The Burke scene is on the blu-ray (it kinda sucks though, and was a good cut).
I too wish there was a novelization of this film - they give you so much more background, and insight into motivations and such (not to mention the occasional extra scene). Also, I would dearly love to see Alan Dean Foster write it.
Alas, just as the 'photonovel' became extinct long ago, I fear the movie-novelization has now done the same...