask about Tron:

-Who’s that?

-That’s Tron. He fights for the Users.

But that exchange was with another conscript we never see again… as far as I can tell, Ram is nowhere nearby.

So, I’m guessing that line, “the new guy was asking about you,” is in reference to a cut scene, and no one ever got around to taking it out.

There is a mention on the wiki that there was originally going to be a scene about Ram helping train Flynn. I can imagine Flynn would have asked Ram about Tron during that.

Watching through the scenes again, I don’t see any reason that training scene couldn’t have happened offscreen in the time between them.

And because the reference to it still remains in canon dialogue, I’m gonna take that scene as canon.

(Dunno what I’ll do with that, but it’s good to have it in my database anyway just in case.)