How to play animation at runtime to override timeline temporarily?

Hi I am making a interactive car chasing scene. You are one of the bad guys in a car holding a gun. The timeline involves
1. your car “driving through the city” by animator track.
2. The police car “chasing your car” by animator track.
3. A police (Police Alpha) will “shoot at you from its window” by animator track.

When the cars are close enough, a sign will appear to prompt you to shoot back at Police Alpha. If he takes enough damage, I would like to
4. “halt his shooting and retreat from his window for a while” (this is also animation clip).

I tried to call his Animator.Play(“Retreat”) but it seems that Timeline overrides any animations. Is there a way to override timeline temporarily?

 

Thanks for reply. Your link is broken. Do you mean https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/11/28/introducing-the-simple-animation-component/

I have read this article before, but it does not mention its ability to override timeline! It is a very useful feature. I will give it a try.