Sam and Dean start the episode by getting killed, again. As Ash (Chad Lindberg) tells them when they meet up with him in Heaven, our boys die more than anyone else he knows. And while in Heaven, they revisit all the happiest times of their lives - for Dean, those moments all include his family, his mother and his brother, for Sam, those moments are the times he was on his own.
If witnessing Sam's love of some of Dean's most painful memories wasn't enough trauma for Dean to go through, he also remembers that his parents' marriage was far from perfect. When this was followed up by the memory of his mother telling him that he was the problem, the reason everyone abandoned him, and finally by the revelation that God felt he had already done enough, and was not willing to stop the end of the world, Dean's faith was done.
How Dean is supposed to continue fighting when he has nothing to rely on, when he believes in nothing, I don't know. And Castiel was equally despondent when he learnt that his Father would not act. Sam, alone, retained hope and the drive to succeed against all the odds. And despite all the pain Sam had put Dean through in Heaven, Dean delivered an equally, if not more, painful blow back on Earth.
The amulet Sam gave Dean when they were children was meant to help them locate God. As this was no longer possible, Dean through the necklace out, naming it worthless. It no longer had the value of finding God, or the value of a gift from a loving brother which had prevented him from giving it over willingly to Cas in the first place.
As for Free Will, though, I feel that God's refusal to get involved speaks more highly for the belief than anything else so far. I would just state that it seems he has also given that ability to the Angels and Demons as well. What are your thoughts?
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