Point of No Return: Dean's Lack of Faith in Sam

If Swan Song did not work for me at all, Point of No Return works excellently. Point of No Return is not a love-saves-the-day episode, it’s a faith saves the day episode. It’s like Never Leave Me, where Spike resists ridiculous amounts of torture, the insistence that he must be evil, because Buffy believes in him. Because Buffy is the one thing he’s ever seen sure of. Faith and love are deeply connected, but they are not quite the same thing.

( I just don't belive )