When the film was in post-production, Mike Nichols and editor Sam O'Steen ran into a problem regarding the way Karen's death was depicted. Kerr-McGee, the company for which Silkwood worked, threatened legal action against the film if anything was portrayed that was not 100 percent factual. As O'Steen tells it in his 2001 book Cut to the Chase, Karen, in the original cut, left the union meeting in the coffee shop with another friend following her out, to give her the papers she had left behind that she intended to share with the New York Times reporter she was meeting afterwards. "Silkwood said goodbye to her friend, got into her car then started it," said O'Steen. "The moment she pulled into traffic, the headlights blinked on in the car parked behind her. This was an 'oh, oh' moment. But I had to take that out, the shot of the lights blinking on. Now all you see is a time jump, where she's driving at night and sees headlights from the car behind her in her rearview mirror. The next shot is of her wrecked car. So in the final cut, it wasn't as clear that someone was following her."

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